The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

The song “ The Legend of Andrew McCrew ” was based on an article published in the New York Times.

Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, in Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Tradition in the Twentieth Century ( 1998 ), take issue with what they consider Denisoff's reductive approach to the history and function of song ( and particularly traditional song ) in social movements.

* " Plasticities ", a song by Andrew Bird, from the album Armchair Apocrypha

* Andrew Bird covered House's song, " Grinnin ' " on his live album, Fingerlings 3.

The song is the only single from Teletubbies, making them a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom, and mostly a remix of the theme song from the hit Television programme performed by the series characters written by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport.

Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.

* Andrew Malone, a character in the song, " Riding With Private Malone " by David Ball.

* The song " He Was My Brother " from Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. by Simon & Garfunkel is dedicated to Andrew Goodman.

One telecast included African-American bass-baritone Andrew Frierson singing " Ol ' Man River " from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat, a song that, at that time, was usually sung on television by white singers, although it was written for a black character in the musical.

The song " God Made " by Andrew Jackson Jihad proposes dystheism and has an implied hatred for God.

" The 8th of January " became a traditional American fiddle tune the melody of which was used by Jimmie Driftwood to write the song " The Battle of New Orleans ", which in a lighthearted tone details the battle from the perspective of an American volunteer fighting alongside Andrew Jackson.

* The song " Doc ’ s Blues " was written as a tribute to Pomus by his close friend, Andrew Vachss.

In April 2010, Harvey appeared on The Andrew Marr Show performing a new song titled " Let England Shake.

The road is referred to in the lyrics of Underworld's Born Slippy. NUXX and Andrew Lloyd Webber's song Grizabella the Glamour Cat, from his musical Cats.

However, she did lend her own voice to Learn to be Lonely, a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber specifically for the film version of his musical ( it plays over the closing credits of the movie ).

He was referred to in the 1947 Academy Award-winning film Gentleman's Agreement ; a 1947 blues song " Bilbo is Dead " by Andrew Tibbs ; in Bob and Adrienne Claiborne's song, " Listen Mr. Bilbo " ( 1946 ); and in Lee Hays ' song, " Talking Bilbo ".

It included a recording, produced by Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and also co-produced by Steven Rinkoff and Nigel Wright, of the Steinman / Webber song " A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste ", from Whistle Down The Wind.

Among their most successful songs was " Surf City ", which topped both the Billboard and Cashbox music charts in June 1963 ; " Drag City ", which was a No. 10 hit on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1963 ; and their song " The Little Old Lady from Pasadena ", which peaked at No. 3.

* " Adelaide ", song by the Old 97's from the album Drag It Up

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

In July 2011, RuPaul released another remix EP on iTunes entitled SuperGlam DQ, which features remixes of tracks from Glamazon, remixes of the " Drag U Theme Song ", and a new song, " Sexy Drag Queen ".

: Words and Music by Milt Franklyn, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones ; written for the cartoon but similar to George Olsen's hit song " Varsity Drag " from the musical Good News ( 1927 )

The Buckinghams topped the Hot 100 charts in 1966 with their song ' Kind of a Drag '.

In early 2008, their song " Same Old Drag " won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Pop / Rock Song.

The band's 2004 album Drag It Up also includes a song written and sung by guitarist Ken Bethea, " Coahuila.

In " The Old Main Drag ," a song from The Pogues ' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, the drug is name-checked: In the cold winter nights, the old town it was chill / But there were boys in the cafes who'd give you cheap pills / If you didn't have the money, you'd cajole or you'd beg / There was always lots of tuinol on the old main drag.

A similar situation occurs in his compilation of Billboard's Rock charts, where Whitburn includes the fictitious song " Drag You Down " by the equally non-existent group The Cysterz.

Sampled excerpts from Sticky Fingaz ' ( third ) verse in " Last Dayz " makes up the chorus of the Vinnie Paz song " Drag You to Hell " ( 2010, produced by DJ Kwestion ).

* Colorado band Drag The River has a song called " Mr. Crews " on their 2006 album It's Crazy.

* " Lady Luck ", a song by Drag from The Way Out

An audio sample of the movie is used in the song " Whoop D God Damn Da Doo " by The " Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 ".

Also featured on Drag King was a hardcore style cover of the Tom Robinson song " Glad to Be Gay ".

Over the next three years the band released two albums and further singles including a cover of Wire's " Outdoor Miner ", and a version of the folk song " Sally Free and Easy " which was initially only released on CD-the sleevenote explained that the pressing plant had been unable to cut it to vinyl ( a US plant later achieved the feat by using a monaural master and it was issued on 12 " by Drag City ).

It is a compilation that includes previously released material such as the UK hit " He's on the Phone " as well as curios like their cover of the Paul Gardiner / Gary Numan song " Stormtrooper in Drag ".

The opening track for the album was to be " Murph Drag ", a dance later mentioned in the song " My Summertime Thang ".

* " Don't Let Me Down ( Slowly )", a song by The Main Drag from You Are Underwater

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

The Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to " pull her through " to recovery.

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.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

It has become a song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of " spiritual national anthem " according to authors Mary Rourke and Emily Gwathmey.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

It has become a definitive anti-war song.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

Other notable acts include Ali B ( who has been featured on other artists ' tracks, most significantly with Marco Borsato on the song " Wat zou je doen?

At several points, Sondheim has multiple performers each sing a different song simultaneously.

In analyzing the text of the song, Max Cryer wrote that it " is not intended to be sung by the young in love, but by a mature performer who has seen it all before.

" There Won't Be Trumpets ," a song cut during previews, has become a favorite of cabaret performers.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

Kusumi Koharu performed a song and dance titled " Balalaika " which has also been flawlessly mirrored in the Hatsune Miku phenomenon.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".