In addition, he released a song called "( I Could Only ) Whisper Your Name " for the soundtrack of The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which is his most successful single in the United States to date.

Michael Azerrad reported, in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life, that at Minor Threat's second gig, each of the seven bands on the roster performed its version of a Wire song.

" That year, the string of successful Jimmy Webb songs continued with The 5th Dimension's " Paper Cup " and " Carpet Man " reaching the Top 40, Glen Campbell's " Wichita Lineman " selling over a million copies, and Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge scoring a gold record with " The Worst That Could Happen ", a song originally recorded by The 5th Dimension.

The album included the title song, as well as " Lightning in a Bottle ", " If These Walls Could Speak " ( which was recorded by Amy Grant that year ) and " Our Movie ".

In 1994, Webb teamed up with Nanci Griffith to contribute the song " If These Old Walls Could Speak " to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.

In 1989, Cher's " If I Could Turn Back Time " video ( where the singer performs the song in an extremely revealing body suit surrounded by a ship full of cheering sailors ) was restricted to late-night broadcasts on MTV.

Hank Williams is ranked first for the decade 1940 – 1949 for his song " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

Howell released her spoof song How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes in 2001 which she wrote and performed.

The album featured a hit cover of the Hank Williams song, " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ".

In 2012, the american mathcore band Exotic Animal Petting Zoo included a song titled " Kaspar Hauser Could See the Stars In the Daytime " in their second album Tree of Tongues.

The song " Mississippi Moon " is mainly inspired on the song " If I Could Fly ", which King's X played in shows after they had changed their name to its definite version, King's X.

That the writer of a play far more daring than Etheredge's She Would if She Could — and far more brilliant too — should at once become the talk of the court was inevitable ; equally inevitable was it that the author of the song at the end of the first act, in praise of harlots and their offspring, should attract the attention of the king's mistress, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.

Johnson composed many hit tunes including the theme song of the Roaring Twenties, " Charleston " and " If I Could be With You One Hour Tonight " and remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists until he was dethroned c. 1933 by the recently arrived Art Tatum, who is widely acknowledged by jazz critics as the most technically proficient jazz pianist of all time.

The song " I Could Love a Million Girls " is also featured in The Simpsons episode 7G10: " Homer's Night Out ".

On her 2008 album All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris includes the song " How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower ", co-written with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, about the relationship between A. P.

", " What a Friend I've Found " and their 1994 song " I Could Sing of Your Love Forever ", which has been called a " modern worship classic " and is their most popular song in the United States.

In the Belle and Sebastian song " I Could Be Dreaming " an extract from " Rip Van Winkle " is read.

The song " How Could Red Riding Hood ( Have Been So Very Good )?

His most regularly broadcast song is the seasonal Wizzard single " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ".

In 1995 he released a new live version as the ' Roy Wood Big Band ', which charted at # 59, and in 2000 he joined forces with Mike Batt and The Wombles, for a re-working of " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday " and of the Wombles ' hit " Wombling Merry Christmas ", together in one song which reached # 22.

Over Christmas 2007, Wood appeared in a catalogue advertisement for Argos, where he played the part of a rowdy neighbour playing guitar along to Wizzard's " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ", and the song once again entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at # 16.

A number of songs were covered during the show, including Belinda Carlisle's " Heaven Is a Place on Earth ", Hank Williams ' " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ", The Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers " among others however one of the more notable covers came when McCready performed a cover of " River of Deceit " for the first time since the breakup of Mad Season with Jeff Rouse performing vocal duties on the song.

Noël Coward wrote a song in 1943, " Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?

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

*" Be ", a song by Jessica Simpson from In This Skin

* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

Also in 1994, Parton contributed the song " You Gotta Be My Baby " to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.

In the song, " It Sucks to Be Me ", he laments his fate.

The song If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul plays in the background.

The metal band Metallica recorded a song inspired by " The Call of Cthulhu ", an instrumental titled " The Call of Ktulu ", a song based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth titled " The Thing That Should Not Be ", and a song based on Frank Belknap Long's " The Hounds of Tindalos ", titled " All Nightmare Long ".

* The They Might Be Giants song " Where Your Eyes Don't Go " on their second album, Lincoln, featured the lines " You're free to come and go / Or talk like Kurtis Blow.

Lemmy made an appearance in the music videos for the 1986 Boys Don't Cry song " I Wanna Be A Cowboy " and the 1998 Rap song " Freak of the Week " by adult film star Ron Jeremy.

The phenomenon is not limited to English, with examples cited by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in the Hebrew song Háva Nagíla (" Let's Be Happy "), and in Bollywood movies.

Bobby McFerrin's 1988 Grammy Award-winning song " Don't Worry, Be Happy " was inspired by a popular quote of Baba seen in numerous Baba posters and inspirational cards.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

In the 1980s, Crowe, going under the name of " Russ le Roq ", recorded a song titled " I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando ".

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

His only musical output of the year consisted of contributing his cover of Phil Phillips ' " Sea of Love " to the soundtrack of the Al Pacino movie of the same name and contributing vocals to The Replacements song " Date to Church ", which appeared as a B-side to their single " I'll Be You ".

The album included three songs written or co-written by Dylan (" This Wheel's on Fire ", " Tears of Rage ", and " I Shall Be Released ") as well as " The Weight ", the use of which in the film Easy Rider would make it probably their best known song.

In 1990, Throttle magazine interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song " Ana Ng ": John Flansburgh said, " Ng is a Vietnamese name.

On February 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song " The Mesopotamians " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song " Seven " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

The band They Might Be Giants composed a song in tribute to The Replacements entitled " We're the Replacements.