Tony Bennett sings the Capital City theme: "It's the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king/And it makes a king feel like some nutty, koo-koo, super-king." ("Dancin' Homer")

At a restaurant featuring karaoke, Bart and Lisa sing "Theme From Shaft." ("One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish")

Homer does a faithful cover of the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker." ("The Way We Was")

After Bart hooks up with the local Mob, he dons a suit and wanders through the house singing Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft." ("Bart the Murderer")

When Bart falls down a well, Sting and various Springfield celebs contribute to the all-star charity single "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well": "Though we can't get him out/We'll do the next best thing/We go on TV/And sing, sing, sing!" ("Radio Bart")

"Talkin' Softball" covers the tragedies that befall Monty Burns' team of ringers: "Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile/ While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the barroom tile." ("Homer at the Bat")

Country starlet Lurleen Lumpkin sings "Don't Look Up My Dress Unless You Mean It," "Bagged Me a Homer" and "Stand by Your Manager" in honor of her man, Colonel Simpson. ("Colonel Homer")

After attending a Spinal Tap show, Bart dreams that he's a bitter has-been rock star. Milhouse: "You've changed. It used to be about the music." Bart, chucking a bottle at his head: "Slag off!" ("The Otto Show")

Chief Wiggum introduces Springfield's musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire: "Long before the Superdome/ Where the Saints of football play/Lived a city that the damned called home/Hear their hellish roundelay." ("A Streetcar Named Marge")

After he wins a ride on the Duff blimp, Homer sings his own version of "Georgy Girl": "Hey there, Blimpy Boy/Flying through the sky so fancy-free." ("Lisa the Beauty Queen")

Linda Ronstadt records the Plow King jingle with Barney Gumble; Barney says they've "been looking for a project to do together for a while." ("Mr. Plow")

Lisa's class serenades the mediocre presidents: "There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes/There's William Henry Harrison - 'I died in thirty days!' " ("I Love Lisa")

Homer's ode to buying beer with a fake ID: "I stayed up listening to Queen/When I was seventeen." ("Duffless")

Flashbacks to the early days of Krusty the Klown's show include his furious performance of the Doors' "Break On Through." ("Krusty Gets Kancelled")

Lisa's protest song for Homer's striking union: "So we'll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power." ("Last Exit to Springfield")

Grampa gets his, to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence": "Hello, Grampa, my old friend/Your busy day is at an end/Your exploits have been sad and boring/They tell a tale that's worth ignoring." ("Lady Bouvier's Lover")

Homer reveals that he has a Starland Vocal Band ("Afternoon Delight") tattoo. (" 'Round Springfield")

Bart sneaks the music for Iron Butterfly's "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" (disguised as "In the Garden of Eden," by I. Ron Butterfly) into church, complete with a lengthy psychedelic organ solo, which ends in the elderly organist's collapse on the keyboard. ("Bart Sells His Soul")

Apu: "It's like Paul's song 'Live and Let Live.' " Paul McCartney: "Actually, it was 'Live and Let Die.' " Apu: "Well, whatever, whatever. It's got a good rhythm." ("Lisa the Vegetarian")

Apu washes his car while singing Cheap Trick's "Dream Police." ("Two Bad Neighbors")

Schoolhouse Rock makes a comeback, as sung by an "Amendment to Be": "There's a lot of flag burners/Who have got too much freedom/I want to make it legal/For policemen to beat 'em." ("The Day the Violence Died")

Troy McClure stars in a musical version of Planet of the Apes, with the song "Dr. Zaius" (to the tune of "Rock Me, Amadeus") and the unforgettable line "I hate every ape I see/From chimpan-A to chimpanzee." ("A Fish Called Selma")

Before his boxing match against Mike Tyson stand-in Drederick Tatum, Homer enters the ring accompanied by War's "Why Can't We Be Friends?" ("The Homer They Fall")

Homer raps as the cartoon dog Poochie: "The name's Poochie D, and I rock the telly/I'm half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli." ("The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show")

The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour's tribute to candy includes the family's "I Want Candy" and Waylon Smithers singing, "I said, Whip it! Licorice whip!" ("The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase")

At the end of the credits, Homer can be heard muttering (a la John Lennon in "Strawberry Fields Forever"), "I buried Flanders." ("D'oh-in' in the Wind")

Performing in a dinner-theater production of Guys and Dolls, Mark Hamill sings to the tune of "Luck Be a Lady": "Luke, be a Jedi tonight/Just be a Jedi tonight . . . /Do it for Yoda while we serve our guests a soda . . . /Luke, be a Jedi tonight." ("Mayored to the Mob")

Homer does Rupert Holmes: "Do you like pi-a colonics?/And getting caught in the rain. . . . /Passing out in the ocean . . . " ("Sunday, Cruddy Sunday")

Grampa and friends cavort in the grass to a sequence patterned after the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, with NRBQ playing "Can't Buy Me Love." ("The Old Man and the C Student")

Guest star Shawn Colvin sings about finding the Lord: "In a motel room in Delacroix/I was drinking like a Dartmouth boy/And thinkin' 'bout the wrong turns that I took/Well, I woke up on the puke-green floor/And opened up a dresser drawer/A-lookin' for a bottle, but instead I found a book." ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddly")

While changing the oil in his car, Homer sings his own version of David Bowie's "Changes": "Ch-ch-ch-changes/Time to change the oil/Changes!/Don't wanna be an oily man." ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge")

Bart's boy band: "Party Posse, we rule the Earth/The greatest band since music's birth!/We love to sweat, and we love to sing/We're real funky, but not threatening." ("New Kids on the Blecch")

TOM NAWROCKI
(RS 910 - November 28, 2002)