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Post by JMW on Jul 3, 2013 1:57:28 GMT -5
Two examples of songs where the title is only heard one time:
1) Debbie Gibson's Foolish Beat ("Just a foolish beat of my heart.") 2) George Michael's One More Try (the last line in the song)
One example where the title is never heard in the song*: Rod Stewart's Young Turks.
*Obviously, instrumentals are not included as well as songs where the title is "The Theme From _____".
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Post by kchkwong on Jul 3, 2013 2:40:32 GMT -5
Sukiyaki by A Taste Of Honey. I believe the title is never heard.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 3, 2013 3:38:43 GMT -5
How about "A Different Corner" by George Michael and "Everything She Wants" by Wham! — each mentioned only once.
How about "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots? (Never mentioned.)
How about "Superstar" by Carpenters? (Never mentioned.)
I have to go check to see if New Order's "True Faith" or Donald f*gen's "I.G.Y." fit the bill.
Maybe it won't count, since it was before July 1970, but what about "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" by The Cowsills?
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 3, 2013 4:01:38 GMT -5
How about the Charlie Daniels 1979 classic, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia?"
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Post by pgfromwp on Jul 3, 2013 6:07:11 GMT -5
"Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson. Believe strawberry letter 22 is mentioned twice in the lyrics, and nothing of #23.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 3, 2013 7:46:27 GMT -5
Robert Plant's 1st Top 40 hit - "Big Log". BTO - "Roll On Down The Highway" Chicago - "Dialogue - Parts 1 & 2" Boz Scaggs - "Lido Shuffle"
Titles are never mentioned in their entirety.
Chicago - "Questions 67 & 68" and "Colour My World" - title mentioned once.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 3, 2013 7:49:25 GMT -5
How about the Charlie Daniels 1979 classic, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia?" Speaking of Charlie Daniels - "Uneasy Rider", title is never mentioned.
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Post by mct1 on Jul 3, 2013 8:02:12 GMT -5
Led Zeppelin's songs frequently do not feature the title in the lyrics. This includes five of their six Top 40 hits; their only Top 40 hit that actually does have the title in the lyrics is "Whole Lotta Love":
Immigrant Song Black Dog D'yer Mak'er Trampled Under Foot Fool In The Rain
The last song above does feature the words "Fool" and "Rain" twice each at various points in the lyrics, but they don't ever appear together in the same sentence, let alone in the phrase "Fool In The Rain". Both occurences of "Fool" and one of "Rain" are in the song's final verse, which did not appear in the heavily truncated version on the promotional 45, which is what AT40 typically played.
Then there's Zeppelin's pseudo-Top 40 hit "All My Love". (It never charted in Billboard because it was never released as a single, but it received heavy airplay on Top 40 stations in the fall of 1979, and hit #10 in R&R.) It's a bit of a variation on this question: songs in which the exact wording of the title never appears in the song, but similar wording does. The phrase "All My Love" never appears in the lyrics, but "All Of My Love" does. Another example of this, IINM, is The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"; I believe that the wording in the song is consistently "We Don't Get Fooled Again".
New Order, who was mentioned earlier, is another band who seemed to like making songs where the title doesn't appear in the lyrics. From a U.S. perspective, three of their '80s tunes are somewhat widely known today among those who are well versed in '80s pop: "True Faith", "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "Blue Monday" (though only the first of these three hit the Top 40 when it was new). None of them feature the title in the lyrics.
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Post by Showman on Jul 3, 2013 8:07:32 GMT -5
Bohemian Rhapsody
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Post by woolebull on Jul 3, 2013 8:07:35 GMT -5
Ones I can think of
"Flashdance...What A Feeling" - Irene Cara
"Young Turks" - Rod Stewart
"Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls
"All Around The World" - Lisa Stansfield
"Synchronicity II" - The Police
"Medley: Intro Venus...." - Stars on 45
"The Breakup Song" - Greg Kihn Band
"Space Age Love Song" - A Flock of Seagulls
"Alphabet St. " - Prince (single version...version heard on AT 40)
"Batdance" - Prince
"Train in Vain" - The Clash
"Brass In Pocket" - The Pretenders
Two interesting one with the same title, where the titles were not heard spent one week together in the Top 40, November 11, 1989
"Love Song" - The Cure and "Love Song" - Tesla.
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Post by pb on Jul 3, 2013 8:29:41 GMT -5
Maybe it won't count, since it was before July 1970, but what about "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" by The Cowsills? For another pre-1970 example there is the first Bee Gees hit "New York Mining Disaster 1941."
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Post by woolebull on Jul 3, 2013 8:32:07 GMT -5
Others I thought about in the shower (lol)
Do You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
New Song - Howard Jones
Authority Song - John Mellencamp
Dre Day - Dr. Dre
Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly
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Post by Michael on Jul 3, 2013 8:49:20 GMT -5
A recent one is Coldplay's Viva La Vida.
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Post by matt on Jul 3, 2013 9:29:08 GMT -5
IMO, for the songs in which the exact title is never included in the lyrics, you really need to break this into two categories: one where the title is never heard whatsoever, versus songs where the title isn't exactly heard, but something similar is sung. "Young Turks", "Batdance", "Flashdance...What a Feeling", "Authority Song", "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy", both 1989 versions of "Love Song", and one other we just heard this past weekend: "The Goonies R Good Enough" would all fall into the latter category. In the case of "Flashdance" and "Goonies", the songs' original titles were "What a Feeling" and "Good Enough", but the motion picture companies wanted them changed to add the movie names in for marketing purposes.
Songs like "Train In Vain", "Synchronicity II", "Dyer Maker", and "Sukiyaki" would fall into the former category--songs in which the title is never heard, and a person would probably have a hard time ever identifying the title with the song itself without actually seeing it on the record label or hearing a DJ announce it.
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Post by pb on Jul 3, 2013 10:20:48 GMT -5
Anne Murray "Danny's Song" never heard John Denver "Annie's Song" never heard Todd Rundgren "Hello It's Me" heard once Dave Loggins "Please Come To Boston" heard once
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