"Hey There Delilah" Songwriter and Publishers Receive 2007 Musicnotes Song of the Year Award.MADISON, Wis. -- Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today Plain White T's lead singer and songwriter, Tom Higgenson, WB Music Corp. and Alfred Publishing Alfred Publishing is a US sheet music publisher specializing in educational music. It is one of the largest US publishers, second only to Hal Leonard. It is the largest educational music publisher in the world. are the recipients of the sixth annual Musicnotes Song of the Year Award for the song "Hey There "Hey There" is a show tune from musical play The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It was published in 1954. It was subsequently recorded by a number of artists. The recording by Rosemary Clooney reached #1 on Billboard's chart in 1954. Delilah." The Musicnotes Song of the Year Award is presented each year to the songwriter and publisher of the best-selling sheet music for a song made popular in the previous calendar year. In 2007, this song was "Hey There Delilah," the breakthrough hit by veteran Chicago band, Plain White T's. The award was given to Tom Higgenson, the songwriter for "Hey There Delilah," WB Music Corp., Higgenson's publishing administrator, and Alfred Publishing for their work on the arrangement of the song's sheet music and guitar tablature tablature (tăb`ləch  r), in music, a generic system of musical notation indicating actions that the player must take, rather than "representing" the music itself that will result .
"Thank you so much for this! The fact that so many people wanted to learn "Delilah" is a huge honor," said Higgenson. "I hope that it continues to touch more people when they play it." Featured on both their third and fourth albums, All That We Needed and Every Second Counts, the song was also a number one Billboard hit, the most-played radio song in July 2007, and the most-downloaded song in iTunes history, before being replaced by Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls." "Alfred Publishing is excited to be part of the process of getting sheet music like this into the hands of fans everywhere," said Ron Manus MANUS. Anciently signified the person taking an oath as a compurgator. The use of this word probably came from the party laying his hand on the New Testament. Manus signifies, among the civilians, power, and is frequently used as synonymous with potestas. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 94. , Executive Vice President of Alfred Publishing. "The Plain White T's hit 'Hey There Delilah' has been a longtime favorite here at Alfred, and we are privileged to be able to work with Musicnotes, Tom Higgenson and WB Music Corp. to make this hit a best-seller. It's an honor to know that partnerships like this can be utilized to further our goal of helping individuals to learn, teach, and play music." Musicnotes, the leading online digital sheet music Digital sheet music, also known as Interactive or Virtual, is the newly developed technology distributing high quality but low cost sheet music, which is often created and arranged according to the users’ preferences (custom sheet music or sheet music by publisher and reseller, has previously presented awards to Vanessa Carlton ("A Thousand Miles"), Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"), Evanescence ev·a·nesce intr.v. ev·a·nesced, ev·a·nesc·ing, ev·a·nesc·es To dissipate or disappear like vapor. See Synonyms at disappear. [Latin ("My Immortal"), Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd Robert Dean Boyd (born December 3, 1937) is a former NFL cornerback who played for the Baltimore Colts in a nine-year career from 1960 to 1968. A quarterback in college at the University of Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson, Boyd was a two-time Pro Bowler and led the NFL with 9 and Jeff Hanna ("Bless the Broken Road") and Daniel Powter ("Bad Day"). About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of nearly 80,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. Music Publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. , Sony/ATV Publishing, BMG/Universal, Disney Music Publishing, peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others. Musicnotes was also recently selected as one of the Top 500 Online Retailers by Internet Retailer Magazine. On the Web: http://www.musicnotes.com. About Alfred: Since its inception in 1922, Alfred Publishing remains dedicated to helping people experience the joy of making music. With hundreds of expert authors and composers backed by a talented staff in seven offices worldwide, Alfred publishes educational, reference, pop, and performance pieces for teachers, students, hobbyists and performers spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Alfred currently has over 45,000 active print, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , software, general MIDI, audio CD and enhanced CD titles in circulation throughout the world. Titles represent a full range of musical tastes and styles, including the works of George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Henry Mancini, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Madonna, Green Day, and hundreds more. In addition to its own titles, Alfred distributes works from the National Guitar Workshop, the Dover Music catalog, and Faber Music. |
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