Songs about hit records.

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  1. redfloatboat

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    Songs that talk about, or have in their title, 'hit record' or 'hit song' 'pop record' 'pop hit' etc.

     
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    How about the TITLE of a hit song in the title?

    The Guess Who - When The Band Was Singin' "Shakin' All Over"

     
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    The one that springs to mind is "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" by The Raspberries. Does that count?
     
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    Radio Friendly Unit Shifter by Nirvana
     
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    Eighteen With a Bullet
     
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    Adrian Belew - Oh Daddy
     
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    Just realized I forgot "#1 Hit Song" by The Minutemen.
     
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    Peter Murphy closed his album Holy Smoke with “Hit Song”.

    When released as a single it wasn’t...
     
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    First thing I thought of:

     
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    Stan Freberg nailed it!

     
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    Feel Good Hit of the Summer - Queens of the Stone Age

    This might refer to something else though.
     
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    "Pop Muzik" by M
     
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    Barry Manilow--I Write the Songs

     
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    None better than "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"

    At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie....
     
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    Keith Moon with Ringo, “Solid Gold”.

     
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  20. Erik Tracy

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    Juke Box Hero, Foreigner
     
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  23. Freeman 024

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    Also by Barry Manilow: This One's For You.

    The first line of the song was prescient: "This one'll never sell ..."
    And it didn't: It was his first single to miss the Top 20 after a string of five to begin his career.
     
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    Kevin Gilbert's "Certifiable #1 Smash"

     
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    and ... oddly one of the songs he didn't actually write!
     
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