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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni and James Rado | Bed | Oh the bed. | "Bed" is yet another song from the musical, "Hair". It is a chorus piece performend by the Tribe. It is considered a celebration of all things, and they make reference that where all things are are in the bed. Yes, very late 1960's trippy hippy type of reference. - Peter | |||
| Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni and James Rado | Hashish | Hashish, Cocaine, Marijuana, Opium, LSD, DMT, STP, BLT, A & P, IRT, APC, Alcohol, Cigarettes, shoe polish, cough syrup, peyote, Equinol, dexamil, | The first line continues: "... camposine, Chemadrine, Thorazine, trilophon, dexadrine, benzedrine, methedrine, S-E-X and Y-O-U, Wow!" "Hashish" is from the 1968 Broadway musical, "Hair". "Hair" was a popular musical set in 1968 Greenwich Village, NYC about the experience of Claude (a transplant from Britain) and had a very loose storyline (with most of the musical almost an early attempt at a music video compilation). But "Hair" hit it's mark and was timely. It would run for 1742 performances from April 29, 1968 to July 11, 1972 with such events as the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Woodstock, the continuing Vietnam War, the Moon Landing, Kent State, Women's liberation movement, the voting age being lowered to 18 years old, Nixon's enemies list, etc. making news. "Hashish" is a chorus piece, sung by the Tribe, therefore the credit to Galt McDermot who wrote the music and Gerome Ragni and James Rado who wrote the lyrics. - Peter | |||
| Garbage | Milk | I am milk. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Garbage | Only Happy When It Rains | I'm only happy when it rains. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Garbage | You Look So Fine | You look so fine, I want to break your heart and give you mine | - Jess | |||
| Garth Brooks | The Dance | Looking back on the memory of the dance we shared beneath the stars above. | From his 1989 self-titled debut album. - Vic George | |||
| Garth Brooks | Unsigned Letter | She got an unsigned letter from her secret someone, and she fell into the mystery. | Performed by Garth Brooks as the fictional musician Chris Gaines from Garth's 1999 In The Life Of Chris Gaines album (a.k.a. Chris Gaines' Greatest Hits). According to the liner notes, this song came from Chris' 1994 Apostle album. - Vic George | |||
| Garth Brooks | It Don't Matter To The Sun | It don't matter to the sun if you go or if you stay. | Performed by Garth Brooks as the fictional musician Chris Gaines from Garth's 1999 In The Life Of Chris Gaines album (a.k.a. Chris Gaines' Greatest Hits). According to the liner notes, this song came from Chris' 1991 Fornucopia album, and is supposedly a remake of a 1972 Ramsey Sellers song of the same name, sung in honor of his father who passed away a year earlier. - Vic George | |||
| Gary "U.S." Bonds | Quarter To Three | Don't you know that I danced, I danced till a quarter to three With the help, last night, of Daddy G. | "Quarter To Three" was the only #1 song for Gary Bonds in spring 1961. Gary Bonds really influenced Bruce Springsteen. - Peter | |||
| Gary Lewis & the Playboys | This Diamond Ring | Who wants to bu-u-uy this diamond ri-i-i-ing? She took it off her finger now, it doesn't mean a thi-i-i-ing. | Gary Lewis is the son of comedian Jerry Lewis and inherited many of Jerry's both good looks and boyish charm as well as some of the comedic looks, as well. But Gary wanted to be known as a musician and especially compete in the mid-1960's with the British wave started by the Beatles and still going strong in 1965. The last name though didn't hurt him, and helped him and his group, the Playboys, break through. He and his group, the Playboys, took this song, "This Diamond Ring" (their first record) straight number one for two weeks back in February 1965. This would be the start of a string of top ten songs during the years 1965 to 1966 for Gary Lewis & the Playboys, although "This Diamond Ring" remained their only visit to #1. - Peter | |||
| Gary Lewis and the Playboys | Everybody loves a clown. | Everybody loves a clown, so why don't you? | Actually, Gary's father Jerry Lewis is the clown! - Paul Warren | |||
| Gary Numan | Cars | Here in my car, I feel safest of all. | The plural version is never used, so the singular version is the closest. - Larcen Tyler | |||
| Gene Kelly | Singin' In The Rain | I'm singin' in the rain | "Singin' In The Rain" is from the 1952 motion picture of the same name. "Singin' In The Rain", the movie, was one of those few movie musicals that didn't get it's start on Broadway, but was Hollywood creating it's own version of a Broadway musical in light of the popularity of other movies that did start as Broadway musicals. "Singin' In The Rain" was pure Hollywood and probably couldn't have been done as a Broadway musical, first, since it was about Hollywood back in the late 1920's as talkies started taking the place of silent movies. Gene Kelly played actor, Don Lockwood, who literally sings this song in the rain (another one of those motion picture scenes that is internationally known). Actress-singer, Debbie Reynolds, as the character of Kathy, would sing the song later in the movie. - Peter | |||
| Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor | Moses | Moses supposes his toeses are roses But Moses supposes erroneously | Gene Kelly as Don and Donald O'Connor as Cosmo sing this song to Don's diction coach (for the new talkies), making fun of him and on a lark, in the 1952 Hollywood musical, "Singin' In The Rain". - Peter | |||
| Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor | Fit As A Fiddle | Fit as a fiddle and ready for love. | "Fit As A Fiddle" was another song from the 1952 Hollywood musical, "Singin' In The Rain". Gene Kelly as Don and Donald O'Connor as Don's best friend and fellow actor, Cosmo, sing "Fit As A Fiddle" early in the film in flashbacks to their days struggling on Broadway in New York City. Both even "play" a fiddle while singing the song. - Peter | |||
| Genesis | Mama | I can't see you Mama, but I can hardly wait | From the album "Genesis." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist | Here comes the supernatural anaesthetist, if he wants you to snuff it, all he has to do is puff it | From the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Misunderstanding | There must be some misunderstanding. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Genesis | Home by the Sea | Home by the sea, home by the sea | From the album "Genesis." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Happy the Man | Happy the man, he lives a simple life | - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Man on the Corner | See the lonely man there on the corner, what he's waiting for I don't know | From the album "Abacab." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Watcher of the Skies | Watcher of the skies, watcher of all | From the album "Foxtrot." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Back In N.Y.C. | I see faces and traces of home, back in New York City | From the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Am I Very Wrong? | Am I very wrong? To hide behind the glare from an open minded stare | From the album "From Genesis to Revelation." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Get 'Em Out by Friday | Get 'em out by Friday! You don't get paid till the last one's well on his way | From the album "Foxtrot." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Looking for Someone | Looking for someone, I guess I'm doing that | From the album "Trespass." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | Counting Out Time | I'm counting out time, I got the whole thing down by numbers | From the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| Genesis | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | And the lamb lies down on Broadway | From the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." - Eddison Tollett | |||
| George Harrison | My Sweet Lord | My sweet Lord | George Harrison was the first of the Beatles to have a solo #1 single on Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts after the break up of the Fab Four. "My Sweet Lord" went to #1 the last two weeks of December 1970, and would stay there for the first two weeks of January 1971. But the single wasn't without controversy and a lawsuit that the silent Beatle would lose. Back in 1963, the girl group the Chffons had a #1 hit single entitled, "He's So Fine". When the Chffons and the writers of that song heard George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" they thought that he had lifted the melody right from "He's So Fine" and substituted the lyrics to "My Sweet Lord". The Chiffons and the writer of "He's So Fine" sued successfully George Harrison and the silent Beatle had to pay a fine to keep the printing of "My Sweet Lord" lyrics in circulation. Although many thought that Harrison might never sing "My Sweet Lord", again, he did and Harrison even poked fun at the lawsuit and perhaps his unintentional lifting of the melody of "He's So Fine" by going on British television, dressed as a pirate, in 1975 and singing "A Pirate's Life For Me" to the melody of "My Sweet Lord" or "He's So Fine". - Peter | |||
| George Harrison | Got My Mind Set On You | I've got my mind set on you. I've got my mind set on you. (x4) | - Brian Kelly | |||
| George Strait | Amarillo By Morning | Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone. Everything that I got, is just what I got on. | great song. - Edward | |||
| Gerry Rafferty | Baker Street | Winding your way down on Baker Street, light in your head and dead on your feet. | Summer of 1978's "Baker Street" was guitarist/vocalist Gerry Rafferty's (born Gerald Rafferty on April 16, 1947 in Paisley, Scotland to a Scottish mom and Irish dad) greatest solo hit. Went to #3 in the U.K. and #2 in the U.S. "Baker Street" is known for it's combination saxophone, drum, bass, and keyboard long opening, before Rafferty sings the famous opening lines and the great solo saxophone playing in the middle of the tune (the saxophone is played by Raphael Ravenscroft). "Baker Street" was biographical, about Rafferty's early days waiting tables in restaurants in London's tube station before he became famous with Stealer's Wheel ("Stuck In The Middle With You" in 1973). "Baker Street" was from Rafferty's "City To City" lp, and is still heard quite a bit on Classic Hits, Classic Rock and Easy Listening stations. The saxophone solo of "Baker Street" showed up on an episode of "The Simpsons" with Lisa Simpson playing the solo. And the Foo Fighters covered "Baker Street" in the 1990's. - Peter | |||
| Ginger Rogers | I'll Be Seeing You | I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces all day through In that small cafe, the park across the way | "Ill Be Seeing You" is very associated with World War II because it was sung by many artists on the radio and also on Bob Hope's tours. But the song was originally written before the war, in 1938, by Irving Kahall & Sammy Fain. It would have a resurgence of interest when Ginger Rogers performed it in the movie by the same name, in 1944, when Rogers starred as an ex-convict. Liberace would also made it a signature song of his. But many artists have recorded versions of it since 1944. - Peter | |||
| Glenn Frey | The Heat Is On | The heat is on. It's on the street. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Goldenhorse | Out of The Moon | Out of the moon, you come... | Goldenhorse is a New Zealand pop/folk band. - Rocky Mak | |||
| Goldfinger | Here In Your Bedroom | Here in your bedroom, I can turn my head off. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Goo Goo Dolls | Black Balloon | Baby's black balloon makes her fly. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Good Charlotte | In This World (Murder) | "In this world all of our sins are simple, we choose death over innocent life" | - Anthonyd3ca | |||
| Good Charlotte | "All Black" | "Take a look at my life, all black" | - Anthonyd3ca | |||
| Good Charlotte | It Wasn't Enough | "It wasn't enough" | - Anthonyd3ca | |||
| Grateful Dead | Sugar Magnolia | Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care, | - nosckaJ | |||
| Grateful Dead | Comes A Time | Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says, "Don't you see?" | - Stephen Segall | |||
| Grateful Dead | Crazy Fingers | Your rain falls like crazy fingers | - Stephen Segall | |||
| Green Day | American Idiot | Don't wanna be an American idiot. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Green Day | Minority | I want to be the minority. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Green Day | Nice Guys Finish Last | Nice Guys Finish Last / You're running out of gas./Your sympathy will get you left behind. | What Can I say?, it's pretty ovbious - Tenshi | |||
| Green Day | Murder City | Desperate, but not helpless, I feel so useless in this Murder City | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Stuart and the Ave. | Standing on the corner of Stuart and the Avenue | - ashely | |||
| Green Day | Minority | I wanna be the minority, I don't need your authority | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | All By Myself | I was alone, i was all by myself | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | She's a rebel | She's a rebel, she's a saint. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Waiting | I've been waiting a long time, for this moment to come. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Jesus Of Suburbia | im the son of rage and love, jesus of suberbia | - georgie | |||
| Green Day | American Eulogy | Sing us a song of the century, sound like american eulogy | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | She | She screams in silence, a sullen riot penetrating throug her mind. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Song of the century | Sing us a song of the century, that's louder than bombs & eternity | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | St. Jimmy | St. Jimmy's coming down across the alleyway | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Jesus of Suburbia | I'm the son of rage & love, the Jesus of Suburbia. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Macy's Day Parade | Today's the Macy's day parade, the night of the living dead is on it's way | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Know Your Enemy | Do you know the enemy, do you know your enemy. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Extraordinary girl | She's an extraordinary girl, in an ordinary world. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Green Day | Scattered | I've got some scatterd pictures lying on my bedroom floor. | - Optimus Lime | |||
| Grinspoon | Champion | So, you want to be a champion? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Grits | Bobbin' Bouncin' | Bobbin' bouncin', move yo head / We all need couns'lin', he ain't scared! | From the album, "Dichotomy A" - Jonathan S. | |||
| Groove Coverage | Poison | Poison | Althought it's not in the original in GC's version she sings the title serval times at the beginning. - Mads | |||
| Guns 'N' Roses | Paradise City | Take me down to Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Guns 'N' Roses | Used To Love Her | I used to love her, but I had to kill her. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Guns 'N' Roses | Welcome To The Jungle | Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games. | - Brian Kelly |
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