Words that you have only ever heard used once in a song.

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by elaterium, Mar 5, 2019.

  1. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

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    There was an old doo wop or soul record that used "pompitus of love" before Steve Miller. Maybe someone else here remembers who did it?
     
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  2. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

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    In another thread like this, someone cited the use of “bookkeeper” in Steely Dan’s “Don’t Take Me Alive.” I found it odd that no other song includes it, but I certainly couldn’t find any.
     
  3. onionmaster

    onionmaster Tropical new waver from the future

    Lord Melody used the word "monkeyeric" in his 50s calypso "Creature From The Black Lagoon". It appears in the 50s book "The Lonely Londoners", indicating that it must've been used then, though even in Trinidad it seems an obscure word.
     
  4. Maurice

    Maurice Senior Member

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    Lupid. As in, "I get stupid / I shoot arrow like Cupid / I use a word that don't mean nothin', like lupid."

     
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  5. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

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    Phil Collins said once he wasn't sure how to sing a lyric that used the word "undinal" ("Firth of Fifth").
     
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  6. intv7

    intv7 Senior Member

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    "Myxomatosis", in T. Rex's "Left Hand Luke".
     
  7. MHS3

    MHS3 "Long Live Rock'n'Roll"

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    What ever the heel Roth says on Ice Cream Man,the lyrisc are I got good lemonade, ah, dixie cups
    All flavors and push ups too
     
  8. evillouie

    evillouie Forum Resident

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    How about a Christmas one? Good King Wenceslas! Never heard Wenceslas in any other song.
     
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  9. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    Onomatopoeia - Found in the song of the same name by Todd Rundgren on the Hermit of Mink Hollow album.
     
  10. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Peter Cetera sings the title "Questions 67 & 68" only once at the end of the song.
     
  11. Horse Majeure

    Horse Majeure Forum Resident

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    Hallimasch
     
  12. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    'The Letter' by Vernon Green & the Medallions
     
  13. thepigdog

    thepigdog Music and beer

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    Does that mean infected by Bruuuuuuce, or a disease of cattle?
     
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  14. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

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    I think I misunderstood what the OP is after, which is words we have heard nowhere else but in a song.
     
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  15. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    While we're at it, opaque and rectify.
     
  16. AlexDelarge

    AlexDelarge Forum Resident

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    "Causeway"
    Pink Floyd-High Hopes
     
  17. alamo54us

    alamo54us Forum Resident

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    The Kinks, Autumn Almanac
     
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  18. Picca

    Picca Forum Resident

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  19. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    'Wherewithal' by Clifford T. Ward - also includes the word "nonpareil"

    (he had previously been an English teacher)
     
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  20. Picca

    Picca Forum Resident

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  21. apesfan

    apesfan "Going Ape"

    Fuh you!

    Guess, John M.
     
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  22. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    It's one of the best words.:)
     
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  23. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

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    “Pilchard” in The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.”

    Pretty sure I’ve heard “semolina” elsewhere, though... :D
     
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  24. rockerreds

    rockerreds Senior Member

    "Cordell Hull" in a Van Dyke Parks song.
     
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