Songs with numbers in titles

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

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

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

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

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--

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.

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

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.

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

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:05 AM

Six white boomers

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Splott Man
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:15 AM

Seven Wonders
Eight Miles High

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: David C. Carter
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:36 AM

Rainy Day Women,#12&35

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:50 AM

No, No, A Thousand Times No

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.

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}

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: oldhippie
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:16 AM

Ten Thousand Candles
Seven Bridges Road

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: M.Ted
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:49 AM

The Three Bells

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

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.

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).

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)

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.

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: clueless don
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 09:31 AM

The Days of 49

96 tears

Don

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!"

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'

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:28 PM

Three Men Frae Carntyne

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:36 PM

Seven Lonely Days
Seven Dear Old Ladies

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:37 PM

Only Sixteen

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...

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: David C. Carter
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:08 PM

Sweet Little Sixteen

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:43 PM

In the Year 2525

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?

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

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?

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)

BB,

NightWing

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

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-

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?

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 04:33 AM

Twenty Flight Rock

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: oldhippie
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 07:18 AM

1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero - Roger Miller?