* In the 1961 song " Top Forty, News, Weather And Sports " by Mark Dinning, the verse " I had Lumumba doing the rumba ..." was removed after his death a few weeks after the release of the record.

Boston band Francine released a tribute song, " Pop Warner ", on their 2000 album Forty on a Fall Day.

* Forty Shades of Green is a visual term for rural Ireland, Johnny Cash popularised it with his 1961 song of the name.

During the song, the Forty Thieves make several attempts to kill Sa ' luk, but he easily defeats them even when they gang up on him in groups.

Edward Ernest Bowen ( 30 March 1836 – 8 April 1901 ) was an influential schoolmaster at Harrow School from 1859 until his death, and the author of the Harrow school song, Forty Years On.

Bowen is perhaps best remembered as the author of the Harrow school song, Forty Years On, which is still sung today, and to which an extra verse was later added in honour of Winston Churchill.

Forty Years On is a song written by Edward Ernest Bowen and John Farmer in 1872.

Forty Years On is the school song of the prestigious Napier Boys ' High School ( known to the lads as Napier Mens ) in Napier, New Zealand.

With a playlist called the Funky Forty, at 3 PM that Monday when Don Robinson flipped the switch and the stereo light flickered on the first song was " Let's Get It On " by Marvin Gaye.

* The Toronto Star, 22 April 2007, Section D, page 4, " Forty years on, a song retains its standing "

Country supergroup Alabama surpassed James ' record in 1985 with their 17th No. 1 song, " Forty Hour Week ( For a Livin ')", but the dispute stems from their 1982 Christmas single, " Christmas in Dixie ".

" There are other songs also with a Tipperary theme such as " Tipperary On My Mind "; " Slievenamon "; " Goodbye Mick "; " Galtee Mountain Boy "; " Katy Daly " ( actually an American song ) and " Forty Shades of Green ", written by Johnny Cash.

While the single in English made little impact ( Except in Australia, where it was released on the RCA label and made the lower reaches of the Top Forty ), the song was sometimes supposed to form the basis for Plastic Bertrand's internationally successful hit " Ça plane pour moi ", with new lyrics over the backing track.

Members of the Association meet annually at the School for the Annual Dinner, and regular reunions of each matriculating group are organised 10, 20, 30 and 40 years on ( echoing the refrain of the School song, " Forty Years On.

However, the School later adopted Forty Years On ( originally the School song of Harrow School.

Eek see sip pe " Forty Years On " is the song adapted from the song Forty Years On of Harrow School.

The English shoegaze band Curve also recorded a version of the song for Ruby Trax: The NME's Roaring Forty in 1992.

Christian rock group Relient K recorded the song " Plead the Fifth " a cappella on its album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.

* Referenced in Bob Miller's song, Twenty-One Years.

In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song " Winter Green " was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry.

* A song by North Carolina hardcore band Hopesfall from the album The Satellite Years

Meanwhile, Harrison became a record producer of some note – his résumé includes the Violent Femmes ' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals ' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies ' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Throwing Copper, No Doubt's song " New " from Return of Saturn, and most recently work by The Black and White Years and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

The song never made it to the album, but instead made the compilations Playback ( 1995 ) and Anthology: Through the Years ( 2000 ).

The song was included on their respective solo albums: Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years ; and Garfunkel's Breakaway.

In 1995 he only made news for appearing at The Oprah Winfrey Show, where he performed the song " Ten Years ", which he composed specially for the tenth anniversary of the show.

The song makes reference to James Wolfe capturing Quebec in 1759 during the Seven Years ' War and the Battle of Queenston Heights and Battle of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812.

At a banquet, Count Adhemar tries to trip up the unsophisticated " Sir Ulrich " by urging him to show the other guests a dance from his own country ; William, who's only spent a couple of hours learning to dance that day before the banquet, improvises with Jocelyn and comes up with something suited to a rock video ( the featured song in this scene was " Golden Years " by David Bowie ).

" Silent All These Years ", another song from Little Earthquakes, was the first track on this single, with " Gun " appearing third ( or as the B-side on the 7 " release ).

Altman himself plays Bob an unseen producer who in the beginning of the film is producing Haven Hamilton's song 200 Years.

For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The group also filmed a colour promo clip for the song " 2000 Light Years From Home " ( from their album Their Satanic Majesties Request ) directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

* California-based punk rock band Bad Religion include a song entitled " Flat Earth Society " on their 1990 album Against the Grain, as well as their compilation album All Ages and their live release 30 Years Live, written by Brett Gurewitz.

Another song featured on the album was " 20 Years in the Dakota ", which discussed Yoko Ono's struggles as John Lennon's wife, a position which Love herself has been frequently compared to, due to the perception that Ono drew Lennon away from The Beatles and that Love drew Cobain away from Nirvana.

Ironically, Geldof had previously refused to allow the video to be shown, due to time constraints, and had only relented when Bowie offered to drop the song " Five Years " from his set as a trade-off.

* " Surrender ", a song by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers written in 1977 but unreleased until 2000 on Anthology: Through the Years

He is also mentioned by John Prine in the song " Picture Show " from Prine's Grammy Award winning album " The Missing Years ".

The track appearing on the CD release of the EP was recorded during the Rage For Order sessions ( and is not the same version of the song which appears on the soundtrack for the movie, The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years ).

At the House of Blues concert in Anaheim, California on March 17, 2010, the band debuted a new song called " Resist-Stance ", which will appear on their upcoming album and is included on 30 Years Live.

Years later, he would reference this incident to John Lennon and George Harrison while taking LSD with The Beatles, and claiming " I know what it's like to be dead ", which ended up becoming a direct inspiration for The Beatles song " She Said, She Said ".

The Rolling Stones ' song " 2000 Light Years from Home " ( 1967 ), which drew heavily on some of the aforementioned Pink Floyd songs, is another early form of space rock.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

On a thrusting spray thick with thorns and dewdrops and swelling pink buds, like a summer Valentine, a bird balanced and sang, nondescriptly brown and alive with its own music, a little engine of song.

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

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

On the other hand " Gülpembe ", composed by Kurtalan Ekspres bassist Ahmet Güvenç, a requiem for Manço's grandmother, caught older audiences and probably is the artist's most popular song, competing perhaps only with " Dağlar Dağlar ".

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

* Ned Rorem has a song entitled, " Catullus: On the burial of his brother.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

The closing song of the 1969 Michael Caine crime caper, The Italian Job, (" Getta Bloomin ' Move On " a. k. a. " The Self Preservation Society ") contains many slang terms.

On August 2, 2011, Barrymore directed the music video for the song " Our Deal ", for the band Best Coast, which features Chloë Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove, Tyler Posey, Donald Glover, Shailene Woodley and Alia Shawkat.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

On 12 July 1970, when Wood added multiple cellos to a Lynne-penned song intended to be a Move B-side, the new concept became a reality and " 10538 Overture " became the first Electric Light Orchestra song.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

* " Futurist ", a song by Miss Kittin from On the Road

On February 7, 1958, the song was recorded in New York City, and sung by Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver's Orchestra.

The song " My Man ", written by Bernie Leadon and performed by the Eagles on their album On the Border, is a tribute to Gram Parsons.

The opening song, " Cattitude " can be heard on the national tour's website, along with two more, " On the Fence ," and " Going Home !".

Later artists performing comical versions of this song included Archie Campbell on his Have A Laugh On Me album in 1966, and Buck Owens on his album Too Old To Cut The Mustard in 1972.

On at least 4 episodes of the animated Fox series Family Guy, when the storyline hits a dead-end, a cutaway to Conway Twitty performing a song is inserted.

On the film's DVD commentary, Di Novi mentions that the filmmakers wanted to use the original Doris Day version of the song, but Day would not lend her name to any project using profanity.