31.   Maybe you saw a broadcast of the Kennedy Center honors in December, when stage actress Laurie Beechman performed the song.

32.   Ms. Yearwood sang the song on the American Music Awards last month, and Ms. Rimes is scheduled to perform the song at the Grammy Awards.

33.   On tour, he has been performing songs from the Alice in Chains songbook.

34.   One who dared was folk-bluesman Josh White, who performed the song even after Holiday threatened to cut his throat.

35.   Performing the song with him, Sting finally surrendered, allowing his partner to lead its final crescendo.

36.   Rachel did not feel, as a Jew, that she should be coerced into performing Christian songs in a choral class taken for credit.

37.   Schlesinger lost out to Andrew Lloyd Webber in his Academy Award bid, but attended the ceremony and saw his song performed as a big production number.

38.   Ronson nervously wandered the crowd beforehand looking for familiar faces before settling down, guitar in hand, to perform her songs.

39.   She stood to the side of the teeming lobby, where Miskovsky was performing another song.

40.   Singers such as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn wrote and performed songs that captured the apprehension that urbanization brought to rural areas.