Songs where the title is only sung once, as the first line of the song

Bowie - Fantastic Voyage

4. Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying

In the event that this fantastic voyage...

No Danger Bird, no credibility

grateful dead - dark star

THROUGH SILVER IN BLOOOOOOOOD

guided by voices - 14 cheerleader coldfront
guided by voices - chicken blows
guided by voices - crutch came slinking
guided by voices - hey aardvark

quite possibly a couple hundred more gbv songs. "couple hundred" meant literally.

Thought of another one...

Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One

Genesis - Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist

I'm sure he sings 'come as you are' more than once?

Blur - Mr Robinson's Quango - I hate the way that song starts 'Oh Mr Robinson.... And his quango'

The Divine Comedy - Through A Long And Sleepless Night

the Who - "Happy Jack"

Wire - Start to Move

more Who - "Cut My Hair," "New Song," "Out in the Street," "Sea and Sand."

All there is is another "Come doused in mud"

I like that songwriting trick.
I don't have any example in mind, though.
It comes from opera, I think ?

Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"

Unless the non-word "oohs" that start the song are considered the first line.

...or unless you count the "Darlin' don't you go and" part either.

yeah, "cut your hair" doesn't work.

All I've come up with is "Mornin'" by Al Jarreau.

pavement song you're thinking of is 'heaven is a truck'

Leonard Cohen - I Left a Woman Waiting

In Another Land - Rolling Stones
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren

As I Went Out One Morning

Sexual Harrassment - If I Gave You A Party

That doesn't repeat? I know there are variations on the phrase throughout but I'm sure it repeats.

I think the actual phrase that is the title does not repeat, just the variations like "I am giving you a party" and "I guarantee a party", and now I can't stop laughing.

...or unless you count the "Darlin' don't you go and" part either.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Surely "Darlin' don't you go and cut your hair" is the first line, as the thread title requests. Now if it was first words... Bowie's Fantastic Voyage works too.

You Suffer

Phish - Divided Sky

:)

Leonard Cohen - I Tried to Leave You

Blur - Mr Robinson's Quango - I hate the way that song starts 'Oh Mr Robinson.... And his quango'

Blame Ian Curtis, it's a cover of an unreleased Joy Division song.

The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road
Love - Orange Skies
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Sleeper - Lady Love Your Countryside
Elliott Smith - Baby Britain

Blame Ian Curtis, it's a cover of an unreleased Joy Division song.

good one "Long and winding road" : I've never noticed !

Long and Winding Road is totally disqualified! Maybe you can argue that Paul doesn't properly sing 'and' between 'long' and 'winding' the second and third times, but this is really against the spirit of the survey.

how about 'my definition of a boombastic jazz style' ?

regarding TLAWR, ok, I see your point (and maybe that's why I never noticed that before).
that said, yeah, he doesn't sing the exact same words and also he doesn't sing them on the same part of the melody as the first time.
anyway, it's clearly not the bast example !

best example

really ? I've also always hated that song.

No, it was a ridiculous lie. I was just amused by the idea of Curtis singing it. "Oooh...he's got herpes...oh I'm a naughty, naughty boy"

eheh, would have been... interesting !

i am one by the pumpkins doesn't qualify either, the chorus also includes the title

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh yeah, you're right re: I am one

I think long and winding road counts, it's not the exact title later on

Blink 182 -- All the small things

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Spoon, "Anything You Want."

Led Zeppelin - "In the Evening"

Weezer's "El Scorcho" I believe

Jane's Addiction, "Been Caught Stealing" (I think...)

"Lesson in Survival" by Joni Mitchell

Leonard Cohen has a few, right? "Sisters of Mercy" prob.

Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart

The other verses change heart to hand

Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols

gonna be pedantic and point out that most of these titles are not the entire first line.

If it's the first x words of the first line, it's good.

If it's the last x lines, or there are words before the title, it's not.

Yay I've got one !
Dylan - As I Went Out One Morning

Reviving this thread because Madonna's "Take a Bow" came on the radio this morning and that works here.

"My Name Is Jonas" is a 3rd variant of these two threads, the song title is sung exactly twice as the first line and last line.

Just heard another obscure song come across my playlist:

Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words

"Heaven is a Truck" -- Pavement

The White Stripes have a bunch of these.

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman (except for a "well")
Now Mary

A few others...

Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

Abbey Road Beatles..

You Never Give Me Your Money
Mean Mr. Mustard
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Los Campesinos! - 5 Flucloxacillin
The Microphones - My Roots are Strong and Deep

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life

Bumping for Patty Loveless - "I Try to Think About Elvis"

Just heard this on the radio.. Mike Posner, "I Took a Pill in Ibiza"