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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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