It takes guts to take a very popular song and do something else with it.
Amazingly enough, the film's composer Max Steiner, a Viennese-born musician who scored hundreds of Hollywood movies, was initially disinclined to use a popular song.
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In 2009, the group Los Tigres del Norte were banned from performing a popular song titled "La Granja" at an awards ceremony in Mexico City.
In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
Its title, meaning Milk Brigade, plays on a popular Javanese song, Kopi Susu (Milk Coffee).
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The second helicopter started dumping fresh rose petals by the bucketful, and, right on cue, a DJ started playing a popular hindi song about lovers flying through a shower of rose petals.
The county's largest music labels are trying to shut down Napster, a hugely popular and online song-swap service.
With its undertones of violence and sexuality, the choreography matches in exuberant innovation Debussy's score, which draws on rhythms from popular dance and song, but weaves them into an extraordinary symphonic landscape that took 30 years to catch on in the concert hall.
The popular sing-along song has been featured at Boston Red Sox home games since 2002.
Accessible and well rooted in their experience, music and song is popular with young people as a reflection of their universe.
The song stayed popular on the radio for a surprisingly long time.
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Some time around 1830, Rice learned a popular African-American song-and-dance routine, based on the myth of the trickster figure, an escaped slave named Jim Crow.
Nada Surf has been plugging away since the mid-'90s, beginning as an alt-rock one-hit wonder (with the novelty song "Popular") and ultimately morphing into a rare creature: an indie-pop band that traffics in uplift and empathy.
Arirang is a popular form of Korean folk song, the outcome of many collective contributions.
It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).
He wrote the popular "Variations on a Nursery Song" and became an eminent concert pianist.
Now in his 50s, the evergreen Hong Kong star of song and film stayed popular last year with the movie Blind Detective.
Psy's horse-riding dance accompanies the upbeat song, which has become popular in a number of countries.
Its most popular video is "Elmo's Song, " which has been watched nearly 86 million times since being uploaded in 2009.
Labrinth, who rose to fame as a producer and writer for Tinie Tempah, was another popular winner, picking up the best song trophy for Earthquake, his hit collaboration with the rapper.
It became one of the most popular country songs of all time and the state song of Louisiana in 1977.
In addition, the song has become one of the most popular YouTube videos of all time globally, and it has nearly six million fans on Facebook.
Since launching in December with Rdio, interactive mapping has become one of the most popular SoundHound features as users can tap on a SoundHound'ed song displayed on the map and link directly to Rdio to hear the full track.
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The theme song remains to this day one of Mtukudzi's most popular tracks.
Twitter loved Adele: her performance of "Skyfall" was the second most popular moment on the social network, and her win for Best Original song was fourth.
Looking at the most popular tracks is a great way to find new music, and each song links to different ways to purchase the music and various ways to share the song on social media.
More than any other popular singer, Jones had the ability to sink so far into a song that it never seemed to be a performance at all, just the sound of a man falling apart in front of you.
Apple, on course to grab close to 90% of the legal download market, dictated a new price for what a song was worth: 99 cents--no matter how popular a band was or how much it cost to produce a particular album.
Posts about "never say never" (from a Justin Bieber song) and "slack off" have been some of the most popular, Mr. Hayden says.
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