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Weekend Music (FNM): One Word Song Titles

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Post your favorite songs containing one word titles! Last week's theme didn't result in a large number of entries -- this one may go the opposite direction, so to narrow it a bit -- you'll get

BONUS POINTS if the word is also one syllable!



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    I was a big fan of these guys.



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    (Triple points to @foodonastump for posting one word, one syllable songs called ONE)




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    Broadway version

    Agony, from Into the Woods

    Somewhere, America, Tonight and Maria from West Side Story

    Johanna from Sweeney Todd

    I guess Sondheim liked them short)

    Popular from Wicked

    Stars from Les Mis

    Bill from Showboat

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    One syllable artist and song:

    Two syllable title:

    Both from the album, "Guero"

    From the album "Odelay":

    He considers "Hotwax" to be one word.

    Beck is perhaps my favorite artist.

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    Listing them is easier. This is just a few, I can think of dozens and dozens:

    Moonshadow - Cat Stevens

    Grease - In the film but written by The Bee Gees

    Lodi - Creedence Clearwater

    Gold - John Stewart

    Hurricane - Bob Dylan

    Genesis - Jorma Kaukanon

    Banua - Kingston Trio

    Sueño - The Rascals (Yes, I know it means dream in Spanish)

    Aqualung - Jethro Tull

    Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield


    Timothy - The Buoys, written by Rupert Holmes. Decent song boomers should remember but with a great back story. A struggling composer and band couldn't get attention from the record industry establishment to promote them, so he decided to write a song so subtlety controversial that it would be banned by some radio stations and thereby attract attention. It worked! Listen to the song and follow along the lyrics to chuckle at the creativity.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDu5LBT8_Y


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    Three syllables but great song.


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    Looking forward to the reopening of the cathedral,



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    arcy, I suspect you probably don't know that Cohen's song Hallelujah is not an expression of belief. He had personal struggles to find belief and never arrived at doing so in a conventional sense and died, as most describe, an atheist. The song contains many verses describing intimate situations between two people that likely you may not appreciate hearing. Cut them out and what remains is vanilla and not what Cohen intended for its meaning.

    In a similar vein, I once overheard a conversation between two people who I would describe politely as WAAY too enthusiastic about being religious believers. One brought up the Jefferson Starship song "Miracles" and, being fooled by the title, wondered if it had possible use for its spiritual applicability. The lyrics start "If only you believe like I believe, we'll get by" and that becomes the main lyrics of the chorus.

    The other person, who was apparently familiar with the song, replied very quickly "NO!". The first one further explored what he knew about the song and the second again replied "NO, the lyrics are obscene". I don't find them obscene but again, there are several sections that describe events and feelings concerning private moments between two people.

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    The song was written and sung by Marty Balin of the group and I think it's one of his best.

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    Here's a version by Cohen. The deity he refers to is the Lord of Song. Follow the lyrics if you're interested, it's on the You Tube page. Click on the YouTube symbol to go to the full page



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    One more…I could listen to these two all day long.


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