Crossword clues for songbird
songbird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A bird having a melodious song or call.
WordNet
n. any bird having a musical call [syn: songster]
Wikipedia
SongBird is a Dutch sub label owned by Tijs Verwest and Arny Bink. It is a sub label of Black Hole Recordings, established in 1997, and is most well known as the label on which Tiësto's popular trance series, In Search of Sunrise, was released.
Songbird is a compilation album of songs by the late American singer Eva Cassidy, released in 1998, two years after her death in 1996.
Five tracks ("Wade in the Water", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Songbird", "Time is a Healer" and "I Know You by Heart") are from Cassidy's album, Eva by Heart. Four tracks ("Fields Of Gold", "Autumn Leaves", "People Get Ready" and "Oh Had I a Golden Thread") are from her album, Live at Blues Alley. The remaining track, "Over the Rainbow", is from the album The Other Side. The compilation album was certified Gold by the CRIA (50,000 units) in 2003. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2001 and Platinum in 2008 for shipments in excess of one million copies.
"Songbird" is a song by English rock band Oasis, from their fifth studio album '' Heathen Chemistry, and is the first single by Oasis written by vocalist Liam Gallagher.
Songbird (Melissa Gold), formerly known as Screaming Mimi, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She possesses supersonic sound abilities that can cause a variety of effects.
A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of Passeriformes. Song bird or songbird may also refer to:
Songbird is a discontinued music player originally released in early 2006 with the stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web".
Songbird utilizes the cross-platform frameworks Mozilla XULRunner and GStreamer media framework. Songbird currently runs on Windows and OS X. In 2012, an Android version and an iOS version were released. Songbird at one point also supported Solaris and Linux, but this support was dropped. As a result, users have forked Songbird and created a Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible derivative under the name Nightingale.
Songbird announced on 14 June 2013 that it would stop all operations and shut down by 28 June. The company was unable to fund further business operations and as a result all operations and associated services have been discontinued.
"Songbird" is a popular song by Fleetwood Mac. It first appeared on the 1977 album Rumours and was released as the B-side of the single " Dreams". It is one of four songs written solely by Christine McVie on the album. She would frequently sing the song at concerts.
"Songbird" is the second single from Bernard Fanning's solo debut album Tea & Sympathy, released in 2005. It reached #11 on National Airplay Charts in January 2006, and was #14 on Triple J Hottest 100 in 2005. The single was not released as a CD single, alike Fanning's prior single " Wish You Well."
Songbird is an album by Willie Nelson released by Lost Highway Records on October 31, 2006. It was produced by contemporary country rock musician Ryan Adams. Adams, along with his band The Cardinals, performed on the album’s eleven tracks. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard 200 on November 18, 2006
Songbird is a weekly musical show where Regine Velasquez sings. The show had its pilot on May 15, 2008. It ended on August 9, 2008 and is replaced by Nuts Entertainment.
Songbird is the debut studio album from New Zealand classical crossover artist Tayla Alexander. Songbird was released in New Zealand in November 2012 and is available in both CD and digital download formats. Songbird saw Alexander become the youngest artist to appear on the New Zealand music charts.
"Songbird" is a song by Kenny G, and the third single from his 1986 album Duotones. It reached #3 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts, #4 on the U.S. Hot 100 charts and #23 on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
When released in 1987, the song became the first instrumental to reach the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 since the " Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer (a No. 1 hit) in 1985.
This song can be heard in one scene from Pixar's 2006 animated feature, Cars.
It can also be heard in one scene in comedy 2002 film, The Master of Disguise.
Songbird is a studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1978. The album includes Streisand's solo version of " You Don't Bring Me Flowers". She also subsequently recorded this song as a duet with Neil Diamond and this version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978. The title track reached number 25 on the Hot 100 and spent two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart.
In the United States the album has been certified Platinum for sales of 1,000,000 copies.
"Songbird" is the title track and first single released from Barbra Streisand's 1978 album. It was written by Dave Wolfert and Steve Nelson and produced by Gary Klein.
On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at number 25. It spent two weeks atop the Billboard easy listening chart in July and August 1978, her fifth song to accomplish this feat.
One theory as to why "Songbird" was less successful on the U.S. pop chart is that Streisand recorded the theme to the 1978 film Eyes of Laura Mars, which was released as a single a few weeks after "Songbird" came out. " Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)" reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and may have created competition with herself for pop radio airplay and single sales.
Songbird (stylised as songbird) is Kokia's debut album, released on . It is her only album released under Pony Canyon, the rest being released with Victor Entertainment or Wasabi Records.
The album was re-released in 2008, as Kokia Complete Collection 1998–1999, featuring the album as well bonus tracks from her Pony Canyon singles, "Aishiteiru Kara," "Tears in Love" and "Arigatō..."
Kokia considers the lead single from the album, "Arigatō...," to be one of her favourite songs. She wrote the song in the mid 1990s, about the death of her family's pet dog. She has re-recorded it three times: on her 2006 greatest album, Pearl: The Best Collection, on the 2007 Japanese release of Aigakikoeru: Listen for the Love and on the limited edition of her 2009 second greatest hits album, Coquillage: The Best Collection II.
In 2003, the songs "I Catch a Cold" and "Shiroi Yuki" were used in the soundtrack for the popular Chinese drama At the Dolphin Bay.
"Songbird" is a song sung by Swedish singer-songwriter Ellen Benediktson and written by Sharon Vaughn, Johan Fransson, Tim Larsson and Tobias Lundgren. The song is best known for being performed by Benediktson at Melodifestivalen 2014. It qualified for the final from the first semifinal held in Malmö placing second out of eight. In the final, the song placed seventh out of ten.
On 6 April 2014, the song entered Svensktoppen.
Songbird (foaled April 30, 2013) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2015 she was undefeated in four starts including Grade I victories in the Del Mar Debutante Stakes, Chandelier Stakes and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. She continues to hold an undefeated record in 2016 including the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks and Coaching Club American Oaks, though she missed the Kentucky Oaks due to a fever.
"Songbird" is 3 disc, limited edition box set by Australian singer Marina Prior. The album was released in Australia in April 2014.
The Songbird box includes Marina’s three albums, Both Sides Now (2012), Encore (2013) and Marina Prior Live, a new album recorded at The Glasshouse in Port Macquarie in 2013. The Box Set is named from the extra track, " Songbird", originally penned by Christine McVie and performed by Fleetwood Mac. It was also released a single.
Prior promoted the album with a 26-date national tour commencing in Launceston in August. It concluded in December 2014.
On the tour, Prior’s performed her best-loved songs from throughout her career, accompanied by pianist David Cameron.
Usage examples of "songbird".
Diana, she was Diana come to earth, and Charlie felt such pride in her that he could not speak, but rather ran joyfully past pinyon pine and ponderosa, every now and then a Gambel oak thicket, and water birches with their witchy branches where songbirds startled at two animals of rare and unrecognized species.
Today, in the blossoms of spring and the music of the songbirds, I sit in the garden with Adam playing ringtoss with his nanny, with April at my side, your pages open on my lap, a pen in hand.
Harry Sears, half gassed, was waltzing around the Negro cleaning Woman, introducing her as the real Black Dahlia, the best colored songbird since Billie Holliday.
She rolled the coated cones in Northeast Songbird Mixture and laid them end to end upon an old cookie sheet to cure a bit before she hung them avail ably from the privet hedge and the clothesline with Christmas ornament hooks.
I'm on the verge of telling Janet what her songbird sister-in-law was doing yesterday on the balcony of her dead brother's condo when she blurts: "I don't think Cleo killed him.
Despite the goats and songbirds, Craig felt again the overwhelming affection for these people.
Shortly, they cleared the dishes from the hall, bringing in their place the hand-carved dominoes required for the game shen fu, the lacquered plaques destined for match-me-mine and mark-me-well, the tumbling gilded cages full of colored balls known as The Lady's Knucklebones, the gaming-wheels-those with four, those with nine, and those with thirty-three divisions blind songbirds trained to pick out one and only one among three disparately dyed grains of corn, jumping beans, silver-harnessed fleas, baby toads steeped in strong liquor, and all the other appurtenances on which the Lords of Teq were accustomed to place their bets.
And, since there wasn't much left of the poor songbird, Colleton hadn't done it for any reason but to show off.
As the bundle tumbles, the rope unwraps, the chute is pulled free and deploys, and the snort drifts to earth, sweet as a songbird.
The obituary of zoo animals that have died from being fed foreign bodies would include gorillas, bison, storks, rheas, ostriches, seals, sea lions, big cats, bears, camels, elephants, monkeys, and most every variety of deer, ruminant and songbird.
The tiny sedan chairs were piled high with dowry gifts for the T'ang: bolts of silk and satin, boxes of silver, golden plates and cups, embroidered robes, delicate porcelain, saddles and fans and gilded cages filled with songbirds.
The pack gobbled something that sounded to Ravna like strangling songbirds.
As ducks, hawks, brilliant-winged flamants, songbirds, terns, swans, and storks arrived from the north in the fall, summer fliers departed for lands now greened by seasonal rains.
You've been in court long enough, Songbird, and you're surely bright enough to know that Mikal has enemies in this world.
All the stock of songbirds and little owls went, though, tagged in their wicker cages.