Brandy uses her voice for background music in this song, showing her capabilities of using her voice as an instrument.

Tori Amos uses the instrument on " Little Amsterdam " from the album Boys for Pele and on the song " Smokey Joe " from her 2007 album American Doll Posse.

The film uses two versions of the song " Que Sera, Sera ", the first by singer Syd Straw and another over the end credits by Sly and the Family Stone.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Winston Tong, singer with Tuxedomoon, uses it on his 15-minute song, " The Hunger " from his debut solo album Theoretically Chinese.

* Todd Rundgren wrote a humorous song " Onomatopoeia " which uses many examples in this " Love Song ".

Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.

However an Ulster folk song also uses " sheevra " simply to mean " spirit " or " fairy ".

The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex compound meter.

The song uses an unusual and complex meter, which alternates between 12 / 8 and 9 / 8.

* The Santa Clara Vanguard uses an instrumental version as its official corps song, which is played at the anniversary dinner, as well as in encore performances.

In the 1935 Marx Brothers ' film " A Night at the Opera ", in one of the more unusual uses of the song, composer Herbert Stothart arranged for a full pit orchestra to segue seamlessly from the overture of Il Trovatore into the chorus of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

In 2008, the rock band Weezer released its so-called Red Album which includes a song entitled " The Greatest Man That Ever Lived " with the subtitle "( Variations on a Shaker Hymn )" as it uses the melody of a Shaker song.

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

Godfather of gangsta rap Eazy-E uses it extensively in his song Eazy Street.

The song also uses phrases from Count Basie's " Red Wagon ", first recorded in 1939.

Fittingly, the short song contains 14 uses of that expletive.

The British rapper Dizzee Rascal uses the chorus of this song.

" It uses a sample from a Stevie Wonder song called " Past Time Paradise ", which, appropriately, touches on race relations and slavery as well.

As a result, Western music students trained in historical musicology may listen to a funk or Latin song that is very rhythmically complex, but then dismiss it as a low-level musical work because it has a very simple melody and only uses two or five chords.

Natasha Khan ( Bat for Lashes ) has quoted Nico as an influence in particular Desertshore ( The opening song on her first album, Fur and Gold, uses the name of the album in its lyrics ).

Peire Bremon Ricas Novas uses the term mieja chanso ( half song ) and Cerverí de Girona uses a similar phrase, miga canço, both to refer to a short canso and not a mixture of genres as sometimes supposed.

The song, the sixth release from his We the People CD, is a broad exaggeration on the global warming topic, drawing inspiration from the concept of the Earth's temperature rising beyond control.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

The jury and judges also noted, in their words, that Biafra “ lacked credibility ” on the songwriting issue and found from evidence presented by both sides that the songwriting credits were due to the entire band, using a clause in the band's written partnership giving a small share of every Dead Kennedys song royalty directly to the band partnership.

Less commonly, the patron wishing to sing must pay a small fee for each song they sing.

The lyrics of the song call for abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, a novel ideology for rock musicians which initially found a small but dedicated following.

I wanted to write short phrases, so I wrote a song full of questions " and the song's melody is within a small music range:

Also featured in the film is Jackson Browne's " Late for the Sky ", appearing in a scene where couples are dancing on the program American Bandstand to the song as Travis watches on his small TV.

" Sixteen-year-old Maaya Sakamoto, fresh from a small role in the anime adaptation of Mizuiro Jidai, was selected not only as the voice of Hitomi, but also to sing the Escaflowne theme song.

Japanese bird whistles use several small balls and are half filled with water in order to reproduce the sound of a bird song.

In the live performance of " Hang On to A Dream " with the Nice, recorded for the post-breakup album Elegy, he performed a cadenza of sorts hitting the piano strings with a small hammer, followed by a lengthy wind-down, returning to the song in which he alternated keyboard arpeggios with blows directly on the bass strings.

The song is almost entirely centered around the sound of the washboard, which is picked up by a small clip on microphone.

The story of the Johnson County War from the point of view of the small ranchers was chronicled by Kaycee resident Chris LeDoux in his song Johnson County War on the 1989 album Powder River.

Soon after Shorty released a song, " Ou Petit ", with words like " Ou dee moin ou petit Shorty " ( meaning " you told me you are small Shorty "), a combination of calypso, cadence and kwéyòl.

The song " Awesome God " was written at a Christian camp " Rock Lake Christian Assembly " in a small town in Michigan.

After arriving in the small town, he was introduced to the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (" The Swampers ") who had recorded this song with Mavis Staples.

Pavo was featured in country music star Alan Jackson's video for his hit song " Little Man ", lamenting the decline of small town America.

The rivers, lakes, fields and arboreal bog areas around Meadowlands offer visitors the opportunity to view species ranging from small song birds to Bald Eagles.

" The act featured a small ball of fur growing into the Rock and Roll Monster ( performed by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz ) with three heads and six arms lip-syncing to the song " Rock It to Me " by The Bruthers.

They allowed for the possibility of small errors in their calculations and even in some of their historic dates .” In fact, on February 28, Miller himself had written, “ If Christ comes, as we expect, we will sing the song of victory soon ; if not, we will watch, and pray, and preach until he comes, for soon our time, and all prophetic days, will have been filled .”

The rap also features the line " this Kong's one hell of a guy " ( referring to Chunky Kong ) of which is considered a profane explicative in most English speaking continents and being that Donkey Kong 64 is an E-rated game, this generated a small shock in observers of the song.

She has also written a small number of choral works and song cycles.

Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character, Leonard, are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song ( the characters of Stormella, Zoey, Arrow, Slyly and Leonard closely parallel the Rankin-Bass characters of The Bumble, Clarice, Fireball, Hermey the Dentist, and Yukon Cornelius respectively ).

He wrote nine operas, collaborated on at least 15 others, wrote a small amount of incidental music for plays, and published seven song collections.

Several of Crumb's works, including the four books of madrigals he wrote in the late 1960s and Ancient Voices of Children, a song cycle of 1970 for two singers and small instrumental ensemble ( which includes a toy piano ), are settings of texts by Federico García Lorca.

Writing all his own songs, and continuing to perform mostly outside traditional country music channels, Yoakam did many shows in rock and punk rock clubs around Los Angeles, playing with roots rock or punk rock acts like The Blasters ( Yoakam scored a small video hit with his version of their song " Long White Cadillac "), Los Lobos, and X.