Monster with most songs written about?

[alterego]

From Wikipedia’s List of famous monsters:

*Ordered by most allmusic results
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*Monster		Google `lyrics Monster'		allmusic `Monster'
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*Monster		1930000				164
*Frankenstein		528000				147
*Bigfoot		297000				121
*King Kong		325000				107
*Zombie			1550000				88
*Godzilla		521000				80
*Sphinx			222000				70
*Dracula		584000				68
*Medusa			337000				54
*Mummie|Mummy		526000				37
*Jabberwocky|wock	47400				23
*Hydra			420				21
*Bogeyman|Boogyman	58100				16
*Gorgon			30400				12
*Grendel		68100				10
*Loch Ness monster	105000				9
*Golem			127000				7
*Cthulhu		105000				3
*Kraken			26600				3
*Scylla			44800				2
*Flying Spaghetti	23700				0
*Tarasque		627				0

[Gary_Robson]

@RMuldrake

Does anyone know which monster has had the most songs written about him/her? Dracula, the mummy, Frankenstein, witches?

Frankenstein wasn’t a monster. Frankenstein was a scientist (doctor) who created a monster.

[Scott_Plaid]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Och! Nae wee Nessie? Fra’ shaaaaame!

Cough

@The Police

Daddy only stares into the distance
There’s only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime at the
Bottom of a dark Scottish lake
<snip>
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface of a dark Scottish lake
<snip>
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the
Shore of a dark Scottish lake

[Johanna]

“Must be the season of the Witch…”
(Donovan)

[tracer]

How come we’re leaving out Cookie Monster?

[LiveOnAPlane]

@InvisibleWombat

Frankenstein wasn’t a monster. Frankenstein was a scientist (doctor) who created a monster.

True enough.

Slightly off tpoic, but I just got through with a book by Dean Koontz about Frankenstein & his monster, and the monster is the hero. Frankenstein, however, really is a monster (just MHO), and not just because of his actions!

So to get back on track, if Koontz is right ( ) then we had it wrong all these years!

[Crandolph]

@alterego

From Wikipedia’s List of famous monsters

The problem there is that AllMusic doesn’t (couldn’t) live up to the name. The vast majority of small pressing novelty singles from the most relevant time period won’t be in there. The Google approach is likely too broad. As good as anything else for ballparking I guess.

How come we’re leaving out Cookie Monster?

Surely you mean A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food Monster? "What are you trying to do, kill our children?!" :rolleyes:

[whitetho]

@gotpasswords

AFAIK, there’s only been one song written about the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people-eater.

Joe South’s “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor” reached #47 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958.

[Rico]

<mod>

At this point I think this thread is Cafe Society material.

Let me strum it on over there.

</mod>

[Walloon]

Nightmare City has the biggest monster-song discography I’ve seen on the Web. Scroll down to “Halloweenish Songs” and “Halloweenish EPs/Singles” about one-fifth the way down.