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Date songs
Posted by Captain Underpants on 30 June 2010 - 8:17am.
Today is June 30th. An unremarkable dot on the calendar, it's no December 25th or July 4th, but it's managed to get a mention in at least two songs.
And they are???
While we're at it, are there any other obscure days of the year that have been celebrated in song?
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Summer (The First Time)
by Bobby Goldsboro is one of them.
Finn
Last Day of June.
I claim my £5...
Could only find Neil's solo version
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?client=mv-google...
11 minutes
to get 'em both. Can't fox the Massive for long.
Oddly this lot are from Sweden
3rd September
Here's my contribution:
new
Beat me to it Nick. Its my birthday so its the only one I know.
September 17
The date on which all Waterboys fans wave out of the window. What have they got to lose? Somebody Might Wave Back.
Jets At Dawn / Be - Bop Deluxe
"Calendar said 1st of August ,
Romance and promises of summer days "
12th Of Never
I was going to post the Donny Osmond version but this came up and is rather lovely.
5th Of July
I'm not trawling YouTube honest injun...I just have this fine compact disc single.
A few
"It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty delta day"
"It was January 30th; everybody was feelin' fine"
http://open.spotify.com/track/0a32BQVIZxqDYiSHtvpAkb
On January 30th, everybody was NOT feeling fine
1649 - Charles I had his head removed
1933 - Hitler came to power
1948 - Gandhi assassinated
1972 - Bloody Sunday
January 30th 1969
Don't know how The Beatles were feeling that day on the roof, other than cold. Incidentally, I forgot to mention that the dates I put forward are from related songs. While Charlie Rich's song seems to be influenced by this, Bob Dylan's Clothes Line Saga is a straight parody.
Which means tomorrow is ...
Georges Brassens - "le 22 septembre"
The first one that came into my head was this.
As the date that his lover left him comes round once again, Brassens realises, with a heavy heart that, after all these years, he finally doesn't care:
"Le vingt-deux de septembre, aujourd'hui, je m'en fous...
... Et c'est triste de n'être plus triste sans vous."
Coming up soon....
....4th July.
'4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)' by The Boss
and from the mighty Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Born on the Bayou'
And I can remember the fourth of july,
Runnin' through the backwood, bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin',
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
Not sure…
… that 4th July counts as 'obscure', though
29th September
It was the third of September...
... that day I'll always remember, 'Cause that was the day that my daddy died... ("Papa Was A Rolling Stone")
Talk Talk had "April 5th", and (allowing for the language anomaly) Aphex Twin had "Avril 14th".
25th of May
Not a song, but a whole band!
Looks like we got us a convoy...
"Convoy" by C.W. McCall:
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer down...
[Eh??]
4th of July again
This time from Aimee Mann who sang it was a "waste of gunpowder and sky".
One of the best lines in song.
Fact.
"December 4th" - Jay-Z
Jay-Z wants you to remember his birthday. Just a card and maybe a book token would be fine, I should think.
Another June 30th song
How could I forget? Like a bolt from the blue the I've just remembered Al Stewart's The Last Day Of June 1934 from his Past, Present & Future album.
St Swithin's Day
Billy Bragg singing about my birthday (there's still time to get a gift)
didn't Cliff Richard...
...do an lp called 31st February Street ?
... and what about The Last Days of May by the Blue Oyster Cult ?
here's Gillian
this one may divide opinion
always had soft for it as it's the day after my birthday!
Also I can't be only one to think of this song
every time they mentioned "Port Elizabeth" during the world cup.
No, indeed
and a great opening line (harks back to a previous thread on lyrics that set the scene): September 77, Port Elizabeth, weather fine
This is for Leonard, if he's still here
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dqmy_bob-dylan-isis-live-1975_music
Unfortunately missing the pertinent line about May 5th...
March the tenth
The day on which Russell Mael is set to meet his girlfriend at the equator ('Equator' from Sparks' Kimono My House). Also my birthday, inconsequentially...
Eighteenth Day of May
Name of group, not song, so perhaps doesn't count... lovely Joe Boyd produced LP of a few years back...
popular year from start to finish..
Everyone would gather on the 24th of May...
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Lakeside Park
I remember it from All The World's A Stage
November 22nd 1963
The Day Alduous Huxley died...
And some other bloke.
Some other bloke
Be fair. His name was C.S. Lewis.
The inevitable challenge:
Can The Massive go through the entire calendar with a song for each day - Janueary 1 though to December 31?
I think with a bit of thought and a bit of lateral thinking we could do it...
who's up for the challenge?
Well, um
New Year's Day by U2 obviously, and how about "january second, tired you've been hanging on me" from this:
March forth
Aux armes, citoyens / Formez vos bataillons / Marchons, marchons!
September 30
The big ship sails on the illy-ally-o...
Not quite a specific date, but...
...one of my favourite lyrics to any song is "Most Novembers I break down and cry" from Steve Earle's Goodbye. And I can't tell you how happy I am to find this on YouTube.
When I was small and Christmas trees were tall..
Simple. Meet a girl on a monday,
Take her for a drink on Tuesday, make love on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, then chill on Sunday. Repeat until december 31st
20th of April
by the Oysterband