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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 22 Jul 20 - 07:47 PM The Digital Tradition has ONE BOTTLE OF POP ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS ONE DIME BLUES ONE ELEPHANT ONE FINE DAY ONE GRAIN OF SAND ONE HOUR MAMA ONE MAN SHALL MOW MY MEADOW ONE MAN'S HANDS ONE MEATBALL ONE MEATBALL (2) ONE MILLION LAWYERS ONE MISTY MOISTY MORNING ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY 2 ONE MORE PARADE ONE MORE RIVER ONE MORNING IN MAY ONE NIGHT AS I LAY ON MY BED ONE O'CLOCK THE GUN WENT OFF ONE PIECE AT A TIME ONE SHIP DRIVES EAST ONE SURE THING ONE TIME ONLY ONE TIN SOLDIER ONES THAT GOT AWAY only a few of which have been proposed on this thread. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: robomatic Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:44 AM Man With Four Fingers |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Jack Campin Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:19 AM How about Pi in the Sky? |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Date: 14 Oct 15 - 11:57 AM I haven't seen John Martyn's "Seven Black Roses" referenced yet, so here it is. Not much of a lyric, but still... |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Gealt Date: 14 Oct 15 - 11:09 AM Three Lovely Lasses From Bannion (Delia Murphy) Where The Three Counties Meet (Patsy Farrell) Three Day Millionaire (Mike Waterson) Five Drunken Nights (as recorded by The Dubliners) Seven Yellow Gypsies) (Mike Waterson) Ten and Nine (Mary Brookbank) A Hundred Years From Now (Neal Hagberg) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: MGM·Lion Date: 14 Oct 15 - 05:54 AM To add further Jack's interesting contrib: "Zibn Fertsik" זיבן פערציק is Yiddish, which is a language mixed of [mainly] German, with a bit of Polish & Hebrew, written in Hebrew letters but with an entirely different vowel system from Hebrew. The phrase would therefore derive from German Sieben-Verzig. It is one of my great regrets [sorry to drift] that I can't really speak Yiddish, tho with some knowledge of both Hebrew & German I can read it up to a point.. My grandfather, who founded London's only Yiddish daily newspaper which ran from 1900s to 1950s, & my father who succeeded him as editor, were two of England's leading Yiddishists, but unfortunately my mother didn't know it so it was not spoken at home. Apologies again for drift... ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Jack Campin Date: 14 Oct 15 - 05:37 AM The klezmer tune "Zibn Fertsik" ("7:40", the departure time of a train used by Jewish workers in Odessa; the rhythm of the tune is like a steam engine starting up). |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Mike in Brunswick Date: 13 Oct 15 - 11:58 PM One Mint Julep Mike |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Frank Date: 13 Oct 15 - 11:06 PM Nevermind. That was fun. 4,003,221 Tears from now - Judy Stone Aust. Seven lonely days make one lonely week. Patsy Cline |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,GerryCo Date: 13 Oct 15 - 09:36 PM I feel a bit foolish now on two counts; 1. After reading through the thread, I'd forgotten that the original request was for traditional songs and/or Christmas songs. 2. I somehow failed to notice that thread was started eight years ago. My apologies. :( |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,GerryCo Date: 13 Oct 15 - 09:29 PM All Or Nothing (Small Faces) Nothing Rhymed (Gilbert O'Sullivan) One Love (Bob Marley) One And One Is One (Medicine Head) One (U2) One Night In Paris (10CC) One Of These Nights (The Eagles) Two Of Us (The Beatles) Two Of Us (Supertramp) Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf) Three Times A Lady (Commodores) Three Little Birds (Bob Marley) Three Blind Mice (trad) Three Steps To Heaven (Eddie Cochrane) Three Coins In A Fountain (Sinatra) Four Seasons In One Day (Crowded House) Four Green Fields (trad) Four In The Morning (Faron Young) Five Years (David Bowie) Five Minutes More (Frank Sinatra) Five Little Speckled Frogs (Nursery rhyme) Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Split Enz) Six Days On The Road (Earl Green & Carl Montgomery) Seven Drunken Nights (Dubliners et al) Seven Seconds Away (Youssou N'Dour) Seven Angels (Free) Seven Seas Of Rye (Queen) Seven Spanish Angels (Willie Nelson) Eight Miles High (The Byrds) Eight Days A Week (The Beatles) Liverpool 8 (Ringo Starr) Figure Of Eight (Paul McCartney) #9 Dream (John Lennon) Cloud Nine (George Harrison) Nine To Five (Sheena Easton) 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton) Nine Pound Hammer (trad, arr Merle Travis) Nine Out Of Ten (Caetano Veloso) Nine Times Out Of Ten (Teddy Prendergrass) Ten Years (Paul Simon) Ten Minutes Ago (Rodgers & Hammerstein) One In Ten (UB40) Perfect 10 (The Beautiful South) Eleven Roses (Hank Williams jnr.) Eleventh Earl Of Mar (Genesis) Eleven (Primus) Twelve Days Of Christmas (trad) Twelve Thirty (Mamas And Papas) Thirteen (Johnny Cash) Thirteen Twenty (Gaberlunzie) Thirteen Days (JJ Cale) Fourteen Years (Guns And Roses) Fourteen Carat Mind (Gene Watson) Fifteen Years On The Erie Canal (Thomas S Allen) Fifteen Summers (Gallagher & Lyle) Fifteen Years (The Levellers) Fifteen Years Ago (Conway Twitty) You're Sixteen (Johnny Burnette) Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry) Sixteen Tons (Merle Travis) Only Sixteen (Sam Cooke ?) Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Rodgers & Hammerstein) At Seventeen (Janis Ian) Only Seventeen (Barbara Dickson) 17 Days (Prince) 17 Again (Eurhythmics) Eighteen With A Bullet (Pete Wingfield) Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses (Kathy Mattea) Nineteen Men (Dermot Hegarty) Only Nineteen Years Old (trad, arr Danu) Hey Nineteen (Steely Dan) Nineteen (Paul Hardcastle) Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown (The Rolling Stones) Twenty Flight Rock (Eddie Cochrane) Twenty-One Years (Bob Miller) Twenty-One Today (Jack Pleasants ???) Twenty-One (The Eagles) Twenty-One (The Cranberries) Catch 22 (Erasure) Catch 22 (Pink) 22 (Taylor Swift) Twenty-three (Yellowcard) 23 (Ken Yates) Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds (nursery rhyme) 24 Hours From Tulsa (Gene Pitney) Twenty-Four (Switchfoot) Twenty-Four Seven (Tina Turner) Twenty-Five Miles (Edwin Starr) Twenty-Five To Midnight (Sting) Twenty-Five Years (Halford) 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago) A few miscellaneous others: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon) 52nd Street (Billy Joel) 54-46 Was My Number (Toots And The Maytals) 59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel) Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) December '63 (Four Seasons) When I'm Sixty-Four (The Beatles) Get Your Kicks On Route 66 (Bobby Troup) Summer Of '69 (Bryan Adams) Seventy-Six Trombones (Meredith Willson) Louisiana 1927 (Randy Newman) New York Mining Disaster 1941 (The Bee Gees) 1984 (David Bowie) 1984 (Eurythmics) Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five (Paul McCartney & Wings) 1999 (Prince) Disco 2000 (Pulp) 10538 Overture (Electric Light Orchestra) If I Had $1,000,000 (Barenaked Ladies) Billion Dollar Babies (Alive Cooper) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles (PHONE NUMBERS !) From: GUEST,Veejay on the West Coast Date: 02 Sep 10 - 09:18 PM I vividly recall two "soul/Motown" hits from the early 1960s that share a unique coincidence: "The Marvelettes" (Motown girl group) recorded "Beechwood 4-5789" in 1962. Coincidentally, another soul singer, Wilson Pickett (Atlantic Record Label), recorded a similar song that also featured a "telephone number" as both the title and the theme of the song: Wilson Pickett's hit was titled "634-5789" The Marvelettes lyric sample..."and my number is Beechwood 4-5789, you can call me up and have a date...any old time." Wilson Pickett lyric sample...Oh I'll be right here at home. All you gotta do is pick up the telephone and dial now (Chorus): 6-3-4-5-7-8-9 (that's my number!) 6-3-4-5-7-8-9 Years later, in 1986, Tina Turner also recorded "634-5789" which by the way, was written by Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: open mike Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:21 PM "One" by Carol King (also One to One) http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130588 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses...Kathy Mattea http://www.cmt.com/videos/kathy-mattea/70895/18-wheels-and-a-dozen-roses.jhtml also on that page...455 Rocket Trout Fishing in America (band) does a song about diesel trucks with Roman numerals....the song goes "eye" "eye,eye" "eye, eye, eye" " eye vee" (phonetically spelling out I, II, III, IV....all the way to eighteen... |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 12 Jul 10 - 07:57 AM 4% Pantomime:Van Morrison with The Band. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:24 AM Eighteen Yellow Roses (Came Today) ....and that's #100!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: mousethief Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:20 AM Actual folk(ish): Four Nights Drunk (Weavers -- also Three Nights Drunk by others) Other: You're the One (Paul Simon) Two Lovers (Mary Wells) Two for the Show (Trooper) 8 Days a Week (Beatles) Hey Nineteen (Steely Dan) Rocket 88 (Jackie Brentson -- the first rock-n-roll record?) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Gene Date: 11 Jul 10 - 07:32 PM I recall a song titled "Johnny Zero" - written by Merle Kilgore. In the song - Johnny got both a Zero in School and became a pilot and also got A Zero in WWII. ===A few from country artists. 4033 - by George Jones & Tammy Wynette. 14 carat mind - by Gene Watson. Just call "Lonesome 7-7203" - written by Justin Tubb. 2 doors down - written by Dolly Parton. Three - written & recorded by Tom T. Hall. 90 miles an hour down a dead-end street - by Hank Snow. 3 ways of knowin' - by Johnny & Jack. 2 cents - 3 eggs and a postcard - by Red Foley. Send me a penny postcard - Oakie Jones. Class of 57 - Statlers 1959, John Anderson Three steps to the phone - George Hamilton IV 3 cigarettes in the ashtray, Patsy Cline 100 Children - Tom. T. Hall and a terriffic line in a Larry Gatlin song, "When she dropped me in Denver - I knew I had at least a mile to fall". G |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Joe_F Date: 11 Jul 10 - 06:40 PM Johnny Got a Zero |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ian Gill Date: 11 Jul 10 - 02:54 PM Let me be your Number Two [Joe Jackson] One after 909 [Beatles] Three Jolly Sneaksmen [Trad.] This could go on for a very long time... |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Charlie Baum Date: 11 Jul 10 - 02:14 PM i am looking for a recording of the twelve robbers sung in german "The twelve robbers" (Zhilo Dvenadsat Razboinikov) is actually an old Russian song, usually sung in Russian, though you may be thinking of a German translation I'm unaware of. It's a traditional Russian setting of a poem by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878). See, e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1HuqJsyro. --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: the twelve robbers sung in german From: GUEST,chrishibbs201012#yahoo.com Date: 11 Jul 10 - 01:56 PM i am looking for a recording of the twelve robbers sung in german it was on columbia record somewhere in the 40s or 50s on a 78rpm disc i like to find the download of the actual recording. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,machree01 Date: 28 Nov 07 - 01:26 PM The Guilford Four First of May On The One Road Four Seasons Many Young Men of Tewnty. Twenty Men From Dublin Town. The Fighting 69th 14 Men Seven Old Ladies |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 28 Nov 07 - 09:15 AM Two Little Babes in the Woods (Cole Porter) Combination of the Two (Big Brother - Janis Joplin) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: mandotim Date: 28 Nov 07 - 08:06 AM Couldn't see these two above; 455 Rocket (Gillian Welch) Ol' 55 (Tom Waits) Tim |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 28 Nov 07 - 07:33 AM Beethoven's 1st Symphony Beethoven's 2nd Symphony Beethoven's 3rd Symphony Beethoven's 4th Symphony... Mozart's 40th Symphony Mozart's 39th Symphony... You get the picture I'm not even going to get started on Haydn! |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Scotus Date: 27 Nov 07 - 08:08 PM This is slight thread drift, but does anyone have verses for the 'counting backwards' song 'wheel of fortune' as sung (a long time ago) by Arty Trezise and Cilla Fisher? I think they got it from Pete Shepheard who may have got it from Archie Webster. Jack |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: EuGene Date: 27 Nov 07 - 05:43 PM Three Lost Babes in the Woods |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: EuGene Date: 27 Nov 07 - 03:45 PM Fool #1 I'm a One Woman Man One Fine Day One For My Baby One O'Clock Jump One of These Nights One Time Run Little One All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth Tantalizing Two Step Two Beat Two O'Clock Jump Under the Double Eagle Three Wheels on My Wagon We Three Kings Four Leaf Clover The Lady From Fifth Avenue 8 To the Bar (Lennon Sisters) Love Potion Number Nine The Legend of the 12 Robbers The Twelve Days of Christmas Sweet Little Sixteen When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's 40 Below) 1812 Overture 720 In the Books |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST Date: 27 Nov 07 - 01:04 PM 1941 (Nilsson) Three Caballeros (Disney) The '68 Nixon (Denver, Boise and Johnson) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Wolfgang Date: 27 Nov 07 - 12:42 PM 1945 (Christy Moore) Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:54 PM 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Cromson) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:51 PM Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. (Simon and Garfunkel) 1900 Yesterday (circa 1971 pop hit) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:42 PM Shirts by the Millions, the Gershwin brothers, from LET 'EM EAT CAKE, 1933 a stretch - "First Lady and First Gent" also by the Gershwin Brothers, from Let 'em Eat Cake. It will be especially appropriate a year from now if Hillary is elected. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:36 PM Forty Days and Forty Nights (Muddy Waters, iirc) Questions 67 and 68 (Chicago) 409 (Beach Boys) In Three-Quarter Time (Gershwin brothers, from PARDON MY ENGLISH, 1932) One and One Is Two (Lennon - McCartney song given away) Six O'Clock (Lovin' Spoonful) Six O'Clock News / Silent Night (Simon and Garfunkel) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 26 Nov 07 - 09:32 AM Four Pence a Day Four Pounds a Day (Stan Kelly parody of above) Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys) I Wish I Were 18 Again (George Burns) 39-29-40 Shape (Showmen) 45 Minutes from Broadway (George M Cohan) 2000 Light Years from Home (Rolling Stones) Two of Us (Beatles) 96 Tears (? and Mysterians) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: EuGene Date: 25 Nov 07 - 12:26 AM P.S. One Night (Elvis) Tea For Two The Story of Three Loves (Liberace) 12th Street Rag (Liberace)(and everybody else, too) Two Sleepy People (Fats Waller) Seven Long Days (Charles Brown) 57 Varieties (Earl Hines Orch.) Eu |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: EuGene Date: 25 Nov 07 - 12:07 AM Nothin' From Nothin' Half as Lovely (Frank Sinatra) Just One More Chance (Bing Crosby) Just One of Those Things (Benny Goodman) Let Me Be the One One Look at You (Cab Calloway) Original Dixieland One Step Wonderful One (Paul Whiteman) Blue Yodel No. 2 (Jimmie Rodgers) Second Fling (Eddy Arnold) The Story of Two Cigarettes (Duke Ellington) Three Coins in the Fountain Blue Yodel No. 3 (Jimmie Rodgers) New Birmingham Jail Number 3 (Callahan Brothers) The Three Barons (Sammy Kaye) The Three Musketeers (Columbia Light Opera Co.) Three O'Clock in the Morning (Monty Kelly's Orch.) Blue Yodel No. 4 (Jimmie Rodgers) Bounce Me Brother With a Solid Four (Andrews Sisters) Four Walls (Jim Reeves) 5-10-15 Hours (Ruth Brown) Blue Yodel No. 5 (Jimmie Rodgers) Blue Yodel No. 6 (Jimmie Rodgers) Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents (Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers) 16 Candles The 19th Hole (Frank Crumit) 21 Dollars a Day, Once a Month 21 Miles (is a long, long way, but I got to see my baby every day) 21 Years (Red Nichols & his Five Pennies) The 23rd Psalm (William Jennings Bryan) 24 Hours a Day (Cathy Ryan) 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Ninety-Nine Ways (Charlie Gracie) A Hundred and Sixty Acres (Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters) 444 Glenwood Avenue (I might be off on the house number) 500 Miles (Away From Home) Three Thousand Years Ago (Billy Murray) Never in a Million Years (Guy Lombardo) etc., etc., ad nausem Eu |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 24 Nov 07 - 07:37 PM Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Sorcha Date: 24 Nov 07 - 06:54 PM When you are all collated, post the numbers you don't have, Nigel. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Number 6 Date: 24 Nov 07 - 06:29 PM "Looking Out For Number One" biLL |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 24 Nov 07 - 05:36 PM Love Minus Zero-Does that count? Just asking. David |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Nov 07 - 01:01 PM Okay, I will start collating. I think (despite my first comments) we have some very high numbers, without having filled some of the gaps below 20! But I won't stop the action quite yet! CHEERS Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,JimP Date: 24 Nov 07 - 10:08 AM 10 Constipated Men 30,000 Pounds of Bananas /OK, I'm leaving! |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: goatfell Date: 24 Nov 07 - 08:23 AM A four legged friend |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Bill S from Adelaide Date: 24 Nov 07 - 08:09 AM When we were in danger of outstaying our welcome after a song session in the pub, we used to offer to do one more song and then we'd leave quietly. 1000 green bottles was our song but I admit it never worked |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice Date: 23 Nov 07 - 04:09 PM and, of course 99 Luftballons - Nena |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice Date: 23 Nov 07 - 04:06 PM 5,4,3,2,1.-Manfred Mann |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:56 PM Thirty Foot Trailer (Ewan MacColl) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 23 Nov 07 - 02:57 PM 99 and a Half Won't Do The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Big 10 Inch Record Sixty Minute Man |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Big Al Whittle Date: 23 Nov 07 - 12:37 PM Knocking Nelly '69 |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:55 AM Five Feet High and Rising 3-5-0-0 from HAIR 17 and 21 from the Gershwin brothers' STRIKE UP THE BAND (1927 version) sometimes written Seventeen and Twenty-one. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: cptsnapper Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:38 AM 24 Hours From Tulsa, Two Old Friends ( Magna Carta ), One Time & One Time Only ( Tom Paxton ) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,mg Date: 22 Nov 07 - 07:53 PM Can't remember what has been said already.. four strong winds twelve gates to the city twa corbies oh well can't think of more |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,jim gillson Date: 22 Nov 07 - 05:38 PM Twenty-Five Minutes To Go. (A very cool song). Six Days On The Road; another good tune. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 22 Nov 07 - 11:34 AM Sorry Geordie-Peorgie, I wrongly mis-attributed your comment. 900 Miles Half a Man - Willy Nelson A quarter to 3 Unrequited To The Nth Degree - LWIII |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Jay Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:42 AM Love is just a 4 letter word 7 drunken nights 3 score and 10 (that's 3 numbers in one title!) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:18 AM I know, Giok, I thought I could sneak it in under the radar. I thought NormanD's link might close the thread, but still they come... 7 & 7 is 25 or 6 to 4 December '63 |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:37 PM Hadaway Splottman!!! The title of THAT song wez 'Nashville Cats' by John Sebasti-one |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:33 PM The One After 909 Revolution 1 98.6 (Keith, circa 1967) Chapter 54, Number 1909 (from SEESAW, 1973 Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields show) Two By Two (Rodgers and Charnin, 1970) One (from A Chorus Line) Car 54, Where Are You? theme song |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: pdq Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:14 PM "Here's a 1/4, Call Some 1 Who Cares" |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: M.Ted Date: 21 Nov 07 - 10:27 AM Then there are the phone number songs: Beechwood 4-5789 687-5309/Jenny |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Rog Peek Date: 21 Nov 07 - 08:57 AM A Thousand years One Million Lawyers both Tom Paxton |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 21 Nov 07 - 08:27 AM Engine 143-The Carter Family |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: NormanD Date: 21 Nov 07 - 08:26 AM Here's a complete list from Zero ("Less Than Zero", in fact) to 107: http://www.charliegillett.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5211 Norman |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: oldhippie Date: 21 Nov 07 - 07:18 AM 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero - Roger Miller? |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: HipflaskAndy Date: 21 Nov 07 - 04:33 AM Twenty Flight Rock |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 21 Nov 07 - 04:07 AM There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing - Katy Melua 13 Hundred and 52 guitar pickers in Nashville - Lovin' Spoonful |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 21 Nov 07 - 04:06 AM Have you collated these yet, Nigel? Where are the gaps? |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:34 AM Hi, Rowan - It was PEnnsylvania 6-5000, by Carl Sigman and Jerry Gray, 1940. Popularized by Glenn Miller. It's an earworm for me. Now that you've mentioned it, it will be in my head for days. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: cptsnapper Date: 21 Nov 07 - 12:00 AM 2.10, 6.18, 10.44 by Rod McKuen 634-5789 Steve Cropper / Eddie Floyd Three Little Fishes |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: NightWing Date: 20 Nov 07 - 10:33 PM There are the eleven (zero to twelve, but no one and no ten) songs from Schoolhouse Rock: My Hero, Zero (How important "0" really is) Elementary My Dear (Multiplying by 2) Three is a Magic Number (Multiplying by 3) The Four-Legged Zoo (Multiplying by 4) Ready or not, Here I Come (Multiplying by 5) I Got Six (Multiplying by 6) Lucky Seven Sampson (Multiplying by 7) Figure Eight (Multiplying by 8) Naughty Number Nine (Multiplying by 9) The Good Eleven (Multiplying by 11) Little Twelvetoes (Multiplying by 12)
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Rowan Date: 20 Nov 07 - 10:20 PM And what was that jazz phone number? Pennsylvania 5000? |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Rog Peek Date: 20 Nov 07 - 09:43 PM Three Blind Mice Half a Century High |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 20 Nov 07 - 03:50 AM 5 Foot 2, Eyes of Blue. And the parody... 5 Foot 9, He's Divine. Had enough yet, Nige? |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Sorcha Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:43 PM In the Year 2525 |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:08 PM Sweet Little Sixteen |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Leadbelly Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:40 PM 10 kleine Negerlein (German) because folk songs are requested... |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Bert Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:37 PM Only Sixteen |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Bert Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:36 PM Seven Lonely Days Seven Dear Old Ladies |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:28 PM Three Men Frae Carntyne |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Leadbelly Date: 19 Nov 07 - 01:08 PM 21,900 Miles- The City Ramblers Skiffle Group 2.19 Blues - dito No.69 - Johnny Parker's Washboard Band Three steps to heaven - Eddie Cochran 99 year blues- Jim Kweskin Hawaii Five-0 - The Ventures 32-20 Blues - Robert Johnson Twelft Street Rag - Louis Armstrong Eighteen, Nineteen - The Roof Top Singers Seventh Son - John Hammond |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Ythanside Date: 19 Nov 07 - 12:54 PM 'Twa Recruitin' Sergeants' 'Three Drunken Maidens' 'Five Foot High an' Risin' |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: pdq Date: 19 Nov 07 - 12:38 PM "Heartaches By The Number" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "If I Can't Be Your Number One Than Number Two On You!" |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 19 Nov 07 - 12:20 PM 40 Miles of Bad Road. Highway 61 Revisited. Route 66. From A Buick 6. Texas 1947. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 19 Nov 07 - 11:50 AM 2-4-6-8 Motorway 7 Golden Daffodils. 8 More Miles to Louisville. (She Was) Only 16. 19 (n-n-n-n-nineteen) - try doing that one unaccompanied, Nigel. 21 Today. Wreck of the old 97. 634-5789 - Wilson Pickett et al |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: topical tom Date: 19 Nov 07 - 11:44 AM Ninety and Nine (There were ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold...) When I'm sixty-four Train forty-five |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 19 Nov 07 - 10:45 AM Many Young Men of Twenty Seven Drunken Nights Four Green Fields The Gallant Forty-Twa Sixteen Tons Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover The Craic was ninety in the Isle of Mann |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 19 Nov 07 - 10:36 AM One More Day 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 76 Trombones 77 Sunset Strip 99 Red Balloons Flight 303 I Guess it Dozen Matter Any More Of course, you could also try Googol... I'll get me coat |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Young Buchan Date: 19 Nov 07 - 10:29 AM One and Twenty (Unfolk) Forty years on (imprecise) Thousands or more (imprecise and American and not traditional) I don't want your millions mister |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: clueless don Date: 19 Nov 07 - 09:31 AM The Days of 49 96 tears Don |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Pete Jennings Date: 19 Nov 07 - 09:06 AM 4+20 (CSNY) Is that the shortest? Pete |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Richard Date: 19 Nov 07 - 09:03 AM She's the one. Roy Harper I'm the one. Possibly Gerry and the pacemakers You're the one that I want. From "Grease" I think. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,Doc John Date: 19 Nov 07 - 09:00 AM 4,5 & 9 (Lead Belly) 1913 Massacre (Woody Guthrie) 21 Years (Woody & Cisco Houston) '31 Depression Blues (New Lost City Ramblers) Blue Yodel No. * (Jimmy Rogers) 100 Years on the Erie (Boarding Party) 99 Years (Woody) |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,HughM Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:59 AM And of course 5-4-3-2-1 (Manfred Mann). |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,HughM Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:54 AM The Wreck of the Old 97. The Stoutest Man in the Forty-Twa. Aon Focal Eile. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Sorcha Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:54 AM City Four Square I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In) 10 Little Indians |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: M.Ted Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:49 AM The Three Bells |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: oldhippie Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:16 AM Ten Thousand Candles Seven Bridges Road |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Azizi Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:09 AM Four Women {composed & sung by Nina Simone} ** We're Goin To Party Like It's 1999 {composed and sung by Prince} ** Bicycle Built For Two ** 99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall ** Walking In A WinterOnederland {Okay, that last one doesn't count} ;0} |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Mo the caller Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:02 AM One man went to mow Ten green bottles (Merry Christmas!) Three drunken maidens Three jolly boys (all in a row) The seven joys of Mary Three Kings from Eastern Lands afar Is it for a quiz or a performance? We'd like to see your final choice, please. Ah, I've just seen who asked the question, so no doubt we will. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: GUEST,PMB Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:50 AM No, No, A Thousand Times No |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: David C. Carter Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:36 AM Rainy Day Women,#12&35 |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Splott Man Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:15 AM Seven Wonders Eight Miles High |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Rowan Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:05 AM Six white boomers |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 18 Nov 07 - 10:52 PM Twelve Gates to the City Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Two Brothers Three Jolly Huntsmen Three Jolly Coachmen Virgin Mary Had One Son Twenty-four Hours From Tulsa Engine, Engine Number 9 El Preso Numero Nueve (Prisoner # 9) I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago When First Unto This Country |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Zhenya Date: 18 Nov 07 - 09:42 PM Here's a bunch, courtesy of my iTunes library and its "smart playlist" feature: Child Ballads: The Two Magicians (Child Ballad # 44) The Two Sisters ( # 10) Three Gypsies ( # 200) The Three Knights ( # 11) The Three Ravens ( # 26) Seven yellow gypsies (# 200) And some other songs: Three Fishers Three Score And Ten Four Loom Weaver Four Strong Winds Four Green Fields Seven Joys Of Mary Ten Thousand Miles The Ten Dollar Bill Sixteen Tons Sixteen Come Next Sunday (AKA Seventeen Come Sunday) Days Of Forty Nine 500 Miles 900 Miles Thousand Mile Blues Thousands Are Sailing |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Susan of DT Date: 18 Nov 07 - 09:30 PM If you have a downloaded copy of the DT, you can use the title search for each number, both spelled out and numeric. Tedious, but it will work. The online search does not distinguish between titles and the rest of the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Azizi Date: 18 Nov 07 - 09:18 PM Well I guess I didn't read your initial post thatwell 'cause you already had "We Three Kings" listed. As a means of redeeming myself, here's a song with one in its title though it also may not fit your stated criteria: ONE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER {Jill Scott} No hay nadie mas que yo, Uno es el numero magico En vida y en muerte, Uno es todo Comprende If I multiply 2 times 2 is it really, really 4 me La [x6] And if I add 5 to get 9 minus 8 that just leaves me Me [x8] So many times I define my pride Through somebody else's eyes (La da da, la da) Then I looked inside and found my own stride, I found the lasting love for me If I'm searching for my spirituality Passionately I must begin with me There's just me... One is the magic number [x2] If I add myself unto myself multiplied times You and yours and you again There's just me And if I divide 8 billion, 48 trillion, 98 zillion There is, there is just me If I subtract one plus me to the 5th degree, Use any theorem There's just me There's just me... One is the magic number [x2] Me, me, me, me... [Ad lib to end] http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jillscott/oneisthemagicnumber.html |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Azizi Date: 18 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM We Three Kings Of Orient Are {the song not the parody} ** I saw three ships a'sailin in on Christmas day in the morning -snip- The first song with numbers in its title that popped into my mind was Wilson Pickett's "Land of a 1000 dances" but then I read your entire post and realized that this song wouldn't meet your criteria. But it seems as though that song wants to be noted anyway, so I'm including it in this post, if not on your actual list. |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: M.Ted Date: 18 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM 525,600 Minutes (Seasons of Love), 9,999,999 Tears to Cry, Eleven Roses, 49 Bye Byes-- |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Sorcha Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:55 PM One/3 Dog Night One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one Twelve Days of Christmas |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Jack Campin Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:53 PM Tunes: The 79ths Farewell to Gibraltar The 72nds Farewell to Aberdeen The 93rd at Modder River (etc...hundreds of tunes with regiment numbers) Take Five The Moon and Seven Stars The Seven-Step Polka Songs: Eight Men of Moidart Wha Saw the Forty-Second Fifteen Million Plastic Bags American Pi |
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Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles From: Bernard Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:30 PM One, Two, Three Hillarah... (Children's Skipping song) The Four Marys |
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Subject: Songs with numbers in titles From: Nigel Parsons Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:21 PM Okay! I'm looking for songs with numbers in the titles. A couple of pointers, I'm looking paticularly for folk/traditional songs, or for christmas songs (particularly traditional) As a fall-back, I will take more modern songs often heard at 'Acoustic Nights' I want to build up from songs with 'two' in the title ('One' doesn't appear as often because song titles ust 'A', or 'The' instead) While it is reasonable to jump ahead and give a song title with (say) seven in the title while we are still looking for 'five' & 'six' it is pointless to jump ahead to 'In the year 2525' if there's no chance of ever filling the gaps between. Any assistance please? 2, Two Little Boys, The Twa Corbies... 3, Past 3 a clock (Christmas), We Three Kings (Christmas), Three Steps to Heaven.... CHEERS Nigel |
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