O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, promoter, and freemason.
Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
In 1952, Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, "He's the biggest singer this music ever knew.
You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds.
For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God."
Acuff began his music career in the 1930s and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys.
He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, and although his popularity as a musician waned in the late 1940s, he remained one of the Opry's key figures and promoters for nearly four decades.
In 1942, Acuff and Fred Rose founded Acuff-Rose Music, the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company, which signed such artists as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers.
In 1962, Acuff became the first living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Astrid North
Astrid North( Astrid Karina North Radmann; 24 August 1973, Berlin – 25 June 2019, Berlin) was a German soul singer and songwriter.
She was the singer of the German band, with whom she released five Albums.
As guest singer of the band she published three albums.
Tim Hayes (Black Panther Party)
Timothy Lawrence Hayes( born February 16, 1950) is an American activist and jazz musician.
Hayes was the founder of the Atlanta Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
Prior to that time he was an organizer for the SNCC.
Hayes went on to be a writer for the underground newspaper" The Great Speckled Bird", and published many articles in political and musical journals in the 1970s.
He also helped found the community radio station WRFG in Atlanta, Georgia.
Moving to Pennsylvania in 1973 Hayes was a high school counselor in the Philadelphia public schools.
In the 1980s Hayes worked on the campaign staff of several progressive Philadelphia candidates including the Ed Rendell gubernatorial campaign.
Today, he is a retiring community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a political blog site www.timothyhayes.net and a jazz musician.
Ami Banglay Gaan Gai
" Ami Banglay Gaan Gai" is a patriotic song by Bangladeshi poet and composer Pratul Mukhopadhyay.
He is also the composer and original singer of the song.
The song was nominated as one the most popular songs on March, 2006.
The Great Speckled Bird (song)
"The Great Speckled Bird" is a hymn from the Southern United States whose lyrics were written by the Reverend Guy Smith, and Transcribed by singer Charlie Swain.
It is an allegory referencing Fundamentalist self-perception during the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.
The song is in the form of AABA and has a 12 bar count.
It is based on Jeremiah 12:9, "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
" It was recorded in 1936 by Roy Acuff.
It was also later recorded by Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells (both in 1959), Pearly Brown (1961), Hank Locklin (1962), Marty Robbins (1966), Lucinda Williams (1978), Bert Southwood (1990), Marion Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
George Jones & The Smoky Mountain Boys also recorded it in the early 1970s (although that recording was not released until 2017).
The tune is the same apparently traditional melody used in the song "Thrills That I Can't Forget," recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz for Gennett in 1925, and the song "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes," originally recorded by the Carter Family for Victor in 1929.
The same melody was later used in the 1952 country hit "The Wild Side of Life," sung by Hank Thompson, and the even more successful "answer song" performed by Kitty Wells called
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" in the same year.
A notable instrumental version is found on the Grammy Award-Nominated album "20th Century Gospel" by Nokie Edwards and The Light Crust Doughboys on Greenhaw Records.
The connection between these songs is noted in the David Allan Coe song "If That Ain't Country" that ends with the lyrics
"I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes/ Concerning a great speckled bird/
I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels/ and went back to the wild side of life."
The song is also referenced, and portions of the melody-line are used, in "When the Silver Eagle Meets the Great Speckled Bird" by Porter Wagoner.
"Something to Love", by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit references the song when speaking of learning music: "They taught me how to make the chords and sing the words.
I'm still singing like that great speckled bird."
Both the song "The Great Speckled Bird" and the passage from Jeremiah may be a poetic description of mobbing behavior.
John P. Allen (musician)
John P. Allen is a Canadian country, rock and bluegrass fiddler.
Allen was a member of the rock band Great Speckled Bird in the 1970s, and played with bluegrass bands the Good Brothers, Big Redd Ford and the Dixie Flyers.
He played country fiddle as a member of Tommy Hunter's band.
Allen was a longstanding member of the country band Prairie Oyster, winning six Juno awards.
In 2005 Allen recorded a CD," The Canadian Violin", demonstrating various styles of fiddle playing in Canada.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.

Question: Where was the place of death of the performer of song The Great Speckled Bird (Song)?
Answer: Nashville