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Post by frente on Feb 21, 2015 22:25:53 GMT -5
I was thinking about top 40 hits with made-up titles that were not real words. There must be a few hits out there, but right now I can't think of many.
Paula Abdul's Vibeology is the first one that came to my mind.
Also Michel'le's Nicety, a top 30 hit in 1990 ("some people think I'm nice, some people think I'm nasty, so I say I'm nicety).
Can you all help with some more?
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Post by mga707 on Feb 21, 2015 22:38:57 GMT -5
The two that first come to mind for me are Brick's two top 40 hits, "Dazz" and "Dusic".
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Feb 21, 2015 22:45:32 GMT -5
I'll get this started with a couple that I don't think are real words Bootylicious by Destiny's Child & Abacab by Genesis & a couple that are more than 1 word put together Letitgo by Prince & F*ckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt by Jay-Z feat Rick Ross.
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 22, 2015 0:43:07 GMT -5
Phil Collins - Sussudio Hanson - MMMBop
And I'm not sure if it was a hit single, but "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the musical Mary Poppins has to be mentioned.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Feb 22, 2015 10:46:33 GMT -5
^A different version (not Andrews from the film) supposedly made the bottom five on Cash Box's chart, but I can't verify.
"Sussudio" is a woman's name, per Collins, so I'd discount that.
dL
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Post by frente on Feb 22, 2015 12:09:49 GMT -5
And I'm not sure if it was a hit single, but "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the musical Mary Poppins has to be mentioned. Oh yes, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious made the Hot 100 in 1965, not a Top40 hit (#66) but still.
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Post by secretman on Feb 22, 2015 12:29:57 GMT -5
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
Never understood that song.
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Post by pb on Feb 22, 2015 14:07:14 GMT -5
Shuckatoom (doesn't count, but still...)
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Post by blackbowl68 on Feb 22, 2015 16:53:22 GMT -5
I'll get this started with a couple that I don't think are real words Bootylicious by Destiny's Child & Abacab by Genesis & a couple that are more than 1 word put together Letitgo by Prince & F*ckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt by Jay-Z feat Rick Ross. Don't know about Webster's, but the word bootylicious did exist by 2001. Snoop Dogg said the word on "Dre Day" in 1993.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 22, 2015 19:10:01 GMT -5
Abacab was the initials created by assigning a letter to Verse, Chorus and Bridge. The original order was ABACAB so they kept it, even though the order changed. It'd be more like ABABCAB.
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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 22, 2015 20:21:09 GMT -5
In the sixties Stevie Wonder had "Shoo-Be-Do-Be-Do-Da-Day" and of course there's Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy". The Rolling Stones had "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" in the seventies.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Feb 22, 2015 22:24:45 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity: Is "Hushabye" (1959 hit for the Mystics) a real word?
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Post by jmack19 on Feb 23, 2015 0:33:48 GMT -5
The word hushabye is not in the 1969 Webster dictionary (1200 pages) I have. Hushaby [hush+lullaby] is.
Nicety has been around for over 600 years as a noun. The song uses it as an adjective.
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Post by frente on Feb 23, 2015 0:36:18 GMT -5
In the sixties Stevie Wonder had "Shoo-Be-Do-Be-Do-Da-Day" and of course there's Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy". The Rolling Stones had "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" in the seventies. Good ones, but they are more an onomatopoeia than a made up words, aren't they? I'm not sure if they should count in the same category
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Post by frente on Feb 23, 2015 0:38:00 GMT -5
Nicety has been around for over 600 years as a noun. The song uses it as an adjective. But doesn't she use it like a mix of "nice" and "nasty"? Even if the word exists, she uses it as a made up word, right?
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