Read more song stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6992/song.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:51:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73183/lost-beatles-song-finally-finished.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagForty years after the Beatles split and eight after George Harrison died, a new Beatles song has been completed. Harrison gave the first ten lines of Silence (Is Its Own Reply) to a biographer in 1969, but they were put aside and forgotten until recently, the Telegraph reports. A BBC...http://www.newser.com/story/73183/lost-beatles-song-finally-finished.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 4:35:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71536/tea-party-protesters-hit-pro-obama-jersey-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA band of tea-party protesters descended on a New Jersey elementary school yesterday, complaining that a class song hailing President Obama was "indoctrinating" kids. Some 70 protesters sang God Bless America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic outside the B. Bernice Young School in a suburb 15 miles northeast...http://www.newser.com/story/71536/tea-party-protesters-hit-pro-obama-jersey-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 3:05:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71511/jackson-single-not-new-and-was-co-written-by-paul-anka.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson’s underwhelming new single, This Is It , isn’t new, and isn’t all his. The King of Pop’s lawyers tell TMZ that singer-songwriter Paul Anka’s claim that he and Jackson co-wrote the song in 1983 is true; moreover, Latin artist Safire released the song, with the same words and melody...http://www.newser.com/story/71511/jackson-single-not-new-and-was-co-written-by-paul-anka.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 12 Oct 2009 19:36:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67310/pissed-airline-passenger-back-on-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDave Carroll, who so memorably commemorated his terrible experience with United Airlines in the YouTube sensation United Breaks Guitars is at it again, Consumerist reports. The singer/songwriter/guitar-rights activist has released a more ambitious video cleverly titled United Breaks Guitars: Song 2 , with a slightly more conciliatory tone. And don’t worry,...http://www.newser.com/story/67310/pissed-airline-passenger-back-on-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 15:09:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65774/shakira-goes-she-wolf-in-funky-new-video.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShakira’s new song “She Wolf” is “either the most insanely brilliant (or brilliantly insane) song you'll hear in 2009,” James Montgomery writes for MTV.com. It sounds like 1970s Italian disco and features the word “lycanthropy,” but the song’s true strangeness can’t be appreciated without seeing the video, in which...http://www.newser.com/story/65774/shakira-goes-she-wolf-in-funky-new-video.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 15:05:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65321/sassy-idol-wannabe-killed-in-hit-and-run.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA feisty former American Idol contestant who boldly lashed out at Simon Cowell has been killed in a hit-and-run accident in a Jersey seaside resort, reports the New York Daily News . Alexis Cohen, known to TV viewers as "Glitter Girl" because of the glitter she wore during an Idol song,...http://www.newser.com/story/65321/sassy-idol-wannabe-killed-in-hit-and-run.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Jul 2009 7:01:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64585/unreleased-jackson-song-surfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson supposedly has heaps of unreleased songs out there, and the first has surfaced. TMZ today posted an audio recording of "A Place With No Name." It's not clear when Jackson recorded the song, which is similar to the 1971 hit by America called "A Horse With No Name....http://www.newser.com/story/64585/unreleased-jackson-song-surfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 16 Jul 2009 18:19:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64098/please-stop-covering-hallelujah-leonard-cohen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLeonard Cohen is tired of people covering “Hallelujah.” “I was reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said, ‘Can we please have a moratorium on ‘Hallelujah’ in movies and television shows?’ and I kind of feel the same way,” Cohen said in a...http://www.newser.com/story/64098/please-stop-covering-hallelujah-leonard-cohen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 15:01:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63801/royalties-deal-may-save-internet-radio.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRecord labels and the online radio industry have reached a deal on royalties that insiders think will allow the medium to survive, the New York Times reports. Larger sites like Pandora will pay the labels 25% of revenue or up to 14 cents for every song they stream—whichever is...http://www.newser.com/story/63801/royalties-deal-may-save-internet-radio.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 17:49:06 CDT