Songs with numbers in titles

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.

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...

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.

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)

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.

:(

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Mike in Brunswick
Date: 13 Oct 15 - 11:58 PM

One Mint Julep

Mike

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).

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≈

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)

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...

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:19 AM

How about Pi in the Sky?

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: robomatic
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:44 AM

Man With Four Fingers

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.