Brandy uses her voice for background music in this song, showing her capabilities of using her voice as an instrument.

Tori Amos uses the instrument on " Little Amsterdam " from the album Boys for Pele and on the song " Smokey Joe " from her 2007 album American Doll Posse.

The film uses two versions of the song " Que Sera, Sera ", the first by singer Syd Straw and another over the end credits by Sly and the Family Stone.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Winston Tong, singer with Tuxedomoon, uses it on his 15-minute song, " The Hunger " from his debut solo album Theoretically Chinese.

* Todd Rundgren wrote a humorous song " Onomatopoeia " which uses many examples in this " Love Song ".

Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.

However an Ulster folk song also uses " sheevra " simply to mean " spirit " or " fairy ".

The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex compound meter.

The song uses an unusual and complex meter, which alternates between 12 / 8 and 9 / 8.

* The Santa Clara Vanguard uses an instrumental version as its official corps song, which is played at the anniversary dinner, as well as in encore performances.

In the 1935 Marx Brothers ' film " A Night at the Opera ", in one of the more unusual uses of the song, composer Herbert Stothart arranged for a full pit orchestra to segue seamlessly from the overture of Il Trovatore into the chorus of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

In 2008, the rock band Weezer released its so-called Red Album which includes a song entitled " The Greatest Man That Ever Lived " with the subtitle "( Variations on a Shaker Hymn )" as it uses the melody of a Shaker song.

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

Godfather of gangsta rap Eazy-E uses it extensively in his song Eazy Street.

The song also uses phrases from Count Basie's " Red Wagon ", first recorded in 1939.

Fittingly, the short song contains 14 uses of that expletive.

The British rapper Dizzee Rascal uses the chorus of this song.

" It uses a sample from a Stevie Wonder song called " Past Time Paradise ", which, appropriately, touches on race relations and slavery as well.

As a result, Western music students trained in historical musicology may listen to a funk or Latin song that is very rhythmically complex, but then dismiss it as a low-level musical work because it has a very simple melody and only uses two or five chords.

Natasha Khan ( Bat for Lashes ) has quoted Nico as an influence in particular Desertshore ( The opening song on her first album, Fur and Gold, uses the name of the album in its lyrics ).

Peire Bremon Ricas Novas uses the term mieja chanso ( half song ) and Cerverí de Girona uses a similar phrase, miga canço, both to refer to a short canso and not a mixture of genres as sometimes supposed.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

In languages such as English with morphophonemic variation, an alphabet song usually chooses a particular pronunciation for each letter in the alphabet ( e. g. " cake " is, not ) and also typically for some words in the song.

Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics

He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song ( specifically, Western Swing ) and cleaned up the lyrics.

In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".

The works feature various women in different emotional states, some accompanied by poems and song lyrics.

* The song " Centerfield " by John Fogerty includes the line " Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin ' it from the bench.

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Folk music was already " seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear ( or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived )," particularly in " a community uninfluenced by art music " and by commercial and printed song.

The best known song to come out of the series was " Four Feather Falls ", sung in some episodes by Michael Holliday in the style of Bing Crosby.

The song was made famous by Paul Robeson whose voice, deep and resonant as it was, was said by some to have attained the status of the voice of God.

As the only country performer to participate, some worried that Brooks would turn his cover of the song originally sung by drummer Peter Criss, " Hard Luck Woman ", into a country song.

In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i. e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

It was originally a four-stanza song and, over the years, some lyrics have changed.

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.

Minor Threat's song " Guilty of Being White " led to some accusations of racism, but MacKaye has strongly denied such intentions and said that some listeners misinterpreted his words.

" In an interview, MacKaye stated that he was offended that some perceived racist overtones in the lyrics, saying, " To me, at the time and now, it seemed clear it's an anti-racist song.