The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

* Saratoga ( musical ) ( 1959 )-music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, dramatized by Morton DaCosta

He often composed specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Concerto for Cootie " for Cootie Williams, which later became " Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me " with Bob Russell's lyrics, and " The Mooche " for Tricky Sam Nanton and Bubber Miley.

Avsenik's influence over Cleveland-Style music began in 1958 when Johnny Pecon's English lyrics transformed Slavko's " Tam kjer murke cveto " into a Greatest All-Time Cleveland-Style Hit, " Little Fella ".

She sang " When October Goes " – lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Barry Manilow ( after Mercer's death ) – from Manilow's 1984 album 2: 00 AM Paradise Cafe, and discussed what an excellent musician Manilow was.

Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

All lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

Described by engineer Earle Mankey as a " frighteningly accurate album " and " sort of like Eraserhead " in comparison to Wilson's lush 1960s oeuvre, the album's playful lyrics ( alternately invoking Johnny Carson, Phil Spector and adolescent interests ) and stark instrumentation ( featuring Moog bass lines and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns reflective of contemporaneous work by David Bowie and Tony Visconti ) failed to impact an audience sated on the ubiquitous Endless Summer sound.

In 1981, he toured in a revival of a pre-Broadway production of Little Johnny Jones, a show originally produced in 1904 with music, lyrics, and book by George M. Cohan.

He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones's biggest hits, " She's a Lady ", and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, " My Way " ( originally French song " Comme d ' habitude ").

His talent went beyond the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called " Toot Sweet " which had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as " It's Really Love ") since Anka composed Tom Jones ' biggest hit record " She's a Lady " and wrote the English lyrics to " My Way ", Frank Sinatra's signature song sung by many well known artists.

The 1937 song ( lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Richard A. Whiting ) contains in the second verse:

It was originally translated into English by Lilla Cayley Robinson in the early 20th century, but American lyricist Johnny Mercer later expanded and greatly revised her lyrics.

An Academy Award went to the film's theme music, composed by Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

The Oscar-winning title song had music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

* Best Original Song, Henry Mancini ( music ) and Johnny Mercer ( lyrics ).

" In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening ", with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, featured in 1951's Here Comes the Groom, won Carmichael his first Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Mercer his second of four.

He and Johnny Western discarded the original Livingston and Evans lyrics, and wrote new ones.

The term " psychobilly " was first used in the lyrics to the country song " One Piece at a Time ", written by Wayne Kemp for Johnny Cash, which was a Top 10 hit in the United States in 1976.

" Stewart also pointed out that in 2002, George W. Bush honored Johnny Cash, whose songs contain violent lyrics.

Regular callers included a Johnny Vegas soundalike, someone reading the results of the day's games in the Premier League, someone doing an impression of Darth Vader breathing, " The Duck ", and " Quarter-to-One Mick ", a Northern accented gentleman who each week would recite the lyrics of well-known songs towards the end of each show.

** Swinging on a Star – Book by Michael Leeds, lyrics by Johnny Burke, music by various composers

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with an original score by Nelson Riddle.

For example, in the " Here Comes Your Man " video, both Black and Deal open their mouths wide instead of mouthing their lyrics.

Their MySpace page first described the project as " a lushly orchestrated mix of eclectic songwriting that is sure to conjure up memories of 1997's When the Red King Comes " and stressed its " more mature approach to arrangements, lyrics, and instrumentation.

In addition, when Gabriel put lyrics to a piece of music written by one of the other band members ( such as Banks ' " The Lamia " and Hackett's " Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist ") the composer would often insist on adjusting the lyrics to better fit the music, an action Gabriel did not take kindly to.

* Here Comes That Mood, recorded by Vincent Lopez, music and lyrics by Gloria Parker.

* " When the Sun Comes Out " – lyrics by Ted Koehler

As Havens performed his version of " Here Comes the Sun ", a cloudy dawn broke, so he changed the lyrics to " Here Comes the Dawn ".

Here Comes That Mood " recorded by Vincent Lopez, music and lyrics by Gloria Parker.

Her theme song was " When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain "; she had helped write the lyrics.

* On the title track to Johnny Cash's album American IV: The Man Comes Around, the lyrics include a reference to " the potter's ground " as a metaphor for dying without salvation.

Quite a few variations on the song, as well as songs set to the same tune but with different lyrics, have appeared since When Johnny Comes Marching Home was popularized.

Drewery strays out of the usual love lyrics and colours a portrait of a darker world ( as the title indicates ) by singing about more urban subjects such as drugs ( the eerie " Happy When You're High ") and prostitution (" When Morning Comes ").

*" Here Comes Summer " lyrics

The Grateful Dead song " Here Comes Sunshine " may or may not be an allusion to Garcia's and Kesey's daughter – the Dead were fond of lyrics having double, often personal meanings.

* They Might Be Giants covered the song, with modified lyrics, as " The Ballad of Davy Crockett ( in Outer Space )" on their 2009 album Here Comes Science.

John Mitchell of MTV News called both " Cry Me a River " and " What Goes Around ... Comes Around " a " kiss-off songs " and according to him Timberlake's revenge to Spears is present all over the lyrics in the both songs.

( The Boys Are Marching ) – music and lyrics by George Frederick Root

Virgil Stamps wrote the music and melody for the famous gospel song " When the Saints Go Marching In ", in 1937, while Luther G. Presley wrote the lyrics.

This version, although almost identical, included alternate lyrics and was issued as " Marching On Pretoria " on the Zonophone label.

The Finnish protest song " Laiva Toivo, Oulu " () is set to the melody of " Marching Through Georgia ", but with Finnish-language lyrics criticizing the actions of the captain of the titular frigate Toivo.

#" Pretoria " ( 4: 26 ) ( Original song credit: Josef Marais )-Made famous by The Weavers as " Marching to Pretoria ," new lyrics by Tom ( e. g., " You sleep with me, I'll sleep with you ").

The song was also covered by the Cathedral Quartet and Hovie Lister and the Statesmen as a Southern Gospel song with slightly modified lyrics, using the house as an analogy for an old body about to die and the soul about to go to heaven, usually tying the song in with " When the Saints Go Marching In.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching provided the tune for the later ( and ultimately better-known ) Jesus Loves the Little Children, with lyrics by C. Herbert Woolston, and also for the later God Save Ireland.

The song is sometimes confused with a similarly titled composition " When the Saints are Marching In " from 1896 by Katharine Purvis ( lyrics ) and James Milton Black ( music ).