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Subject: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 1:36 pm

How many number of songs have numbers in the title?  Lots, but whether the title is just a number, or has a number somewhere in the title, let's play the numbers game!

I'll begin with this classic that was released in 1979, and became a popular hit in 1980...

Toto - 99
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/05/24 at 3:29 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JO51TLGgg
One- Three Dog Night

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 5:34 pm

A fantastic hit from the 60s...

Len Barry - 1-2-3 (1965)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 5:39 pm

This one is one of my guilty pleasures of the 80s, I just love it for all it's weirdness!

The Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair (1982)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 6:25 pm

The Beatles
One After 909
1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF21XBiNWmA

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 6:27 pm

John Lennon
"#9 Dream"
1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWSgN7P5S4

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 6:31 pm

Tennessee Ernie Ford
"16 Tons"
1955

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 6:46 pm

The Beatles
"Eight Days A Week"
1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTfmuDjwQTw

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 6:48 pm

The Rolling Stones
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCmxWu2yT8c

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/05/24 at 7:54 pm

5-4-3-2-1 by Manfred Mann

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/05/24 at 8:02 pm



One- Three Dog Night


O0

There are other songs simply titled “One” as well (which I think have been mentioned in another thread, but I’m not going to enumerate them right now).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/05/24 at 8:05 pm

There are several songs that contain a year in the title, such as 1999 by Prince (which is the title track from an album he released in 1982).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o9RB1Ht-g8

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 8:16 pm

The Pretenders
"2000 Miles"
1983

A very poignant song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GF00xxqyhQ

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 8:17 pm

The Rolling Stones
"2000 Light Years From Home"
1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ul4lwQ0p8

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 8:26 pm

Paul Hardcastle
"19"
1985

A song that should never have had to be written.  >:(  :\'(

"In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war but it wasn't
It was different in many ways, as so were tose that did the fighting
In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26
In Vietnam he was 19
In-in-in Vietnam he was 19..."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TEUo9I194

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 9:11 pm

Face to Face - 10-9-8 (1984)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 9:13 pm

Inna - 10 Minutes (2010)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 9:17 pm

Alexandra Stan featuring Carlprit - 1,000,000 (2012)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 9:23 pm

Here is a 2-in-1... The 1976 hit December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by The Four Seasons and the fantastic 1996 cover titled Oh, What A Night (December 1963) by a British dance duo called Clock

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 9:37 pm

Paul Simon
"50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"
1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXtWqmArUU

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/05/24 at 9:43 pm

Bust out that cardboard because it's time for some poppin' and lockin'...

Carol Lynn Townes - 99 1/2 (1984)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/05/24 at 10:04 pm

Jimi Hendrix
"If 6 Was 9"
1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhrcf0szbXg

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/05/24 at 11:00 pm


There are several songs that contain a year in the title, such as 1999 by Prince (which is the title track from an album he released in 1982).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o9RB1Ht-g8

A decade later, he came out with another song with a number as its title: “Seven” (stylized with the numeral, 7).

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/05/24 at 11:06 pm

Another “year” song: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins (recorded in 1995; a hit in 1996).

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/06/24 at 9:38 am

1985 by Bowling For Soup (from 2004) is another “year” song. Its lyrics contain several pop culture references to the titular year.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/06/24 at 1:03 pm

Bob Welch
"The Ghost of Flight 401"
1979

Fleetwood Mac's Bob Welch relates the (possible) urban legend of the 'ghost of flight 401'.  :o

http
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETtKRI80U2Y

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/06/24 at 2:08 pm

11:59 Blondie (1978)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD2MKEiCh4A


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/06/24 at 2:13 pm

25 or 6 to 4-Chicago (1970)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/06/24 at 3:01 pm

Someone had to do it.  :D ;D ;D ;D


867-5309/Jenny-Tommy Tutone (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/06/24 at 3:15 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI
The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/06/24 at 3:54 pm

Echo Valley 26809-Partidge Family (1972)  :D ;D ;D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfvO75z6OQ


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/06/24 at 6:35 pm

The Mamas & The Papas
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"
1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RABR5i1iFdM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/06/24 at 6:42 pm

More Beatles -

Beatles - Two Of Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQox8e9688

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/06/24 at 7:08 pm

Just The Two Of Us by Grover Washington Jr and Bill Withers

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/06/24 at 9:18 pm

Steps - 5, 6, 7, 8 (1997)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/06/24 at 9:23 pm

Steps were one of the biggest pop groups in the UK in the late 90s and early 2000s, though sadly that success did not emulate in the US or Canada, however they did manage one chart single here with One For Sorrow which peaked at #38 on the US Dance chart and #26 on the Canadian dance chart.  I still think this song is fun!

Steps - One For Sorrow (1998)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/06/24 at 9:35 pm

It's 10:35pm for all you folks on Eastern Time, so here is a song called 10:35 by Tiesto and Tate McRae.  He's a top DJ from the Netherlands.  She's a popular singer from Canada, and this song was a world wide hit!

Tiesto featuring Tate McRae - 10:35 (2022)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:18 am

Alice Cooper
"I'm Eighteen"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ZL94cdiuU

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:20 am

Alice Cooper
"Billion Dollar Babies"
1973

Listen closely. The voice singing the other lead vocal and falsetto is Donovan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kBG5dcVtU

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:22 am

Alice Cooper
"Teenage Lament '74"
1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lM5xDg_RCo

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:27 am

Traffic
"40,000 Headmen"
1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeW-vxQaPVE

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:36 am

These songs apply in both this category and the "names and other words" category.

The weary sadness of these songs encapsulate the post Woodstock, post-Kent State feeling that had crept in by 1971. 

In both instances these pieces were used on the album ("Sunfighter") as lead ins to other songs, which is why you will hear a tiny bit of another song at the end of each.

David Crosby & Graham Nash sing harmonies on "Diana Pt. 2"

Paul Kantner/Grace Slick
"Diana-Pt. 1"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRmhnLhvWc0

Paul Kantner/Grace Slick
"Diana-Pt. 2"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3559HRACMk0



Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:51 am

David Crosby & Graham Nash
"Page 43"
1972

A Crosby classic. He sang it at most of his shows until his passing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNVN6IRzhY

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 9:53 am

Country Joe & The Fish
"Section 43"
1967

From the legendary psychedelic album "Electric Music For The Mind and Body".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZVrTrWLsek

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 3:18 pm

Not mentioned yet: 99 Luftballoons by Nena (as well as the English version, 99 Redballoons).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/07/24 at 3:29 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTSwEWS6is
Stacy Lattisaw - Million Dollar Babe (1983)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 3:31 pm

The Plimsouls
“A Million Miles Away”
1983

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 3:46 pm

Bruce Springsteen
"Johnny 99"
1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAjhHbtZyQU

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 3:47 pm

Hot Tuna
"99 Year Blues"
1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFaFgC0PAg

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 3:49 pm

Fleetwood Mac
"Woman of a Thousand Years"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYHFWGXeDk

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 4:44 pm

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton (2002).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 4:45 pm

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers (originally from 1988; re-released five years later).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 4:58 pm


I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers (originally from 1988; re-released five years later).


Not to be confused with folk classic "500 Miles" popularized by the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary and others.

Kingston Trio
'500 Miles"
1961

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFDXzqx8cM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 5:09 pm


Not to be confused with folk classic "500 Miles" popularized by the Kingston Trio; Peter, Paul & Mary and others.

Kingston Trio
'500 Miles"
1961


Yup. O0 I was even thinking of that as I made my previous post.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 10:15 pm

The Doors
"Love Me Two Times"
1967

A classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsP6EKAzEjI

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/07/24 at 10:17 pm

A title with two numbers in it:
"88 Lines About 44 Women" by The Nails (1984).

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/07/24 at 10:22 pm

David Bowie
"TVC 15"
Live at Live Aid
1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsnTZHQZzN4

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/08/24 at 7:14 am


I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers (originally from 1988; re-released five years later).


I don't know why but this song has been in head for days and I haven't listen/heard it in a long time.


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/08/24 at 8:24 am

Ray Parker Jr.'s first hit of the 1980's...

Raydio - Two Places at the Same Time (1980)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/08/24 at 8:32 am

The John Farnham-era of Little River Band...

Little River Band - We Two (1983)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/08/24 at 9:07 am


I don't know why but this song has been in head for days and I haven't listen/heard it in a long time.


Cat

I still hear it semi-regularly on radio in my area.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/08/24 at 8:39 pm

"In The Year 2525" - Zager and Evans

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/08/24 at 8:43 pm

Another "year" song:

"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" - Paul McCartney & Wings

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/08/24 at 8:46 pm

The Searchers
"Love Potion No. 9"
1963

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WVirpAieM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/08/24 at 11:03 pm

96 Tears by Question Mark and the Mysterians (1966).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 3:32 am

"Strawberry Letter 23" - Shuggie Otis

Also covered by The Brothers Johnson

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 3:36 am

"Take Five" - Dave Brubeck Quartet

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 3:42 am

"A Fifth Of Beethoven" - Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 3:47 am

"Firth Of Fifth" - Genesis

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 3:56 am

"5D (Fifth Dimension)" - The Byrds

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 4:02 am

"Eight Miles High" - The Byrds

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 4:13 am

"22,000 Days" - The Moody Blues


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 4:22 am

"I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred" - The Moody Blues

from their 1969 album To Our Children's Children's Children.

There's also a reprise titled "I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Million" on the same album.

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 4:34 am

"A.D. 1928" - Styx

Another year song, from Styx's 1981 album Paradise Theatre; it's not a standalone song, but a lead-in to "Rockin The Paradise".  There's also a reprise later in the album titled

"A.D. 1958"

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/09/24 at 4:39 am

Another Styx song from a few years earlier, the title track to their 1978 album

"Pieces Of Eight" - Styx

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/09/24 at 8:40 am

Corey Hart - 92 Days of Rain (1992)
This was his 20th hit single in Canada

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/09/24 at 8:46 am

One by U2 has already been mentioned, but a cover of it is presented in this next song in a medley with a cover of the song I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free, which is best known in a 1967 version by Nina Simone, and it's so well done, it needs it's own mention.  This is truly one of the most beautiful songs and best cover songs of all time.  It peaked at #6 in the UK, and while it did not chart in the US or Canada, I hear it quite often on the musak at my local shopping mall and other stores in my town

Lighthouse Family - (I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be) Free / One (2001)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/09/24 at 9:09 am

3 a.m. by Matchbox 20 (1997); this is a numerical song title by a band with a number in its name!

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/09/24 at 11:22 am


Another Styx song from a few years earlier, the title track to their 1978 album

"Pieces Of Eight" - Styx

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Love that song.



Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/09/24 at 11:30 am

Paul McCartney
"Figure of Eight"
1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUtm3KO8ogg

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: batfan2005 on 04/09/24 at 2:47 pm

"1-2-3" by Gloria Estefan (1988)

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I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers (originally from 1988; re-released five years later).


I remember that song being a hit in 1993 because it was featured in the movie "Benny and Joon".

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 3:31 pm

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOyRsPDPfMM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 3:35 pm

Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7IrPVLc4U

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 3:40 pm

The Vogues - Five O'Clock World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_io6Yn8XkyY

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 3:47 pm

Blue Magic - Three Ring Circus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-FsDR8e_4A

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 4:37 pm

Tony Orlando & Dawn - Knock Three Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrl4jC5TTg

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 5:01 pm

The Lovin' Spoonful - Six O'Clock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky6JbnDPQBk

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 7:12 pm

The Jackson 5 - 2-4-6-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCYOuLIrRUw

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/09/24 at 7:27 pm

Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hv1GSTR-JE

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/09/24 at 8:57 pm

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"4+20"
1970

An absolute classic from the "Deja Vu" album. Technically, it's just Stephen Stills. Nobody else is on it. Crosby & Nash were meant to add their harmonies, but when they heard this take by Stills they said it was just to perfect to touch. And so it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cNbOmVgFuc

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/10/24 at 8:55 pm

Meatloaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvXWUAKtus

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/10/24 at 9:17 pm

Janis Ian - At Seventeen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESS0eKJpEZQ

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/10/24 at 9:22 pm

Another song with the number 17 spelled out: Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/10/24 at 9:24 pm

Another with 17 -

Prince - 17 Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elSVkhkHSvE

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/10/24 at 9:29 pm

The Archies
"Seventeen Ain't Young"
1969

Vocal by Ron Dante, as on all Archie songs, as well as the Cuff Links "Tracy". Nice voice, but the guy made a career out of being the voice of fake bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cevmcrNttPA

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/10/24 at 9:55 pm

Pete Wingfield - Eighteen With A Bullet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXIUxhPxcs

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/10/24 at 10:51 pm

The Grass Roots - Two Divided By Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_FQsFh7Ipg

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 8:55 am

Trooper - 3 Dressed Up As a 9 (1979)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 8:58 am

Steel River - Ten Pound Note (1970)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 9:01 am

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Lookin' Out For #1 (1976)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 9:04 am

Burton Cummings - One and Only (1980)
His 11th solo hit in Canada
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 9:07 am

Burton Cummings - One Day Soon (1990)
This song is such a beautiful one.  It was his 14th solo hit in Canada, and if not for his 1979 hit I Will Play A Rhapsody, this would be my favourite song of his
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 9:13 am

Copperpenny - You're Still the One (1972)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: whistledog on 04/11/24 at 9:16 am

Corey Hart - 2 Good 2 Be Enough (1987)
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/11/24 at 11:07 am

The Hollies
"Just One Look"
1964

A hit for the Hollies in 1964. Previously a hit for Doris Troy in 1963 and later for Linda Ronstadt in 1978. A well travelled song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MGAVBGP9A



Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/11/24 at 11:40 am

"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
1949

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPQI5QUs74

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/11/24 at 1:48 pm

9-5 Dolly Parton (1980)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/11/24 at 1:57 pm

One-from A Chorus Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLcbi68R_A

That was my first Broadway show and I was in a show where we danced to that-it was awful. lol.


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/11/24 at 2:02 pm

One Day More- from Les Misérables.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddP8AAIGTQ


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/11/24 at 2:07 pm

The Vogues
"Five O'Clock World"
1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFvATjb0Dc

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/11/24 at 2:08 pm

Five to One-the Doors (1967)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzpncIHCLs

If you listen to the background you can hear what is going on.  You can guess.  :-X :-X :-X


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/13/24 at 8:19 am

David Bowie
"Five Years"
1972

The song that kicks of "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars" and sets the scene for what follows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ObjtVdsV3I

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Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/13/24 at 8:21 am

David Bowie
"1984"
1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2xfpMMQIJ8

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/13/24 at 2:28 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-bTQxiPxg
The Originals - Call On Your Six Million Dollar Man

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/14/24 at 2:29 pm

Revolution 9-the Beatles (1968)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/14/24 at 3:33 pm



Paul Hardcastle - 19


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/14/24 at 8:20 pm

R.E.M. - Pop Song 89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNkKq9mVeVc

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/14/24 at 9:13 pm

^ Appropriately, from the year 1989. O0

Another numeric song title from the year 1989: 18 And Life by Skid Row.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/15/24 at 2:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPBUb4yZUw
Rick James - 17

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/15/24 at 2:28 pm


"Take Five" - Dave Brubeck Quartet

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And the follow up Take Ten-Paul Desmond.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7hArFCiR8


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/15/24 at 4:33 pm

Jefferson Airplane
"D.C.B.A.-25"
1967

The intriguing title combines the actual chords of the song with an LSD reference, as LSD's (lysergic acid diethylamid) full abbreviation is LSD-25. (LSD was the 25th of various lysergamides that Albert Hofmann synthesized from lysergic acid to create LSD as we know it.) The song is an "LSD inspired romp through consciousness" according to the song's composer, Paul Kantner. They don't write 'em like they used to.  :D  :-*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTe1oPP6n7A

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/15/24 at 8:38 pm

"Highway 61 Revisted" - Bob Dylan


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/15/24 at 8:57 pm

"Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35"
Bob Dylan
1966

Referred to by many as "Everybody Must Get Stoned", but that was never it's title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-po_FUmvM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/15/24 at 9:15 pm

The Beatles
"For No One"
1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlLIwhvknk

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/16/24 at 7:35 pm

I could mention other “No One” songs as well, such as No One by Alicia Keys…
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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/16/24 at 7:36 pm

No One Is To Blame by Howard Jones:

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/17/24 at 10:45 am

Country Joe McDonald
"Bring Back the Sixties, Man"
1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6-uKPGa_8

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/17/24 at 2:25 pm


Country Joe McDonald
"Bring Back the Sixties, Man"
1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6-uKPGa_8



Don't know if I ever heard that before but I like it.


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/17/24 at 2:43 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2d00D7Gzg
Sesame Street- Gimme Five!

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/17/24 at 4:00 pm



Don't know if I ever heard that before but I like it.


Cat


It's interesting to note that what now seems "as early as 1978" when the song was released, the 60s already seemed like a million years ago. And the sentiment expressed in the song could not have been more unhip for the time. Probably why you never heard of it. Someone like Country Joe (whose music I always loved) was seen as a "washed up hippie". People were far more into disco and punk at that point and nobody in 1978 (except me, maybe) was looking back at the 60s.

But stripped of that context, the song now sounds very philosophical and quite a meaningful anthem.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/17/24 at 9:27 pm


Someone had to do it.  :D ;D ;D ;D

867-5309/Jenny-Tommy Tutone (1981)

Cat



Another phone number song:

"634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" - Wilson Pickett


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/17/24 at 9:33 pm

Another Wilson Pickett song from the same year:

"Ninety-nine and a Half (Won't Do)"  (1966)


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/17/24 at 10:31 pm

The Presidents - 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqRa0R9y1BA

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/17/24 at 10:37 pm

The Who - 5:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1l-2jrVCY

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/17/24 at 10:48 pm

Four Tops - 7 Rooms Of Gloom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZsm2EBoLE

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/17/24 at 11:01 pm

James Gang - Funk #49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/18/24 at 7:28 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSUQeC7GKm4
Radiance Feat Andrea Stone - You're My Number 1 (1983)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:09 pm

"Twentieth Century Fox" - The Doors


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:12 pm

Another "century" song:

"21st Century Schizoid Man" - King Crimson


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:19 pm

"The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" - Fleetwood Mac


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:27 pm

"Summer of '69" - Bryan Adams

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:29 pm

"Summer '68" - Pink Floyd


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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:35 pm

"One Of These Days" - Pink Floyd

There are also a gazillion other songs with the same name  :)  :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_These_Days

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:37 pm

"One Of These Nights" - The Eagles

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:39 pm

"Free Four" - Pink Floyd

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 04/20/24 at 8:47 pm

"Pigs (Three Different Ones)" - Pink Floyd

Live performance at Desert Trip weekend 2 by Roger Waters.  Floating pig representing Donald Trump.  I'm somewhere in this crowd.  This was a great festival: Bob Dylan the day after he won the Nobel Prize, Rolling Stones, Neil Young (absolutely fantastic performance), Paul McCartney, The Who.

NSFW



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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/20/24 at 8:50 pm

Tom Waits
"Ol' 55"
1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeK37wrBDQ

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/20/24 at 8:52 pm

Neil Young
"Already One"
1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0iyypR8EiA

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/20/24 at 11:30 pm

Another overlooked numeric song title until now..

Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/21/24 at 11:15 pm

The Beatles
"Revolution 1"
1968

This is the White Album version where, unlike the more well known 45 version, Lennon sings "but when when you talk about about destruction, don't you know you can count me out...in". That raised a few eyebrows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmsXsIv2Ppw

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/22/24 at 6:46 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI
Sesame Street- Counting Song (2)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: AmericanGirl on 04/23/24 at 10:57 pm

The O'Jays - 992 Arguments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWV3p9Rxo6g

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/23/24 at 11:17 pm

I’m Henry VIII, I Am by Herman’s Hermits. (Probably the first song title with a Roman numeral that we’ve mentioned on this thread.)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 04/24/24 at 7:07 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw
Lou Bega- Mambo Number 5

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/26/24 at 7:36 pm

Here's a song from Rolling Stone Ron Wood's 1979 solo album "Gimme Some Neck". Bob Dylan wrote it but never released it himself (until a compilation many years later). This is a great song!

Ron Wood
"Seven Days"
1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQjacusqFcE

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 04/27/24 at 3:49 pm

8th World Wonder by Kimberley Locke (2004)

I remember I liked this one when it came out.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 05/02/24 at 9:34 pm

The One Thing by INXS

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/04/24 at 2:26 pm

One More Minute-Weird Al.  :D ;D ;D ;D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhpk-8QLFQ


Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 05/04/24 at 2:37 pm

The Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7O6c5Uycw

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 05/04/24 at 5:45 pm


One More Minute-Weird Al.  :D ;D ;D ;D

Cat

Also "Another One Rides The Bus" (...which is a parody of a Queen song).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 05/09/24 at 9:53 pm

"Zero To Sixty In Five" - Pablo Cruise

From their 1976 album Lifeline.  I remember hearing this song pretty often when I was a kid, but for many years I didn't know the name of the song.

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 05/09/24 at 10:13 pm

Neil Young
Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, Pt. 1)
1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwq167S_KM

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 05/11/24 at 12:01 am

The Smashing Pumpkins had a song titled “Zero”; it was a follow up single to another numerical song of theirs (“1979”, mentioned earlier in this thread).

But that’s not all. Later in 1996 (after the success of “Tonight Tonight”), another song from the same album got released as a single and it has a numeric title (also spelled out): “Thirty Three”.

So if you add up all the numeric song titles from that album, you would get 2012. :D

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 05/30/24 at 11:35 pm

98.6 by Keith hasn’t been mentioned yet.. until now.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 07/01/24 at 10:57 pm

C·30 C·60 C·90 Go is the debut single by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow (1982).

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Mitch Kramer on 07/05/24 at 8:46 pm

"'65 Love Affair" - Paul Davis

When this song came out back in 1982, I thought it sounded more like Hall & Oates than Paul Davis.

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 07/06/24 at 7:42 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMkK3QHUOIk
Ramona Wulf — 4 on the Floor

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 07/14/24 at 9:00 pm

No mention of 409 by the Beach Boys yet?

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 08/11/24 at 9:35 pm

Two of Hearts by Stacey Q.

(I couldn’t find that one in this thread yet.)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 08/11/24 at 9:40 pm

How about 2 Legit 2 Quit by MC Hammer? Even though that’s the actual rendering of the title, the 2s actually substitute “Too” and “To” which are homophones of “two.”

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 08/11/24 at 10:03 pm

Bob Welch
"Three Hearts"
1979

The title cut from the album that brought you "Precious Love".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtNrgpiYVo&list=PL1lBcA13C8CHlScMujceYBnB1C8yfofdb

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Howard on 08/12/24 at 7:34 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDsOQwQetI
Stephanie Mills & Teddy Pendergrass - Two Hearts (1981)

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/24 at 11:12 am

"When I'm Sixty-Four" by The Beatles

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"When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was one of the first songs McCartney wrote; he was about 14, probably in April or May 1956. The song was recorded in a key different from the final version; it was sped up at the request of McCartney to make his voice sound younger. It prominently features a trio of clarinets (two B♭ clarinets and one bass clarinet) throughout.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 10/13/24 at 4:02 pm

Kate Voegele
“99 Times”
2009

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I just remembered this one yesterday while I was out shopping.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 10/17/24 at 9:12 pm

Also not mentioned yet..

100 Years by Five For Fighting (late 2003).

Both the song title and artist contain a number!

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 11/23/24 at 4:18 pm


Copperpenny - You're Still the One (1972)

Shania Twain had a same-titled song in 1998.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 01/03/25 at 11:09 pm

Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry (1958).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 01/03/25 at 11:20 pm

Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 01/04/25 at 7:18 pm

One other song with the number 16 spelled out in the title (not mentioned on this thread yet) is Sixteen Candles by the Crests (from 1958).

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: batfan2005 on 01/12/25 at 4:36 pm

Not sure if it was mentioned, if so I missed it but 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 01/13/25 at 12:56 am

^ Yes, Cat posted it early in this thread:


Someone had to do it.  :D ;D ;D ;D


867-5309/Jenny-Tommy Tutone (1981)



Cat

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: nally on 01/18/25 at 9:54 pm

I don’t think this one’s been mentioned yet:

6 Underground by Sneaker Pimps (1997)
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Also, I think this band was a one hit wonder.

Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/21/25 at 12:26 pm

"5 Years Time", also known as "5 Years Time (Sun Sun Sun)", is the debut single by English folk rock band Noah and the Whale. It was originally released in 2007, but was later re-released on 4 August 2008 and became their first top-ten hit. The song did not chart upon its first release in 2007. After poor initial sales, the group chose to re-release the single, and the record made it onto the charts in a number of countries. In the UK, it debuted at number 24, and went on to become Noah and the Whale's first top-ten single, peaking at number 7. In Ireland, "5 Years Time" debuted at number 47 and peaked at number 10.

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/27/25 at 2:15 pm

"7 Years" is a song by Danish soul-pop band Lukas Graham from their second studio album, Lukas Graham. The song was released as a digital download on Lukas Forchhammer's 27th birthday, which was September 18, 2015 by Copenhagen Records. The lyric video was uploaded to YouTube on 17 November 2015, and the music video was uploaded on 15 December 2015. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, "7 Years" topped the Danish Singles Chart. Outside Denmark, the singles topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, while peaking within the top ten of the charts in many other European countries and the United States.

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Subject: Re: Numbered songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/15/25 at 3:42 pm

"Twenty-Five Miles" is a song written by Johnny Bristol, Harvey Fuqua, and Edwin Starr for Starr's second album, 25 Miles (1969). The song was considered sufficiently similar to "32 Miles out of Waycross" by Hoagy Lands (also recorded as "Mojo Mama" by both Wilson Pickett and Don Varner), written by Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler, that Berns and Wexler were eventually given co-writing credits. Essentially the same theme also appeared in late 1959 in the approaching miles section of the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers' "Tucumcari". It was Starr's first success following his move from Ric-Tic Records to Motown (as Motown bought out Ric-Tic and all its artists). The song was a huge hit in the US, making the top ten on both the Pop chart (#6) and R&B chart (#6), #8 in Canada, and peaked at #36 on the UK Singles Chart. "Twenty-Five Miles" proved to be Starr's second-biggest US hit, ranking below his signature song (and #1 smash) "War". His pair of 1979 disco singles would later outdo the song's performance on the UK charts, as "Contact" and "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio" were both UK top ten hits.

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