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Songs, Number One Hits even, that do not 'repeat' the title (i.e. have the title in the lyrics once only)...

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I'd start off with a number one hit, but right now I can't think of one.

Hmmm.....

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

there's an element of desperation about all of this.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Queen 'Innuendo'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Hey, it's christmas. What's desperate? Apart from oh all my shopping days are taken up by WORK!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Not all number ones but:

'Virginia Plain'- Roxy Music
'Up The Junction' - Squeeze
'Just Like Heaven' - The Cure
'Manhattan Skyline' - Aha

The title is only sung once and as the last line of the song in each case.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

"A Different Corner" by George Michael

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

'Careless Whisper' too.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

depending on whether you think it's arising or rising in the first line 'Bad Moon Rising' CCR

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Funnily enough, it was watching Katie Melua doing a cover version of "Just like Heaven" this morning that prompted this thread of thought..

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

See, my first thought was "String Bean Jean" by Belle and Sebastian, but I thought I'd try and think of a number one single first, rather than an EP track.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Why, the very song I'm listening to right now: "Southern Hospitality", by Ludacris.

― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Katie Melua doing a cover version of "Just like Heaven"

*vomits*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

It didn't work, basically.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

George Michael did this on "Praying For Time" too, didn't he?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Phil Collins, "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

stevem's first answer OTM

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I can't resist.

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same
Pink Floyd: Have A Cigar
Built To Spill: Stab
Beatles: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Nirvana: All Apologies

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Mark, you don't know a damn thing about music. Get a life.

― God Markm, you don't know anything., Monday, 12 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Mark, you don't know a damn thing about music. Get a life.

― God Mark, you don't know anything., Monday, 12 December 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

dude, like every freakin' shins song ever

― running in circles (running in circles), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Gibson, "Foolish Beat" (which I'm convinced she only titled that way b/c she thought of "Careless Whisper" and thought "oh that's cool")

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

probably 843,917 songs, but the one that comes immediately to mind for some reason is the jam's "start."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 12 December 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Peter Murphy - "All Night Long"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Enya - "Orinoco Flow"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

i was going to say 'o superman' but she sings it twice not once

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Green Day - "Geek Stink Breath"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
The Nails - "88 Lines About 44 Women"
Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"

and aha, a genuine #1 hit! Herb Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You".

America comes so close with "Sister Golden Hair." It still has that great feel of a once-mentioned title, but it does it twice. Oh well.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Another #1 that does it exactly once: George Michael (yet again), "One More Try"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Ah, George has obviously found a secret to getting number one hits!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

One that should have been a bigger hit: Justin Hayward/Moody Blues, "Forever Autumn."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams," #1 in 1977.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)


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