#111 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday August 7)
Good morning and Happy Weekend!
A while back I asked about songs that contain a number in their title. What I’ve concluded is that zero, one and two are the predominant numbers. Here are the favorites:
ZERO SONGS
Nothing From Nothing, Billy Preston
Zero, Imagine Dragons
Money For Nothing, Dire Straits (“I want my MTV!”)
ONE SONGS
One is the Loneliest Number, Three Dog Night
Another One Bites the Dust, Queen
One Way or Another, Blondie
You’re Still the One, Orleans
One Toke Over the Line, Brewer & Shipley
One More Night, Phil Collins (and Maroon 5?)
One (is the Loneliest Number), Harry Nilsson
TWO SONGS
Tea for Two, Tommy Dorsey
Just the Two of Us, Grover Washington, Jr.
Two Tickets to Paradise, Eddie Money
It Takes Two, Marvin Gaye
THREE SONGS
Three Little Birds, Bob Marley
Three Times a Lady, The Commodores
Knock Three Times, Tony Orlando
FOUR SONGS
25 or 6 to 4, Chicago
FIVE SONGS
Mambo Number Five, Lou Bega
Take Five, Dave Brubeck
9 to 5, Dolly Parton
SONGS UNDER 10
Eight Days a Week, The Beatles
Love Potion Number Nine, the Clovers
SONGS UNDER 20
Sixteen Candles, The Crests
You’re Sixteen, the great Ringo Starr
Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
At Seventeen, Janis Ian
Edge of Seventeen, Stevie Nicks
LARGER NUMBERS
24 Hours From Tulsa, Gene Pitney
A Pirate Looks at 40, Jimmy Buffett
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon
When I’m 64, The Beatles
99 Red Balloons, Nena
A Thousand Years, Christina Perri
In the Year 2525, Zager & Evans
December ’63 (Oh, What a Night!), Four Seasons
Jenny (867-9309), Tommy Tutone
AND FOR ANOTHER LIST
There are words that make me smile whenever I hear them. Here are two of mine—I try to use them in sentences at least once a week; are there others?
Babaganoush
Lake Titikaka
Have a good weekend,
Glenn
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