Busey sang the song " Stay All Night " on Saturday Night Live in March 1979, Episode 14, Season 4, and on the Late Show with David Letterman in the 1990s.

* Comedian Will Ferrell performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman on 2 August 2010

Also featured in the film is Jackson Browne's " Late for the Sky ", appearing in a scene where couples are dancing on the program American Bandstand to the song as Travis watches on his small TV.

On February 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song " The Mesopotamians " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song " Seven " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

Hearts and Bones included " The Late Great Johnny Ace ", a song partly about Johnny Ace, an American R & B singer, and partly about slain Beatle John Lennon.

Late sixteenth-century Italian cursive on paper, recording a song of Perceval Doria

* The Sandman is mentioned in the lyrics of the opening theme song of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: " It's hard to stay up, it's been a long, long day, and you've got the Sandman at your door.

* December 16, 1986 – Darlene Love performs " Christmas ( Baby Please Come Home );" it's the start of a tradition, as Love has performed the song on Late Night ( and later Late Show ) nearly every December since.

*" Late Night " is a song by Syd Barrett, the final track on his album The Madcap Laughs

Since 1982, Shaffer has served as musical director for David Letterman's late night talk shows: as leader of " The World's Most Dangerous Band " for Late Night with David Letterman ( 1982 – 1993 ) on NBC, for which he also composed the theme song, and as leader of the CBS Orchestra for the Late Show with David Letterman ( 1993 – present ) on CBS.

The couple made two surprise impromptu reunion performances: the first on The Mike Douglas Show in the spring of 1979, singing a medley of " United We Stand " and " Without You ", and the second on November 13, 1987 on Late Night with David Letterman where they performed their hit song " I Got You Babe ".

She performed " Only an Expert " on July 15, 2010 on the Late Show with David Letterman, and her song " Gravity's Angel " was featured on the Fox TV show So You Think You Can Dance on the same day.

Late in 1972 they were going to record another Bowie song, " Drive-In Saturday ", but their intended arrangement did not satisfy him and their professional relationship effectively ended.

The John Prine song " The Late John Garfield Blues " is inspired by Garfield.

However, Hammer did record tracks with Shakur and others, most notably the song " Too Late Playa " ( along with Big Daddy Kane and Danny Boy ).

< li > On November 21, 2011, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was played on to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to the Fishbone song " Lyin ' Ass Bitch ".

( The Hockey Song )" ( which was co-written by Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom, and featured Paul Shaffer, the " Late Night " band and a spoken guest vocal from TV host David Letterman ) and the ballad " Genius ", later taken as the title for a 2002 Zevon anthology, and a song whose string section illustrates the lasting influence of Stravinsky on Zevon's work.

It was the first song covered by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon in a bit called " The History of Rap " on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Late in 1968 the band released a concept album called The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, in which the group pretended to be 11 different bands ( with names including ' The Bigg Brothers ', ' Nature's Children ', ' the US Teens featuring Raoul ', and ' the Fabulous Dawgs '), each with a song in a different genre.

Goo Goo Dolls perform their song " Before It's Too Late ( Sam and Mikaela's Theme ) | Before It's Too Late " from the OST of the 2007 film Transformers ( film ) | Transformers at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts | Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on July 22, 2007.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

In addition to the " Super Bowl Shuffle " rap song, the Bears ' success in the 1980s – and especially the personality of head coach Mike Ditka – inspired a recurring sketch on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, called " Bill Swerski's Superfans ".

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, in the song " Saturday Night Holocaust ", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar-era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism.

Progressive metal band Dream Theater's song " The Dark Eternal Night " is based on Lovecraft's story " Nyarlathotep ".

Fraser and Kelley report a Manx new-year song which begins with the line To-night is New Year's Night, Hogunnaa but did not record the full text in Manx.

* " King ," a song by Reverend Horton Heat on the album Spend a Night in the Box

The former Swedish pop group The Motorhomes allude to Laika in the video for their song Into The Night.

* Manhattan ( 2009 song ), 2009 song from Kings of Leon's Only By The Night album

Men at Work performed three songs for the 1985 Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program )-" Maria ", " Overkill ", and an unreleased song called " The Longest Night ".

The album was subsequently released worldwide in 1998 as ' Brazil ' with a bonus studio song " The Longest Night ", the first Men at Work studio track since Two Hearts.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

Also in 1949, a new version of a 1920s blues song, " Ain't Nobody's Business " was a # 4 hit for Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five once again made the top 5 with " Saturday Night Fish Fry ".

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

*" Seven Sisters ", a song by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, Night of Hunters

The pregame show held before the game featured country music singer Hank Williams, Jr., who performed his theme song for Monday Night Football, which was based on his single " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight ".

" Send in the Clowns " is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night.

A popular revival of A Little Night Music in 1995 starred Judi Dench, and her rendition of the song has become highly acknowledged as one of the best.

* 1977: Elizabeth Taylor, although hitherto not a singer, recorded the song for the film adaptation of A Little Night Music, in which she played Desirée.