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 ).

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!

According to Stephenson the material the group was given was " very, very young pop " and included the song " We're Gonna Make It Happen ", a record that never came to light.

The track " Make a Move ", was released to radio in late May, and song reached No. 17 ( Modern Rock Charts ) and No. 19 ( Mainstream Rock Charts ).

Many popular songs make reference to Captain Kangaroo, including the Statler Brothers ' 1965 hit song " Flowers on the Wall ", the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " The Brady Bunch ", the Bloodhound Gang's " Your Only Friends Are Make Believe ", and the VeggieTales song, " The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything ".

The song " I'll Make a Man Out of You " was performed by Donny Osmond, who commented that his sons decided that he had finally " made it " in show business when he was in a Disney film.

*" Pacific Coast Highway ", a song by Burt Bacharach from Make It Easy on Yourself

* " Beverly Hills " ( song ), the first single by Weezer from their fifth album Make Believe

An unusual popular culture reference may be found in the 1968 Mothers of Invention song " Let's Make The Water Turn Black ".

* Divas of Dance-Volume 3 ( Remixes ); song " You Make Me Feel ( Mighty Real )"

*" Make Make ", a song by Mike Oldfield from Heaven's Open

By the beginning of December 1961 the EP with the title song " Quand le film est triste ", covering Sue Thompson's " Sad Movies ( Make Me Cry )" was on sale.

The city is also mentioned in the Bob Dylan song " You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go ".

She also appeared on Bonnie Raitt's 1995 live DVD Road Tested singing the song " Never Make Your Move Too Soon.

She sang on various episodes of the show, including a heavily altered version of Aretha Franklin's " Respect " and the original song, " Make Up Your Mind " produced by Robert Jerald of N ' Spyre Music Productions.

She also co-wrote the movie's theme song, " Can't Make it Good ", with Maida.

Smith along with his band, joined Korn onstage for the band's unplugged performance in 2006 where they played a mashup of Korn song " Make Me Bad " and Cure song " In Between Days ".

Bob Dylan, in his 1975 song " You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go ," sings,

** " Charles Atlas Song " was replaced by a reworked version of the song, " I Can Make You a Man ", for the film version.

Richard O ’ Brien's revision of the script in 1990 featured a hybrid of the two songs under the title " I Can Make You a Man ", in the 1999 revised script this song was replaced by the film version which continues to be used in all major productions.

*" 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.

" were featured in the Supermode song " Tell Me Why ".

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", recorded by Roberta Flack ( and later covered by The Fugees ).

* " Enemy " a song by Cascada from their album Original Me

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.

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

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.

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.

He provided the opening speech and piano in The Vandals ' song " Phone Machine " from the album Fear of a Punk Planet, and sang a rewritten version of the " grinch " on an episode of Just Shoot Me !.

The Who's 1971 song " Baba O ' Riley " was named in part after Meher Baba, and on his first solo album, Who Came First, Townshend recorded the Jim Reeves song " There's A Heartache Following Me ," saying that it was Meher Baba's favorite song.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.

Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song " Me Amo " ( I Love Myself ) in which the chorus sings " como Narciso soy " ( I am like Narcissus ).

The 1937 musical song The Lambeth Walk from Me and My Girl ends with a cry of " Oi!

The labor movement musical Pins and Needles deftly summed up the definition of a protest song in a number called " Sing Me a Song of Social Significance.

* " The Phantom ", a pseudonym used by Jerry Lott for the primal rockabilly song " Love Me "

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

With yet another new member ( future Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, credited as Stymee ), the album featured two versions of " How Will I Laugh Tomorrow ": the video version ( the original song cut down for radio / video airplay ) and the " heavy emotion " version ( a semi-unplugged, more mellow version of the song ).

On December 11, 2005, Shatner opened up Comedy Central's Last Laugh 2005 by performing as Lucifer, singing a song about how 2005 was a good year for him as the devil.

Michael Nesmith, of Monkees fame, recorded a song titled " Laugh Kills Lonesome " which was inspired by, and describes the contents of, a well-known Russell painting of the same name.

In 1930, he composed the music for the song " Cheerful Little Earful " for the Billy Rose Broadway revue, Sweet and Low, and composed the music, with lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young, for the Ed Wynn Broadway revue The Laugh Parade in 1931.

The title is taken from a lyric in the Bob Dylan song " It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry " on Highway 61 Revisited.

Their song " New York City " was covered by They Might Be Giants on their album Factory Showroom, and their song " Little Star " was covered by Washington's Sicko on their album, Laugh While You Can Monkey Boy.

The episode featured musical guests The Beau Brummels, appearing as " The Beau Brummelstones ", who performed their hit song " Laugh, Laugh.

" Funny Man ," the first serious song on this album, is described as " Pagliacci and Laugh, Clown, Laugh done in Ray's inimitable style ... laughing on the outside and crying on the inside ..." and tells the tale of a man who has a reputation for providing laughable entertainment but is heartbroken over being rejected by the woman he loves.

*" Make ' Em Laugh ," considered an original song, but bearing close relation to Cole Porter's " Be a Clown ", used in another Freed musical, The Pirate ( 1948 ).

* In the Glee episode " The Substitute ," Will Schuester and Mike Chang perform the " Make ' Em Laugh " song and dance routine as a duo ( which was the hallucination of a sick Will ).

The song " Make ' Em Laugh " ( by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed ) in the film Singin ' in the Rain was largely plagiarized from " Be a Clown " although Cole Porter did not make a complaint.

* The dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh ( even though the lyrics to the theme song don't have those actual words ).

* German techno group Scooter sampled The Police original in the song, " Privileged to Witness ", from the 2005 album Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?

" Easter Island " was only released on a compilation of Irish bands called Laugh Hard At The Absurdly Evil, and unlike Ash's version of the song, is slower and has clear vocals.

* He is the main subject in the song " The Last Laugh " from Iced Earth's The Dark Saga, a concept album based on Spawn.