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Silent Night


"Silent Night" () is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by a large number of singers across many music genres. The version sung by Bing Crosby in 1935 is the third best-selling single of all-time. The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf,
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Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night


Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night is a 1998 direct-to-video animated featurette, inspired by the tale of the creation of the Christmas carol "Silent Night". It was directed by Buzz Potamkin and stars the voices of Phil Hartman (in one of his final roles), Jim Cummings, Marie Osmond, Tom Arnold and (a then-unknown) Lea Michele, and the songs were written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. In 1818, two mouse musicians named Buster and Chauncey visit the Alpine town of
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Christmas Song Book (Mina album)


Christmas Song Book is an album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2013. In the album, Mina covers twelve Christmas songs, written between 1818 ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", original version of "Silent Night") and 1973 ("Old Fashion Christmas"). Among the others, she sings four Bing Crosby hits ("The Secret of Christmas", "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "How Lovely Is Christmas" and "White Christmas"). Two songs were previously released
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The Memory of Trees


, and the "One Thousand and One Nights" stories. Roma explained the song is based on the idea that "everyone has their own idea of heaven ... it is a different treasure we embrace". "Hope Has a Place" was developed lyrically at first, after Roma had visited the Silent Valley Reservoir in the Mourne Mountains in Ireland, and wrote its words based around one's first love for her daughter Ebony. Enya subsequently wrote a melody and visited the Silent Valley with Nicky, who suggested that she record
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Silent-Night-Chapel


The Silent Night Chapel () is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol "Silent Night" and its librettist, Joseph Mohr and its composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It stands on the site of the former St. Nicholas's Church, where on December 24, 1818, the Christmas carol was performed for the first time. The church of St. Nicholas was damaged several times in the 1890s by flooding of the Salzach - especially by the flood
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A Ginuwine Christmas


A Ginuwine Christmas is the eighth studio album and first Christmas album by American R&B recording artist Ginuwine. It was released exclusively to digital media stores on October 10, 2011 via Notifi Records, compromising soulful interpretations of traditional holiday songs such as "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World ", along with love songs and sensual slow jams. "A Ginuwine Christmas" received generally mixed reviews from music critics. "USA Today" wrote that "perversely, Ginuwine slides [...] right into "Silent Night",
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Christmas


Hark! How All the Welkin Rings", later renamed "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing". Felix Mendelssohn wrote a melody adapted to fit Wesley's words. In Austria in 1818 Mohr and Gruber made a major addition to the genre when they composed "Silent Night" for the St. Nicholas Church, Oberndorf. William Sandys' "Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern" (1833) contained the first appearance in print of many now-classic English carols, and contributed to the mid-Victorian revival of the festival.
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Silent Night


, Austria, and shows that the music was composed by Gruber in 1818. This is the earliest manuscript that exists and the only one in Mohr's handwriting. The first edition was published by in 1833 in a collection of "Four Genuine Tyrolean Songs", with the following musical text: score vorbis="1" lang="lilypond" \relative c" { /score The contemporary version, as in the choral example below, is: score vorbis="1" lang="lilypond" \relative c" { /score In 1859, the Episcopal priest John Freeman Young, then
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Frankenmuth, Michigan


Street and is home to many community activities, festivals and large events. The Harvey E. Kern Community Pavilion is the newest addition and has become a focal point of the park. The park also features 4 picnic pavilions, 3 ball diamonds, playgrounds, sand volleyball courts, basketball court, riverwalk pathway and several facilities for festivals. A scale replica of the Silent-Night-Chapel, where "Silent Night" was originally performed in 1818, is located on the southern end of the property of Bronner's. The "
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Ben Molar


sang with the neighborhood street musicians and at a very early age began writing songs. He worked for a time in a framing factory and did his military service in 1937 in the Regiment of Patricios. His first songwriting success came when he wrote Spanish interpretations of "Silent Night" by Franz Gruber and "Jingle Bells" by James Pierpont, which at the time had no Castilian versions. He had trouble convincing the musicians who frequented the cafés of Calle Corrientes to perform his songs until he became friends with the French pianist Paul
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Silent Mouse


Silent Mouse is a British 1988 television film directed and produced by Robin Crichton. In 1818, Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, the church organ fails on Christmas Eve. The assistant priest Joseph Mohr and the church organist Franz Gruber writes the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which they and the church choir later perform at church accompanied by Mohr playing the guitar. The film was produced by Edinburgh Film and Video productions for Channel 4 in association with PBS and Czechoslovak Television. It was filmed in Austria and Slovakia. The film premiered
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A Silent Night with You


"A Silent Night with You" is a song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter, Tori Amos. It was released November 29, 2009 as the only promotional single from the seasonal album "Midwinter Graces" (2009). While most of the songs on recorded for Midwinter Graces are interpretations of traditional carols, Amos penned five original songs for the album, one of them being "A Silent Night with You". Amos is expressly against organised religion, and did not want the album to be associated
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Ron Davies (songwriter)


at the age of 17, when he wrote an entire album of songs for the Tacoma, Washington-based Wailers. He released two albums of his own on A&M Records, "Silent Song Through the Land" and "U. F. O," which he co-produced with Grammy Award-winning engineer Tommy Vicari. Davies's song "It Ain't Easy" was covered by Three Dog Night (on their album of the same name), Long John Baldry (as title song of his 1971 album),
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Sara Ramirez


Dr. Mark Sloan. Ramirez provided "a cappella" vocals in the song "Silent Night" for the soundtrack of the show's sixth-season episode "Holidaze," airing on November 19, 2009. Ramirez served as the main vocalist for the musical episode of "Grey's Anatomy", "Song Beneath the Song", which on aired March 31, 2011. Marcus James Dixon of Gold Derby calling her the "show-stopper", wrote that she "stole the show in a gut-wrenching performance
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7 O'Clock News/Silent Night


"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" (1966). The track is sound collage juxtaposing a rendition of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" with a simulated "7 O'Clock News" bulletin of the actual events of August 3, 1966. The track is a sound collage and simply constructed: it consists of the duo singing "Silent Night" two-part harmony over an arpeggiated piano
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The Silent World of Hector Mann


The Silent World of Hector Mann is a 2010 album by Duke Special, featuring songs inspired by the fictional silent film star Hector Mann from Paul Auster's 2002 novel "The Book of Illusions", who starred in twelve films before disappearing. Special wrote "Mister Nobody", inspired by the title of one of Mann's films, and sent the novel to eleven songwriters of his acquaintance, asking them each to write a song based on one of the twelve films in a pre-rock and roll style. The album
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12 Songs of Christmas (Etta James album)


(Carol of the Drum)" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone), Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr's "Silent Night", and "Joy to the World" (George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) follow. The album closes with a rendition of Adolphe Adam and John Sullivan Dwight's "O Holy Night". Critical reception of the album was positive overall. Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" wrote a positive review of the album, claiming that James
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex


as the moral power linking Europe and America, who supports "the world oppressed" like the mythical Atlas. During his disgrace he also wrote several bitter and pessimistic verses. His longest poem, "" (beginning "From silent night..."), is a penitential lament, probably written while imprisoned awaiting execution. Several of Essex's poems were set to music. English composer John Dowland set a poem called "Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak?" in his 1597 publication "First Booke of Songs
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Silent Night


a melody and guitar accompaniment for the Christmas Eve mass, after river flooding had damaged the church organ. The church was eventually destroyed by repeated flooding and replaced with the Silent-Night-Chapel. It is unknown what inspired Mohr to write the lyrics, or what prompted him to create a new carol. According to Gruber, Karl Mauracher, an organ builder who serviced the instrument at the Obendorf church, was enamoured with the song, and took the composition home with him to the Zillertal. From there, two travelling
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A Silent Night with You


was featured in concerts during the Midwinter Graces Tour of December 2009. "A Silent Night with You" was met with mixed reviews, but the five original compositions on the album as a whole were met with enthusiasm by critics, who felt that they were a welcome addition to the traditional material, and that the quality and production made for a seamless experience. Drowned In Sound's review stated that "once you get past the cringe-worthy opening ... the song itself is a romantic account of second chances at the holidays
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Gypsy 83


the previous night, the two are egged and mocked by the fraternity brothers as they leave the rest area while Troy sits silently. They miss the auditions for the Night of a Thousand Stevies, and Gypsy learns that her mother committed suicide four years earlier. The sympathetic Mistress of Ceremonies, also her mother's best friend when she was in New York, allows Gypsy to perform a song she wrote for her mother at the end of the show. In the end, Gypsy stays in New York to pursue her musical aspirations
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Hans Nilsson (musician)


, also formerly of Ceremonial Oath and HammerFall. Nilsson's style generally sways within the "blastbeat/double bass" tempo that is typical of death metal. However, one exception can be seen in Diabolique, which takes strong influence from gothic metal. Nilsson started as a guitarist in his early days but switched to play the drums. He still plays guitar and wrote one of the songs on Dimension Zero's debut album "Silent Night Fever". He also wrote a lot of the music in the band "Crystal Age
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The Night (The Animals song)


"The Night" is a song performed by The Animals in 1983. It was the first single from their 1983 "Ark" reunion effort. It reached #48 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #34 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Eric Burdon wrote this song with John Sterling, who gave it to him after he wrote the initial music and lyrics about his wife Eva who was visiting her family in Sweden. John talked with her on the phone every night during her absence. The video clip for
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Aubrey Bradimore


Aubrey Bradimore is a fictional character in the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" franchise. Created by Jayson Rothwell, she is a police officer in a small Midwestern town who finds herself hunting a killer dressed in a Santa Claus suit on Christmas Eve. Portrayed by Jaime King, the character is first introduced in "Silent Night" (2012), a loose remake of the original "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984). Aubrey first appears in "Silent Night". After a series of murders have occurred
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Meg White


". She sang lead on four Stripes' songs: "In the Cold, Cold Night", from the album "Elephant", "Passive Manipulation" from "Get Behind Me Satan", "Who's a Big Baby", the B-side to "Blue Orchid," and "St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)" from "Icky Thump". She also sang the popular Christmas song "Silent Night" on the single "Candy Cane Children". Both Meg and Jack
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Jiang Fengzhi


, Autumn Moon reflects the sadness of maids who were obliged to go into Han Palace. In a lonely, silent night, the moonlight covered the palace which was a prison to the maids. The maids poured their depression and resentment. Besides this well-known masterpiece, he also wrote many other musical compositions, such as "Back From the South" (Nangui), the "Long Night" (Changye) and so on. There is a story about the "Long Night". After the Incident of January
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (film series)


Silent Night, Deadly Night is an American horror film series consisting of six slasher films. The first film in the series, "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984), originally titled Slay Ride, tells the story of Billy, a young man who experiences a psychotic break and goes on a murder spree dressed as Santa Claus. The film received theatrical distribution from TriStar Pictures, but was pulled from theaters in November 1984 after a series of protests against the film. The second film, "Silent Night, Deadly
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Hannes M. Schalle


. In 2018 Hannes wrote, produced and directed the music Docudrama "Silent Night - A Song for the World", a Moonlake Entertainment production, featuring Kelly Clarkson, Joss Stone, David Foster, Josh Groban, The Tenors, Anggun, Rolando Villazon, DJ Ötzi, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Vienna Boys Choir, Gavin Rossdale and many more. Several Songs were produced by 16 Time Grammy Award Winning producer Humberto Gatica and Grammy Award Winning producer Brian Rawling and arranged by William Ross (composer) . The Film was shot in
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Jason Farnham


His rendition of "Silent Night" was later featured in the ChildFund International "Silent Night" television commercial (2011). In 2010, Farnham produced his fifth album, "Baby", a hybrid of ambient and new age music. In the fall, he composed the music and lyrics for the Fox Movie Classics commercial: "Office Space: The Musical". Farnham also received an honorable mention placement in the Song of the Year Songwriting Competition for his original song, "Finally (Top of the World)"
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Silent Despair


"Silent Despair" is a song by Finnish singer Anna Abreu from her second studio album, "Now" (2008). Rauli Eskolin (known professionally as Rake) co-wrote the song with Patric Sarin and Abreu. The single marked Abreu's first release to credit her as a songwriter. "Silent Despair" was produced by Eskolin at Inkfish Studios, Helsinki and is a pop ballad. The song was released on 6 October 2008 in Finland, as the album's second single, two weeks before the release
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Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas


degraded in quality to reproduce further copies. Tracks are presented in loose chronological order, with collaborations appearing in chronological order on disc two from tracks nine through twenty. Two tracks are previously unreleased songs: an alternate version of his original May 29, 1942 recording of "White Christmas"; and a February 21, 1935 recording of "Silent Night." The 1935 version of "Silent Night" was not released due to Crosby's feelings that a popular entertainer should not profit on such a religion-based song; however
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Ronan Tynan


at the Washington National Cathedral for former United States President Ronald Reagan's state funeral, where he sang "Amazing Grace" and Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria". Tynan sang for George H. W. Bush at Bush's Houston home on the day of the president's death on November 30, 2018. The first song was Silent Night, while the second was a Gaelic song. Bush's friend and former aide James Baker said that while Tynan was singing Silent Night, "[b]elieve it or not, the president was
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She Blinded Me with Science


short silent films with a soundtrack". The video for "She Blinded Me with Science" was conceived and storyboarded before the song was written. Dolby added the song title and then wrote the song to fit the planned video. He then directed the music video. The song was used in the video game "", as a collectible. The song was also sampled by Mobb Deep in their song "Got It Twisted". Thomas Dolby approved the sample to be used by The Alchemist, who produced the track.
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The Christmas Sessions


, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and "Little Drummer Boy") charted inside the top ten of the "Billboard" Christian Songs chart, peaking at number one, nine, and ten, respectively."It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", "Gloria", "O Holy Night", "Silent Night", and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" also appeared on the chart. "Silent Night" peaked at number six on the Adult Contemporary chart, with "Rockin' Around the
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Fiona Bevan


Sang Silent Night" was released in 2014 as a peacetime/Christmas song, marking the 100 year anniversary of the Christmas Truce ceasefire when enemy troops united in peace to sing Silent Night across the trenches. A live version of the song aired on Christmas Day on national ABC radio in Australia, featuring Fiona accompanied by Jeremy Marou from Busby Marou on guitar. In 2011 she released her debut EP, "Us and the Darkness", co-produced with Robin Baynton. It features Bevan on lead vocals and guitar accompanied by
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A Silent Night with You


explicitly with Christianity's celebration of holidays, so she wanted her own songs to evoke positive associations with Christmas that were more inclusive, such as feelings of nostalgia, love and family: The official video clip accompanying the single release features Amos playing the piano and singing the track in the recording studio. The song was performed live on UK television programme The Alan Titchmarsh Show broadcast Dec 3, 2009, as well as in intimate concert settings for SPIN magazine and Last.fm that were broadcast online. "A Silent Night with You"
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Sending You a Little Christmas (album)


on "Billboard" magazine's Adult Contemporary chart after debuting there in December 2003. The musician enjoyed the time spent collaborating with Mathis. "It was surreal, and definitely a ‘pinch me’ moment. I was so honored, and he sounds so beautiful." The fact that Brickman originated the music definitely added to his experience. "It wasn’t something like ‘Silent Night,’ where you’re just performing. It was actually a song that I wrote." After the album's release in October 2013
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Sarah McLachlan


"Wintersong" performance of "Silent Night", and a new ad with her was released in January 2009 featuring the song "Answer". In 2012, McLachlan wrote a letter on behalf of PETA to then-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, protesting that country's annual seal hunt. During Super Bowl XLVIII on February 3, 2014, McLachlan parodied her ASPCA appeals in an Audi commercial featuring a "Doberhuahua" dog gnawing on the neck of her guitar. McLachlan contributed the track "Hold On" to the 1993
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Hertha Pauli


the journal Aufbau. In the following years she wrote books about Alfred Nobel and the Statue of Liberty. Her books for children, in particular, had some success. These books included "Silent Night. The Story of a Song" (1943), in which she explained the origin of the carol. She married Ernst Basch (pen name E.B. Ashton), with whom she had collaborated on "I Lift My Lamp". Her last book was autobiographical and described the time after the Nazi's union with France.
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Tamyra Gray


two tracks on the "American Idol" Christmas CD—a solo version of "Silent Night" and a duet version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with Ruben Studdard. She also appeared on the Idol Christmas Special on Fox with Clarkson, Studdard, and other finalists from the first two Idol seasons. During the third season of "American Idol", she returned to the show on several occasions to sing "Raindrops Will Fall" and "Star", songs she co-wrote for her debut album
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Night Time Lover


"Night Time Lover" is the second single by American singer La Toya Jackson, from her eponymous debut. The track was produced and co-written by her brother Michael, who provides co-lead vocals on the chorus. They originally wrote the song for Donna Summer under the title "Fire Is The Feeling". The song peaked at #59 on the "Billboard" R&B chart. Bobby DeBarge of Switch, Jackson's love interest, wrote the 1980 song "You and I" in response. The song
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Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)


such as "Silent Night", "O Holy Night" and "Joy to the World". The latter song, which was used as a promotional single, was remixed several times and sent to various clubs; adding to the album's range of listeners. Record producer and composer, Loris Holland, co-produced some of the albums gospel flavored tracks, including "Silent Night", where he arranged the backing vocals and synthesizers. Carey's rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", was deemed
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Marshall S. Pike


Marshall S. Pike (May 20, 1818 – February 13, 1901) was a notable songwriter and poet. He was well known for his song "Home Again". He wrote lyrics in collaboration with James Pierpont for the song "The Little White Cottage" or "Gentle Nettie Moore" published by Oliver Ditson and Company, and copyrighted on September 16, 1857. The songwriting credit appeared as: "Poetry by Marshall S. Pike, Esq." Marshall Spring Pike was born on May 20, 1818 in Westborough,
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Christmas carol


" in 1861. "Silent Night" comes from Austria. The carol was first performed in the Nikolaus-Kirche (Church of St. Nicholas) in Oberndorf, Austria on 24 December 1818. Mohr had composed the words much earlier, in 1816, but on Christmas Eve brought them to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service. The first English translation was in 1871 where it was published in a Methodist hymnal. Several different Christmas episodes, apart from the birth of Jesus itself,
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Fredrik August Dahlgren


Ack Värmeland, du sköna". He wrote the lyrics for the Värmland folk song "Jänta å ja"'. Dahlgren also wrote the text for the musical drama "Värmlänningarna" with music by composer Andreas Randel (1806–1864). He was married to Ulrika Magdalena von Heland (1818-1900). He was the father of the historian Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren (1848-1934), who became head of the Swedish Royal Library, and the writer Lotten Dahlgren (1851-1934). Dahlgren is buried at the
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The Spectre-Barber


fragment of a novel that is considered the first modern vampire story, Polidori wrote "The Vampyre" (1816) based on this, and Mary Shelley went on to write "Frankenstein" (1818); these books went on to shape the Gothic horror genre. Maximiliaan van Woudenberg examines what influence ""L'Amour Muet"" had on "Frankenstein", and points out the "bedside apparition" motif occurs here as well as in several other of the "Fantasmagoriana" stories. He also comments on the "silent
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Morningrise


" "unlistenable" and was compelled to change Opeth's sound for "My Arms, Your Hearse" accordingly. Lyrically, the song "The Night and the Silent Water" is about the grandfather of vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, who had died shortly before the recording of the album. "To Bid You Farewell", the album's final song, was notable at the time for having a lighter sound and featuring no unclean vocals. This album also features Opeth's longest recorded song, "Black Rose Immortal"
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Heartworn Highways


Christmas Day at Guy Clark's house in Nashville with Guy, Susanna Clark, Steve Young, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Jim McGuire (playing the dobro), along with several other guests. Steve Young leads the group in a rendition of Hank Williams' song "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and Rodney Crowell leads everyone in "Silent Night". Pauline Kael wrote highly of the film and its lyricism, but lamented the loose structure and lack of contextualizing information: Szalapski is an attentive and scrupulous cinematographer
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Christmas (Jorma Kaukonen album)


Christmas is a Jorma Kaukonen studio album released in July 1996. It was the only themed album Kaukonen recorded and was a departure from the usual Rev. Gary Davis influenced tunes. It included new Christmas-themed compositions as well old hymns such as "Silent Night." Like the previous album, "The Land of Heroes", "Christmas" incorporated the work of Michael Falzarano and Fred Bogert. Kaukonen's wife Vanessa also performed vocals and co-wrote one song. It was also the only time Kaukonen performed keyboards on
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Andrea Dworkin


. When Dworkin was 10, her family moved from the city to the suburbs of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (then known as Delaware Township), which she later wrote she "experienced as being kidnapped by aliens and taken to a penal colony". In sixth grade, the administration at her new school punished her for refusing to sing "Silent Night" (as a Jew, she objected to being forced to sing Christian religious songs at school). She said she "probably would have become a rabbi" if
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Silent Orchestra


. Their performance of Nosferatu at the 2000 Virginia Film Festival was followed by a premiere of Shadow of the Vampire, a fictionalized account of the making of Nosferatu. As festival director, Richard Herskowitz wrote in the festival wrap-up, "The opening night presentation was a double feature of Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire, with Silent Orchestra performing its majestic score for Nosferatu. Both the night's standing ovation and the acclaim registered in audience surveys expressed great appreciation for the revelatory effect of juxtaposing the two films and adding a
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The Darkest Night of the Year


The Darkest Night of the Year is a Christmas album by the group Over the Rhine, released independently in 1996. It is their fifth studio album overall, and the last to feature the band's original lineup. The album features six interpretations of traditional Christmas songs, three original instrumentals, three vocal compositions, and a second version of "Silent Night" featuring Terri Templeton, who was touring with Over The Rhine as a secondary vocalist at the time. Ten years later, Over The Rhine would release a second Christmas album
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Silent majority


that while he had written the memo that contained the phrase, "Nixon wrote that speech entirely by himself." Coincidentally, the day prior to Nixon's November 3, 1969 speech, the band Creedence Clearwater Revival released their "Willy and the Poor Boys" album, which contained the song "Effigy". In it, songwriter John Fogerty wrote the line, "Silent majority weren't keeping quiet anymore". Nixon's silent majority referred mainly to the older generation (those World War II veterans in all parts of
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The Silent Sun


"The Silent Sun" (album title "Silent Sun") is the premiere single by English rock band Genesis. It was written by Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel when the band's producer, Jonathan King, first discovered them, before he decided to produce an entire album, a heavy investment. Knowing that King was a fan of the Bee Gees, Banks and Gabriel wrote the song specifically to capture his attention. The song was released as a single on 2 February 1968. They would soon begin work on their
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Fever (Kylie Minogue album)


Night Like This tour. Soon after, Minogue began work on her eighth studio album "Fever". On the album, she collaborated with producers and writers such as British singer-songwriter Cathy Dennis, who co-wrote two songs out of the three she co-produced, Rob Davis, who co-produced and co-wrote three songs, and Richard Stannard and Julian Gallagher, who co-produced and co-wrote six songs ("Love At First Sight", "In Your Eyes", "
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Stanislao Gastaldon


poems that had been set by Gastaldon's contemporaries. Giovanni Domenico Bartocci-Fontana, who wrote the libretto for Gastaldon's opera "Mala Pasqua!", also wrote the text for his song "Perché tacete" (Why are you silent?). Other poets whose texts were set by Gastaldon included Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Olindo Guerrini (under the pseudonym Lorenzo Stecchetti), Emilio Praga, Armando Perotti, Annie Vivanti, Fausto Salvatori, and Domenico Milelli (under the pseudonym Conte di Lara). Of all his songs
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I'm Going to Follow the Boys


I'm Going to Follow the Boys (Novelty Song) is a World War I era song released in 1917. Howard Rogers wrote the lyrics and James V. Monaco composed the music. The song was published by M. Witmark & Sons in New York City. On the cover of the sheet music, there is a photograph of American silent film actress, Gladys Leslie saluting, while dressed in uniform. She also performed the song. The song is told from the first-person point of view of a woman who is used
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The Snow (band)


effects of Capitalism on the former Soviet bloc). Their latest album, "I Die Every Night", (Vermillion Records, 2010), is more lushly orchestrated; half of its compositions are by Downes, who, like de Gaillande, utilizes numerous literary devices in her lyrics and typically favors lushly moody sonics. The songs range from the latest in de Gaillande's ongoing "disaster song cycle" about possible apocalypses ("Silent Parade"), to ominous torch songs by Downes ("Albatross", and "
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Alexandra Burke


with an established music artist, and the song from their favourite performance of the series. Her Christmas song was an adaptation of "Silent Night". She then sang "Listen" as a duet with Beyoncé (who later performed her UK number-one single "If I Were a Boy"), and after performing with the American singer she proclaimed: "I have achieved a dream". Her final song before the first-round voting result was "You Are So Beautiful". After the elimination of Quigg
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Mumiy Troll


In 2015 they released album Pirate Copies (in Russian) and in 2016 - Malibu Alibi (English) – all songs were created during the band’s round-the-world trip on a 19-century sailing ship in locations as diverse as LA, Moscow, China, Singapore and South Africa. Also wrote and produced soundtracks for a full length cartoon movie and gave a new sound to classic Russian silent sci-fi movie and donated tracks to feature films including Russian blockbuster "Night Watch", where Ilya also plays the Vampire
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One Night Stand (Keri Hilson song)


"One Night Stand" is a song by American recording artist Keri Hilson, taken from her second studio album, "No Boys Allowed" (2010). It features American R&B singer Chris Brown who co-wrote the song alongside Kevin McCall and Charlie Bereal, who also produced the track. The R&B and soul ballad was sent to radio as the third single from "No Boys Allowed". "One Night Stand" received a mixed response from critics, who praised both Hilson and Brown's vocals, but was
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Frederica Sagor Maas


ability than in signing someone who had worked for Ben Schulberg and Al Lichtman." It was in this period that she wrote the screenplays for silent films "Dance Madness" and "The Waning Sex". Her recollections of that period:Thus Maas' introduction to studio politics did not go well and her MGM contract was not renewed. During 1925–1926 she wrote treatments and screenplays for Tiffany Productions, including the well-received flapper comedies "That Model from Paris" and "The First Night". Already before she married
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Silent Heart


2014 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival where it received a 20 minutes standing ovation. It was released theatrically in Denmark 13 November 2014. Film critic Morten Piil in "" gave the film 5 out of 6 stars and wrote: "All in all, Silent Heart is Bille August's most complete film since "The Best Intentions". Jonathan Holland for "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote positively from San Sebastián that "After the disappointing "Night Train to Lisbon", "Heart" signals a return to form for
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Lazlo Bane


Land" and "Pompeii Nights" attributed to the fictional band Vesuvius were written and performed by the members of The (Silent) Rage, with lead vocals sung by Keith England. "Pompeii Nights" is a re-recording of a song "Dirty Old Man" with different lyrics. Another new song featured in the film called "Tailgate" was solely performed by T(S)R. The songs "Promised Land" and "Pompeii Nights" were released on . The year 2013 finally saw the release of the band's first studio
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (film series)


the killer, Ronald, had gone mad over the death of his father, a serial killer who was shot to death by Aubrey's father, who was also a police officer. Only two out of the five films from the original series run were released theatrically. "Silent Night, Deadly Night" was acquired for distribution by TriStar Pictures in 1984, and was released theatrically on November 9, 1984. However, the film received harsh criticism from the public, who believed it to be an attack on Christmas. Protests
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Órla Fallon


special, as well as Fallon's own songs, there were also songs which featured a few guest singers, including former fellow Celtic Woman member Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, in which they sang a duet together ("Do you hear what I hear"), and "American Idol" runner up David Archuleta, who joined Fallon on stage to perform "Silent Night", "Pat a Pan", and the finale song of "Here we come A-Wassailing", which Ní Mhaolchatha was also featured in. This
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker


Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker is a 1991 American horror film, directed by Martin Kitrosser and stars Mickey Rooney, who had previously condemned the original film. Additionally, both Neith Hunter, and Clint Howard, who were Kim and Ricky in "", reprise their roles in cameo appearances, but it is unclear if they are playing the same characters. Late one night in December, a young boy named Derek Quinn (William Thorne) hears the doorbell ringing and goes downstairs and finds a Christmas present
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Franz Xaver Gruber


original German lyrics, Gruber composed the music for the Christmas carol "Silent Night". On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. The two men sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated
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Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night


with the riches being recovered, proving that Christina is innocent all along, but the previous chase caused damage to the church's organ. Later on, the melody Chauncey has been playing repeatedly on his violin inspires the organist. Father Joseph, who has written a poem, uses the melody to compose "Silent Night" and perform it for the first time. The Queen then offers to take Christina to Vienna and Christina says goodbye to her new friends, Buster and Chauncey. "Silent Night" was the first in-
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Unholy (song)


the first single in 10 years to feature Simmons on lead vocals since I Love It Loud and is considered one of the heaviest songs in the band's catalog. The song features Jesse Damon from Silent Rage, who sang backing vocals on the track. He also sang backing vocals on "Thou Shalt Not" (which he even co-wrote), "Take It Off", "Tough Love", "Heart of Chrome" and "I Just Wanna". As a single, "Unholy" was released
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Jackie Evancho discography


. 2, 4 and 5, respectively, on "Billboard's" Classical Digital Song sales chart. In addition to the live albums described above, there is a music video of Evancho singing the song "Silent Night", from her album "O Holy Night" (2010), and videos of three songs from her album "Heavenly Christmas" (2011). Idolator readers chose one of these, "Believe", as their "Favorite Christmas Song" for 2011. The video of "Believe" charted
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List of songs recorded by Basshunter


wrote "Bass Creator" and "Camilla". A cover for "Angel in the Night", and "I Miss You" were later released. Basshunter again worked with Simons on "Every Morning" and "I Promised Myself", the first single from "Bass Generation" (released on 28 September 2009). He continued working with Hill (who wrote "I Still Love") and Uhlmann, who produced "Plane to Spain" and "Day & Night". Hill and Simons co-wrote
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Christmas music


' who would travel from house to house. In the 16th century, various Christmas carols still sung to this day, including "The 12 Days of Christmas", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", and "O Christmas Tree", first emerged. The Victorian Era saw a surge of Christmas carols associated with a renewed admiration of the holiday, including "Silent Night", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", and "O Holy Night". The first Christmas songs associated with Saint Nicholas or other
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Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)


showcasing the two lead protagonists Evie and Jacob. The cover was performed by Hidden Citizens. "Silent Running" was one of the first songs to come from the Rutherford/Robertson songwriting partnership. It was, in fact, one of a series of songs that the two wrote simply to test how effective collaboration between them would be. When producer Christopher Neil heard it on a demo tape that Rutherford played for him, however, he recommended that it be used for the album. According to Rutherford, the song When Rutherford
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A Very Silent Night


"A Very Silent Night" is a single released in New Zealand exclusively for dogs - created by creatives Colin Mitchell and Alex Dyer, now at rascals.co.nz. It is a world first as the single can not be heard by human ears and can only be heard by animals that can hear outside of the normal human range - including Dogs . The single was sold during December 2007 to raise funds for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). The music video for the song featured New
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Tonight's the Night (Blackstreet song)


"Tonight's the Night" is the sixth and final single off of Blackstreet's self-titled debut album, Blackstreet. The remix version features R&B group SWV and rapper Craig Mack. It was released on August 1, 1995. The original version of the song features Tammy Lucas (who also wrote the song). All versions of the song feature Chauncey Hannibal on lead vocals. "Tonight's the Night" charted on three Billboard charts: number 80 on the Hot 100, 27 on the Hot R&B/Hip
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation


Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation, released in the UK as Bugs, is a 1990 American horror film directed by Brian Yuzna, and written by Brian Yuzna, Woody Keith, and Arthur Gorson. The film stars Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Reggie Banister, Allyce Beasley, and Maud Adams. The plot focuses on a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who, while investigating the unexplained death of a woman, becomes entangled with a group of witches who are preparing her for their ritual on Christmas Eve.
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2014 Sydney hostage crisis


February 2015 was dedicated to the siege victims and to those who died in the "Charlie Hebdo" shooting in Paris. Composer Lyle Chan, who resides less than a kilometre from the Lindt cafe, wrote two works influenced by the events. "Sea of Flowers" was premiered by conductor Alondra de la Parra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in May 2015. Chan's "Love Is Always Born (December)", with original words by Michael Leunig and 'Silent Night' in Arabic, was commissioned and premiered by the
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Glass Spider Tour


one? Jesus, I can't remember it. ... 'Sons of the Silent Age!' [snaps fingers] Ah! That's right! Thank god I could remember it! So that for me now is a new song. I've never done that one onstage." "Sons of the Silent Age" was performed every night of the tour. All but two songs ("Too Dizzy" and "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)") from his album "Never Let Me Down"
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Silent-Night-Chapel


Chapel ultimately became the visible symbol of the song "Silent Night". Every year, especially at Christmas, thousands of people from around the world visit the Memorial Chapel and adjacent Museum. At 17:00 (5:00 p.m.) every December 24, a solemn memorial mass is held at the church and guests thrill to the experience of hearing the famous carol sung in their many languages. Since 2002, this celebration has been transmitted by means of the local webcam on the Internet. The chapel is an octagon in form with a bell
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Silent Night (opera)


infiltrate the German line. Some Scottish soldiers start singing. Nikolaus responds with a Christmas song ("Silent Night"), soon the Scottish bagpiper starts to accompany him, and Nikolaus raises a Christmas tree on the bunker. The Christmas truce starts as the lieutenants agree to stop fighting until the morning. The soldiers come out and the French soldier returns without using his grenades. The soldiers intermingle, talk, and exchange provisions. Anna appears. Father Palmer conducts a mass. Anna sings of peace. Jonathan, however,
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Silent Night, Bloody Night


... surreal, and sometimes confusing." In his book "Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001", Kent Byron Armstrong wrote that the film "has a lethargic pace, but it provides enough intrigue and mystery to help a viewer retain interest." In "Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents" (2007), Stephen Thrower wrote: "[the film is] “painfully slow... plotted for maximum irritation, with a deferred mystery structure that will have you screaming with impatience
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Empire (Queensrÿche album)


Adrien Begrand also reviewed the album's 20th anniversary release. Begrand called the album an "enigma" that's "beautifully produced and features some of the band's quintessential songs, but at the same time it's a rather bloated, conceptually scattershot piece of work containing filler that honestly has not aged very well". Begrand praised the songs "Empire", "Another Rainy Night", and "Silent Lucidity", calling them the album's best tracks, favorably comparing "Silent Lucidity" to Pink Floyd's "
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948 film)


the song. The 1964 film more closely resembles the song rather than the original story. This short film was created to advertise Montgomery Ward department stores, the publisher of the original story. The original release included a credit for the company, and it lacked the famous song, with the opening credits instead playing over an instrumental version of "Silent Night, Holy Night". The 1951 re-release of the film added a choral version of the song to the credits and removed the Montgomery Ward name. The 1951 reissue
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Tokyo Warhearts


shows. Two of the songs from this album have been released separately for promotional purposes and can be found on a Spinefarm DVD compilation: "Silent Night, Bodom Night" and "Deadnight Warrior". Track 1 covers a segment of Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme" from the Miami Vice soundtrack. At the end of track 6 a brief part of the riff of "Crazy Nights" by Japanese band Loudness is played. They later covered the song and released it as a bonus track on the album "Halo
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka


, is silent. Poland is silent... Dying Jews are surrounded only by a host of Pilates washing their hands in innocence." Those who are silent in the face of murder, she wrote, become accomplices to the crime. Kossak-Szczucka saw this largely as an issue of religious ethics. "Our feelings toward Jews have not changed," she wrote. "We do not stop thinking of them as political, economic and ideological enemies of Poland." But, she wrote, this does not relieve Polish Catholics
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For Life (Phases album)


Alright, whatever happens, let’s at least work on this and make songs for fun, without thinking where they go or who they’re for.'" The group then wrote and jammed in Greenwald's home, silently projecting visually interesting films like "Tron" and "Total Recall" on the walls for inspiration. Neil Z. Yeung of Allmusic wrote, "Even though this is their second release as a band, Phases' debut sounds little like JJAMZ. "For Life" brings the dingy club rock show into
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Joseph Binns Hart


, a type of quadrille, which remained popular for many years. From 1818 to 1821 Hart was chorus-master and pianist of the English Opera House (the Lyceum Theatre, London), and wrote the songs for "Amateurs and Actors" by Richard Brinsley Peake (1818), "The Bull's Head" and "A Walk for a Wager" (1819), "The Vampyre" (1820), and other musical farces and melodramas. From 1829 until his death Hart lived in Hastings, where he
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Roger Ferris


Roger Ferris is a British pop music composer, who wrote a Top 30 UK chart hit single in 1975 for the British band Arrows, entitled "My Last Night With You." The song was produced by Mickie Most on his RAK label. "My Last Night With You" was also a top 30 chart hit in European territories as recorded by Arrows. Ferris wrote two more songs for the Arrows, "Hard Hearted" and "Broken Down Heart", both released in 1975 in the UK and Europe. "
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Joseph Mohr


Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef (11 December 1792 – 4 December 1848) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night." Mohr was born in Salzburg on 11 December 1792, to an unmarried embroiderer, Anna Schoiberin, and Franz Mohr, a mercenary soldier and deserter, who abandoned Joseph's mother before the birth. The ancestors on his father's side came from the town of Mariapfarr in the mountainous Lungau region south of Salzburg, while his mother
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Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009


On February 10, 2009, two days ahead of the song press conference, song titles and lyricists were revealed to the media. Alexandra Zakka wrote the lyrics for the first song, titled "Out of control", a pop song with R&B elements, while Craig Porteils and Cameron Giles-Webb wrote the lyrics for both "Right on time", a mid-tempo song with rock elements, and "This is our night", a dance song. Craig Porteils is a Greek Australian music producer who has written
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Good Night (Reece Mastin song)


will definitely be a hot summer hit!." Reviewers of MusicFix noted the song's similarities to Pink's "Raise Your Glass", and wrote that "we were pretty disappointed to hear his [Mastin's] epic rock vocals restrained to a shouty party track." This was echoed by Tonges of Nova FM, who wrote it was "shockingly similar to Pink's 'Raise Your Glass'". Lauren Katulka of Sounds of Oz wrote that the verses in the song "felt like virtual carbon copies of Pink
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Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)


"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, "Teenage Dream". The song was written and produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin, who also co-wrote the song with Perry and Bonnie McKee. Perry stated that she was inspired to write the track after a night of wild partying and streaking. It was released as the album's fifth single on June 6, 2011, by Capitol Records, with a remix featuring American rapper Missy Elliott released
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Another Night (Real McCoy song)


The song lyrics tell the story of a woman who longs to be with the anonymous individual she encounters every night in her dreams. The rap vocals represent the man's voice in the woman's head, saying the things she wants to hear and promising to fulfill her desires. However, each dawn brings pain to the vocalist, as she realizes "when the night is gone, I'll be alone." "Billboard" wrote about the song: "Charismatic new European act is armed and ready to infiltrate U.S. radio
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Forty Days and Forty Nights


"Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it was a hit, spending six weeks in the "Billboard" R&B chart, where it reached number seven. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a midtempo blues song with an irregular number of bars written by Bernard Roth (who also wrote Muddy Waters' "Just to Be
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Noch (song)


1930 (started in 1928). In 1984, the song was recorded in Tukhmanov's studio and aired on the TV show "The Music Kiosk". The show was seen by Sergey Obraztsov, one of the major officially recognized theater figures of the USSR, a puppeteer who wrote a devastating article on the song in the newspaper "Soviet Culture". At the conclusion of his article, Obraztsov wrote: "I hope that this song will sound no more", after which "Night" was completely banned. Tukhmanov
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Octopus (Bloc Party song)


track "takes the band back to the earliest days of "Silent Alarm"" and called the track "pure rock 'n' roll". "Metro" also noted the band returning to their indie roots, as well as comparing the track's "strong guitar hook and catchy lyrics" to the band's sound on their debut "Silent Alarm". "Counteract Magazine" wrote that on the song, "Kele's vocals feel freer and less dominating, giving the whole band a chance to loosen up.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (film series)


Night" (1984) and "Silent Night" (2012) on Blu-ray on May 12, 2015. On December 5, 2017, Scream Factory released "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) on Blu-ray in a two-disc collector's edition featuring new bonus material and a 4K remaster from the original film negative. In December 2014, the merchandise company Fright Rags released a gift pack based on the original "Silent Night, Deadly Night"; items included a stocking, a
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Circle in the Sand


and Ellen Shipley, who wrote many of Carlisle's hit singles in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, including her signature song "Heaven Is a Place on Earth". The first known appearance of the song in progress is from the "Lost Heaven Demos" bootleg which features a solid drum beat, lead keyboard line and simple bass with no guitars present, and completed lyrics. The melody borrows from Mike + The Mechanics' "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)", specifically the "can you hear
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Silent All These Years


These Years" was written during Amos's search for self (and solo album material) after the failure of Y Kant Tori Read. According to her narrative during "VH1 Storytellers", she originally wrote this song with Al Stewart in mind to sing it, and Eric Rosse, who was producing some other songs Amos had composed, heard it and told her, "You're out of your mind. That's your life story"; as a result, Amos retained it as her own recording. In the "
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