How many songs start out with a number?

Damn you.

All right, then, “73 men sailed up / from the San Francisco Bay…”

“Ride Captain Ride”, by Blues Image.

4 + 20 - Stephen Stills

Four and twenty years ago, I come into this life,
The song of a woman and a man who lived in strife.
He was tired of being poor and he wasn’t into selling door to door
And he worked like the devil to be more.
A different kind of poverty now upsets me so.

“One More Night”, Phil Collins

Looks like you’ll be cursing Biffy the Elephant Shrew, too.

“One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight…” Slip Kid/The Who

Dammit! I read the damn thread twice and still somehow missed that. :mad:

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young- Ohio
“10 soldiers and Nixon Coming…”

That’s “tin” soldiers.

“Four in the morning, came without a warning…”** Four In The Morning**, Night Ranger

Ringo Starr’s “Six O’Clock” begins with the same two words.

One Way or Another by Blondie; title is first words of the song.
In Robbie Dupree’s Hot Rod Hearts, the song begins “Ten miles east of the highway . . .”

Kraftwerk - Numbers

The lyrics are just counting in various languages.

ETA:

Eins, zwei, drei, vier
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht
Uno, due
Três, quatro
One, two
Ichi, ni, san, chi
Adjin, dva, tri
Li, tva, tri

Got one! :smiley:

16 Candles

The Crests were the group. Four Seasons and Jackson 5 covered it later.

2nd verse starts…
16 candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight (as your eyes tonight) (Oh)
Blow out the candles, make your wish come true

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFW8BKLrO7DI&ved=0ahUKEwiBj5uFxsDOAhXEKyYKHdCRCXwQ3ywIHDAA&usg=AFQjCNErGXGjLRn5azpWs87H_UvS9DdAQg

Four Seasons actually start the song singing 16 Candles over and over again.

They don’t sing the Happy Birthday line like The Crests did.

Four Strong Winds
Sixty Minute Man
One Hundred Years from Today (The Byrds)
One Night (Elvis)
One Great Love (The Five Keys) I know you’ve never heard of it but you should, check it out on Youtube
Seven Days (Joe Cocker)
Eighteen Yellow Roses
The Ten Commandments of Love

Billy Joel’s *A Matter of Trust *has a count in, but sung stylistically, not just grunting into the song …
One, two … a-one, two, three, four …

The Police’s “Invisible Sun” might count – after about 10 seconds of synth sounds, Sting monotonically counts off six measures (as opposed to beats). The drums and guitar enter at “1”.

I cheated by sorting my music collection by song and going to the numbers section. That turned up:

1234” by Feist (“1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more / Sleepless long nights, that is what my youth was for”)
10:15 Saturday Night” by The Cure (“10:15 on a Saturday night / And the tap drips under the strip light” (those are the lyrics to the version on Boys Don’t Cry; other versions have other lyrics))

“76 Trombones”

Extra points if you can spell the composer’s name.

Lol I was just thinking that.

But how can you bring up the Ramones and not mention Twenty twenty twenty fours hours ago