Longest Rock and Roll Song Titles

[firepoint525]

Official title of that Stars on 45 medley:

"Medley: Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45"

The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson is my source for the above information.

 

[nightfly61]

And the instrumental version was on the flip side of the 45. I wonder if the "Stars On Longplay" album had any longer titles? Always thought it was odd the band's name was just "Stars On" ???.

 

[firepoint525]

And the instrumental version was on the flip side of the 45. I wonder if the "Stars On Longplay" album had any longer titles? Always thought it was odd the band's name was just "Stars On" ???.

I think the name "Stars on..." was left sort of open-ended so that they could add on to it. And they did. Stars on 45 for the single, Stars on Long Play for the album, etc. ("Hooked on..." did the same thing about a year later.) I don't have the single, but I have the albums (plural!). I know on the back side of the album cover, it lists all of the individual songs in the medleys, along with writing and publishing credits. Probably required to do that.

 

[firepoint525]

Fiona Apple used to have the longest album title, but that has been surpassed by Chumbawamba, with the following monstrosity:

The Boy Bands Have Won, and All The Copyists and The Tribute Bands and The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and The Boy Bands Have Won.

 

[firepoint525]

Another very long album title, this one by the group Soulwax (2007):

Most of the remixes we've made for other people over the years except for the one for Einstürzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn't think sounded good enough or just didn't fit in length-wise, but including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or simply because they haven't been released yet, a few we really love, one we think is just ok, some we did for free, some we did for money, some for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent.

 

[firepoint525]

And Fiona Apple's long album title from 1999:

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

 

[hornet61]

And the instrumental version was on the flip side of the 45. I wonder if the "Stars On Longplay" album had any longer titles? Always thought it was odd the band's name was just "Stars On" ???.

yes, Firepoint....the two follow-ups "Medley II" (by a couple of songs) and "More Stars On" ( by about a whole line of songs more) were longer than the first "Stars On"

 

[nightfly61]

The Bellamy Brothers (& I think Jerry Reed may have done a version) of:
"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me".

 

[firepoint525]

And the instrumental version was on the flip side of the 45. I wonder if the "Stars On Longplay" album had any longer titles? Always thought it was odd the band's name was just "Stars On" ???.

yes, Firepoint....the two follow-ups "Medley II" (by a couple of songs) and "More Stars On" ( by about a whole line of songs more) were longer than the first "Stars On"

I've been trying to determine if "The Beatles Movie Medley" and "The Beach Boys Medley" actually list the individual song titles as part of the overall medley titles, and to the best of my recollection, they do not. "The Beatles Movie Medley" lists all the individual titles on the label, but it does not appear to be a part of the overall title. I could be wrong about that. It even goes further, saying that all the titles in the medley were produced by George Martin, with the exception of "Get Back," which was produced by Phil Spector.

 

[amfmsw]

www.musicradio77.com has a free feature to download. It is every Top 77 list ever. It can then be sorted by a number of filters: years, weeks, months, number of weeks on chart, artists with most hits, titles spent weeks on chart, etc, including sort by longest song title.

Now we're talking WABC here, so we're talking HITS, not obscure wacky b-sides. And it begins in 1960-1982. BUT, it says that the champ is: Ray Stevens "Jeramiah Peabody..." with 104 characters in it's title. I'll go with WABC.

 

[FRR]

FRR- Why 1955 & up??? And it's "Stars ON 45" Medley...and yes, it qualifies...so does the following, which I'm surprised no one mentioned yet by Pink Floyd:
"Several Species of Small Furry Creatures Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"

Well, several answers to your questions. Why 1955 and up? Cause I made the rules. LOl These other songs were either album cuts or compilations. The Stars of 45 thing I never heard once on radio, at least not in my city. Most of these titles that are being posted NO ONE ever heard of. I was speaking to rock and roll, songs that were HITS, meaning they actually charted. That song that you mentioned that is too long to type,,,,never heard of it.

 

[FRR]

Fiona Apple used to have the longest album title, but that has been surpassed by Chumbawamba, with the following monstrosity:

The Boy Bands Have Won, and All The Copyists and The Tribute Bands and The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and The Boy Bands Have Won.

I thought Fiona's Apple was something you ate.

 

[firepoint525]

Now we're talking WABC here, so we're talking HITS, not obscure wacky b-sides. And it begins in 1960-1982. BUT, it says that the champ is: Ray Stevens "Jeramiah Peabody..." with 104 characters in it's title. I'll go with WABC.

Okay, now you're contradicting yourself here. You emphasize HITS, but then you mention a song that spent only one week on the chart, and peaked at #35, and one that I've never heard, although I have heard of it.

But more importantly, we have a new champ in the shortest title ever. Britney Spears with "3." It dethrones the old champ, "If" by Bread. And if it went #1, as they are saying it did, then it would be the new champ there, too. The old record was, interestingly enough, "three" characters: "Why" by Frankie Avalon, and a "three"-way tie between "three" Michael Jackson titles: "ABC" (with the Jackson 5), "Ben," and "Bad." (Obviously, If Brit had spelled out "three" instead of using the numerical character, she would not now be the new record-holder for shortest title ever!)

I believe Hornet61 was right when he said that we would run out of long titles by Tuesday morning! ;D

 

[firepoint525]

FRR- Why 1955 & up??? And it's "Stars ON 45" Medley...and yes, it qualifies...so does the following, which I'm surprised no one mentioned yet by Pink Floyd:
"Several Species of Small Furry Creatures Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"

Well, several answers to your questions. Why 1955 and up? Cause I made the rules. LOl These other songs were either album cuts or compilations. The Stars of 45 thing I never heard once on radio, at least not in my city. Most of these titles that are being posted NO ONE ever heard of. I was speaking to rock and roll, songs that were HITS, meaning they actually charted. That song that you mentioned that is too long to type,,,,never heard of it.

Again, Stars on 45 was a hit (#1, no less!) while the Ray Stevens title was only #35. And again, it was Stars ON 45. If you don't like compilations, fair enough, but good luck getting anyone on radio to play that Ray Stevens song. I may have to do some youtubing myself to find that one.

 

[firepoint525]

I found the long Ray Stevens title. Animated video to go with this one. This is fairly typical Ray Stevens. If you like his music, you'll like this one. If not, well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQIfp1TAo2I

I worked for a GM at a country station in the early '90s who would not let us play anything by Ray Stevens unless it was specifically by request! If we played him, we always said that it was "by request."

 

[firepoint525]

Stars on 45 Beatles medley, slightly longer than the one that actually became the hit, but you'll get the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5ZqKMqU3I&feature=related

 

[Silkie]

Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You're Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn't Able to Leave Town, I'm Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn't Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON'T Like Surprises!! Subtitled: A Musical Apology - Christine Lavin

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_longest_song_title

Okay, I did some research. Christine Lavin is a folk artist.

 

[FRR]

Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You're Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn't Able to Leave Town, I'm Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn't Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON'T Like Surprises!! Subtitled: A Musical Apology - Christine Lavin

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_longest_song_title

Okay, I did some research. Christine Lavin is a folk artist.

Man, that ain't just the title, that sounds like the entire song! Lol But I don't think that song met the criteria.

 

[nightfly61]

FRR- How could you never hear of the "Stars ON45 Medley if you have the slightest knowledge of music? It was a number one hit!

If you don't know "Stars on 45" you probably don't know this one from 1971 from the Seekers. Do the parentheses in the sub-title count as letters?

"I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing(In Perfect Harmony)"

 

[Silkie]

Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You're Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn't Able to Leave Town, I'm Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn't Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON'T Like Surprises!! Subtitled: A Musical Apology - Christine Lavin

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_longest_song_title

Okay, I did some research. Christine Lavin is a folk artist.

Man, that ain't just the title, that sounds like the entire song! Lol But I don't think that song met the criteria.

"It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" - Billy Joel