Word(s) that only ever appeared in one (hit) song, ever.

"Beelzebub" (and probably various Italian opera words) - "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

"Moet et Chandon" (and possibly "extraordinarily," "fastidious," "etiquete" and/or "gelatin," though probably not all of the above) -- "Killer Queen" by Queen

""tumble"

You call THAT an unusual word?!? Already, Top 40 hits by Culture Club and Ziggy Marley come to mind... "

And how could I have forgotten the Stones (whose "Tumblin' Dice" is WAY superior to these other two songs I alluded to above)?

"fuzzy" in "All Shook Up" sung by Elvis Presley.
"milkround" in "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)" by Benny Hill.
"sabre-toothed" in "Metal Guru" by Marc Bolan.
"flyer" in "January" by Pilot.
"helmet" in "Space Oddity" by David Bowie.
"combine harvester" in "The Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.
"mull" (in the Gaelic sense) in "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings.

"gunnysack"? (Johnny B. Goode)

"fuzzy" in "All Shook Up" sung by Elvis Presley.

"Filthy/Gorgeous" by Scissor Sisters.

"contradiction" and "chameleon" in "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club.
"reflex", "bruise", and "Renoir" in "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.
"reet" in "Reet Petite" by Jackie Wilson.

"reflex" is in fondly remembered Will Smith movie tie-in smash "Wild Wild West"

"Spaghetti-Os" -- "This One's For the Girls," Martina McBride

(xpost) So it does - although all I can remember is Cartman's "wiki-wiki-wiki-wild-wild-west-artemus frog" version. And the giant mechanical spider.

"reet petite" is in "Jackie Wilson Said" by Dexys.

"bruise" - Natasha Bedingfield "I Bruise Easily"

"bruise" - Natasha Bedingfield "I Bruise Easily"

-- ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

"Bruise/Pristine/Serene/We were born to lose"

sorry, that was a response to snoball claiming it was just in The Reflex.

^^^ Ah, so it ("reet petite") does (appear in that Dexy's song), right at the beginning of the song too! (several xposts)

"shroud", "backwash", "carbon", and "alignment" from "Sound Of The Crowd" by Human League.
"capitalise" and "socialistic" from "Yellow Pearl" by Phil Lynott.

Ah but Dexy's got it wrong and sang "It was real you see"..

I've just gone and listened to the record and it does sound like "it was real you see". Excuse anyway for the TOTP "Jockey Wilson" clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eCOll4T-zo

what about the Van Morrison version? I'm sure that's reet petite as well.

Errrrr, I don't have the VM version, so I had to search on the 'Tube for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnxmGzQ2Mo
Yep, Van the Man definately sings it as "reet petite". Kevin Rowland's not exactly known for singing clearly - took me ages to work out what he was singing on "Geno"!

"placenta" - "Lightning Crashes" / Live

copacetic - Local H ("Bound for the Floor")

Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie wasn't really a hit song. The lead track was A Century Of Fakers. I stand by my buck-toothed.

Luftballons, all 99 of them. Nena.

"camber sands" "harold robbins" and "mantlepiece" all from Squeeze ("Pulling Muscles")

^^^mussels

"Double jeu" and "Yherushalaim" in Army Of Lovers' "Crucified",

"Filet mignon" in Ciara's "1,2 Step",

"Bourgeoisie" in Madonna's "Music".

"Et cetera" in Eleanor by The Turtles

"Hypermediocrity" - "Emerge" by Fischerspooner

I love that there are other fans of that Cymarron song here.

Here were the rest:
accomplished - dunno that Jah Wobble song; I was going for Tavares, "It Only Takes a Minute"
carbon - "Ride the Tiger" and "Woodstock"
gunnin' - "Do It Again"
misconstrued - "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
prefix - Smokey/Miracles, "Yesterlove"
vibes - Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"
whippoorwill - "Phila. Freedom"

"Depoliticise", "linoleum", "bompalompalomp", "ramalamadingdong" in Le Tigre's "Deceptacon".

"ramalamadingdong" is also in "ramalamadingdong" Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.

"Sericulture" from Being Boiled by Human League

(I suspect) "Argonauts" from Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might be Giants

"Toulouse" from State of the Nation by New Order.

xp to Joseph mcCombs

'whippoorwill' appears in 'I'm So Lonesome I could Cry'

vibes - Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"

"One (Always Hardcore)" by Scooter

Sericulture is good...
Also from the League 'dehumanisation (is a very big word, it's been around since Richard the third)' can't remember the song.......

Has "backhander" ever been used elsewhere than in Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way"?

Scritti Politti may have others that fit in this thread too. Although "Aretha Franklin" has been namechecked in at least one Steely Dan hit as well.

Anyway, "Chocolate Cake" by Crowded House is the only song that namechecks Andrew Lloyd Webber, or at least the only one expressing the wish that Lloyd Webbers trousers fall down when he bows to the queen and the crowd. :)

"Mork and Mindy"

Doo-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-doo

C'mon, does wacky jibberish really count?

Mogey-pah

copacetic - Local H ("Bound for the Floor")

There was a song called "Copasetic" by The Rulers, available on the Club Ska '67 comp. I don't know if that counts as a hit. It's a crucial song.

'oceanography' In The Navy

"tardis" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords.
"twister" in "Man On The Moon" by REM.

"salute" in "School's Out" by Alice Cooper.

"excitations" in "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys. The things I will do to avoid work...

"For those about to rock, we ______ you" AC/DC

What's that flyin up there
is it a bird?
is it a plane?
or is it a _____
(Chubby Checker, let's twist again)

"bosh bosh bosh, loadsamoney" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords.

"hookah", "chessboard", "mushroom", "caterpillar", and "doormouse" in "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.

"skibobble" in "I Wish" by Skee Lo.

"Notwithstanding" and "contractual" in Legal Man by B&S
"Brewers droop", "gut lord" and "porklife" in Parklife by Blur
"Terylene" in Filmstar by Suede

And I'm not sure this counts, but
"Cemetry" and "plague-arise"

Didn't Loadsamoney have a hit song called Loadsamoney? (x-p)