Many sitcom television series in particular had characters going to movies titled I Was a Teenage Dinosaur, Monster, etc., and it was often referenced in monologues by comedians and bits by disc jockeys.

Perhaps the most successful Kennedy tribute song released in the months after his assassination ( although later hit songs such as " Abraham, Martin and John " and " We Didn't Start the Fire " also referenced the tragedy ) was the controversial " In the Summer of His Years ", introduced by British singer Millicent Martin on a special edition of the BBC-TV comedy series That Was the Week That Was, conceived as a somber and respectful tribute to Kennedy.

The colloquial name for the driver of a jaunting car was " jarvey ", referenced in the song " The Jarvey Was A Leprechaun " by Val Doonican.

Warren is found to be in a relationship with Katrina in the Season Five episode " I Was Made to Love You ".

* Warren Mears builds a lifelike android named April as a companion in the episode " I Was Made to Love You ", then builds the Buffybot for Spike as well as an android version of himself.

Notably, three of the few screamo / emo groups in Arkansas, Strike the Choir ( Monticello, AR ) and I Was The Red Wine of 1955 ( Warren, AR ) and The Fashion Show ( Russelville, AR ).

They were: Don Was, David Was, Pete Anderson, Robbie Robertson, Will Jennings, David Briggs, Chips Moman, Guy Roche, Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.

The commercial breakthrough that accompanied the release of their second album and the resulting singles was not enough to keep them together, however, and after a third album, Sticky George-and with lead single " That Was My Big Mistake " released under the name ' James Warren & The Korgis ' marking the fact that the group had now more or less evolved into a one man band ; Davis and Warren had gone their separate ways.

* " That Was My Big Mistake " ( Edit ) / " Can't We Be Friends Now " ( James Warren & The Korgis, 1981 )

In 2012 he released a Byrds-tribute song, " When Roger Was Jim ".

* The song " To the Dogs or Whoever " by Josh Ritter includes the stanza " Was it Casey Jones or Casey at the Bat who died out of pride and got famous for that?

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

Also in 2008 the band remixed the Attery Squash song ' Devo Was Right About Everything ' which was released on the B-side to the Watch Us Work It vinyl 12 " single.

A new top 20 hit, " That Was Then, This Is Now " was released ( though Jones did not perform on the song ) as well as an album, Pool It !.

He is reputed to be the subject of her song " Herrmann Hiess Er " ( English title " Herrmann Was His Name ") from the 1979 Unbehagen album, a song about a drug addict.

* 1992 – Ice Cube's good day, from his song " It Was a Good Day " was proven to be January 20, 1992.

Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison contributed to the album, with Nico, Reed and Cale co-writing one song, " It Was a Pleasure Then.

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 ".

Redgum are known for their 1983 anti-war protest song " I Was Only Nineteen ", which peaked at # 1 on the National singles charts.

Non-English versions of the game omit the section at the beginning of CD2, where Guybrush's crew sings the song " A Pirate I Was Meant To Be ".

Arndt played an important role for the early national and liberal Burschenschaft movement and for the unification movement, and his song " Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?

The last two were also singers and the programme opened with a song – That Was The Week That Was – sung by Martin to Ron Grainer's theme tune and enumerating topics in the news.

* " Cold War ", a song by Styx, in the album Kilroy Was Here

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.

* Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone, a popular song recorded by the Temptations

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

He was subject of a 1990 Nick Lowe song, Who Was That Man?

* The song " He Was My Brother " from Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. by Simon & Garfunkel is dedicated to Andrew Goodman.

" Heartbreak Hotel " was released as a single on January 27, 1956 with B-side " I Was the One ", a song that was also recorded during Presley's RCA debut sessions.

Especially significant is his song " There Was a Time When I Was Very Little ," which remains popular nearly two hundred years after his death.

The project, which had been given the working title of Screwed: The Bret Hart Story, was renamed Bret " Hit Man " Hart: The Best There Is, the Best There Was, the Best There Ever Will Be.

Brock continued his conspiracy theorizing until a 1997 Esquire article titled " I Was a Conservative Hit Man " in which he recanted some of his claims.

's " Peter Piper ", LL Cool J's " Rock the Bells ", the Beastie Boys ' " Hold it Now, Hit it ", Missy Elliott's " Work It ," will. i. am's " I Got it from my Mama ,", " This Is Me ( Urban Remix )" by girl group Dream for their debut album It Was All a Dream, " I Want You " from Common's Finding Forever, and most recently " Take It Back " from Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams.

It was revealed in Bret Hart's Bret " Hit Man " Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be DVD that Bret realized that he wanted to become a professional wrestler full time after visiting Puerto Rico with his brother Smith.

* National Geographic News: John Roach, " Hot Spot That Spawned Hawaii Was on the Move, Study Finds ": August 14, 2003

Ice Cube mentions it in his hit song " It Was A Good Day ": " No helicopter looking for a murder / Two in the mornin ' got the Fatburger.

;" There Was an Old Woman ": There was an old woman who defied death for years.

* Robert R. Brown, 9th Bishop of Arkansas, author of " And One Was a Soldier ": The Spiritual Prilgrimage of Robert E. Lee ( 1998 ).

Was his title, as my dad says ...

After appearing in the B-movie drama Pilot # 5 he took the male lead in Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady opposite Lucille Ball.

Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet ( Greek korys, gen. korythos ), which took its name from him.

On the show which aired Friday, January 8, 1954, Carroll took the $ 1, 000 top prize on the strength of her rendition of the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein song, " Why Was I Born?

Was forcibly destroyed by Diabolico when Bansheera took control of his body.

They took their name from Nazareth, Pennsylvania, which is cited in the first line of The Band's classic song " The Weight " (" I pulled into Nazareth / Was feelin ' about half past dead ...").

It opens with an introduction by King called " Why I Was Bachman ", explaining how and why he took on the persona of Richard Bachman, as well as how it was found out by the public.

The musical stage took priority in the second half of the 1940s with The Day Before Spring on Broadway and both DuBarry Was a Lady and Serenade in London.

Ewen Montagu took a week-end off from his busy legal practice and wrote the book The Man Who Never Was.

Armed with this knowledge, Sinclair took Babylon 4 back with him 1, 000 years to aid the Minbari in their first war against the Shadows, and in so doing, fulfilled Minbari prophecy by becoming the One Who Was.

Though he co-wrote the theme song for the 1986 comedy Ruthless People with Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall, Stewart took a greater involvement in the film industry in 1989 by writing and producing the soundtrack Lily Was Here for the Dutch film De Kassière.

In 1978 Jones took a dramatic turn, portraying Ed Cooper in the NBC television movie When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

In the HBO series When It Was a Game, Zernial states that he took a pay cut to come to the majors.

Was also friends with Saint Birgitta, in Rome and took part in the important political decisions during his years as archbishop, such as the Kalmar Union in 1397.

* Thomas John George ' Tommy ' Moeller ( born 23 February 1945, Liverpool ): lead vocalist, guitar, piano ; was the brother of Billy Moeller, who became public face of the one-hit wonder, Whistling Jack Smith, and took " I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman " to number five in 1967.

Later in 1972, Whitfield, who also produced the song, took " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " and remade it as a 12-minute record for The Temptations, which was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973.

In later years he took on cinema roles such as Lord Camber's Ladies ( 1932 ), a German doctor in I Was a Spy ( 1933 ), the emperor's valet in Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and, shortly before his final illness, Wessensee in the Michael Balcon version of Jew Süss ( 1934 ).

Deirdre McCloskey's 1986 book The Rhetoric of Economics argues that " The Mathematization of Economics Was a Good Idea ", but that " economic modernism " took equilibrium model-building and econometrics ( especially " existence-theorem " mathematics, and statistical significance ) " absurdly " far.

She took over Ethel Merman's stage role in the film version of Take a Chance, singing " Eadie Was a Lady ".

A street sign, marking where the gunfight took place, says " Nobody Was Faster On The Draw ".