# Dates in popular songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253 "2007-07-18T13:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/41 "2007-07-18T20:30:24Z")
Fairport Convention again: “The Bonnie Black Hare” _On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray_ ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/42 "2007-07-18T20:49:54Z")
_Last Days of May_ by **Blue Öyster Cult**. It’s actually a very fine tune, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/43 "2007-07-18T21:23:41Z")
“I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” “… born on the Fourth of July” “September Song” mentions May, September, and December. “April In Paris” “June Is Busting Out All Over” “Harvest Moon” mentions “I ain’t had no loving since January, February, June, or July” Those are just the ones that come quickly to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/44 "2007-07-18T21:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] For purposes of this thread, do months alone count (“it’s hard to hold a candle in the cold November Rain”), month/year (“late september back in '63”), or do we need both month and day (“Guess who cried come First of May”)? [/QUOTE] I always thought it was \*late \*\*December \*_back in '63_ ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/45 "2007-07-18T21:40:07Z")
The demon warp is comin’ alive in nineteen-sixty-five, yeah, WOW! Grandma got run over by a reindeer coming home from our house Christmas Eve. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/46 "2007-07-18T21:45:44Z")
Sorta close- Randy Newman “Dayton Ohio 1903” and “Louisiana 1927”. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/47 "2007-07-18T21:53:54Z")
According to the song [Independance Day](http://www.lyrics007.com/Martina%20McBride%20Lyrics/Independence%20Day%20Lyrics.html) , Martina Macbride’s mom used dad for a fire log. Or something to that effect. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/48 "2007-07-18T22:26:16Z")
Paul McCartney: “1985” (from **Band on the Run** ) The Happenings: “See You in September” Adler and Ross: “Six Months Out of Every Year” has both years and months: "When we met in 1938, it was November When I said that I would be his mate, it was December I reasoned he would be the greatest husband that a girl had ever found. That’s what I reasoned. That’s what I reasoned. Then April came around . . . . " ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/49 "2007-07-18T22:42:31Z")
_Battle Of New Orleans_ In 1815 (?) we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’ _Rainmaker_ on Nillsson’s _Harry_ CD Fourth day of August, last rain was in May, When the rainmaker came to Texas in the middle of a dusty day. _Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore_, also on _Harry_ When we got married back in 1944, We’d board that silver liner on the way to Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/50 "2007-07-18T23:19:31Z")
OK, if we’re allowed indirect dates, how about January 29, 1979, in **I Don’t Like Mondays** by the\*\* Boomtown Rats\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/51 "2007-07-18T23:31:55Z")
**We** by The Roches mentions “The 4th of December” ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/52 "2007-07-19T00:45:59Z")
And then there was the Mamas and the Papas’ “Monday, Monday” ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/53 "2007-07-19T02:21:44Z")
Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams “In the beginning, back in 1955…” (Let There Be Rock, AC/DC) 1984 (instrumental, Van Halen, from the album of the same name…that’s a stretch, I know) ---
**Author:** ![berff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@berff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berff)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/54 "2007-07-19T04:17:06Z")
Though it’s not in an actual song, on the cover of the Oasis album “Be Here Now”, it says August 26 Tuesday, which happens to be the date the CD was released, in 1997. Also, “June 28 was the date” is a lyric in the Geto Boys song “Six Feet Deep”. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/55 "2007-07-19T04:28:32Z")
“Six Months out of Every Year” - is that a different song than the one from _Damn Yankees_? Er, yes, it seems to be… So, I claim the one from the musical. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/56 "2007-07-19T11:43:17Z")
And as my final contribution, there is “Saturday Night Is The Lonliest Night Of the Week” which mentions all seven days: “I don’t mind Sunday night at all, and Monday is the day when people come to call,…” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/57 "2007-07-19T12:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] And as my final contribution, there is “Saturday Night Is The Lonliest Night Of the Week” which mentions all seven days: “I don’t mind Sunday night at all, and Monday is the day when people come to call,…” [/QUOTE] Your comment made me want to say that _Stormy Monday_ mentions the days of the week with no dates attached. There’s also _A Sunday Kind Of Love_ and _Never On Sunday_ for the same sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/58 "2007-07-19T14:10:10Z")
Loquillo y los Trogloditas, _¿dónde estabas tú en el 77?_, where were you in '77 (when Spain was in the process of voting the Constitution and things were exploding in many ways). Celtas Cortos, _20 de Abril del 90_. April 20th, '90. The whole song is a letter to a (girl? definitely female)friend the author hasn’t seen in a while. Many _habaneras_ about the “war of Cuba” (the Spanish War). The sinking of the Maine is often mentioned, although not its specific date. I’m right now listening to Joaquín Sabina’s _De Purísima y Oro_ (lit. “sky blue and gold,” phrased to describe a bullfighter’s clothes). The lyrics include the reference _tercer año triunfal_ (third victorious year, taken from the way the Nacionales talked c. 1940) to place it on 1938, yet a lot of the references are actually for later years (for example, the movie Gilda is from 1946). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253/59 "2007-07-19T14:15:17Z")
Bee Gees had “Fifth of May” Tom Paxton wrote a song based on Ron Kovic’s book “Born on the Fourth of July” The show The Fantastics had “Try to remember that kind of September” which also states “Deep in December it’s nice to remember” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dates-in-popular-songs/412253.md?page=2)