Sky Sports used the song as the intro for Super League in the late 2000s and the X Factor frequently use the song for the contestants ' introductions.

The Hollywood Flames had also recorded " I Know " in 1953, a song which has been called " a chord-for-chord blueprint for " Earth Angel ," and which featured the same Curtis Williams piano intro that Williams himself reused on the Penguins hit.

The poem was an intro to a performance of the song " Imagine ", Lennon's anthem to world peace.

* Medabots takes place in the 22nd century ; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song.

The glockenspiel was also featured in Jimi Hendrix's classic ballad " Little Wing ", Avenged Sevenfold's song " Nightmare " during the intro, as well as in indie folk music by artists such as Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost.

* " Br ' er Rabbit's Laughing Place ": about 5 minutes and the only segment that doesn't use Uncle Remus as an intro to its main story, including the song " Everybody's Got a Laughing Place "

Chaplin's final speech was used as an intro to punk band The Menzingers ' 2007 song, " Cold Weather Gear ".

Another example is a 1979 recording by Ray Stevens titled " I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow " where the song's intro is reminiscent of Manilow's hit, " I Write the Songs " and the vocal performance, melody, and name-dropping of Manilow song titles is a pastiche of Barry Manilow.

In 1994, the pop group Stereolab recorded a tribute to her, " International Colouring Contest ", on their album Mars Audiac Quintet ; the intro of the song includes a voice sample of Pamela herself (

There is a lengthy spoken intro by Gainsbourg, taken from the film The Cement Garden, which inspired the title of the song.

In the Shining Time Station Christmas Special, Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor is dressed in lumberjack attire, he sings the intro to the song, but changes the lyrics to " I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right.

The released version of the song is composed of two verses, with an intro, outro, and several refrains.

The music video produced for " Driftwood " features Moraz, although Mike Pinder was the one who played on the actual recording ; the video for " Steppin ' in a Slide Zone " simply shows the other four members without Pinder ( which was rather awkward as Pinder's keyboards featured extensively on the song, notably on the distinctive intro and during a solo section of the piece ).

The group's 1960s hit, " You'll Never Walk Alone ", was sampled by Kanye West in an early version of his song, " Homecoming " ( which sampled the group's " walk on " intro ) while their 1970s hit, " Isn't It a Shame " was sampled by Nelly on his song, " My Place ".

The intro cut scene of the game is a music video that features a full-length song with vocals, entitled the " DK Rap " which was written by Kirkhope and was performed by George Andreas and Chris Sutherland.

* Grammy-winning artist Bruce Hornsby used the song as an intro to his song Candy Mountain Run at the Biltmore show in Asheville, NC on July 25, 2009-and possibly in other venues on other dates.

Ironically, the intro to EWF's song " In the Stone " has been used for several years as the introductory theme for the event's broadcasts.

Longhair first recorded in 1949, creating four songs ( including the first version of his signature song, " Mardi Gras in New Orleans ," complete with whistled intro ) for the Dallas, Texas based Star Talent label.

The spoken intro of " Control " was sampled on Kylie Minogue's song " Too Much of a Good Thing ", from her 1991 album Let's Get to It.

The game featured instrumental versions of songs from Fear Factory's album Demanufacture, with the song Zero Signal being used in the game's intro.

In the sixth and seventh seasons ( which were set in Hollywood ), the intro featured Laverne and Shirley coming out of an apartment building, but still singing their original chant, and then a re-recorded version of the original theme song.

With 1998 album Immortal Pride, the band took on a folk influence, and more specifically from soundtracks such as the Conan the Barbarian movie soundtrack ; the music moved to Viking metal, became more epic and symphonic, with a strong use of keyboards and chorales, and the songs became much longer: Immortal Pride consists of four songs, two of them being the intro and outro and the other ones being 24 and 17 minutes long.

This intro section consists of the Moog, bass drum and piano.

The intro of this song consists often of a Rhythm-Guitar Riff.

The chorus of the song consists of a repeating guitar riff followed by a mirror of the " sweet emotion " intro.

Composed as a dance-oriented song, the intro of " Like a Virgin " consists of two hooks.

The album is fan assembled and consists of what fans deem as Dark New Day's strongest, ' album friendly ' songs from 2006 on, including a fan-made intro to the song ' Goobye '.

Often, a Melon Dezign intro would feature a simple vector-based graphic ( such as their logo ) on a bichrome background, where other scene groups at the time would have their vector graphics inside a window or as the only thing on screen.

In contrast to the theatrical entrances of American pro wrestlers, performers in VPW 2 are given a simple backstage intro and are audibly announced upon entering the ring.

A new theme, which was titled " The Midnight Four ", was composed by Score staff composer Ken Bichel with a memorable " funk " guitar intro, and similar elements and instruments from this theme were also featured in the numerous " think cues " heard when the panel wrote down their answers.

This version incorporates elements of " A Hard Day's Night " ( the intro chord ), " A Day in the Life " ( the improvised orchestral crescendo ), " The End " ( Ringo Starr's drum solo, Paul McCartney's second guitar solo, and John Lennon's last guitar solo ), and " Sgt.

One track, " The Moors ", featured a lengthy twelve-string guitar intro performed entirely by guitarist Ralph Towner ( of Oregon and the Paul Winter Consort ).

" We put on this old 7-inch by Mickey and the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat.

The album features original vocalist Lord Worm, Flo Mounier, Eric Langlois, and Alex Auburn handling all guitar duties except the intro track " Luminum ".

*" Stairway to Heaven " ( Page / Plant ) ( guitar intro ) – 0: 54 ( collage edit )

Azerrad remarks on its " powerful rhythm ripped straight from Gang of Four and guitars that sound like shattering glass ", while Kellman calls it " undeniably Big Black's brightest / bleakest moment, an epically roaming track that features an instantly memorable guitar intro, completely incapable of being accurately described by vocal imitation or physical gesture [...] It's Big Black's ' Light My Fire ,' literally.

One custom instrument Kessel played was essentially a 12-string guitar neck attached to a mandolin body ( similar to Vox's mando guitar ), which may have been played on the intro to The Beach Boys ' " Wouldn't It Be Nice.

Similarly, a new edit of " Pinch Me " was created using the radio edit's cropped intro, but leaving in the album version's guitar solo outro.

Following an extended drone opening played on keyboards, " Stratovarius " develops a scary organ intro as a looser succession of mainly guitar and drum based jams that build and break down.

The re-recording of this song that appears on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is different from the single version, being fifty-five seconds longer and featuring an extended guitar noise intro as well as an extended solo.

The intro of " Prelude to Madness " features keyboards and guitar playing " Mars, the Bringer of War " from Gustav Holst's suite, The Planets.

The eight measure sequence is repeated in the intro, for each verse and in the outro, providing the harmonic framework for the entire extended dual guitar solo at the end of the song.

Miller credits the guitar intro to " Rock ' n Me " as a tribute to the classic song by Free, " All Right Now ".

Their albums often start with a short intro with a catchy guitar riff, and end with an outro, which is usually a slightly longer variation of the intro riff.

A year later, Pitts created the wah-wah guitar intro for " Theme From Shaft ", a song which earned Hayes an Academy Award.

The BBC version of " Ogre Battle " did originally have a long intro featuring a grand guitar build up.

" The doubleneck obviated the need to switch guitars mid-song: at the beginning of " Stairway to Heaven ", he used the bottom 6-string neck for the intro and first verse, then switched to the top 12-string neck, then to the 6-string neck for the extended guitar solo, and back to the 12-string for the final chorus.

Most versions of " Maggie May " ( especially on some Rod Stewart compilations ) incorporate a 30-second solo guitar intro, " Henry ", composed by Martin Quittenton.

" Poundcake " featured the sound of a battery operated power drill, which Eddie held to the pickups of his guitar and revved, creating the intro.

#* Traditional folk arrangement, distorted guitar intro, with vocal and lyric by Douglas P. Instrumentation contributed by David Tibet.