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To: lugsoul; theDentist
Yes! Good job, lugsoul!

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What was the SHORTEST song (in terms of time of play) to go to #1?

What #1 song had the LONGEST TITLE?

67 posted on 04/19/2004 11:09:55 AM PDT by TheBigB ("If my deepest, darkest despair had choreography -- *this* would be it." -Tom Servo)
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To: TheBigB
"Blackbird"? or "Ontomontopea"?
70 posted on 04/19/2004 11:15:59 AM PDT by blackdog (I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
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To: TheBigB
DK about the shortest song, but the longest title was that "Stars on 45" Beatles medley:

Medley: Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want To Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going To Lose That Girl/Stars on 45

73 posted on 04/19/2004 11:17:33 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: TheBigB
What #1 song had the LONGEST TITLE?

Not too sure if it ever made #1 (or even the top 100 for that matter) but the song with the LONGEST TITLE on record is:

"Several species of small, furry animals, gathered together in a cave, and grooving with a Pict" Mike Oldsfield, "Tubular Bells" Album

105 posted on 04/19/2004 12:30:50 PM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (24 years of Snarlin's Liberalism is enough! Vote Pat Toomey for U.S. Senate!)
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To: TheBigB
The Face's / Rod Stewart's 1974 no. 12 hit 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) has 115 letters, not counting punctuation marks.. The longest charting un-bracketed title is The Charlatans I Never Want An Easy Life If Me And He Were Ever To Get There" It made no. 38 in Mar 1994 47 letters.

The Freshies' 1981 release I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk (60 letters) peaked at number 54.

145 posted on 04/20/2004 12:54:52 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: TheBigB
What was the SHORTEST song (in terms of time of play) to go to #1?

Depends on definitions. But I'd nominate Some Kinda Earthquake by Duane Eddy, from 1959, all 1 minute and 17 seconds worth.

148 posted on 04/20/2004 2:41:01 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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