parade

Parades celebrate holidays, events, and communities. This topic is part of Celebrations within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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A parade is an organized public procession of people, vehicles, or what?

Answer: Floats

Bonus fact: Parades celebrate holidays, events, and communities.

What is a decorated vehicle or platform in a parade called?

Answer: Float

Bonus fact: Floats carry displays or performers.

Which U.S. Thanksgiving parade is famous for giant balloons?

Answer: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Bonus fact: The Macy's parade is held in New York City.

Which band released the 1969 album "The Soft Parade"?

Answer: The Doors

Bonus fact: The album is one of the most elaborately arranged records in The Doors’ catalog.

Which Doors hit from "The Soft Parade" features prominent brass and string arrangements?

Answer: Touch Me

Bonus fact: "Touch Me" includes orchestration and a memorable saxophone solo, reflecting the album’s expanded studio sound.

What unusual songwriting-credit change appeared on "The Soft Parade" compared with earlier Doors albums?

Answer: Songs were credited to individual writers rather than automatically to the whole band

Bonus fact: The change followed disagreements over commercial uses and authorship, making individual contributions more explicit.

"Morrison Hotel" marked a return toward which style after the more orchestrated "The Soft Parade"?

Answer: Blues-rock

Bonus fact: Released in 1970, the album emphasized a rougher rock-and-blues sound.

Who wrote the music and lyrics for "Songs for a New World"?

Answer: Jason Robert Brown

Bonus fact: Brown later wrote "The Last Five Years" and the score for "Parade."

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