Each of the main characters contributed a song: Kevin the Gerbil's were My Rowland and Pink Bucket Reggae, Reggie's song was It's great here, innit, and Errol the Hamster contributed Leeks Are Wonderful, Leeks Are Nice.

**" Errol " ( song ), a 1981 song in honour of Flynn, on rock band Australian Crawl's album Sirocco

While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").

The story of Sean Flynn was immortalized by The Clash in the song " Sean Flynn " from the album Combat Rock.

After Flynn and Green performed Unchained Melody on the programme, ITV was inundated by people looking to buy the song, and the pair were persuaded by record producer Simon Cowell to record it and release it as a single, a double A-side with White Cliffs of Dover.

For the recording of the song " Aesthetics of Hate ", inspired by reactions to the murder of his friend Dimebag Darrell, from the album The Blackening, Flynn used a Washburn 333, nicknamed " Dimebolt ", which was given to him by Dimebag after he broke one of Flynn's guitars while intoxicated.

However, in the music video for the song, Flynn can be seen playing his transparent B. C.

The video features a cover of the Venom song " Witching Hour " performed by Slayer with assistance from Chris Kontos and Robb Flynn of Machine Head.

In 1997, when Garth Brooks was invited to perform on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien to perform " Do What You Gotta Do ", a song written by Pat Flynn, he asked Flynn, Bush, Cowan, and Fleck to join him in performing it.

In April 2007, Bush, Fleck, Cowan, and Flynn stepped into the spotlight together during the Merlefest 20th Anniversary Jam and played the Townes Van Zandt song " White Freight Liner.

The song " Human " recorded by Cher, who appears in the film, and produced by David Foster was included in the soundtrack ( Flynn cover ).

In 1968 and 1972 on location in Hawaii, Sandi Griffiths ( née Jensen ) and Sally Flynn both sang the song on the The Lawrence Welk Show.

This album includes the song " Truck Stop in the Sky ," which Richard and Fred co-wrote with two of Flynnville Train's members, brothers Brent Flynn and David Flynn.

IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was the inspiration for Joe Hill's song, The Rebel Girl ( song ) | " The Rebel Girl " ( 1915 ).

A popular song, " The Rebel Girl ", was written by labor activist and musician Joe Hill in honor of Flynn.

* " Alien ", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone

* " Alien ", a song by Erasure on the album Loveboat

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

* " Alien ", a song by Lamb on the album Fear of Fours

* " Alien ", a song by Nerina Pallot on the album Dear Frustrated Superstar

* " Alien ", a song by Thriving Ivory on their self-titled album

* " Alien ", a song by Tokio Hotel on the album Humanoid

* " My Alien ", a song by Simple Plan on the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls

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.

* " Animals ", by Coldplay as one of the B-sides for " Clocks " ( song )

* " Atlantic ", a song by Thrice from Vheissu

* " Atomic ", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise

* 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 "

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

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.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

* " Atmosphere ", a song which became a hit for Russ Abbot in 1984

* " Atmosphere ", a song by DJ Falk

* " Ark ", a song by the Japanese band Sound Horizon

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

* Alphabet song, or " the ABC's ", a song used to teach children the alphabet

Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

* 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 ".

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

features the song, " All Quiet On The Western Front " ( written by Elton and Bernie Taupin ).

The album contains the signature track, " El Shaddai " ( written by Michael Card ) and the Grant-Chapman penned song, " In a Little While ".

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

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 ").

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

The song was written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt.

* 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 Roy Harper song " All Ireland " from the album Lifemask, written in the days following the incident, is critical of the military but takes a long term view with regard to a solution.

In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song Domhnach na Fola ( Irish for Bloody Sunday ), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.

" He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that he wanted to perform and handed him a microphone.

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", as the show's tagline.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

" Southern Cross " is also a 1982 song by the classic rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash, written by Rick Curtis, Michael Curtis, and Stephen Stills.