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.

According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.

The role of the KJ often includes announcing song titles and whose turn it is to use the microphone.

But it is also reported that a better description is that the Parents and Children Together ( PACT ) nursery had the children “ turn the song into an action rhyme.

* 2003: English soprano Sarah Brightman sampled " Un bel dì vedremo " in her song " It's a beautiful day ", included in her album Harem ; that song in turn was a cover of the 2000 song "" Ein schöner Tag " on the album Weltreise by the German band Schiller.

This seemingly childish song about different animals and people who attempted to punish others for their crimes and were in turn punished themselves, was interpreted by the Vilna Gaon as an allegory to the retribution God will levy over the enemies of the Jewish people at the end of days.

Brandon and Mike decided to perform a live acoustic version of the song at the few radio stations who were showing interest, and this in turn spread the word of the song.

He considered the lyric " I'd love to turn you on ", from their song " A Day in the Life ", to be ridiculous and conceited.

This second Jolson screen smash demonstrated the movie musical's ability to turn a song into a national hit: inside of nine months, the Jolson number " Sonny Boy " had racked up 2 million record and 1. 25 million sheet music sales.

Several songs, films and other television programs, including The Simpsons, reference or parody characters and events from the show, including the memorable "... can turn the world on with her smile " line from the title song.

Credited as " punk on bus ", Thatcher also wrote and recorded " I Hate You ", the song in the scene, and it was his idea to have the punk — rendered unconscious by the pinch — hit the stereo and turn it off with his face.

When the Radio is on, Klaymen must remember the song the radio on the wall was playing and turn to the station that is playing it.

The supposed drug reference in the line " I'd love to turn you on " resulted in the song initially being banned from broadcast by the BBC.

Sentiments were expressed in song lyrics and popular sayings of the period, such as " do your own thing ", " turn on, tune in, drop out ", " whatever turns you on ", " Eight miles high ", " sex, drugs, and rock ' n ' roll ", and " light my fire ".

Also, the song " Cast No Shadow " was written as a homage to Richard Ashcroft, who in turn wrote " A Northern Soul " from the band's second album for Noel Gallagher.

Prior to recording the song and to get into the mood, she requested Moroder to turn off the lights while they sat on a sofa with him inducing her moans and groans.

The station's program director sent the song to manager Phin Daly who in turn showed it to Bill McGathy, his employer at In De Goot Entertainment.

In the theme song of the show, clay animations of Louis and Ren turn their remote controls into lightsabers, alluding to Star Wars.

During these social evenings each lady and gentleman present was “ called upon in turn for a song ” as they sipped tea or coffee.

One of the first bands to craft a distinctly American sound in response to the British Invasion was The Beach Boys ; while not a folk rock band themselves, they directly influenced the genre, and at the height of the folk rock boom in 1966 had a hit with a cover of the 1920s West Indian folk song " Sloop John B ", which they had learned from The Kingston Trio, who, in turn, had learned it from The Weavers.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

Moodysson took the new title from the song at the end of the film, by Robyn.

George Harrison ( of the Beatles ) played the sitar on the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" in 1965, which sparked interest from Shankar, who subsequently took Harrison as his apprentice.

In 1974, Led Zeppelin took a break from touring and launched their own record label, Swan Song, named after an unreleased song.

Some of the other members of Minor Threat, Jeff Nelson in particular, took exception to what they saw as MacKaye's imperious attitude on the song.

1972 ), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped " Human Bacon " by some butchery tool / ( He is you ) / Social Security took care of this lad.

In his first session for Monument in Nashville, Orbison took on a song that RCA had refused, " Paper Boy ", backed by " With The Bug " as the B-side, but neither charted.

In the fall of 1985, Bailey took Twain down to Nashville to stay with a friend, record producer Tony Migliore, who at the time was producing an album for fellow Canadian singer Kelita Haverland and Twain was featured on the backing vocals to the song Too Hot to Handle.

The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song " Radio Head " from the 1986 album True Stories.

In the spring of 2006, Lansky took an old folk song and various ingredients of hip hop music and created " Chatter of Pins.

The American band Machines of Loving Grace took the name of a sex act performed by one of the main characters during a Black Mass for the title of their song " Rite of Shiva " on their eponymous album.

* In the 1939 song Strange Fruit, written to condemn the practice of lynching, the Magnolia flower was referenced as being associated with the Southern United States, where most lynchings took place: " Pastoral scene of the gallant south / The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth / Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

( 1973 ) featured a 23-minute title song which took up all of the B-side of the album.

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

It was not until 1955, when " Rock Around the Clock " was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off.

The Aqua club tour featured Howe ( whose presence was heavily promoted ), who took the stage after the fifth song.

Widely regarded as the Spice Girls ' most critically acclaimed song, the video took over 5 months to produce, considerably longer than the group's box office hit movie, Spice World.

After White took part in a Quincy Jones record titled Back on the Block, on the song titled " The Secret Garden ( Sweet Seduction Suite )", which topped the R & B chart in 1990, he mounted an effective comeback with several albums, each one more successful than the last.

After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song " Venus ", which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.