And one of the Milwaukee rookies sighed and remarked, `` Wish I was 40, and a top-grade big leaguer.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

* The song " I Wish I Was Danny Kaye " on Miracle Legion's 1996 album Portrait of a Damaged Family

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer ( also released under the title What a Life ) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love.

* 2002: I Wish You Love ( Bell )

* Williams, Peter S. ( 2005 ), I Wish I Could Believe in Meaning: A Response to Nihilism, Damaris Publishing.

During this period in London he also collaborated on a number of songs with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, including " I Wish You Could Be Here ", " Cloudy ", and " Red Rubber Ball ", which would be a U. S. No. 1 hit for the Cyrkle in 1966.

* The Dubliners, recorded " I Wish I Was Back in Liverpool " on Seven Deadly Sins

Wonder sang " Sir Duke ", " You Are the Sunshine of My Life ", and " I Wish ".

Tap dancer Savion Glover appeared during Wonder's performance of " I Wish ".

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** I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O ' Hehir

During his time in the UK, Simon co-wrote several songs with Bruce Woodley of the Australian pop group The Seekers including " I Wish You Could Be Here ," " Cloudy ", and " Red Rubber Ball "; Woodley's co-author credit was omitted from " Cloudy " on the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album.

* Jia Zhangke's I Wish I Knew ( Documentary )

Other songs have different names in different places, for instance in England there is an old ballad known as A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me, however exactly the same song in North American Bluegrass is known as " I Wish My Baby Was Born ".

On "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman ", Davies vented his existential angst about the 1979 energy crisis over a thumping disco beat ; on " A Gallon of Gas ", he addressed the same concern over a traditional acoustic twelve-bar blues shuffle.

A cover version of Larry Norman's Rapture-themed " I Wish We'd All Been Ready " appears in the Evangelical Christian feature film A Thief in the Night and appeared on Cliff Richard's Christian album Small Corners along with " Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music ?".

While he was imprisoned at the El Modelo jail, just outside of Managua, he wrote poems, one of which he titled " I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion ".

In his own article on the encyclopedia, Diderot also wrote, " Were an analytical dictionary of the sciences and arts nothing more than a methodical combination of their elements, I would still ask whom it behooves to fabricate good elements.

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

A tribute album consisting primarily of Modern Lovers songs, If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman, was released by Wampus Multimedia in 2001.

Were it not for my ideals I would abandon the work ".

#" Shake It and Break It "/" When You and I Were Young, Maggie ", 1946, Commodore C-613

Former Democratic speaker of the Assembly Bob Moretti said, " Were I in the governor's seat, I would want someone like Meese on my side.

Elements of popular culture that appear as backdrops to the main story include the song " If I Were a Rich Man ", from Fiddler on the Roof ; a recorded orchestral performance of The Beatles ' song " Yesterday "; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ; and televised boxing matches.

The album featured covers of a 1981 Diana Ross song " Work That Body ", co-written by Paul Jabara and " If You Were a Woman and I Was a Man ", originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler.

Others who were influenced by Norman include American CCM musician Steve Camp, who co-wrote " If I Were a Singer " with Norman, which appeared on Camp's 1978 debut album, Sayin ' It with Love, who describes Norman as his mentor, and with whom he lived for several months learning the craft of songwriting ; Canadian CCM musician Carolyn Arends.

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In 1966, he had his final UK hit single, with a version of Tim Hardin's " If I Were A Carpenter ", which peaked at # 9.

In 1966, he had a hit with folksinger Tim Hardin's " If I Were a Carpenter ," securing a return to the Top 10 after a two-year absence.

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He thereafter appeared in a number of notable films including Raffles, The Masquerader, Clive of India, A Tale of Two Cities in 1935, Under Two Flags, The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town in 1941.

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Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' `` The Man I Love ''.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

Four other hits from the album made the Pop top 20: " Every Heartbeat " ( No. 2 ), " That's What Love Is For " ( No. 7 ), " Good For Me " ( No. 8 ), and " I Will Remember You " ( No. 20 ).

* " Love, I Hear " — Hero

* " I Love the New York Yankees " ( 1987 ), Paula Lindstrom

As music critic Tim Riley notes, " singing Love and Theft shifts artfully between humble and ironic ...' I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ,' he sings in ' Floater ,' which is either hilarious or horrifying, and probably a little of both.

In 1985, the trio joined up with Marc Almond to record a version of Donna Summer's " I Feel Love ".

" Run From Love " was subsequently released in a remix form on the Bronski Beat album Hundreds & Thousands, a collection of mostly remixes ( LP ) and b-sides ( as bonus tracks on the CD version ) as well as the hit " I Feel Love ".

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

Other notable examples include Nazareth's version of " Love Hurts " ( 1975 ), Foreigner's " I Want to Know What Love Is ( 1984 )", Scorpions " Still Loving You " ( 1984 ), Heart's " What About Love " ( 1985 ), and Whitesnake's " Is This Love " ( 1987 ).

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and moved to Los Angeles, where she placed an ad in Flipside, reading: " I want to start a band.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

Shortly after the record was released, Love told Kurt Loder on TRL: " I cannot exist as a solo artist.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

In retrospect of those tours, Love said: " I was completely high on dope, I cannot remember much about it.

" Love claimed to have been sober as of 2007, and in May 2011, insisted her sobriety, saying: " That's not the way I live anymore.

This tango melody is also " No Other Love Have I " in the musical " Me and Juliet " and a popular hit for Perry Como during the 1950s.

* I Love Charlotte Bronte, Michelle Daly 2009

In 2009, Panettiere starred again as a cheerleader, this time as Beth Cooper in the film adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper.