SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"
Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"

are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?

Jeremih - 773 LOVE

This doesn't count but Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."

Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.

arggghh of course... dunno what i was thinking... it was late.

Bryan says sorry but the traffic was bad

don't forget The B-52s "6060-842". Which is a weird way to format a local US telephone number circa 1979.

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):

Pink Floyd - “The Trial”
The Five Du-Tones - “Divorce Court”
Wynonie Harris - “Good Morning Judge”
Bessie Smith - “Send Me to the Electric Chair”
NWA - “Fuck the Police”

Bob Dylan - “Percy’s Song”

Skeeter Davis - “Set Him Free”

Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women

Violent Femmes
Girls

Das Damen

Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot You're Hot" has a pretty great courtroom scene. Also about a thousand other country songs about people shooting either their woman or the deputy down. And "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."

George Jones, "Brown to Blue" we stood there in the courthouse room...
the judge pronounced the words

Paul Simon "Adios Hermanos"

Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Mountain Dew" was inspired by his experience as a lawyer:

The lyrics tell the story of a man's first day in court to answer charges of making illegal alcohol. In the first verse, the prosecutor closes his case. In the next three verses, several respected members of the community—the deacon, the doctor, and the conductor—visit the charged man, trying to buy his whiskey.[6] In the final verse, the judge offers the young man clemency if he is willing to pay court costs for the trial.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.

^that Wikipedia summary misses the point though. the punchline of the song is that the judge sets the defendant free in exchange for a taste of his moonshine. "cost" in the last verse doesn't literally mean "court costs"

Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women

Women
Single Mothers
Girl Band

Twisted Sister

Bare naked... no its gone

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):

Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska

Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand

And The Specials - Stupid Marriage

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)

BANG BANG Maxwell's Silver Hammer went down on his head!

“Here Comes the Judge,” Pigmeat Markham ( and other songs with the same name by others)

^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)

"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape

Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:

― i’m still stanning (morrisp)

the space negroes' version of "sex bomb"

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):

― Mr. Snrub

"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday

"arrest, trial, and judgement (joy in the marketplace!)" by harry partch
"good morning judge" by wynonie harris

songs with a falsetto goodbye:

Danny O'Keefe - Falsetto Goodbye
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

The reprise of "So Long, Farewell" from Sound of Music

Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'

^ah, I had a feeling I was missing an incredibly obvious one

The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye

Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger

songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)

songs in which 'yee-ha!' or similar appears apropos of nothing but manages to be perfect:

michael jackson "wanna be startin' somethin'"
björk "big time sensuality"

^
Loudon Wainwright - The Swimming Song

Possible thread for 'off-mic eructations'? Keith Jarrett must be the king of this. Or Mingus.

songs with unearned key changes

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song:

Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (feat. Dobie Gray)
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (feat. Ronnie Spector, who sings the chorus of 'Be My Baby')

The Run DMC version of "Walk This Way".

songs which feature the wilhelm scream

Does Elton John rerecord the vocals for Bennie and Jets on the newest Tribe Called Quest album?

yep!

It kicks off with a sample of John's original recording, a No. 1 hit in 1974, and the final single from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which came out the year before. Then, at the 2:43 mark, after Busta Rhymes helps out in the second verse, the modern-day voice of Elton closes out the song in a duet with Q-Tip. John is credited as a co-writer on "Solid Wall of Sound," which also features his piano.

Steve Winwood insisted on doing this for "Call On Me."'

wait no, the new Elton vocals at the end are a newly written verse, not a reprise of the original song (xpost)

Stephen Stills on Public Enemy's "He Got Game"

Lennon on Elton's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

Bonnie Prince Billy on Johnny Cash's I See A Darkness

Dido on Stan.

Paul Kelly going in-studio for rap group AB Original’s live radio coverpolation of his 26-year-old Dumb Things.

Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test

Wow, I had no idea what "the rabbit done died" meant in Sweet Emotion. Apparently "the rabbit died" was code for "I'm pregnant" in lots of vintage films, and the "rabbit test" was the procedure performed in the days following the aforementioned doctor visits. In actuality the rabbit always died, pregnant or not.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-rabbit-test

yes! thank you for giving me the chance to share this otherwise useless trivia, lol