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.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

Lost in translation, a Taiwanese newspaper claimed that Mitchell's first choice of a title for the book was, " Tote Your Heavy Bag ".

A sequel followed in 2009 called OSS 117: Lost in Rio ( original title in French: OSS 117: Rio Ne Répond Plus ).

The proverb Feast or famine has been used as an album title by Chuck Ragan, Reef the Lost Cauze, Indiginus, and DaVinci.

In the entertainment industry, this can manifest itself as calling a movie " Part 1 " once sequels are released or by slightly altering the title ( e. g. Star Wars: A New Hope or Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) to emphasize its connection with the sequel ( s ), or by referring to a television series as " the original ," as in Star Trek: The Original Series.

The title of the series, His Dark Materials, comes from seventeenth century poet John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2:

The spacecraft is called USS Swinetrek and the title voice-over is a parody of Lost in Space.

* Lost Continents ; the Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature ( 1954 )-the title says it all

Particularly after the Civil War, as the political thrust of the novel which had arguably helped to precipitate that war became obsolete to actual political discourse, popular depictions of the title character recast him within the apologetics of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

The title is normally given as Love's Labour's Lost.

No existing work has been identified with this title ( see Lost books of the Old Testament ).

" It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.

The SNES version, being produced and released earlier, did not feature the secondary title and was called simply The Lost Vikings 2.

They included such titles as Liliom, Oliver Twist ( a title now feared lost ), A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

In May 1999, a handheld port of The Lost Levels — under the Japanese title For Super Players — appeared as an unlockable reward in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the Game Boy Color.

The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradise Lost and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian angelic hierarchy.

* " Let's Get Lost " from Happy Go Lucky ( 1943 ) This song inspired the title to the documentary film with the same title about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.

A small role in the film Lost & Found ( 1999 ) led to his breakout role as the title character on Malcolm in the Middle.

Fantasy author Kathryn Wesley wrote a novelization of Hwang's teleplay for The Lost Empire under the title The Monkey King.

It includes references to Taxi Driver, Ms. 45, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Deathmaster, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, The Light at the End, Death Wish, Convoy, Vampirella, Natural Born Killers, Badlands, Nocturna, Cruising, Vampire Junction, The Addiction, and The Lost Boys, as well as taking its title from a character in the film Dracula AD 1972.

However, a few had the 1945 opening version of that song — some cartoons had the standard length of the Blue Ribbon title sequence, with the audio from the original credits playing over the part where the cartoon's title is shown ( such as Farm Frolics, Old Glory, Wacky Wildlife, and Tick Tock Tuckered ), while others had a shortened version of said sequence ( edited to fit the length of the music ; cartoons with this style opening included Lost and Foundling and Trap Happy Porky ).

The " lost scene " was also presented in comic book form of the Clerks comic book series, with the title of " The Lost Scene ".