Songs About Numbers, Vol. 2

Here's another set of Songs About Numbers that you can "count" on to enjoy! Ready, set, go!  ~  JH

1)  The Drifters  ~  “You’re More Than A Number In My Little Red Book”

2)  Tove Styrke  ~  “Number One”

3)  Blind Melon  ~  “Three Is A Magic Number”

4)  Sara Bareilles  ~  “Door Number Three”

5)  The Cribs  ~  “Another Number”

6)  Goldfrapp  ~  “Number 1”

7)  The Knack  ~  “Your Number Or Your Name”

8)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  “Heartaches By The Number”

9)  Bachman-Turner Overdrive  ~  “Lookin’ Out For #1”

10)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “Take My Number”

11)  Lou Bega  ~  “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…)”

12)  William Bell & Texas  ~  “Private Number”

13)  Travis Tritt  ~  “Looking Out For Number One”

14)  Skye Sweetnam  ~  “Number One”

15)  Bryan Adams  ~  “Cloud Number 9”

16)  Carole King  ~  “Lookin’ Out For Number One”

17)  Portugal. The Man ft. Richie Havens & Son Little  ~  “Number One”

18)  Brenda Lee  ~  “Fool Number 1”

19)  James Blunt  ~  “Lose My Number”

20)  Princess  ~  “Say I’m Your Number One”

21)  Stereophonics  ~  “I Got Your Number”

22)  Noah Gundersen  ~  “Number One Hit Of The Summer (Fade Out)”

23)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Number One Blind”

24)  Phil Collins  ~  “Don’t Lose My Number”

25)  Jeff Healey  ~  “Cruel Little Number”

“Lousy” Songs

Here's a bunch of "Lousy" Songs for your listening...umm...pleasure? Actually, they're all pretty good, considering. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Knack   ~  “Another Lousy Day In Paradise”

2)  Amy LaVere  ~  “Lousy Pretender”

3)  Never Shout Never  ~  “Lousy Truth”

4)  Naomi Hooley  ~  “Lousy Lover”

5)  Alaska  ~  “Lousy Night”

6)  Shivaree  ~  “Daring Lousy Guy”

7)  Walter Etc.  ~  “Every Lousy Paradise”

8)  Destrends  ~  “Lousy Lover”

9)  Queens Of Everything  ~  “Lousy Saturday”

10)  The Wailing Walls  ~  “Lousy Excuse”

11)  We Are Scientists  ~  “Lousy Reputation”

12)  Alex Khaskin  ~  “Lousy Thief”

13)  Happy Camper ft. Helge Slikker  ~  “All These Lousy Conversations”

14)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “Lousy Haircut”

15)  Redline Addiction  ~  “He’s Not A Bad Friend, Just A Lousy Lover”

16)  Picture  ~  “Lousy Lady”

17)  Cheap Girls  ~  “Lousy”

18)  Julia Kahn  ~  “Cupid Is A Lousy Shot”

19)  Wolf Parade  ~  “Lousy Pictures”

20)  The Murder Of My Sweet  ~  “Kind Of Lousy”

Songs With Women's Names In The Titles – Pre-1980, Vol. 1

This is part one of what will be a six-part series, albeit in various categories for each set of entries. The first installment covers half of all the pre-1980 songs with women's names in the titles that I've gathered. You might call it the "Oldies Edition," although some of the '70s songs here feel a lot more recent than they actually are. If you see a song I left out, don't yell at me yet. There's a part 2 to this one. And there are 2 parts forthcoming for post-1980 songs with women's names in the titles. Then there are 2 posts forthcoming – not separated out by years – of songs with men's names in the titles. If all 6 parts have come out and you still feel I've missed a vital song, you may then feel free to yell at me. 

Thank you to Carol, David, Wanda, Martha, Don, Daniel, Martina, Kevin, Penny, Melanie, and Angela for all your contributions via Facebook in advance of these posts. At least one of your suggestions made the final cut of 90 songs! For those of you who suggested songs that didn't make the cut, I truly appreciate your input – I just had to limit myself somewhere, or else these posts could go on for weeks and weeks! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Rod Stewart  ~  "Maggie May"

2)  Barry Manilow  ~  "Mandy"  (This might be the only Manilow song I ever post here – I'm not a huge fan – but this is a good song, so here it is.)

3)  Wilson Pickett  ~  "Mustang Sally"

4)  Ritchie Valens  ~  "Donna"

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5)  The Turtles  ~  "Elenore"

6)  Paul Anka  ~  "Diana"

7)  Ram Jam  ~  "Black Betty"

8)  The Knack  ~  "My Sharona"

9)  The Beach Boys  ~  "Help Me, Rhonda"

10)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Proud Mary"

11)  Neil Diamond  ~  "Sweet Caroline"

12)  The Police  ~  "Roxanne"

13)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Layla"  (Music purists might be annoyed at me for including Clapton's "Unplugged" version of this song instead of the original Derek And The Dominos rock-n-roll version – but this is the one I prefer, so...yeah.)

14)  Neil Sedaka  ~  "Oh, Carol"

15)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Rhiannon"