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)
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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 |
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? |
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