What is the best song in the history of music?
In order for a song to be the "best song in the history of music" I think it would need to a song that has to some degree survived the test of history. Songs that are instantly recognizable, carry the history with them and at least in my opinion evoke emotion in the listener.While there are a few songs I can think of, I would have to go with "Amazing Grace". I admit my bias as a Christian, it has a special significance to history as a whole. It was originally penned in 1773 and then assigned its current melody in 1835. It has been sung my countless artists both Christian and secular. I cannot think of another song that has survived the test of time to the same degree.
Who Wrote the most hit songs in history.?
Its Irving Berlin. He composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "There's No Business Like Show Business") left an indelible mark on American music and culture. In addition to his individual songs, he also composed 17 film scores and 21 Broadway scores. He became the oldest songwriter to have a hit in Billboard's Top 100 with Taco Ockerse's cover of "Puttin' on the Ritz" recorded in 1982. (He was 94 at the time). In terms of the sheer numbers of his hits he is without equal. Asked to define Berlin's place in American music, Jerome Kern said he had none: "Irving Berlin IS American music." NB: You will find sources that note that Paul McCartney has sold more records but recall that when Berlin began writing music composers got their principle income by selling sheet music. Note also that modern composers are selling to a much larger market so that a smaller number of hits can still result in more records sold.
What’s the most iconic song in history?
The most iconic song in history is Heroes for sure.Why?Because this song made West Germany and East Germany get reunited. This song brought the reunification of Germany.This song was inspired by a German couple who had separated by West Germany and East Germany during the cold war era. David Bowie saw this couple by accident during his trip to Germany, and he saw them they hold their hands on the border of West and East Germany. Maybe it was on the border of the West and East Berlin. He was so touched by this couple and he felt this couple is heroes even though the country is divided in two, and they were separated by their residence in West and East Germany.Part of the Lyrics of Heroes:I, I can remember (I remember)Standing by the wall (by the wall)And the guns shot above our heads (over our heads)And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)And the shame was on the other sideOh we can beat them, for ever and everThen we could be Heroes, just for one dayAfter this song was released, it became a huge hit, and the song was popular in East Germany. And then, he hold a concert nearby the Berlin wall, and many East Germans were watching and listing the concert over the wall. However, East Germany brought police to the wall, and kicked the audience of East Germans out of the wall, and disturbed his concert. After that incident, riots in East Germany occurred frequently, and the rest of story is history. West and East Germany is united in One country, and the Berlin wall was torn down to the ground.I watched the documentary of this David Bowie story from a TV show long time ago, so I might be confused on some facts. But it is a true story.After David Bowie died, the German Foreign Ministry expressed their condolence officially on their website for his death.Personally, I don’t enjoy his music much, but there is no doubt that he is one of the greatest rock stars all time by contributing the unification of Germany with this song.Now, there is only one country left being separated on earth. This country has been divided to North and South for more than 60 years. Korea needs the song like Heroes that can initiate the reunification of SK and NK.I really wonder who can make THE Song.
What was the first song in human history?
The Sumerian culture was this planets first true civilization to spring up around the 14th century B.C.E. In the 1950's some archaeologists were doing their thing out there and found a set of clay tablets pressed with all the cuneiform you'd expect. They dug these right out of the ancient city Ugarit and started studying them. Turns out that they included music... not just any music but the oldest song we have any record of.Here is a URL to listen to itSource: Reference.com - What's Your Question, Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago
What was the first recorded song in history?
“Au clair de la lune”, a French nursery rhyme/folk song.“It is often stated that Thomas Edison was the first person to record sound and, by extension, music, but that isn’t the case: the first ever recorded song was actually recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a French printer and bookseller who also invented the phonautograph, the earliest known sound recording device.Scott sang French folk song ‘Au clair de la lune’ into the phonautograph, which recorded the soundwaves of his voice and displayed them via a phonautogram, a sheet of lines that would visually recreate the patterns of the sounds that were picked up by the phonautograph. The recording was made on April 9th, 1860, but as the phonautograph could not play sound, only record it, the phonautogram of Scott singing was not listened to until its rediscovery in 2008. The phonautogram was converted into an audio file, and while initially scientists believed the recording to be a woman or child singing the song, they later discovered that the playback speed had been too fast, and when slowed down it revealed the recording to be that of a man’s voice, likely Scott himself.”For more info: First Ever Recorded Song - Listen to it and Prepare to Be TerrifiedTo listen (skip to 0:20):
What are some of the most misunderstood songs in history?
My fiancee recently pointed out Empire State of Mind, recorded by Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. She’s right. The popular image of this song contrasts with the lyrics about as badly as the more famous Born in the USA example.The song is great, by the way. Great rap, amazing vocals and keys by Alicia Keys, and soaring epic chorus that we’ve all heard a ton of times. And people tend to focus on the chorus, which sounds like (and I think really is) a celebration of the unique crucible that is New York City:In New York,Concrete jungle where dreams are made ofThere's nothin' you can't doNow you're in New YorkThese streets will make you feel brand newBig lights will inspire youLet's hear it for New York, New York, New YorkBut the thing is that the chorus is just a brief relief from the rest of what’s actually happening in the song. The rest of the song starts out happy and very quickly veers into a brutal depiction of how people get by in NYC — and how they deceive themselves into thinking they are happy, when they are just getting abused left and right.So we start out with Jay-Z telling us that while he may have started out as a drug dealer at 560 State Street in Brooklyn, today he’s living large:Yea, yea I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in TribecaRight next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood foreverI'm the new Sinatra, and, since I made it hereI can make it anywhere, yea, they love me everywhereSounds great, right? then we get the first triumphant chorus, but when we return to the verse, it gets dark fast:Eight million stories, out there in it nakedCity is a pity, half of y'all won't make itAnd then we learn how people make it in the Naked City:City of sin, it's a pity on the whimGood girls gone bad, the city's filled with themMommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust outEverybody ride her, just like a bus routeDamn. And it’s not just the women:Came here for school, graduated to the high lifeBall players, rap stars, addicted to the limelightMDMA got you feelin' like a championThe city never sleeps, better slip you an AmbienMan. I do miss New York, though.
What is the only pop song in history with the word troglodyte in it. it has three different meanings to it.?
"Troglodyte" (As recorded by Jimmy Castor Bunch) JIMMY CASTOR BUNCH What we're gonna do right here is go back Way back into time When the only people that existed were Troglodytes Cave men, cave woman, Neadrothol, Troglodytes Imagine the average cave man at home Listening to his stereo Sometimes he'd get up and dance He'd move something like this "dance dance" He'd get tired of dancing alone and look in the mirror And say "gotta find a woman" "Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman" Then he'd go down to the lake where all the girls Would be swimming or washing clothes or something And he'd grab one by the hair You can't do that today fellas 'Cause it might come off You have a hand full of hair And she'd be swimming away from you This was a big woman, big Her name was Bertha, Bertha Butt -- one of the Butt sisters She looked down on him And started to crush him Then she began to play him He looked up at her and said "sock it to me" "Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me" She looked down on him And said "I'll sock it to you daddy" And you know what he said He started it all way back then I ain't gonna lie to you He said "right on, right on" Hot pants, hot pants Uh uh uh. (c) Copyright 1972 by Jimpire Music.