30-Day Song Challenge Day 20 – A Song with a Number in the Title

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” (Criss Jami)

A friend and long-time loyal blog follower recently sent me a 30-Day Song Challenge meme in the hope that I couldn’t resist taking the challenge and blogging about it. Here’s Day #20 – A Song with a Number in the Title – 96 Tears, ?[1] & The Mysterians.

Gazillions of songs have numbers in their title. None has ever been recorded by a band with as cool a name as ? & The Mysterians. At #213 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, 96 Tears is one of the first garage band hits and was a forerunner of the punk rock movement.

Honorable Mention – a non-exhaustive search through my music collection found these:

• One U2
• It Takes Two Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
• 3 Chains O’ Gold Prince
• 4 + 20 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Five Long Years Freddie King
• Six Feet Under The Weeknd
• Seven More Days Terence Trent D’arby
• Eight Days A Week The Beatles
• Cloud Nine The Temptations
• Ten Cent Pistol The Black Keys
• Sixteen Candles The Crests
• Edge of Seventeen Steve Nicks
• I’m Eighteen Alice Cooper
• 25 Miles Edwin Starr
• 30 Minute Love Affair Paloma Faith
• 33 Years Muddy Waters
• Sixty Minute Man The Persuasions
• When I’m Sixty-Four The Beatles
• Ninety-Nine and One Half (Won’t Do) Buddy Guy
• A Thousand Miles Away The Heartbeats
• 3121 Prince
• Million Reasons Lady Gaga

Tomorrow: a song you listen to at 3 a.m.

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[1] “Question mark”