Songs with numbers in titles

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.

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: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:19 AM

How about Pi in the Sky?

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: 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: 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: 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: Mike in Brunswick
Date: 13 Oct 15 - 11:58 PM

One Mint Julep

Mike

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: 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,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 (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: 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
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: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:24 AM

Eighteen Yellow Roses (Came Today)



....and that's #100!!!!

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?)

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Jul 10 - 06:40 PM

Johnny Got a Zero

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...

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

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.

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

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)

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

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!

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: EuGene
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 05:43 PM

Three Lost Babes in the Woods

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

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)

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 12:42 PM

1945 (Christy Moore)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:54 PM

21st Century Schizoid Man (King Cromson)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 07:37 PM

Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown.

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.

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 06:29 PM

"Looking Out For Number One"

biLL

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

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

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!

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: goatfell
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 08:23 AM

A four legged friend

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

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

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:56 PM

Thirty Foot Trailer (Ewan MacColl)

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

Subject: RE: Songs with numbers in titles
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 12:37 PM

Knocking Nelly '69