This question came to mind upon hearing Travelin’ Band -by Creedence Clearwater Revival, which starts out “737 coming outta the sky.”
One obvious one is Three Dog Night’s One: One is the loneliest number.
3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5, Go! : Warsaw, Joy Division
Do you just want songs where the numbers are part of the lyrics or are you counting songs that start off with somebody counting off the beat?
“One two three four…We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
Three o’clock in the morning…“Talking In Your Sleep,” Crystal Gayle
Wooly Bully
“Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro”
Numbers are the beginning of the lyrics, please.
“Seasons of Love” from Rent:
“Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes”
Neil Young, “One of These Days” (Harvest Moon)
One of these days
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
Eagles, “One of These Nights.”
Thanks, mhendo.
Brewer and Shipley “One toke over the line, Sweet Jesus, one toke over line”
Two of us riding nowhere… (Beatles)
Three hours from sundown… (Nick Drake)
Four seasons in one day… (Crowded House)
“Two Good Men,” Woody Guthrie
“Four Seasons In One Day,” Crowded House
“Eight Miles High,” The Byrds.
If you’re willing to consider opera: Le nozze di Figaro: Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta, trentasei, quarantatre. (Five, ten, twenty, thirty, thirty-six, forty-three.)
You can consider that as the beginning of the entire opera, or just the first number (duet).
867-5309, Tommy Tutone
853-5937, Squeeze
One two three, Miami Sound Machine
Free four, Pink Floyd: “one two free four…” That one may be a stretch.
“Five to one, one to five” The Doors
“Seven Days” - Sting
“Seventy-six trombones led the big parade…”
5-4-3-2-1, Manfred Mann
9 AM, Londonbeat
Three is a magic number
One world is enough, for all of us… (Sting)
one…two…three…
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
"One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse
“One fine morning, girl, I’ll wake up, wipe the sleep from my eyes…”