The film inspired the song " One For the Cutters " by The Hold Steady, which appeared on their 2008 album Stay Positive.

* Accentuate the Positive, 1944 song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer

* "( Gotta Be ) Positive ", a song by Eddy Grant from Reparation

* 1944 ( 39 ) While driving with songwriter partner Johnny Mercer came up with the song " Accentuate the Positive ".

In 2000 the song " Catch All This " from Both Sides of the Brain was featured in the game Street Sk8er 2, " Jaw Gymnastics ", featuring Casual, was featured in Knockout Kings, and " Positive Contact " from Deltron 3030 was featured in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX.

Songwriter Johnny Mercer credited a Father Divine sermon for inspiring the title of his song " Accentuate the Positive ".

The song " Positive ", also from the album Home, appeared on the Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool compilation album by the Red Hot Organization.

The show's theme song, " Accentuate the Positive ", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon.

Songwriter Johnny Mercer credited a Father Divine sermon for inspiring the title of his song " Accentuate the Positive ".

The first single was " Positive ", in 1998, sampled from the " Physical ", song of Olivia Newton-John, and the second single with Spiller was " Batucada " ( 1999 ).

Silverstein has also recorded a song featuring Ryan Key of Yellowcard called " Stay Posi " ( Stay Positive ) for the Take Action!

The song contains a sample from A Positive Life's " The Calling ".

" At the same time, also as predicted in their song " I Can't Wait ", they released a compilation album from their entire career, Positively Positive 1997-2002, on Equal Vision.

The Hold Steady's 2008 album Stay Positive makes various allusions to the film, the closing song " Slapped Actress " being the most explicit.

" Jenny from the Block's " opening passage, " Children grow and women producing, men go working, some go stealing, everyone's got to make a living ," samples 20th Century Steel Band's 1975 song " Heaven and Hell Is on Earth ", which has made several appearances in hip hop music as interpolated on Salt-n-Pepa's 1993 song " Heaven or Hell ", Lauryn Hill's 1998 song " Every Ghetto, Every City ", Positive K's 1992 song " Aint No Crime ", Stop the Violence Movement's 1989 song " Self-Destruction ", and The Black Eyed Peas's 1998 song " Say Goodbye ".

Subsequent to the Beatles rumours, the song " Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft ( the Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day )" became a minor hit for Klaatu in 1977.

* Steve Morse from the band Deep Purple created a song called " Contact Lost " in memory of the Columbia tragedy along with her interest in the band.

* Contact ( Thirteen Senses album ), and the title song

* Contact ( Phish song )

* Contact ( Edwin Starr song ), 1978

* Contact, a song by Anthrax on the album We've Come for You All

* Contact, a song by Brigitte Bardot

* Contact, a song by Kyo on the album 300 Lésions

* Contact, a song by The Police on the album Reggatta de Blanc

* Contact, a song from the musical Rent

Another song, " Gypsy Love ," was used in the second album, " Contact.

" Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft ( The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day )" is a song by Klaatu, originally released in 1976 on their first album 3: 47 EST.

The song " Contact " from 300 Lésions was used in the soundtrack for the video game FIFA 06.

Jimmy Buffett produced and recorded a version of the song for the motion picture Contact ( 1997 ).

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.

There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

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

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 ''.

it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

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.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.