They Call the Wind Maria They Call the Wind Maria "They Call the Wind Maria" is an American popular song with lyrics written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical, "Paint Your Wagon", which is set in the California Gold Rush. Rufus Smith originally sang the song on Broadway, and Joseph Leader was the original singer in London's West End. It quickly became a runaway hit, and during the Korean War, the song was among the "popular music listened to by the troops". Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra recorded the song in 1951, and it was among the
Someday (Mariah Carey song) (2015–17). The fourth song on the track list of "Mariah Carey", "Someday" is the album's first up-tempo track. It is a dance-pop song with new jack swing influences, which lasts for a duration of four minutes, six seconds. Lyrically, it is about how Carey is "gleefully" waiting for bad karma to come to her ex-boyfriend who "dumped" her, which can be heard in the lyrics "Cause I know you'll soon discover / you're needing me in spite of all the others." AllMusic writer Ashley S. Battel said it is "energetic". To mark twenty-five years since the release of "Mariah Carey"