Pop Songs for each day of the week

[cmkeller]

Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2
Manic Monday by the Bangles
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones
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Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting by Elton John

This came to my mind after hearing Manic Monday on the radio for the first time in a long while. Anyone care to fill in the blanks?

[astorian]

"Friday I'm in Love" by the Cure, or "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats

[cmkeller]

I just realized that the whole package can be headed by "One Week" by the BareNakedLadies.

[astorian]

I'd prefer to stay with songs that were big hits, but I can't think of a hit for Wednesday or Thursday.

Simon & Garfunkel had an obscure track called "Wednesday Morning 3 AM." Does that count?

And David Bowie had a track called "Thursday's Child."

S & G were famous and so was Bowie. The songs, however, aren't famous at all.

[cmkeller]

I guess those'll do. I figured there weren't any major famous ones, otherwise, I imagine I'd have heard of them.

Thanks, astorian!

[Waterman]

Among others:

1. "Monday Mponday" - Mamas & Papas
2. "Sunday Mornin'" - Spanky & Our Gang
3. "Sunday Will Never Be the Same' - Spanky & Our Gang (they liked Sunday)
4. "Sunday for Tea" - Peter & Gordon
5. "Sunday & Me" - Jay & the Americans
6. "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" - Moody Blues
7. "Friday I'm in Love" - Cure
8. "Friday on My Mind" - Easybeats
9. "Friday's Child" - Nancy Sinatra
10. "Saturday in the Park" - Chicago
11. "Saturday Love" - Sherrelle w/ Alexander O'Neal
12. "Saturday Mornin' Confusion" - Bobby Russell
13. "Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
14. "Saturday Night" - New Christy Minstrels
15. "Saturdaynight" - Herman Brood
16. "Saturday Nite" - Earth, Wind & Fire
17. "Saturday Night at the Movies" - Drifters
18. "Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
19. "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" - Thelma Houston
20. "Saturday (Ooooh! Ooooh!)"- Ludacris
21. "Come Sunday" - Duke Ellington (from Black, Brown & Biege)
22. "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night" - Duke Ellington
23. "My Sunday Gal" - Duke Ellington
24. "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" - Kris Kristofferson
25. "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day" - Doug Sahm
26. "Monday" - Jeff Tweedy

Numbers 1 through 20 in the above list were all Top 40 Songs during the 1955-2003 period.

Saturday Night is the Loneliest ... was a very popular hit for Ellington though the lyrics were written by someone else. Anyone out there know the name of the song title originally given to the melody by Ellington?

[Antonius Block]

"Sunday Girl" from Blondie 's "Parallel Lines" LP became a UK #1 single in May 1979.

[Liberal]

The Beatles' Lady Madonna covers them all but Saturday:

Friday night arrives without a suitcase.
Sunday morning creep in like a nun.
Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace.

[...snip...]

Tuesday afternoon is never ending.
Wednesday morning papers didn't come.
Thursday night you stockings needed mending.

[Eonwe]

Tuesday's Gone with the Wind, one of Skynard's tunes.

[Kamino Neko]

Adding some more...

Prozzak (AKA Simon and Milo) have both Monday Morning and Saturday People (both on Saturday People).

[Made in Macau]

Wednesday Week by The Undertones, and a different
Wednesday Week by E Costello

Jersey Thursday by Donovan

I've played this game before.

MiM

[ShibbOleth]

Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers

Never on a Sunday - ?? (from some musical?)

[Jervoise]

Another big one:

New Order "Blue Monday"

More obscure:

Doves "Friday's Dust"
Beck "Sunday Sun"
Queen "Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon"
Eels "Saturday Morning"

Plus of course, the Happy Monday and the Sundays...

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Jethro Tull: Black Sunday
The Jam: Monday
Cat Stevens: Tuesday's Dead
Charles Mingus: Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Sweet Thursday: Gilbert Street (cheating!)
Genesis: Get 'em Out by Friday
Sam Cooke: Another Saturday Night

[Twin]

The Monkees: Saturday's Child

[Jackknifed Juggernaut]

The Pogues - "Tuesday Morning"

[Don Draper]

the Jefferson Airplane "medley" - Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon

and didn't Lynyrd Skynyrd do a song "Tuesday's Gone With the Wind"? Or is that not the title of it?

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally Posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew

Sweet Thursday: Gilbert Street (cheating!)

Of the countless music threads I've read hereon the SDMB, No one with the exception of RealityChuck has ever mentioned the supergroup 'Sweet Thursday' in the Cafe Society forum. Perhaps that's cuz most people would assume the song Gilbert Street is old Deep Purple.

[Annie-Xmas]

Probably On Thursday (Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Ross Hannaman (1967)

[vl_mungo]

Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground & Nico

[Exapno Mapcase]

I'm just amazed that no band has put out a single called "Wednesday's Hump Day."

[Crimmsy]

Fairly obscure, I think..

Wellington's Wednesdays by the Weakerthans

[pesch]

Simon & Garfunkle's "Bridge over Troubled Waters" album contains these lines from "Why Don't You Write Me"

Monday morning, sittin' in the sun
Waitin' for the van to come

Tuesday, still no word
(hum--hum--hummmmm)

Wednesday, Thursday still no sign
Drank half a bottle of iodine

Friday, woe is me
I'm gonna hang my body from the highest tree
Why don't you write me

The song actually sounds cheerier than it reads.

[AllShookDown]

Let's Kill Saturday Night - Robbie Fulks

[Mangetout]

Seven Days by Sting

[Flutterby]

Sunday Morning After - Amanda Marshall
Sudbury Saturday Night - Stompin' Tom Connors
Monday Monday - The Mama's and the Papa's

[TeaElle]

Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran

[gruver]

Sun Comes up, Tusday Morning - Cowboy Junkies

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Here's a bonus weekend:

Steely Dan: Black Friday
Grateful Dead: One More Saturday Night
Spanky & Our Gang: Sunday Will Never Be the Same