“In Dreams”? Can the “In Dreams” part be called a chorus if it doesn’t repeat?
“Ode To Billie Joe”.
Has anyone mentioned “House of the Rising Sun”?
I could go either way on this one. On the one hand, it’s a classic “no chorus” song: the title is sung during a verse, and the phrase you cited there has the same rhythm and basic chordal sequencing as the (rest of the) verse.
On the other hand, that phrase does have backup singing (a literal meaning of “chorus,” and often a marker of a refrain), and it is repeated verbatim, while the (rest of the) verse varies from verse to verse.
Such ambiguities made many Beatles songs great, and some R.E.M. ones as well.
I Don’t Know How to Love Him
Memory
…more on “Losing My Religion”: I misspoke. The maybe-chorus that Maserschmidt cited is similar to the (rest of the) verse NOT in rhythm nor in chords, but rather in MELODY.
It’s clever songwriting. The same melodic pattern – three descending notes, the three lowest of a minor scale – are used in different ways throughout the song. (It manages to just avoid being boring).
Yeah, I definitely would not call that a chorus myself, at least not in the usual pop sense. To me, it’s definitely a B section of music (that is, another section distinct from the A section, which is the verse in this case), more like a bridge, to be honest, but I’m just happy calling it a B section. To me, a pop chorus is a distinct section of song that can be sung in isolation, repeats, and usually contains the hook of the song.
A lot of blues songs I can think of off hand don’t have choruses. The challenge is not many of them became “hit” singles. ELO’s cover of Roll Over Beethoven made #48 on the US charts. Is that high enough to be a hit?
You’re right to be ambivalent. 
Great quotes, thanks! When the composers themselves can’t agree on how to parse their own creation, it’s gotta be a good song (or at least an interesting one).
Does “Satisfaction” by Rolling Stones have a chorus?
Oh great! I’ve been wondering about this for a long time now: Just to Satisfy You by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Not being musically educated, the structure of this song confused me. Given what’s been posted so far, I guess this would be an example of a song that’s ALL chorus.
I’d say the first 8 bars (title phrase sung twice, plus the “and I try…” phrase and the more vigorous half-statement if the title phrase which follows) is a chorus, but it’s unusual in that it starts the song off.
Not sure if you can really count this one as a “hit single”, as it wasn’t released as a single (except for limited-release promotional versions which couldn’t have made the charts).
The OP doesn’t specify hit SINGLE. (pick pick pick)
“Bad To The Bone,” George Thorogood, or anything else he’s done.
My bad (sorta), the OP doesn’t say hit SINGLE, but the title does. Oh, confusion.