Songs with numbers in the title

Cafe Society
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Undoubtedly, there’s a thread on this somewhere, I just couldn’t find it. Just as undoubtedly, there are a million and a half songs with numbers in the title. For the sake of excluding classical stuff, let’s stick to, say, post-1920.

To start:

99 Luft Balloons by Nena
Pennsylvania 6-5000 by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
Jenny 867-5309 by Tommy Tutone
Three Coins in the Fountain by a ton of different people
One is the Loneliest Number by Three Dog Night (double bonus!)

Ok, the other billion of them?

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25 or 6 to 4?

3

Damn,

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago

One by Metallica

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Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams
9 to 5 by Dolly Parton
1999 by Prince

5

99 bottles of beer on the wall

6

Double damn,

Eight Days a Week, by the Beatles

2112 by Rush (it’s a song, comprised of 7 acts)

Ten Dollar Man, by ZZ Top

Man, I will be here a while…I better make a list and come back later.

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All the various songs by different artists called ‘One’ (U2, Metallica…lots of others.)

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Still the One (Orleans)
Cocktails for Two (Spike Jones)
Two Princes (Spin Doctors)
Free Four (Pink Floyd)
21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson)
December 1964 (Oh What a Night) – (Four Seasons)
Highway 69 (various)
Route 66 (various)
Hymn 43 (Jethro Tull)
Karnevil 9 (Emerson Lake and Palmer)
Six Days on the Road (Taj Mahal, the Youngbloods, and others)
Summer '68 (Pink Floyd)
HCO 97638 (Kak)

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“(Beechwood or) 6345789” (Marvelettes)
“1-900 21 LONELY” - David Grey
“1-900 WORLD” - Leaving Trains
“1-900-2-COMPTON” - N.W.A.
“409”
“606-0842” - B-52’s
“634-5789” - Ry Cooder
“777-9311” - Time
“867-5309/Jenny” - Tommy Tutone
“911 is a Joke” - Public Enemy
“911” - Wyclef Jean
“In the Year 2525”
“PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000” - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
“STAR 69” - R.E.M.
“WHAT’S THE 411?” - Mary J. Blige

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Found a list at [songfacts](http://www.songfacts.com/additionalSearches.lasso?titlequirk=More%20songs
%20with%20numbers%20in%20the%20title) that has quite a few.
JerH I never, ever would have thought of that one. :cool:

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“30 Days in the Hole” – Humble Pie

“Sweet Sixteen” – Billy Idol

“Little Fifteen” – Depeche Mode

“Seven Days” – Cracker

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Hey Capn, does this have anything to do with Trivia Night??

And I kick myself for letting Beadalin beat me to “30 Days in the Hole”!!!

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Why Duke, you’re very clever! I’m going to make the poker game this week come hell or high water.

RealityChuck you could’ve scored super-duper bonus if you’d have pulled out Karnevil 9, 1st Impression, Pt. 2.! Way cool though…I can’t believe I forgot ELP. Thanks much.

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46 & 2 by Tool
3 Libras by APC
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson
Three Marlenas, One Headlight and Sixth Avenue Heartache by the Wallflowers
One by U2
Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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If 6 were 9 - Jimmy Hendrix

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1985 by Bowling for Soup
3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
Broke in Two by They Might Be Giants
(She’s) Sexy and Seventeen by The Stray Cats
16 Tons by Merle Travis (and several others)

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“One Good Man” - Janis Joplin
“One Toke Over the Line” - Seals & Croft (I think, can anyone confirm this?)
“It Takes Two” - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrelle
“Million” - Paul Kantner & Grace Slick
“Three is a Magic Number” & “Figure Eight is Double Four” - School House Rock

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Ohhhhhh. So that’s where the username comes from! I always wondered.

We also have “83” by John Mayer, “1, 2, 3” by Gloria Estefan, and “76 Trombones” from The Music Man.

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7twenty7 by Roxette
7 by Prince and the NPG
Cloud Number Nine by Bryan Adams
All 4 Love by Color Me Badd
19 by Paul Hardcastle
Two Hearts by Phil Collins
1999 by Prince
One is Such a Lonely Number by Roxette (I don’t know if it is a Cover)
Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor
Two Princes by The Spin Doctors
At the Hundredth Meridian by The Tragically Hip
7 Seconds by Youssou N’ Dour

– Just a random selection from my uinclassified MP3’s more to follow later.

-DF

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Oh, and “3 x 5” by the same fellow.

What? Don’t look at me that way!

[/teenybopper]