Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

Beethoven's " Ode to Joy ", a song in support of universal brotherhood, is a song of this kind.

Manchester later paid homage to Simon, on her recorded song, " Ode to Paul.

Bacchylides's first notable success came sometime after 500 BC with commissions from Athens for the great Delian festival ( Ode 17 ) and from Macedonia for a song to be sung at a symposium for the young prince, Alexander I ( fr.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

The album also included a new rendering of " Ode to Joy " titled " Joyphil " and " Prehistrobie K-18 ," a previously unreleased song that Phil wrote and recorded as a teenager.

It is the setting for the Porter Wagoner song " The Carroll County Accident ", and was also mentioned in the third verse of Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit song, " Ode to Billie Joe ".

Gentry's personal view on the song: The album, as was the case with the rest of her post -" Ode to Billie Joe " recordings, had little commercial success.

In 1976, Baer directed the feature film Ode to Billy Joe, which was based on her hit song

*" Amsterdam ", a song from the album Ode to Ochrasy by Mando Diao

** Brown Sugar-Erykah Badu ; Madukwu Chinwah ; Common ; Robert C. Ozuna ; James Poyser ; Raphael Saadiq ; Glen Standridge-For the song " Love Of My Life-An Ode To Hip Hop "

The group received two Grammy nominations: Best Bluegrass Album and Best Country Instrumental for the song " Ode to a Butterfly ".

Ode, ballad, elegy, satire, parody, song, and lyric poetry would all be adapted from their older uses.

On their 2004 song " Ode ", queercore band Limp Wrist paid homage to Gary Floyd, Randy Turner from the Big Boys, and many others, as people who confronted homophobia in the 1980s punk scene by being openly gay in a largely homophobic countercultural movement.

* Metal band Goblin Cock have a song entitled " Ode to Billy Jack " on their 2009 album Come With Me if You Want to Live, which is a tribute to him.

He then got the idea of using the title of a popular song as a movie title, acquiring the rights to the Bobbie Gentry hit song and producing Ode to Billy Joe ( 1976 ).

Since the success of Ode to Billy Joe, the motion picture industry has capitalized on the idea, producing more than one hundred song title movies.

A second fraternity song, called " The Delphi Hymn ," incorporates three verses of lyrics sung to the stirring melody of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, " Ode to Joy.

Though best known from the song " Ode to Billie Joe " and the film ( spelled differently ) Ode to Billy Joe, which has the refrain, Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge, the river has historical significance due to the murder of Emmett Till, an African American youth who was beaten, shot, and sunk in the river by a cotton gin fan tied around his neck by barbed wire.

The bridge, which was most famously the focus of Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit song " Ode to Billie Joe ", collapsed in June 1972 after having been set alight by vandals.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

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

Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* " Atlantic ", a song by Thrice from Vheissu

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

* 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

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

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

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

* The song " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music, which is used to learn the order of the notes in the Solfege scale, just like the alphabet song is used to learn the order of the letters in the alphabetical order.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.