Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin ' in the Rain or " I Got Rhythm " from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in " Heather on the Hill " from Brigadoon or " Our Love Is Here to Stay " from An American in Paris.

MacKenzie wrote the lyrics of the song " The Rhythm Divine " performed by Shirley Bassey on the album One Second, with MacKenzie singing backing vocals.

His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".

* " Proof ", a song by Paul Simon from The Rhythm of the Saints

" Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are " I Got Rhythm ", " Everything's Coming Up Roses ", " Some People ", " Rose's Turn ", " I Get a Kick Out of You ", " It's De-Lovely ", " Friendship ", " You're the Top ", " Anything Goes ", and " There's No Business Like Show Business ", which later became her theme song.

After arriving in the small town, he was introduced to the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (" The Swampers ") who had recorded this song with Mavis Staples.

Richard Berry was inspired to write the song in 1955 after listening to and performing the song " El Loco Cha Cha " with Ricky Rillera and the Rhythm Rockers.

Shrewsbury, Louisiana is referred to in the Rhythm & Blues song Shrewsbury Blues, written by Dave Bartholomew and recorded by Tommy Ridgeley, a native of the area.

In February of that year, the song reached number one on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Tracks chart.

In 1994, they again performed the song " The Weight " with Country music artist Marty Stuart for MCA Nashville's Rhythm, Country and Blues compilation, somewhat re-establishing an audience.

Freed used an African-American accent and with a Rhythm and Blues record called " Moondog " as his theme song, broadcast R & B hits into the night,

Jackson has performed the song on many of her tours, including Rhythm Nation 1814 Tour, The Velvet Rope Tour, All for You Tour, Rock Witchu Tour, and Number Ones: Up Close and Personal.

He composed " Rhythm King " with Jo Trent, under the pseudonym Joe Hoover, a song recorded by Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang.

One night, he hears the staid and starchy Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra song called " Crazy Rhythm " on the radio and his feet spontaneously begin to move with the urge to dance ; he sees this as a calling and decides to hitchhike to St. Louis, from where the song was broadcast.

" Make Love to Me ", a 1954 pop song by Jo Stafford, using the New Orleans Rhythm King's music from the 1923 jazz standard " Tin Roof Blues ", became a no. 1 hit.

Reminiscences or earlier works can be noticed (" Ride The Rhythm " contains the line: " making merry music ...", which was the name of a song from their 1972 album, Good Times ).

In 1959, having chosen singer Art Lassiter to front the Kings of Rhythm, Ike had written a song for Lassiter he called " A Fool in Love ".

When the band was still called the Kings of Rhythm, the band recorded the album, A Black Man's Soul, which was mostly an instrumental album, except for one track in which Tina Turner participated in the song, " Foolin ' Around ".

* Paul Simon references the banyan in his 1990 song Spirit Voices, from the album The Rhythm of the Saints.

Bikutsi's international renown continued to grow, and the song " Proof " from Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints, released to mainstream promotion and success in 1990, gained yet more renown from international audiences.

Steinman, along with Brothers in Rhythm and David James, with Steven Rinkoff as associate producer and engineer, co-produced the song " Never Forget ".

In 1955, Berry was inspired to write a new calypso-style song, " Louie Louie ", based on the Rhythm Rockers ' version of René Touzet's " El Loco Cha Cha ", and also influenced by Chuck Berry's " Havana Moon ".

* David Olney's 2000 CD Omar's Blues includes the song " Absalom.

Furthermore, his 1935 version of " St. Louis Blues " is nearly a word-for-word copy of Al Bernard's patter on his 1928 recording of the same song.

In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of his song " Love Is Strange " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance, and he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

In 1963, Bob Dylan was set to appear on the show, but network censors rejected the song he wanted to perform, " Talkin ' John Birch Paranoid Blues ", as potentially libelous to the John Birch Society.

The second cover song was " Roadhouse Blues " by The Doors which featured on the 2nd 12 ".

* " Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues ", a 1927 song by Jim Jackson

Lemmy has occasionally played electric or acoustic guitar, notably on the acoustic song " I Ain't No Nice Guy " from Motörhead's March Ör Die album, the title track on 1996's Overnight Sensation, " Limb from Limb " on Overkill ( on which he plays the second lead break ), " Boogeyman " on Rock ' n ' Roll, and a mouth harp on " Whorehouse Blues " from the Inferno album.

* Montezuma, a song by Fleet Foxes from their 2011 album Helplessness Blues

Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " ( 1965 ), which may have taken its title from a Kerouac novel, included the line, " Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine ", and his " Mr. Tambourine Man " ( 1965 ) requested " Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship ".

Blues singer Alger " Texas " Alexander wrote a song called the " Sabine River Blues ".

The final song the group recorded together was their 1999 cover of Bob Dylan's " One Too Many Mornings ", which they contributed to the Dylan tribute album Tangled Up in Blues.

* " Birmingham Blues ", a song from ELO's 1977 album Out of the Blue

Tork was a proficient musician, and though the group generally did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, he was an exception, playing what he described as " third chair guitar " on Mike Nesmith's song " Papa Gene's Blues " from their first album.

* The song " Silvertown Blues " from Mark Knopfler's album Sailing to Philadelphia deals with the construction of The Dome

The town was even featured in the hit song by Glenn Frey from Miami Vice, " Smugglers Blues ".

Telluride is mentioned in the song " Smuggler's Blues " by Glenn Frey, and is the subject of and eponymous songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1985, Kate Wolf, and Tim McGraw in 2001, which was re-recorded by Josh Gracin in 2008.

Williams ' song was very similar to Charley Patton's " Going to Move to Alabama ", recorded in 1929 – which itself was at least partly derived from Jim Jackson's " Kansas City Blues " from 1927.

W. C. Handy recorded one of the earliest cover versions of a ODJB song when he released a recording of " Livery Stable Blues " by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis on Columbia Records in 1917, as Columbia A2419 and Columbia 2912, recorded on September 25, 1917.

The Brazilian Rock band Legião Urbana has a song called " Baader-Meinhof Blues ".

In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.