LIST: hit song titles with spurious numbers

R H Draney

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Jul 21, 2008, 2:39:31 AM7/21/08

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Was listening to some early Bob Dylan today and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" came
on (that's the one with the tag line "everybody must get stoned", for those not
familiar with the catalog)...noticed that the # sign didn't display as part of
the title on my player, which got me to thinking about how few titles that would
be an issue for....

Eventually the question morphed into "how many well-known songs have titles with
numbers in them that *don't* appear in the lyrics?"...I came up with these,
fudging a few times:

"The Three Bells" by The Browns
"#9 Dream" by John Lennon
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by Harpers Bizarre
"Questions 67 and 68" by Chicago (fudged; the title is sung at the very end of
the song almost as an afterthought)
"New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife Mr Jones)" by The Bee Gees
"10538 Overture" by Electric Light Orchestra (fudged; the number appears once at
the very end of the lyrics)

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of others...remember, I'm after numbers that don't
figure in the lyrics, and songs that stand at least a fair chance of already
being in my music library...at the very least there are bound to be more "year"
examples, and I'm surprised that something in the three-digit range hasn't
jumped out at me yet....

(Oh, and let's not get cute and start listing instrumentals, shall we?)...r

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Mark Rae

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Jul 21, 2008, 6:28:46 PM7/21/08

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"R H Draney" <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Eventually the question morphed into "how many well-known songs have
> titles with
> numbers in them that *don't* appear in the lyrics?"...I came up with
> these,
> fudging a few times:

Peter Hammill - Two or Three Spectres
The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights
The Andalusian Hemipodes - Three
Pink Floyd - Free Four (apart from the count in!)
Peter Gabriel - Fourteen Black Paintings
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

mavco

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Jul 22, 2008, 8:16:10 AM7/22/08

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>
> Eventually the question morphed into "how many well-known songs have titles with
> numbers in them that *don't* appear in the lyrics?"..

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allenk...@hotmail.com

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Jul 22, 2008, 7:44:49 PM7/22/08

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The Cure -- The 13th
Smashing Pumpkins -- Thirty-Three

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Allen Kirshner
(the alt.music.lyrics TV theme guy)

Mathilda Jane

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Jul 24, 2008, 8:33:33 PM7/24/08

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<allenk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:44bb189d-e929-4d5c-869d-

Freedom 90 -George Michael
Pop Song 89 - REM
The Seventh Stranger - Duran Duran
Obstacle 1 - Interpol
Obstacle 2 - Interpol
Two Step - Dave Matthews Band
#41 - Dave Matthews Band
#40 - Dave Matthews Band
#36 - Dave Matthews Band
#34 - Dave Matthews Band
#27 - Dave Matthews Band

Joshua Kreitzer

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Jul 29, 2008, 1:21:20 AM7/29/08

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On Jul 21, 1:39 am, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> Eventually the question morphed into "how many well-known songs have titles with
> numbers in them that *don't* appear in the lyrics?"...

"Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson (originally by Shuggie
Otis; the lyrics mention "strawberry letter 22")

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Joshua Kreitzer
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