Tuesday, March 20, 2018

"40" Songs

Yesterday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that number – it's just a number. When my wife was pregnant with our second child, I was doing weekly posts with songs featuring a number in their titles that corresponded with the number of weeks of her pregnancy. Our daughter was born a few days early, so I never got a chance to put together the "40" Songs. For both of those reasons, there's this lengthy post. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “A Pirate Looks At Forty”




2)  Sesame Street  ~  “Forty Blocks From Home”




3)  Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers  ~  “40 Days & 40 Nights”




4)  Royal Crown Revue  ~  “40 Cups Of Coffee”




5)  Alabama  ~  “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’)”




6)  Yonder Mountain String Band  ~  “40 Miles From Denver”




7)  Caedmon’s Call  ~  “40 Acres”




8)  Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks  ~  “40 Days”




9)  U2  ~  “40”




10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  “The Ballad Of Forty Dollars”




11)  The Longing  ~  “40 Days”




12)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Psalms 40:2”




13)  Third Day  ~  “40 Days”




14)  Ricky Skaggs  ~  “Highway 40 Blues”




15)  Dido  ~  “See You When You’re 40”




16)  Johnny Horton  ~  “When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”




17)  Franz Ferdinand ~  “40’”




18)  Duane Eddy  ~  “Forty Miles Of Bad Road”




19)  Vienna Teng  ~  “Love Turns 40”




20)  Chris Norman  ~  “Forty Years On”




21)  The Twilight Singers  ~  “Forty Dollars”




22)  Sophie Tucker  ~  “Life Begins At Forty”




23)  Frank Turner  ~  “Love Forty Down”




24)  Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, & Jonny Lang  ~  “Forty Days And Forty Nights”



25)  Newsong  ~  “Psalm 40”





26)  Eric Johnson  ~  “Forty Mile Town”




27)  Porter Wagoner ft. Christie Lynn  ~  “Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff”




28)  Wire  ~  “Forty Versions”




29)  Cursive  ~  “Dorothy At Forty”




30)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Forty Winks Away”




31)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Forty Days”




32)  Paul Kelly  ~  “Forty Miles To Saturday Night”




33)  The Violet Burning  ~  “40 Weight”




34)  Skinny Lister  ~  “Forty Pound Wedding”




35)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Forty Shades Of Green”




36)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “40 Years In The Wilderness”




37)  Spinning Lucy  ~  “Forty”




38)  Modern Kin  ~  “40 Winks”




39)  John Berry  ~  “Forty Again”




40)  Ray Price  ~  “Forty And Fading”


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