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  1. 3rd Aug 2009, 11:18 PM #1
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    Default A Musical Challenge

    I've heard an advert on radio several times recently - it's like a pub quiz in which one chap is challenging the other to name 7 Number Ones that don't feature the name of the song in the lyrics. He gets stuck after about 4 or 5 - how many can you lot come up with?
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    1. Bohemiam Rhapsody
    2. Earth Song

    and that's all I can think of.
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    Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny? I believe that's one.

    Doctorin' the TARDIS!

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    Unchained Melody... Space Oddity... Pure Shores... The Importance Of Being Idle... can't think of any more right now.
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    "(Everybody's Free) To Wear Sunscreen"

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    You've already got loads that weren't mentioned on the advert! And Bo Rap formed the punchline as he said it first or second, then a couple of others, then repeated it on the grounds it was #1 twice!
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    "Feel It" by The Tamperer feat. Maya.
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    "Freak Like Me" doesn't actually contain the title although it comes close...do instrumentals count? In which case the awful "Flat Beat" by Mr Oizo.
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    The moral of this tale is 'Put the title in the song if you want a number one'. Surely this is the ONLY reason that New Order only got one Number One single in the 80's, with World In Motion.

    "The Ballad of John and Yoko". Was that a real number one?
    Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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    I don't like plastic pop, so I barely know any number ones!
    Remember, just because Davros is dead doesn't mean the Dalek menace has been contained ......
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    I don't really know what that means! All kinds of records for lots of different genres have reached Number 1 in the pop charts.

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    In the advert, they mention "The Ketchup Song!". All the others have been mentioned on here.
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    Did "Nut Rocker" get to number one?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob McCow View Post
    "The Ballad of John and Yoko". Was that a real number one?
    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Cloud (Slight Return) View Post
    Did "Nut Rocker" get to number one?
    Yes and yes!

    If we're including instrumentals, there's the likes of 'Apache', 'On The Rebound', 'Albatross', and 'Amazing Grace', to name just four.
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    Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West by Benny Hill
    The Combine Harvester Song by The Wurzels
    Clint Eastwood by Gorrilaz
    The Shooting of Georgie by Rod Stewart
    The Diary of Horace Wimp by E.L.O. (I think they also had a song with Overture in the title – can’t remember the number though)

    I don’t think the last two were number ones, not sure about the third one.
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    It's actually "The Killing of Georgie" - in the song, he wasn't shot, he was stabbed.

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    "Albatross"! Although that's cheating I suppose, as its an intrumental!
    I must admit, just when I think I'm king, I just begin!
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    I'm always getting that Rod Stewart song mixed up with Killing and Shooting.

    I know it's part of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds but The Eve of War by Justin Hayward doesn't have the title mentioned in the song.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Terry Leptil View Post
    Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West by Benny Hill
    The Combine Harvester Song by The Wurzels
    Clint Eastwood by Gorrilaz
    The Shooting of Georgie by Rod Stewart
    The Diary of Horace Wimp by E.L.O. (I think they also had a song with Overture in the title – can’t remember the number though)

    I don’t think the last two were number ones, not sure about the third one.
    Lord Pedant wishes to point out that the only number one ELO had was Xanadu (and the number was 10538).
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