What Is The Longest Song Title?

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  1. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident Thread Starter

    I'll throw in the longest I know.
    Ray Stevens - "Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills".
    Any others?
     
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  2. finslaw

    finslaw muzak to my ears

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    Panic! at the Disco: There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

    Their first album has 11 non-instrumental songs and their titles use a total of 80 words!
     
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  3. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    Carmichael's 1942 song "I'm a Cranky Old Yank" was listed in the 1967 edition of the Guinness Book of Records under the title "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" as the longest song title. Hoagy Carmichael - Wikipedia
     
  4. JozefK

    JozefK Forum Resident

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    Fred Astaire and Jane Powell - "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life"

     
  5. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    The Longest Day - Paul Anka
     
  6. Sunflower

    Sunflower Senior Member

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    The Faces
    You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)
     
  7. wellhamsrus

    wellhamsrus Surrender to the sound

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    2000 Light Years From Home
     
  8. bloodisthin

    bloodisthin And after all, we're only ordinary men

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    Artist: The Chariot

    Song title: "Someday, in the Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands of People are Going to Be Shocked and Perplexed to Find Out It Was Not Them. Sometimes, This Includes Me."

    Album: Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding (2005)
     
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  9. Desolation Row

    Desolation Row Forum Resident

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    "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
     
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  10. Tullhead

    Tullhead Forum Resident

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    Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament for the 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat from the Straits of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie - Fairport Convention
     
  11. SoporJoe

    SoporJoe Forum Resident

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    Christine Lavin’s “Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You’re Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn’t Able to Leave Town, I’m Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn’t Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON’T Like Surprises!! A Musical Apology”.
     
  12. Tim Albertson

    Tim Albertson Forum Resident

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    I'm going to guess "Smiles" (because there is a mile in between each "s.") Words by J. Will Callahan, music by Lee S. Roberts, 1917. Sung here by Judy Garland...
     
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  13. Mummy was an asteroid, daddy was a small non stick kitchen utensil. Robert Wyatt
     
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  14. mahanusafa02

    mahanusafa02 Forum Resident

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    Thanks, I've just snorted coffee all over my wife's laptop reading this title...but you've still made my life better by posting it!
     
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  15. arthurprecarious

    arthurprecarious Forum Resident

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    My first thought! Gotta be the winner?
     
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  16. HiredGoon

    HiredGoon Forum Resident

    Dunno about the longest song title ever, but ambient artist Wings Of An Angel consistently uses such long titles that I often can't download the flac files as the Windows file length limit is breached.

    Example:

    Objectify The Love You Couldn’t Share In Our Previous Lifetime (An Ambient Funeral Doom Fairytale About Unattainable Or Unrequited Love Which Becomes In-Due-Time A Black Hole In The Protagonist's Haunted Psychic Forest)

    --Geoff
     
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  17. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

    Odyssey - YWKARLTLIIWRUKYOTCASHB

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  18. daveidmarx

    daveidmarx Forem Residunt

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    Prince - 17 Days (The rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose.)
     
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  19. mr.datsun

    mr.datsun Incompletist

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    Sorry to be pedantic, but that's a Quiet Sun band track written by Bill MacCormic.
     
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  20. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing

    Hoagy, because it's Hoagy...love him.
     
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  21. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    The Stars on 45 Beatles medley - for legal reasons, the official title is the title of all the songs in the medley.
     
  22. Platterpus

    Platterpus Senior Member

    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
     
  23. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Kim Fowley might have the record for most words on a single:

    A-side: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa!
    B-side: You Get More For Your Money, On The Flip Side Of This Record, Talking Blues

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  24. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Here's a 16-worder from Lloyd Price in 1966 (I'm showing the label of the Dutch pressing because they added an extra "The" in there):

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  25. Bjorn Kjetil Johansen

    Bjorn Kjetil Johansen Vortex Surfer

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