Oak Room swan song
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:22 -0800

By rita delfiner the Algonquin Hotel's famed Oak Room is closing its doors and New York's biggest names in cabaret and jazz yesterday sang sad songs of farewell. My New York career started at the Oak Room, and I can't imagine the city without it, ...

Re-creating powerful moments in song
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:04:17 -0800

"And that song represents a moment in time. There's an element of it that was every summer camp song hey, let's saddle up our horses, and everybody made up dances to it in Christian youth groups and things, and it becomes almost a novelty of sorts.

COLUMN: No frills, no song and dance, just ... success
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:23:21 -0800

The Super Bowl coaches are disciplinarians, which is encouraging in its way. I wouldn't want to swap war stories with them, though. It would be nice to have a rooting interest in a Super Bowl. For the second year in a row, my personal involvement ...

Nick Carter dedicates song to late sister
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:24 -0800

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter dedicated a song to his late sister Leslie Carter and got emotional while performing the song . Leslie, 25, died Jan 31 at her upstate New York home. Reports said she suffered a prescription drug overdose and was found ...

Drake Sued Over 'Marvin's Room' by Purported Ex-Girlfriend (Exclusive)
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:31 -0800

Last year, hip-hop superstar Drake released a song , "Marvin's Room," that quickly went viral and prompted various remixes by fellow artists intrigued by the depiction of a young woman on a phone call as the rapper drunkenly croons, "You could do better ...

Writing the Best Known Pro-Putin and Anti-Putin Songs
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:44:34 -0800

Putin's supporters and detractors both have pop songs to sing about him. But oddly, Russia's best-known pro-Putin and anti-Putin songs were written by the very same songwriter. Alexander Yellin sits in an expensive cafe in downtown Moscow.

With many a song in their hearts
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:26:58 -0800

By John Orr Electronic Arts Forget about the Jets last game of the 2011 season. Santonio Holmes catches fire in NFL Blitz. something great this way comes: William Liberatore and the Gunn High School Choir he leads have something special on tap for ...

On song for the Foxes
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:35:20 -0800

Singing a few songs and supporting your team is not all I get out of watching my team but when they have played in a tinpot league for 11 years it certainly helps. In turn, he has my sympathy if his friends are fair-weather enough to change the sport ...

MGK Song Tapped As Soundtrack to Fake Wrestling Match
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:55:35 -0800

And now his new single "Invincible" has been tapped as WWE star John Cena's theme song for Wrestlemania XXVIII. Cena will enter the big fight which takes place in Miami on April 1, so mark your calendars now as MGK's song about, um, ...

Songs and voices
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:04:29 -0800

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to God, expressing, 'I will sing to God for His great victory, horse and rider He cast into the sea...' (Exodus 15:19). With the conclusion of this male paean of praise to the Almighty for His wonders, ...

Brenda Song and Trace Cyrus: When's the Wedding?
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:12:28 -0800

Fans were excited when Trace Cyrus proposed to girlfriend, Brenda Song . The two recently moved into their first home together, but fans are more excited to see them tie the knot. So when is the big day? Not anytime soon. Cyrus and Song recently gave an ...

Drugmakers Singing Same Song : 2012 Will Be Tough
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:47:57 -0800

(AP) For drugmakers, the golden era of the 1990s and early part of the last decade, when they seemed to effortlessly churn out new multibillion-dollar pills for the masses along with double-digit quarterly profit increases, is not even in the ...

On- song City out to deny Imphumelelo victory
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:43:47 -0800

Swazi Bank Cup debutants Imphumelelo FC come into this game with underdog nametags dangling on their necks, as they face the on- song National First Division log leaders. However, history of the tournament has proven that the so-called small teams rise ...

The science behind what makes a hit single
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:11:23 -0800

(Matt Sayles / Associated Press / November 20, 2011) By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times The anatomy of a hit song has remained a mystery to researchers looking to dissect what makes some songs soar to the top of the charts and others land with an ...

The politics of song selection
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:50:54 -0800

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were forced this week to stop using songs at their rallies after songwriters complained that the campaigns had played the pieces without permission. Strike another two songs from the Republican playlist: "Eye of the Tiger ...

Gingrich Sued Over Use of 'Eye of the Tiger'
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:02 -0800

The lawsuit was filed in Illinois federal court on behalf of Rude Music Inc, owned by Frank Sullivan, a co-author of the song . Mr. Sullivan has asked a judge to issue an injunction to stop Mr. Gingrich from using the song as entrance music at rallies.

Mc Gregor on song at Surfski
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:57:57 -0800

Durban - Series defending champ Hank Mc Gregor made his first appearance in the 2012 Varsity College Marine Surfski Series count as he overcame an exceptional field to claim the spoils in race four, the Thule Surfski Challenge on Friday evening.

Oscar's Best Song category: The schlock will go on
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:12:53 -0800

But your Best Song category a famed repository for Hollywood schlock is another story. I don't know if it's the advancing age of your voting members or the nature of music written for the big screen, but the songs that inevitably get nominated ...

Madonna, 'Give Me All Your Luvin'' Feat. Nicki Minaj + M.I.A. - Song Review
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:05:49 -0800

Nicki Minaj and MIA are chanting cheerleaders throughout most of Madonna's new dance-pop song 'Give Me All Your Luvin'.' So, do we really love Madge's new single? 'Give Me All Your Luvin kicks off with a drum roll and the aforementioned cheerleader ...

With many a song in their hearts
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:26:58 -0800

By John Orr Electronic Arts Forget about the Jets last game of the 2011 season. Santonio Holmes catches fire in NFL Blitz. something great this way comes: William Liberatore and the Gunn High School Choir he leads have something special on tap for ...