A PHIL BRODIE BAND INFO PAGE

SONG..TITLES
BEGININGS
TITLES ~ AT THE BEGINING OF THE SONG ~ ONLY
songs that only mention the title at the beginning of the song - Preferably 1st line
and NOT repeated again throughout the song

IF YOU KNOW ANYMORE
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In Order of Release Date

"Love Is Like A Violin" by Ken Dodd
Date: 1960
Charts: UK No. 8
Album: --
First 4 lines:
Love is like a violin
With its strings around your heart
Soft and sweet as dreams begin
Sadly crying when you part
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Christine by Miss X
Date: 1963
Charts: UK No. 37
Album: --
First 4 lines:
My name is Christine
What's yours
you're joking
Ha ha haaa
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Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin' Wolf
Date: 1964
Charts: UK No. 42
Album: Best of Howlin' Wolf
First 4 lines:
Ah, oh, smokestack lightnin'
Shinin', just like gold
Why don't ya hear me cryin'?
Ah, whoo hoo, ooh... Whoo...
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."Wrapping Paper" by Cream
Date: 1966
Charts: UK No. 34
Album:
First 4 lines:
Wrapping paper in the gutter
Moving slowly as the wind on the sea,
(Faces calling, waves moving)
In your picture on a wall of a house of old times.
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I Started A Joke by The Bee Gees
Date: 1968
Charts: USA No. 6
Album: Idea
First 4 lines:
I started a joke
which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
that the joke was on me, oh no
Faith No More's cover: UK No. 49 in 1998
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"You Never Give Me Your Money" by The Beatles
Date: 1969
Charts: --
Album: Abbey Road (first song in the side 2 Medley)
First 4 lines:
You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
and in the middle of negotiations
you break down
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White Room by Cream
Date: 1969
Charts: UK No.28 ~ US No.6
Album: Wheels of Fire
First 4 lines:
In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.
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"Mean Mr. Mustard" by The Beatles
Date: 1969
Charts: --
Album: Abbey Road (side 2 medley)
Fiirst 4 lines:
Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
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"She Came in Through The Bathroom Window" by The Beatles
Date: 1969
Charts: --
Album: Abbey Road (side 2 medley)
First 4 lines:
She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon
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(Where Do I Begin) Love Story by Andy Williams
Date: 1971
Charts: UK No. 4 ~ US No. 9
Album: Love Story
First 5 lines:
Where do I begin
To tell the story of how great a love can be
The sweet love story that is older than the sea
The simple truth about the love she brings to me
Where do I start
Dodgy one, Andy doesn't mention Love Story at all in the first line
not surprising though really... as this is the title of the movie
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"Softly Whispering I Love You" by Congregation aka English Congregation
Date: 1971 & 1972
Charts: UK No. 4 ~ US No. 29
Album: Jesahel
First 3 lines:
Softly, whispering I love you,
Echoes of your voice are calling still through my dreams,
Softening the chill of the breeze.
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"Samson And Delilah" by Middle Of The Road
Date: 1972
Charts: UK No. 26
Album: Acceleration
First 3 lines:
Samson and Delilah
lived a long
long time ago
She was undecided
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"My Friend Stan" by Slade
Date: 1973
Charts: UK No.2
Album: Old New Borrowed and Blue
First 4 lines
My friend Stan's got a funny old man
Oh yeh oh yeh
He makes him work all night
Till he can't do it right
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Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce
Date: 1973
Charts: US No. 1
Album: You Don't Mess Around with Jim
First 4 lines:
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
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Judge Dread by Big 8
Date: 1973
Charts: UK No.14
Album: single release
First 5 lines:
i'm feeling great so heres big eight
shadalalla la dumb di ei eh
shadalalla la dumb di ei eh
there was a grand old duke of yorkhe had ten thousand men
if he had the eneregy he would have had them all again
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"And I Love You So" by Perry Como
Date: 1973
Charts: UK No. 3 ~ US No. 29
Album:
First 4 lines:
And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I've lived 'til now
I tell them I don't know
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Hide In Your Shell by Supertramp
Date: 1974
Charts: album track
Album: Crime Of The Century
First 4 lines:
Hide in your shell cos the world is out to bleed you for a ride
What will you gain making your life a little longer?
Heaven or Hell, was the journey cold that gave your eyes of steel?
Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker
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"Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
Date: recorded 1976 -:- released 1977
Charts: UK top 20 ~ USA top 70 in'78
Album: Peter Gabriel ("Car Album")
First 4 lines:
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
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"Even In The Quietest Moments" by Supertramp
Date: 1977
Charts: album track
Album: Even In The Quietest Moments
First 4 lines:
Even in the quietest moments
I wish I knew what I had to do
And even though the sun is shining
Well, I feel the rain, here it comes again, dear
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"7000 Dollars and You" by Stylistics
Date: 1977
Charts: UK No. 24
Album: single release
First 4 lines:
If I had 7000 dollars and you
If I had .... ? all the favours that I would give ?
I'd dress you up like a star
Rent us a cadillac car
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"Many Too Many" by Genesis
Date: 1978
Charts: UK No. 43
Album: And Then There Were Three
First 4 lines:
Many too many have stood where I stand
Many more will stand here too,
I think what I find strange is the way you built me up
Then knocked me down again.
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"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
Date: 1978
Charts: UK No. 3 ~ US No. 2
Album: City to City
First 4 lines:
Windin' your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away
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"Breaking Glass" by David Bowie
Date: 1978
Charts: UK No. 54
Album: Low
First 4 lines:
Baby, I've been breaking glass
In your room again .. Listen
Don't look at the carpet,
I drew something awful on it .. See
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"Car 67" by Driver 67
Date: 1978
Charts: UK No. 7
Album: --
First 4 lines:
(Car 67, car 67, where are you?)
(Come in 67, 67, can you hear me?)
Hey Control, this is 67 here
I can hear you loud and I can hear you clear, yeah
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"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by Charlie Daniels Band
Date: 1979
Charts: UK No. 14 ~ US No. 3 (C&W No.1)
Album: Million Mile Reflections
First 3 lines:
The devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind 'cos he was way behind: he was willin' to make a deal.
When he came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot.
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"Infinite Dreams" by Iron Maiden
Date: 1989
Charts: UK No. 6
Album: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
First 4 lines:
Infinite dreams I can't deny them
Infinity is hard to comprehend
I couldn't hear those screams
Even in my wildest dreams
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"Hazard" by Richard Marx
Date: recorded 1991 -:- released 1992
Charts: No.3 UK ~ No.9 USA
Album: Rush Street
First 3 lines:
My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven
Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes
That boy's not right ...
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"Come As You Are" by Nirvana
Date: 1992
Charts: No. 9 UK ~ No. 32 USA
Album: Nevermind
First 4 lines:
Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be.
As a friend, as a friend, as an old Enemy.
Take your time, hurry up, choice is yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old memory.
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Animal Nitrate by Suede
Date: 1993
Charts: UK No. 7
Album: Suede
First 3 lines:
Like his dad you know that he's had Animal nitrate in mind
Oh in your council home he jumped on your bones
now you're taking it time after time
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6 Underground by Sneaker Pimps
Date: 1996 / 1997
Charts: UK No. 15 & No. 9 on re-issue ~ US No. 45
Album: Becoming X
First 4 lines:
Take me down, 6 underground,
The ground beneath your feet,
Laid out low, nothing to go
Nowhere a way to meet
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"Perfect 10" by Beautiful South
Date: 1998
Charts: No.2 UK
Album: Quench
First 4 lines:
She's a perfect 10, but she wears a 12
Baby keep a little 2 for me
She could be sweet 16, bustin' out at the seams
It's still love in the first degree
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"Roadtrippin’" by RHCP
Date: 2000
Charts: No.30 UK
Album: Californication
First 3 lines:
Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
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"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" by Train
Date: 2001
Charts: UK No. 10 ~ US No. 5
Album: Drops of Jupiter
First 4 lines:
Now that she's back in the atmosphere with drops of Jupiter in her hair,
hey,
She acts like summer and walks like rain
reminds me that there's a time to change, hey
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"Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" by White Stripes
Date: 2002
Charts: No. 25 UK
Album: White Blood Cells
First 4 lines:
Dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
Shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound
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"7 Nation Army" by White Stripes
Date: 2003
Charts: No.1 USA Modern Rock Tracks chart (now Alternative Songs chart)
Album: Elephant
First 4 lines:
I'm Gonna fight 'em Off,
A Seven Nation Army couldn't hold me back
They're Gonna Rip it off,
Taking there Time right behind my back
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"Fallen Angel" by Elbow
Date: 2003
Charts: UK No. 19
Album: Cast of Thousands
First 4 lines:
All the fallen angels
Roostin' in this place
Count back the weeks on worried fingers
Virgin mother whatserface
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"Grounds For Divorce" by Elbow
Date: 2008
Charts: UK #19
Album: The Seldom Seen Kid
First 4 lines:
I've been working on a cocktail called "Grounds For Divorce", whoa
Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleep, whoa
Doubt comes in on sticks, but then he kicks like a horse, whoa
There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep
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TITLE MENTIONED IN THE VERY FIRST LINE
AND ONLY ONE MORE TIME
AS THE LAST WORDS.

"We Will Never Be As Young As This Again" by Danny Williams
Date: 1961
Charts: UK No. 44
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"Goin' Back" by Dusty Springfield
Date: 1966
Charts: UK No. 10
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Please Don't Go by Donald Peers
Date: 1969
Charts: UK No. 3
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Big thanks to JON KUTNER who inspired this page

and a big thankyou to QUIZ MASTER FRANK who has sent me so many titles
and thankyou to everyone who has send more in

Please email me if you know of anymore

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