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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| Yardbirds | For Your Love | For your love. | This line is repeated three times before we get to anymore lines. But I love this song from 1965, it is such an infectious song and an early prelude to what was to come in the late 1960's psychedelica. - Peter | |||
| Yello | Oh Yeah | Oh yeah. Oh yeah. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Yellowcard | Ocean Avenue | There's a place on Ocean Avenue. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Yellowcard | Trembling | Trembling | - Mike | |||
| Young Rascals | Good Lovin' | 1-2-3 (Good lovin' ...) (Good lovin' ...) (Good lovin' ...) | In May 1966's "Good Lovin'" was the first #1 song for the Young Rascals. - Peter | |||
| Young Rascals | A Beautiful Mornin' | It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh I think I'll go outside a while, An jus' smile. | The last top ten hit for the Young Rascals, spring 1968, before they dropped the Young from the group's name. For their third #1 single, "People Got To Be Free" they would become the Rascals. - Peter | |||
| Young Rascals | Groovin' | Groovin' ... on a Sunday afternoon. | "Groovin'" was the second #1 song for the Young Rascals (the first was 1966's "Good Lovin'). "Groovin'" spent four weeks at #1 in May/June 1967 (although it was broken up four weeks when fellow Atlantic recording artist, Aretha Franklin's 1st #1, "Respect" was #1). - Peter | |||
| Yvonne Elliman | Love Me | Love me! Love me! | This was Yvonne's big hit before her #1 single "If I Can't Have You", from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack. - MOR | |||
| Yvonne Elliman | I Don't Know How To Love Him | I don't know how to love him, what to do, how to move him. | "I Don't Know How To Love Him" was Yvonne Elliman's first major pop hit back in 1971 (going to #28 on the charts) and is from the 1970 "Jesus Christ Superstar" Broadway production when Elliman played the character of Mary Magdalene and was only 19 years old (Elliman would repeat her performance of the song in the motion picture production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in 1973). Yvonne Elliman was born Yvonne Marianne Elliman on December 29, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii, she was also raised there. Elliman's father was of Irish descent and her mother was of Japanese and Chinese descent. Shortly after graduating in 1970 from Honolulu's President Theodore Roosevelt High School, Elliman was cast as Mary Magdalene in the original Broadway production of "Jesus Christ Superstar", and although Elliman sang the original -- Australian Helen Reddy would have the bigger hit with "I Don't Know How To Love Him" with Reddy taking the song to #13 in 1972. Elliman's performance in the motion picture of "Jesus Christ Superstar" would earn her a 1974 Golden Globe award. in 1975, Elliman had a top twenty hit with a remake of Barbara Lewis' 1965 hit, "Hello Stranger" and then have a hit with a remake of the Bee Gees song, "Love Me". Elliman's Bee Gees' remake must have earned her the respect of the Brothers Gibb because they wrote the 1978 #1 song for Elliman, "If I Can't Have You" from the motion picture soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever". Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" was the first time that an Asian/Pacific Islander woman had a #1 song. Elliman also sang background vocals on several of Eric Clapton's tune, including Clapton's #1 remake of "I Shot The Sheriff" in 1974. Elliman still performs to today and has released recordings all the way up to 2004. - Peter |
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