" The album Blue Valentine ( 1978 ) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings ( with the exception of album-opener " Somewhere " — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and " Kentucky Avenue ") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound.

In addition to replacing the first season opening and the ending logos with Zoot, the Vincent Price episode was edited to remove the song s " I'm Looking Through You " and " You've Got a Friend " ( the latter of which would be removed again when released on the first season DVD ) as well as a sketch with the talking houses, while the Alice Cooper episode removed Robin's performance of " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ".

" The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is a song by the Power metal band Blind Guardian, featured in their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Eddie Layton played " Somewhere Over the Rainbow " on the Hammond organ because Mickey had once told him it was his favorite song.

" The song " Somewhere Out There ", which was written for his infant son Michael, reached No. 12 on Christian radio charts in 1989.

The band, Iron Maiden's song " Heaven Can Wait " ( from the classic 1986 album Somewhere in Time ), is loosely inspired by the film.

Robbie Robertson, former lead guitarist for The Band, referenced John in a song on his 1987 self-titled album titled " Somewhere Down the Crazy River.

In 2003, he partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song " It's Five O ' Clock Somewhere ", a number one hit on the country charts.

In 2003 Buffett won his first ever Country Music Award ( CMA ) for his song " It's 5 O ' clock Somewhere " with Alan Jackson, and was nominated again in 2007 for the CMA Event of the Year Award for his song " Hey Good Lookin " which featured Alan Jackson and George Strait.

" with the last word repeated as an echo, then the actual band plays a musical phrase from the song " Somewhere over the Rainbow " before breaking into " Kill the King ".

* " Texas ", a George Strait song from the album Somewhere Down in Texas

Colin Hay, singer from the Australian band Men at Work, refers to lapsang souchong in his song " Beautiful World " from his 2001 album Going Somewhere.

It song list and order sticks very closely to the 1982 Song and Dance version, with the addition of the finale song " Dreams Never Run On Time ", itself a rewrite of the song from the 2003 version " Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime ".

It featured his most popular song, the medley " Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World ", along with " Hawaiʻi 78 ", " White Sandy Beach of Hawaiʻi ", " Maui Hawaiian Sup ' pa Man ", and " Kaulana Kawaihae ".

: Somewhere along the line I wrote a song that had birds in it.

which features a song called “ He ’ s Packing His Trunk ” and a finale which ends with the lyric " Somewhere up in heaven there's an angel with big ears!

* An American Tail-James Horner ; Barry Mann ; Cynthia Weil-For the song " Somewhere Out There "

** Home Alone-John Williams ; Leslie Bricusse-For the song " Somewhere in My Memory "

" Over the Rainbow " ( often referred to as " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ") is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E. Y.

In the UK the song was released as a single under the title " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ".

" Abdul said that she reminded her of " a young Gladys Knight " after she performed the Garth Brooks song " Ain't Goin ' Down (' Til the Sun Comes Up )," Nickolas Ashford of famed soul duo Ashford & Simpson called her performance of " Ooo Baby Baby " by Smokey Robinson as " beautiful " and full of " sex appeal ," Famed film director Quentin Tarantino called her a " powerhouse " after her performance of " Somewhere " from the musical West Side Story, and Cowell announced her as " the best singer in the competition " after she sang " All the Time " by Barry Manilow and gave her " a ten out of ten " for her performance of " Don't Rain on My Parade ," which also garnered standing ovations from Abdul and Jackson.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

Mariano Egaña, Chilean Minister in London, acting on the criticism that Robles ' song was receiving, asked Carnicer to compose a new hymn with Bernardo de Vera's original text.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with Irving Berlin's song, ' Puttin ' on the Ritz '.

In the liner notes of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, Nancy In London, Sinatra states that she was " scared to death " of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: " Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?

In an interview with Alan Titchmarsh, Judi Dench, who performed the role of Desirée in London, commented on the context of the song.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.

This was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London.

The first zoo hippo in modern history was Obaysch who arrived at the London Zoo on May 25, 1850, where he attracted up to 10, 000 visitors a day and inspired a popular song, the Hippopotamus Polka.

In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.

The song includes puns based on London Underground names, and includes the lyric " You ’ re harder to understand than Mornington Crescent!

Idle performed the song at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 12 August 2012.

While in London, they recorded the second, more commercially successful, version of their hit song " Soudan " ( also known as " Oriental Jass ").

In May 2007, he accompanied Robyn Hitchcock and Ruby Wright in performing the song " Gigolo Aunt " at a tribute for Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett in London, which he did on mandolin .< ref >

The group's lone promotional performance in conjunction with the album occurred on 19 April 1996, when Downes and Payne appeared with guitarist Elliott Randall on the Virgin FM radio programme Alive in London to play the song " Never ".

* " London ", a song by Ray Davies on the album The Storyteller

* " London ", a song by μ-Ziq on the album Lunatic Harness

* " London ", a song by Pet Shop Boys on the album Release

* " London ", a song by Queensrÿche on the album Rage for Order

* " London ", a song by The Smiths on the album Louder Than Bombs

* " London ", a song by Third Eye Blind on the album Third Eye Blind

Time Out London states, " As translated onto screen, story is wretched: the jokes are relentlessly crass and objectionable ; the song ' n ' dance routines have been created in the cutting-room and have lost any sense of fun ; Fellini-esque moments add little but pretension ; and scenes of a real open-heart operation, alternating with footage of a symbolic Angel of Death in veil and white gloves, fail even in terms of the surreal.

* The Rich Kids had a hit song with, and an album named, " Ghosts of Princes in Towers " which made reference to the Princes and drew on rumours of their haunting the Tower of London.

* Judy Garland recorded a studio version of the song for her " London Sessions " with Capitol.

* Adrian Evans wrote the song " London Waterloo ", which is dedicated wholly to the station