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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| J Geils Band | Freeze Frame | Freeze frame! | This is shouted at the beginning of the song. - Vic George | |||
| Jack Johnson | Sitting, Waiting, Wishing | Now I was sitting, waiting, wishing. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jack Johnson | If I Had Eyes | If I had eyes in the back of my head... | - Lizzie | |||
| Jackson Browne | Doctor My Eyes | Doctor, my eyes have seen the years. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| James Rado | Where Do I Go? | Where do I go, Follow the river. | "Where Do I Go?" is another song from the musical "Hair". - Peter | |||
| James Rado | Manchester England | Manchester England England Across the Atlantic Sea. | "Manchester England" is yet another song from the musical "Hair". It is sung by the main character, Claude, to introduce himself to the Tribe. Claude is from Manchester, England. Claude was played in the original Broadway production of "Hair" by James Rado. - Peter | |||
| James Rado | I Got Life | I got life, mother. | "I Got Life" is another song from the 1968 Broadway musical, "Hair". It is sung by the main character, Claude, when he writes home to his parents in Manchester, England. Claude was played by one of the lyrist of "Hair", James Rado when it ran on Broadway. There was an attempt to revive the show in October 1977 but it only ran for 42 performances. The 1980 motion picture also met with much resistance, mainly because by the early 1980's there wasn't much resemblance to the youth culture of 1968. - Peter | |||
| Jan & Dean | The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) | It's the little old lady from Pasadena ... | - Peter | |||
| Jan & Dean | Sidewalk Surfin' | Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me ... | Surf music duo, Jan & Dean had a top twenty hit with "Sidewalk Surfin'" in 1964. "Sidewalk Surfin'" refers to skateboarding that was just becoming the fad it would later become in that year of 1964. - Peter | |||
| Jane Child | Don't Let It Get To Ya | Don't Let it, get to ya | - Rob Carter | |||
| Jane's Addiction | Had a Dad | Had a dad, big and strong. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jane's Addiction | Been Caught Stealing | Been caught stealing, once when I was five. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jane's Addiction | Jane Says | Jane says "I'm done with Sergio." | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Janis Joplin | Mercedes Benz | Oh lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jason Mraz | One Love | One Love, One heart... | 1st 2 words are the title.... I don't know who originally wrote this song, but Jason Mraz does perform it - who | |||
| Jean Stapleton | If A Girl Isn't Pretty | If a girl isn't pretty Like a Miss Atlantic City, All she gets in life Is pity and a pat. | "If A Girl Isn't Pretty" is from the Broadway musical, "Funny Girl". It was originally sung, on Broadway, by Jean Stapleton in a scene between her character, Mrs. Strakosh, to Barbra Streisand's lead character, Fanny Brice (a real person back in the early half of the 20th Century -- who won fame as a comediene and later actress and singer despite her looks). In the 1968 motion picture of the Broadway musical, Mrs. Strakosh would be played by Mae Questal. - Peter | |||
| Jefferson Starship | Jane | Jane, you say it's all over for you and me, girl | From their 1979 album Freedom At Point Zero, where Mickey Thomas replaces Marty Balin as the band's lead vocalist. - Vic George | |||
| Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein | Anatevka | Anatevka, Anatevka, underfed, overworked, Anatevka, where else could sabbath be so sweet? | "Anatevka" is another song from the musical, "Fiddler On The Roof". It is sung as a chorus piece near the end of the musical, when the generations are singing about the families moving to America (Anatevka in Yiddish). Since "Anatevka" is a chorus piece the credit for it goes to Jerry Bock who wrote the music, Sholom Aleichem who wrote the lyrics and Joseph Stein who wrote the book for the musical. - Peter | |||
| Jimi Hendrix | Hey Joe | Hey Joe, where are you going? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jimmi Hendrix | Purple Haze | Purple Haze all in my brain. | - nikki | |||
| Jimmy Eat World | Futures | I always believed in futures. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Joe Cocker | You Are So Beautiful | You are so beautiful to me. | - britrock | |||
| Joe Walsh | Ordinary Average Guy | I'm just an ordinary average guy. My friends are all boring. And so am I. We're just ordinary average guys. | - Wedgie Miller | |||
| John Fred & His Playboy Band | Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) | Judy in disguise, well that's what you are Lemonade pies with a brand new car Cantalope eyes come to me tonight Judy in disguise, with glasses. | In the winter of 1968, John Fred & His Playboy Band took this obvious rip-off of the Beatles' "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" (Texan, John Fred has admitted as much) to #1 for two weeks. With psychedelic lyrics to match the psychedelic bubblegum music it became an instant classic despite the Beatles' "Lucy" or maybe because of it. - Peter | |||
| John Lennon | Imagine | Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky | So, starts my personal favorite tune of all time. - Peter | |||
| John Lennon | Instant Karma | Instant Karmas's gonna get you. Gonna knock you right on the head. You better get yourself together. Pretty soon, you're gonna be dead. | How prophetic! - George Harrison Ford | |||
| John Lennon | Give Peace A Chance | All we are saying...is give peace a chance. | - Lord Of The Ringo Starr | |||
| John Mellencamp | Small Town | I was born in a small town. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| John Mellencamp | I Need A Lover | I need a lover that won't drive me crazy. | Also covered by Pat Benatar. - Brian Kelly | |||
| John Mellencamp | Jack and Diane | A little ditty about Jack and Diane. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| John Paul Young | Love Is In The Air | Love is in the air, everywhere I look around. Love is in the air, every sight and every sound. | - MOR | |||
| Johnny Nash | I Can See Clearly Now | I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Johnny Paycheck | Take This Job & Shove It | Take this job and shove it/I ain't workin' here no more | - crazydon | |||
| Jon Anderson | Save All Your Love | Save all your love, to be a better child, to be a better child. | From his 1985 Christmas album 3 Ships. - Vic George | |||
| Jonas Brothers | Hello, Beautiful | Hello, Beautiful. How's it going? | - Jessica | |||
| Jonas Brothers | You Just Don't Know It | You just don't know it; it's getting hard to say "hello"; you just don't know it | - Jessica | |||
| Jonas Brothers | I Am What I Am | I am what I am; I can't help myself, and if you don't like it get with somebody else. | - Jessica | |||
| Jonathan King | I Hate Coca Cola | I Hate Coca Cola | - Mads | |||
| Joni Mitchell | Help Me | Help me I think I'm falling In love again | "Help Me" was Joni Mitchell's most popular song. It was a top 3 hit for her back in 1974. - Peter | |||
| Jose Feliciano | Feliz Navidad | Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad, Prospero año y felicidad. | - Ava Murphy | |||
| Joss Stone | Baby Baby Baby | Baby baby baby, tell me do you really love me. | - xxxpress | |||
| Joss Stone | You Had Me | You had me, you lost me, you're wasted, you cost me, I don't want you here messing with my mind. | - xxxpress | |||
| Journey | Lights | When the lights go down in the city. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Journey | Any Way You Want It | Any way you want it, that's the way you need it. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Juanita Hall | Happy Talk | Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk, Talk about things you'd like to do. | "Happy Talk" is another tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" (by the way Rodgers and Hammerstein based the musical upon James A. Michener's book of the same name). Juanita Hall played the character of Bloody Mary in the original Broadway production of "South Pacific" and was the only thespian who also be in the movie version of "South Pacific". - Peter | |||
| The Judybats | Native Son | Native son, what have you done? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Isobel Lennart | Henry Street | Henry Street, No, it ain't Broadway, it's Henry Street. | "Henry Street" is from the musical "Funny Girl". The song is sung by a chorus (therefore the credit given to Jule Styne {who wrote the music}, Bob Merrill {who wrote the lyrics} and Isobel Lennart {whose book the musical is based on}) at Rose Brice's salon for a party for Rose's daughter, Fanny Brice (the lead character), after Fanny's first success on Broadway. - Peter | |||
| Juliana Hatfield Three | My Sister | My sister. My sister. I hate my sister. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Julie Andrews | Just You Wait | Just you wait 'enry 'iggins, just you wait! | "Just You Wait" is from the 1957 Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" (music by Frederick Lowe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner). "My Fair Lady" was based upon George Bernard Shaw's play, "Pygmalian". Julie Andrews played the original Eliza Doolittle, but unfortunately would not get the role in the 1964 motion picture adaption, that would go to Audrey Hepburn. - Peter | |||
| Julie Andrews | The Sound Of Music | The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years | "The Sound Of Music" was the final Broadway musical that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaberated on before Hammerstein's death in August 1960. Hammerstein barely got to even see Mary Martin who sang this song and several others for the Broadway musical, and the musical itself did not hit the stage until after Hammerstein's death. In the Robert Wise movie of the same title, Wise wisely chose up and coming Julie Andrews to play Maria, the nun who would marry a Captain shortly before World War II in pre-war Austria (the von Trapp story is a real story, although maybe slightly embellished for the Broadway musical and movie). The opening of the movie (1965), "The Sound Of Music" and Andrews singing this number high upon a mountain is probably one of the most memorable worldwide moments in cinema. - Peter | |||
| Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay, Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay, It's ... Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" does certainly sound atrocius! -:) Seriously, this song is another song from the Disney classic, "Mary Poppins" (music and lyrics by brothers, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman). Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke lead a chorus in the part animation sequence in this film. Even though Julie Andrews didn't get to appear in 1964's Academy Award winning motion picture of "My Fair Lady" as Eliza Doolittle (the role she created on Broadway), she did get the last laugh in many ways, when she got to appear as the lead character of Mary Poppins and win the lead actress Oscar with her "My Fair Lady" co-star, Rex Harrison. And if you say "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" loud enough, well you know ... - Peter | |||
| Julie Andrews and Jon Cypher | Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful | Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? | "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful" was a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's TV musical special that first ran on CBS back on the evening of March 31, 1957. It was sung by Andrews playing the title character, Cinderella and Jon Cypher playing the character, Prince. "Cinderella" was rare thing for TV back then (and even for today in many ways) it was shown mainly on black & white televisions, but filmed for later showing in full color (color broadcast was a possibility as early as 1952 -- the American soap opera, "The Guiding Light" was actually the first show to have a color broadcast back in 1953, but TGL's creator and then head writer, Irna Phillips, insisted on showing a hospital scene that used only black & white items so many TV execs didn't think color would be thought of too kindly by many many audience members, so in 1957 the networks weren't ready and neither were most American households)! "Cinderella" was also a live entirely musical event (not to unlike "Peter Pan" from the same decade). "Cinderella" would be shown for many years into the early 1970's by CBS, as holiday special. - Peter | |||
| Julie Andrews and Jon Cypher | Ten Minutes Ago | Ten minutes ago I saw you, I looked up when you came through the door My head started reeling, You gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or flo | "Ten Minutes Ago" is another song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 TV special, "Cinderella". - Peter | |||
| Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison and Robert Coote | The Rain In Spain | The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. | "The Rain In Spain" is a trio piece (Henry Higgins -- played originally on Broadway and in the motion picture by Harrison, Eliza - played originally on Broadway by Julie Andrews and in the motion picture by Audrey Hepburn, and Col. Pickering -- played originally on Broadway and in the motion picture by Robert Coote) from "My Fair Lady". - Peter | |||
| Justin Timberlake | Sexyback | I'm bringing sexy back. | From his second solo release Future Love/Sex Songs. This line is pretty pathetic when I think about it. - Celeste |
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