xp elo's "calling america" mentions the 747
Saxon, "747 (Strangers in the Night)", reached No. 13, 1980
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
'Shipfitter' and 'iodine' in Guy Marks' "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" (which unlike most of the songs on this thread was a hit single)
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
'iodine' also turns up in tennessee jed by the grateful dead:
I dropped four flights and cracked my spine,Honey, come quick with the iodine
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:10 (eleven years ago) link
and iodine by l cohen
― conrad, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
"insinuating" in Ciara's "Goodies"?
― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Glasgow" is in dozens of songs, some of them hits - eg. "Helen Wheels" by Wings and "Town to Town" by Microdisney.
― everything, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Microdisney had a hit?
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
and speaking of Steve Miller, does any other song have a 707 in it? Or any other specific model of airplane for that matter? (there are a few songs with LearJets in them, but that's just a manufacturer's name, like Boeing or Lockheed, not a specific model)― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:23 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:23 (1 week ago) Permalink
"I came from the sky/Like a seven forty-seven"Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
Census!
(Sparks, obv)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
and speaking of Steve Miller, does any other song have a 707 in it? Or any other specific model of airplane for that matter? (there are a few songs with LearJets in them, but that's just a manufacturer's name, like Boeing or Lockheed, not a specific model)― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:23 (1 week ago)
Far East Movement: "Like a G6"CCR: "Travelling Band" ("747 comin' out of the sky...")
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
"Electrician" in Beastie Boys' "Ch-Check It Out"
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
CCR say "737" actually. It is probable Fogerty had never seen a 747 when he recorded that song, since the plane was introduced into commercial service the same month "Travelin' Band" was released.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Mezzanine" in Soul Coughing's "Super Bon Bon"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
(Mezzanine is in belle and sebatian's 'century of elvis', but that wasn't a single)
i heard a song with 'urinal' in it on the radio this morning, but can't remember what it was.
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Improbably, "Mezzanine" appears in "Thrift Shop!"
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
Bupkis (or it might be "buttkiss") in Bran Van 3000's Drinking in LA
― MarkoP, Monday, 12 August 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
"fruit-cage" in "Sledgehammer"
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
"hornyback toad" from "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," surely.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
morrissey's "the boy racer," perhaps? do they still play that on the radio?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 12 August 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
it was, yes
― koogs, Monday, 12 August 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
and speaking of Steve Miller, does any other song have a 707 in it? Or any other specific model of airplane for that matter? (there are a few songs with LearJets in them, but that's just a manufacturer's name, like Boeing or Lockheed, not a specific model)― Lee626, Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:23 PM (3 weeks ago)
― Lee626, Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:23 PM (3 weeks ago)
Fairly certain that Paul Pena's original (not a hit) says 747, not sure why Steve went retro.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 August 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Biscayne" and "Leafs" (not leaves) in Joni's "Raised on Robbery", maybe?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 19 August 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
"Biscayne" also in Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu," though it wasn't a hit.
― Josefa, Monday, 19 August 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
The Rolling Stones posted the first two verses of "Bitch" on FB today. Learned that "fortnight" is in the first one.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
The '57 Biscayne in "Raised on Robbery" is an anachronism - Chevrolet didn't begin production of Biscaynes until 1958. I wonder if Joni (a) wasn't aware of this, (b) didn't care, or (c) was just taking artistic licence because '57 Chevys are so much cooler than '58s....
― Lee626, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
"'57 Bel Air" would scan.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
Undertones' My Perfect Cousin must have a few... "Human League", "university challenge" Originally I thought Subbuteo, but then I remembered Half Man Half Biscuit's All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit, which also has Scalextric, "Dodgy transformer".
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Biscayne" is in Drake's "The Motto"
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
"recipe" and "striped" (pronounced strip-ed) on "MacArthur Park." Rihanna scooped up "icing" though.
"Cherokee" on "Indian Reservation." Maybe "beads."
"astral plane" on "Dream Weaver"? Ah, damn, nope. "Bring the Pain" hit #4 on US Rap. Nice to imagine Gary Wright and Method Man owning the same issues of Doctor Strange though.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 October 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
"Half Breed" by Cher (among other hits maybe) has "Cherokee," too.
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
Is Royals the only hit song that has ever had the phrase "post code" in it?
― MarkoP, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
"Recipe" is in "Lilac Wine," a hit single by Elkie Brooks in 1979, also recorded by Jeff Buckley and Miley Cyrus.
"Recipe" is also in "What Love Is Made Of" by Katy B.
"Cherokee" and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" are jazz-pop standards.
― Josefa, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Plus, technically speaking, "strip-ed" is also in Donna Summer's hit version of that song.
― Josefa, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
'Recipe(s)' is in Joni Mitchell's "Raised On Robbery" (which only went to #65 US anyway)
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 October 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
This word will most certainly be popping up on the charts via Katy Perry sometime soon, but 'Prism' in "Joanne" by Michael Nesmith (#21 US in 1970)
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 October 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I sort of knew all those were going to be duds when I posted them. All part of the fun I guess.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 October 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
"injustice" in "Easy To Be Hard." "Social injustice," no less...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 December 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
"social injustice" appears in Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation.
― everything, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
"trigonometry" from Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World".
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Also puts in a forgettable appearance on will.i.am's ''T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)'' but that peaked at #36 and I'm not convinced anybody in the world remembers it, so ''hit'' is probably a stretch.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
was that the one with (yeesh) Jagger on it?
if so, not a hit. forgotten dud already.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahhaa, yes, that one.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
I think "Ancoats" only appears in "Matchstalk Men etc"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Has there ever been a hit single version of 'This Old Man'? If not, I'm going to nominate Pop Muzik by M as the only hit to include 'knick knack paddy whack'
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:10 (ten years ago) link
Is Ultravox's Vienna the only hit song to include the word 'pizzicato'?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
sometimes I have an idle reverie about being hired to write the lyrics for the X-Factor winner's song, and writing a lyric composed entirely of words from this thread
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link
or comprised, even
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:23 (ten years ago) link
wtf you took seven minutes to decide to replace the right word with the wrong one
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
'Club Country' by the Associates has 'refrigeration' and 'soldered', both of which feel like they might be contenders?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link