"25" Songs

As of yesterday, my wife is 25 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's a collection of 25 songs with the number "25" either in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Yeah, I'm getting a little desperate in attempting to continue this ongoing series, but still... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Chicago  ~  "25 Or 6 To 4"

2)  Michael Learns To Rock  ~  "25 Minutes"

3)  Mary J. Blige  ~  "25/8"

4)  Johnny Cash  ~  "25 Minutes To Go"

5)  The Hooters  ~  "25 Hours A Day"

6)  Artists For Haiti  ~  "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

7)  Edwin Starr  ~  "25 Miles"

8)  Sammy Davis, Jr.  ~  "I Am Over 25, But You Can Trust Me"

9)  Zager & Evans  ~  "In The Year 2525"

10)  4 Non Blondes  ~  "What's Up"

11)  10CC  ~  "One, Two, Five"

12)  Kansas  ~  "Two Cents Worth"

13)  Janis Joplin  ~  "Kozmic Blues"

14)  Sugar Ray  ~  "Fly"

15)  Smash Mouth  ~  "Walkin' On The Sun"

16)  Vitamin C  ~  "Graduation (Friends Forever)"

17)  Megadeth  ~  "Of Mice And Men"

18)  Mungo Jerry  ~  "In The Summertime"

19)  Bruce Dickinson  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

20)  India.Arie & Raul Midón  ~  "Back To The Middle"

21)   David Gray  ~  "Nightblindness"

22)  The Highwaymen  ~  "City Of New Orleans"

23)  Night Ranger   ~  "The Secret Of My Success"

24)  Tori Amos  ~  "Curtain Call"

25)  ZZ Top  ~  "I Gotsta Get Paid"

"Sister" Songs

Here's the counterpart to the previous post, a collection of songs about sisters. Which of the two posts will be applicable to our family? We'll see... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Train  ~  "Hey, Soul Sister"

2)  Queens Of The Stone Age  ~  "Little Sister"

3)  Night Ranger  ~  "Sister Christian"

4)  Neville Brothers  ~  "Sister Rosa"

5)  Andrew Belle  ~  "Sister"

6)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Little Sister / Get Back"

7)  Rosemary Clooney & Vera Ellen  ~  "Sisters"

8)  America  ~  "Sister Golden Hair"

9)  The Cult  ~  "Sweet Soul Sister"

10)  Mumford & Sons  ~  "Sister"

11)  Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds  ~  "Sister"

12)  Kate Nash  ~  "Sister"

13)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  "Sister"

14)  Indigo Girls  ~  "Beauty Queen Sister"

15)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  "Sister"

16)  Lady Antebellum  ~  "Slow Down, Sister"

17)  Jewel  ~  "Little Sister"

18)  The Nixons  ~  "Sister"

19)  Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble  ~  "Look At Little Sister"

20)  Eurythmics ft. Aretha Franklin  ~  "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves"

Popular Songs Of 1984

And now we reach the music of my generation. This is hardly a comprehensive list*, but I think it's a very good collection of popular songs, all of which were released in 1984. Hard to believe some of these songs are 30 years old. It seems like only yesterday! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson  ~  "Say Say Say"

2)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  "Time After Time"

3)  Lionel Richie  ~  "Hello"

4)  Deniece Williams  ~  "Let's Hear It For The Boy"

5)  Ray Parker, Jr.  ~  "Ghostbusters"

6)  Pointer Sisters  ~  "Jump (For My Love)"

7)  Culture Club  ~  "Karma Chameleon"

8)  Nena  ~  "99 Luftballons"

9)  John Waite  ~  "Missing You"

10)  Eurythmics  ~  "Here Comes The Rain Again"

11)  The Romantics  ~  "Talking In Your Sleep"

12)  Bananarama  ~  "Cruel Summer"

13)  Thompson Twins  ~  "Hold Me Now"

14)  Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton  ~  "Islands In The Stream"

15)  Rockwell  ~  "Somebody's Watching Me"

16)  Pat Benatar  ~  "We Belong"

17)  The Cars  ~  "You Might Think"

18)  Mike Reno & Ann Wilson  ~  "Almost Paradise"

19)  Billy Joel  ~  "Uptown Girl"

20)  Night Ranger  ~  "Sister Christian"

21)  Corey Hart  ~  "Sunglasses At Night"

22)  Genesis  ~  "That's All"

23)  Chicago  ~  "Hard Habit To Break"

24)   Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson  ~  "To All The Girls I've Loved Before"

25)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Thriller"

*Apologies to Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It?", Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)", Van Halen's "Jump", and Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You", all of which were hit songs released in 1984 that I've posted on this blog recently. Some of the songs I did include ARE repeats, but were previously posted much longer ago than the ones mentioned above.