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

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 ).

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

Then he writes the music to the title and the general feeling of the song is established.

* Secret Places, 1984 ( title song lyricist )

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

The title song became a huge hit in Sweden for Gemini.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

:* " Un Blodymary ", a song by Las Ketchup and a title track of the album

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

* " Constantinople " is the title of a song by The Decemberists.

* Cinema ( Nazareth album ), or the title song

* Cinema, an album by ICE MC, or the title song

* Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., the 1984 debut album by Country singer Dwight Yoakam and its eponymous title song

* Company ( song ), the title song from the Broadway musical, Company

Starting from 1961's Colorful Ventures ( each song had a color in the title ), the group became known for issuing records throughout the 1960s whose tracks revolved around central themes, including surf music, country, outer space, TV themes, and psychedelic music.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

The song is also well known by the opening words and refrain of the first stanza, "" ( literally, " Germany, Germany above all "), but this has never been its title.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

In 1977, Saratoga Springs, NY disc jockey Tom L. Lewis introduced the Disco Bible ( later renamed Disco Beats ), which published hit disco songs listed by beats per minute ( tempo ), as well as by either artist or song title.

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.