That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

John Herald, a bluegrass singer wrote a song dedicated to Martha, entitled " Martha: Last of the passenger pigeons ".

Bob Dylan also penned, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie as a later tribute song to Guthrie.

Among the protest songs in the book are " Hallelujah, I'm a Bum " ( this song was never popular among members ), " Union Maid ", and " I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night ".

They also contributed a song, Poison My Eyes, to The Last Action Hero soundtrack and provided the title track on the Bordello of Blood soundtrack.

Henny came right on time to contribute the remaining three tracks ( and the ska -/ reggae-influences ) to the second album ; 32 Jaar ( about a lovestruck, shaky-legged 32-year-old ), Smoorverliefd ( Smitten ) and De Laatste Keer ( The Last Time ), a song about breaking up and starting over ( Henny had recently split with his wife and stepsons ).

" Also, the song " Last Rites / Loved to Deth " reinterprets the introduction of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach, speeding up the tempo.

*" Last Train to Clarksville ", # 1 song by The Monkees

In 1962, Sonny Gianotta recorded a novelty song " The Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler " based on Gunga Din.

* Etta James recorded the song in 1961 on her debut album At Last !.

In most stagings of the musical Cats, which include the song " Growltiger's Last Stand " — a recollection of an old play by Gus the Theatre Cat — the character of Lady Griddlebone sings " The Ballad of Billy McCaw ".

In 2000, Lauper contributed a song called " I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever " for the children's movie Rugrats in Paris.

In 2004, during the Australian leg of her " At Last " tour, she performed part of the song a cappella at the request of the audience, since the single reached the Top 10 there in 1988 and was very well known.

* Giselle Allen, the soprano currently resides in Carrickfergus and performed at The Last Night of the Proms when it took place in the town in 2007, singing the folk song Carrickfergus.

The band also makes a cameo in Katy Perry's music video for her song " Last Friday Night ( T. G. I. F.

A second music video was released for the album, for the song " Last Night a Passenger " in October 2010.

* " Peeping Tom ", a song recorded for the 1985 film The Last Dragon by R & B singer Rockwell

The opening verse of Bruce Springsteen's 2007 song " Last to Die ," from the album Magic, makes reference to a place called Truth or Consequences.

Lyrics, were written by Harold Adamson ( nominated 5 times for an Oscar )-nephew Bruce Adamson noted, that " Harold wrote several hundred songs for the film industry such hits as Wyatt Earp ; Time on My Hands ; Coming in on A Wing and a Prayer ; Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair to Remember, Sinatra's first Oscar nomination " I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night ," Jean Harlow's last song, Did I Remember ; naming a few " and the lyrics to ' I Love Lucy ' was sung by Desi Arnaz, written for the episode by Harold Adamson " Lucy's Last Birthday ":

The film met modest success, but a song from the film, titled " Last Dance ", reached number three on the Hot 100 and resulted in Summer winning her first Grammy Award.

In the second series episode " I Know What Alan Did Last Summer " he enthusiastically plays " air-bass " to the Gary Numan song " Music for Chameleons ", and in " Never Say Alan Again " is seen drumming along inside his Lexus to the theme of Return of the Saint which he plays at full volume insensitively at the cemetery whilst having given his assistant Lynn ten minutes to commemorate the anniversary of her mother's passing.

In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, " At Last ", which reached number two on the R & B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

* The song " Rocky Mountain Way " by Joe Walsh includes the line, " The bases are loaded and Casey's at bat.

In the same year, under the guise Yazz and the Plastic Population, they produced " The Only Way Is Up ", a cover of a Northern Soul song.

In 1986, " Walk This Way ", a rap / rock collaboration by Run DMC and Aerosmith, became the first hip-hop song to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez " Soulja Boy Tell ' Em " Way for " killing hip hop " and his song " Crank That " for being " garbage " compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

In the Philippines, at least a half dozen killings of people singing " My Way " caused newspapers there to label the phenomenon " My Way killings "; some bars refuse to allow the song, and some singers refrain from vocalizing it among strangers.

In fact, there is a joke by Filipinos that the song by " My Way " by Sinatra is the deadliest song in the Philippines.

As the song is very popular in these bars, the song being sung when deaths occur is often " My Way ".

Lamorna has been immortalised in the song Way Down to Lamorna, about a wayward husband receiving his comeuppance from his wife.

Lipscomb performed old songs like " Sugar Babe ," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like " Shine On, Harvest Moon " and " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ".

" ( New World Order ), a song by Ministry ( band ) from Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs

His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favour of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, " No Way to Stop It ", was cut.

* " The Queen ", a song by Lady Gaga from Born This Way ( special edition )

This spurred the lead single " Walk This Way ", a cover of the classic hard rock song by Aerosmith.

The name alluded to the Frank Sinatra song " My Way "— the Soviet Union was allowing these nations to go their own way.

He has a song, I Did It My Way.

Five different versions of Waits's song " Way Down in the Hole " have been used as the opening theme songs for the HBO television show The Wire.

Ewan McGregor performed the song in Magadan in 2004 for the filming of the TV show Long Way Round journey.

* May 24 – Sertab Erener wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 for Turkey with the song Every Way That I Can, in Riga, Latvia.

In their Four Way Street live album, Nash ironically dedicates the song to " Mayor Daley.

Vernian Process ' 2011 single " Something Wicked ( That Way Went )" features a sampled calliope throughout the song.