Hey Hey It's Saturday | Hey Arnold! | Hey Jude | Hey Brother | Hey Vern, It's Ernest! | Hey Joe | Hey Good Lookin' | Hey Everyone! | Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye | Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album | Hey! Say! JUMP | Ho Hey | Hey There Lonely Girl | Hey, Stop Stabbing Me! | Hey Rosetta! | Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ | Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert | Hey Good Lookin' (film) | Hey Dad..! | Hey Boy Hey Girl | Hey! Baby | Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop | Hey | Tony Hey | Jody Hey | Hey You, I Love Your Soul | Hey, Slavs | Hey, Shipwreck | Hey Petrunko | Hey Paula |
His six include Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win, which chronicles a season spent with a successful Minnesota high school hockey team; Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever, an account of the 1973 baseball season; and ghost-wrote Esera Tuaolo's aubiography Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL.
In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of Life, Death, Love and Freedom: "I would put that album, that collection of songs, up against any record ever made. In my mind that record is as good as just about any record ever made. That's a good feeling, to be able to finally say, hey, after nearly two dozen albums, I finally made a record that I think is as good as anything out there."
The song's opening line "They say: hey here we are in beautiful Texas", is reported to come from the opening of Game 3 of the 2005 World Series played in Houston Texas.