The song was retitled to " Alma Mater " in the 1980s when its lyrics were changed to refer to women as well as men.

In this new version of " I Will Survive ", she changed the lyrics of the song in order to advertise her new conversion to Christianity.

* The closing song was changed to this:

It was originally a four-stanza song and, over the years, some lyrics have changed.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

Booms in record sales returned after World War II as standards changed from 78s to vinyl long play records, which could contain an entire symphony, and 45s which usually contained one hit popularized on the radio, plus another song on the back or " flip " side.

Throughout the show's run, there was extensive Internet speculation as to whether the theme song and opening credits would be changed.

They ultimately changed the lyrics from " The ball is kicked " to " The ball is tipped ", and the song is now played at the end of the network's NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship coverage.

The lyrics of the song were changed variously to say San Pedro or The Grapevine in later versions, but the origin is documented.

It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to " Mercury ", inspired by the line " Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me ," in the song My Fairy King.

In the new version, she changed the lyric " here's to the dawn of their days " to " here's to the dawn of her days ", as a tribute to her late sister Mimi, about whom Baez wrote the song in 1969.

Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country music performer ; after recording a country and western-styled version of " Rocket 88 ", a rhythm and blues song, he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll.

Final Fantasy IV Official Soundtrack is nearly the same release as Final Fantasy IV: Original Sound Version, the soundtrack album for the original game, except that the songs were rerecorded by TOSE, resulting in minor differences, some song titles were slightly changed, and a 45th track was added, " Theme of Love ( Arranged )", which had previously only been released as a piano version on the second track of Piano Collections Final Fantasy IV.

Though the arrangement of the theme music stayed the same throughout the entire series run ( although there are subtle differences between the themes in various seasons-especially the closing themes-and Whatever Turns You On used a completely different theme song ), the opening animation itself changed in different ways.

Supporters of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club ( the team Elgar supported ) sing a version of the song with the lyrics changed to We will follow the Wanderers over land sea and water.

Similarly, in a 2002 show airing the weekend after the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, Keillor changed up the format of the show, starting off the show with Wellstone's favorite segment, Guy Noir, skipping even the show's theme song.

In 2010, the song was changed to a solo version of Jay-Z's " Empire State of Mind " before reverting back to " Theme from New York, New York " for 2011 through the present.

Judy Garland thought the song as written was too mean to sing to Margaret O ' Brien, so he changed the lyrics.

When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Tereus became a hoopoe ; Philomela became the nightingale whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of innocence ; Procne became the swallow.

In 1929, Wage Rudolf Supratman changed the title of his song to " Indonesia Raya " and appended the phrase National Anthem of Indonesia below it, but the text of the song did not change.

An example is her Platinum-certified " Girls Just Want to Have Fun "; Lauper says the original lyrics of the song dealt more with a girl pleasing a man, and therefore she changed the lyrics, wanting the song to be more of an anthem as she felt the original song seemed misogynistic.

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.

They will kneel and plead for Boris' leadership in a strangely intense song, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for breath, but when the police with their cudgels move away, they mock and grumble and fight among themselves.

What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Once when she is, in a key scene, finally invited by the male members of the country club she gives a toast citing from the song “ With rue my heart is laden ”.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

It is unclear when exactly is the song first sung by new recruits, but it is assumed to be sometime after completing training.

* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.

" There was a gospel song that was sung ( at his bedside ) and ( when it was done ) he said ' wow ' with a thumbs up ," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley's deathbed.

In typically subversive, perverse style, the band became the talking point of the ceremony when after about 15 seconds into the song, Biafra said, " Hold it!

I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to explain putting a song in a rape scene for money to his teenage daughter … The deal was pushed through by a new business manager the other three hired.

In 1975 Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled " Love to Love You Baby " which contained a series of simulated orgasms The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

One more example is the song " Thunderstruck " by ACDC in which a player begins drinking when the word thunder is sung and switches to the next player the next time it is sung.