Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

" Don't Dream It's Over " was named the seventh best Australian song of all time in 2001.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

The lines " Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot ," from the musical Camelot, were quoted by his widow Jacqueline as being from his favorite song in the score.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

" In a recent interview, Mothersbaugh revealed a song title from the in-progress album: " Don't Shoot, I'm a Man ".

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

Although the biggest hit on the album ( and ELO's biggest hit overall ) was the rock song " Don't Bring Me Down ", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence.

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

Examples include Timbaland's " Indian Flute ", Erick Sermon and Redman's " React ", Slum Village's " Disco ", and Truth Hurts ' hit song " Addictive ", which sampled a Lata Mangeshkar song, and The Black Eyed Peas sampled Asha Bhosle's song " Yeh Mera Dil " in their hit single " Don't Phunk With My Heart ".

One of the last scenes includes Ice-T and Body Count playing with Jane's Addiction in a version of the Sly and the Family Stone song " Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey.

Another version of the story was that the group had gotten inspiration for writing the song after hearing The Orioles ' rock ' n ' roll version of Big Joe Williams ' hit, " Baby Please Don't Go ", taking its melody from the song.

Both musicians also sampled Brown's work, with Hammer having sampled the rhythms from " Super Bad " for his song, " Here Comes the Hammer ", from his best-selling work, Please Hammer, Don't Hurt ' Em.

* 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.

Another Minor Threat song from the second EP, Out of Step, further demonstrates the belief: " Don't smoke / Don't drink / Don't fuck / At least I can fucking think / I can't keep up / I'm out of step with the world.

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.

* Frank Zappa dreamed he was Nanook in his 1974 song " Don't Eat The Yellow Snow ".

* " Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town ", a song written by Mel Tillis

Also the song " Real Nigga Roll Call " by Lil Jon & Ice Cube, is another song that may be used for this method.

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 ".

Some well-known songs are " Ol ' Man River ", " Can't Help Lovin ' That Man " and " Make Believe " from Show Boat ; " Indian Love Call " from Rose-Marie ; " People Will Say We're in Love " and " Oklahoma " ( which has been the official state song of Oklahoma since 1953 ) from Oklahoma!

Steve Bulmarck and the other men ponder the lonely nomadic life they lead in the song " They Call the Wind Maria ".

* German singer Patrice sings about Biko in the song " Jah Jah Deh Deh " which appears on his album How Do You Call It ?.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

* Call of the Champions, the Olympic theme song for 2002

He is also friends with former SNL star Chevy Chase, who appeared in his video for " You Can Call Me Al " lip synching the song while Simon looks disgruntled and mimes backing vocals and the playing of various instruments beside him.

When designing the poster for the performance, Baez considered changing her performing name to either Rachel Sandperl, the surname of her long-time mentor, Ira Sandperl or Maria from the song " They Call the Wind Maria ".

On their 2006 album The Morrigan's Call, the Irish Celtic metal band Cruachan featured a song " Ungoliant " as well as one named after Shelob.

Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's " I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) and the Gershwins ' " Let's Call the Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

* In the song " Golden Dawn " from their third studio album The Land of Rape and Honey, industrial metal band Ministry sampled English occultist Aleister Crowley reciting " the Call of the Second Aethyr " in Enochian.

The song was later used by Trailer Park Boys in the episode " We Can't Call People Without Wings Angels So We Call Them Friends ".

This pronunciation may be heard in the popular song, They Call The Wind Maria, from the musical, Paint Your Wagon.

The song is a remake of a faster version, titled " I Call My Baby Pussycat ", recorded by Parliament on their 1970 album Osmium.

Under record company pressure, the titled was restored to " I Call My Baby Pussycat ," on future Parliament-Funkadelic releases featuring the song, and some future CD pressings of America Eats Its Young.

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

Also in 2008 the band remixed the Attery Squash song ' Devo Was Right About Everything ' which was released on the B-side to the Watch Us Work It vinyl 12 " single.

* " Intelligence ", song by ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead from their 2003 EP The Secret of Elena's Tomb

Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ", in which the B-side of the single is a cover song from The Who: " So Sad About Us ", and the back cover of the record is a photo of Moon's face ; the Jam's record was released about a month after Moon's death.

* " Mary ," a song by The 4 of Us on the album Songs for the Tempted

* Biko is referenced in the Public Enemy song " Show ' Em Whatcha Got " on the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

*" Seven Sisters ", a song by American band MewithoutYou from their album, Catch for Us the Foxes

* " Threshold ", a song by Slayer on the album God Hates Us All

Certified Platinum by the RIAA, Emancipation is the first record featuring covers by Prince of songs of other artists: Joan Osborne's top ten hit song of 1995 " One of Us "; " Betcha by Golly Wow!

* 2011-Alternative music band They Might Be Giants briefly referred to him in the song ″ Can't Keep Johnny Down ″ from their album Join Us, in the following lyric: " Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me ..."

* " PDA ", a song by the Backstreet Boys from This Is Us

The Fall's song is, " What About Us?

The winner in the first two years ( 1989 and 1990 ) was " Love Will Tear Us Apart " by Joy Division, and 1991's favourite song was " Smells Like Teen Spirit " by Nirvana ( which was actually released that year ).

* 2082 is the name of a song by the band They Might Be Giants from the album Join Us.

Michael Jackson's most controversial video, " They Don't Care About Us " was banned from MTV, VH1, and BBC because of the alleged anti-Semitic message in the song and the visuals in the background of the " Prison Version " of the video.

The band continued this transformation with an unexpected cover of the Joy Division song " Love Will Tear Us Apart ", which was released in 1988 on Product Inc. in a confusing array of 7-and 12-inch formats.

In 2000, Sixpence None the Richer contributed the song " Us " to Today Presents: the Best of Summer Concert Series CD, which raised money for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.

* " Vertigo ", a song by Planet Us

* " Denmark ", a song by The Chemical Brothers on their album Come with Us

Being quietly released as a single on 3 February 2009 the other new song found on the album, " Don't Give Up on Us ", signalled a wrap.

*" Bring It On ", a 1993 song on the Geto Boys album Till Death Do Us Part

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

The song " Street Life " from Till Death Do Us Part was featured on the motion picture South Central.

Only one song by Mecano: " Canción cortita para antes que nos abandone el mar " ( Short Song for time before the Sea Abandons Us )-just 57 seconds ' runtime.

Newman also made his first foray into music for films at this time, writing and performing the theme song " He Gives Us All His Love " for Norman Lear's 1971 film Cold Turkey.