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.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

The album's most successful single was the title track, " How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye ", a Warwick / Vandross duet, which peaked at # 27 on the Billboard Hot 100.

* This inspired the title of the Elton John album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and its title song.

Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella " Goodbye, Columbus "— which first appeared in The Paris Review — and five short stories.

In addition to the title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories " The Conversion of the Jews ," " Defender of the Faith ," " Epstein ," " You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings ," and " Eli, the Fanatic.

The title novella was made into the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, starring Ali MacGraw and Richard Benjamin.

The title story of the collection, Goodbye, Columbus, was an irreverent look at the life of middle-class Jewish Americans, satirizing, according to one reviewer, their " complacency, parochialism, and materialism ".

The title, Goodbye, Columbus refers to a record Brenda's brother listens to about his years as an athlete at Ohio State University, further proof of the Patimkins ' success at assimilation.

The title track featured samples of Falco's music ; the other tracks were " We Say Goodbye " and " So Lonely ".

( The title refers to their farewells to their wives and girlfriends-" Auf Wiedersehen " being German for " Farewell " or " Goodbye ", and " Pet " being a North-East English term of endearment ).

In the process of making the show, Aaron Spelling liked the idea of naming it Never Say Goodbye, as suggested by Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone during a dinner with Spelling, but later tests proved that the viewers were more drawn to the title Sunset Beach.

* Timeless ( Sarah Brightman album ), the UK title for Time to Say Goodbye, a 1997 album

Like Midnight Madness, Seven Wishes was also blessed with three hit singles: the plaintive " Sentimental Street " (# 8 ; sung by Kelly Keagy ), Jack Blades ' mid-tempo rocker " Four in the Morning ( I Can't Take Anymore )" (# 19 ), the title describing the time of night Blades wrote the song, and the pleasant, acoustic-flavoured " Goodbye " (# 17 ), which saw the band veering toward an overtly folk-rock, even country, direction.

Their next studio album Goodbye Country ( Hello Nightclub ) was released in 2001, and as its title suggests marked a move away from chill out to more upbeat music – as demonstrated by the Grammy-nominated single " Superstylin '".

The song " Goodbye to a River " was apparently named after the book of the same title by John Graves.

* It appears in the title of several novels including The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by Mrs. Henry De La Pasture ( 1907 ), The Grosvenor Square Goodbye by Francis Clifford ( 1978 ), and The House in Grosvenor Square by Linore Rose Burkard ( 2009 ).

The original 5BX programme has also been updated by three Australian fitness trainers under the title The Goodbye Couch!

( The episode's title is spoof of the film Goodbye, Columbus, in which Benjamin played the lead.

Maimon went on to record the song in English under the title " Time to Say Goodbye ".

Never Can Say Goodbye was also the title of Gaynor's debut album on which the single appeared.

" Say Goodbye "/" Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You " was the title of the last single to be released by S Club who split up in spring 2003.

*" Goodbye to All That " Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title " Farewell to the Enchanted City ".