The earliest known recording of the Stylophone was used by Rolf Harris on his 1969 live concert album released only in the UK called " Rolf Harris Live at the Talk of the Town ", a London nightclub.

Kraftwerk used the Stylophone on the track " Pocket Calculator " from their album Computer World in their middle era.

In a lesser-known instance, the Stylophone is used for the bulk of Orbital's 1999 single, " Style ".

Jon Spencer has used the Stylophone extensively on recordings with his band Blues Explosion, and has famously had problems bringing the device — described as " the world's most annoying musical instrument " — through airport security.

The Stylophone has also been used by Mira Aroyo of Ladytron during live performances.

In the news quiz Have I Got News For You episode hosted by Rolf Harris he used a Stylophone to play two tunes used as clues to a news story.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

For example, Jim Morrison used an anagram of his name in the Doors song L. A. Woman, calling himself " Mr. Mojo Risin ' ".

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

* Alphabet song, or " the ABC's ", a song used to teach children the alphabet

The word " anthem " is commonly used to describe a celebratory song or composition for a distinct group, as in the term " national anthem ".

An alphabet song is any of various songs used to teach children an alphabet, used in kindergartens, pre-schools and homes around the world.

The Canadian children's TV series The Big Comfy Couch used a version of the song in the episode " Backwards ".

* The song " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music, which is used to learn the order of the notes in the Solfege scale, just like the alphabet song is used to learn the order of the letters in the alphabetical order.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

In 2002, the US remake of Queer as Folk used the song " Smalltown Boy " in an episode.

The keyboard riff was used again in 2006, in the September song " Cry for You " along with a version by Trance artist ESS-K.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

In " The Parting of the Ways " and " Utopia " it is used to operate the TARDIS controls remotely ; when the Doctor attempts to counteract the Master's theft of the TARDIS, it is used to limit the TARDIS ' destination.

The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to trigger remotely " Emergency Program One ", sending his human companion Rose Tyler to safety, while he stayed behind for a battle against the Daleks (" The Parting of the Ways " ( 2005 )).

He enjoyed word painting in the style of the madrigal, yet he could write the simple Ecce quomodo moritur justus later used by George Frideric Handel in his funeral anthem The Ways of Zion Do Mourn.

Ford used the town, formerly known as Ways Station, as a winter home, and philanthropic social experiment, building the complex known as the Ford Farms along the Ogeechee River in the 1930s.

Sociologist Herbert J. Gans used Willingboro as the subject of his 1967 book, The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community.

Because some of the northern stedding have been consumed by the Blight, the Shadow's forces now have access to the Ways, and they are sometimes used to quickly move troops across vast distances ( although the presence of Machin Shin has made this a risky maneuver ).

The introductory text Winning Ways introduced a large number of games, but the following were used as motivating examples for the introductory theory:

An article in the linguistic periodical Word Ways said that 250 of the 500 most commonly used words in English were still available to Wright despite the omission of words with e.

The idea of a " Committee of Ways and Means " to handle the financial matters of a legislature is an old one, having been used in the English Parliament and the colonial and state legislatures in America.

* In the television show 1000 Ways to Die, a con artist was using this to scam poor country people, only to lead to his death when he used it on a leper from whom he caught the disease.

The original Arabic title is الطريق which means " the way " or " the quest " and is very close to the word used by Muslim sufists Sufist Ways الطرق الصوفية for the different " ways " or " schools " by which to approach God.

In late 1694 he published An Essay on the Ways and Means of supplying the War, “ a reasoned criticism of the methods used to finance the war with France which England had been waging since 1689.

Ways of reducing somaclonal variation: Different steps can be used.

Elissa dies shortly after giving birth to Merlin, leaving the child to be raised by Ambrosia ( Billie Whitelaw ), an old woman who used to be a pagan but has since rejected Mab and the Old Ways.

Smyth used the term " Technocracy " in his 1919 article "' Technocracy '— Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy ," in the journal Industrial Management ( 57 ).

His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.

Hackenbush has often been used as an example game for demonstrating the definitions and concepts in combinatorial game theory, beginning with its use in the books On Numbers and Games and Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays by some of the founders of the field.

The Board of Finance is one of a variety of names ( Budget Committee, Finance Committee, Ways and Means Committee, Appropriations Committee, Advisory Committee, or Warrant Committee are used in different parts of New England ) for a body that reviews local government budgets in towns or school districts that have the town meeting form of government.

In 2005, during their Vertigo Tour, the group often played a short set of songs from the Zoo TV Tour —" Zoo Station ", " The Fly ", and " Mysterious Ways "— as part of the first encore ; performances of " Zoo Station " included the interference in the background visual effects, and " The Fly " used flashing text effects on the LED screens similar to the Zoo TV visuals.

At the start of the much-delayed fifth leg in Australia, the usual first Zoo TV-style encore was used initially, but several shows into the leg " Zoo Station " was dropped in favour of " Mysterious Ways " with " The Fly " opening the encore, making the first encore " The Fly ", " Mysterious Ways " and " With or Without You ".