A PHIL BRODIE BAND INFO PAGE

SONG TITLES
ENDINGS
TITLES ~ AT THE END OF THE SONG ~ ONLY
songs in popular music where the title of the song
is never mentioned until the end of the song

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In Order of Release Date

"Boots of Spanish Leather" by Bob Dylan
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Date: 1964
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
So take heed, take heed of the western wind,
Take heed of the stormy weather.
And yes, there's something you can send back to me,
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.
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"Here, There and Everywhere" by The Beatles
Album: Revolver
Date: 1966
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there
To be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere
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"The Wind Cries Mary" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Album: --
Date: May 5th 1967
Charts: UK No.6
Last 5 lines:
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
And with his crutch, it's old age, and it's wisdom
It whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
Dodgy one .. Jimi actually only sings the "exact" title at the end, but...
earlier in the song he sings "The Wind IT Cries Mary" .. so up to you to judge this one!
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"Abraham, Martin and John" by Dion
Album: --
Date: 1968
Charts: U.S. No.4 .
Last 4 lines:
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.
Marvin Gaye changed the words slightly for the UK Hit version so that one doesn't count.
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Questions 67 and 68 by Chicago
Album: The Chicago Transit Authority
Date: 1969
Charts: USA No.71
Last 4 lines:
It's just that the thought of us so happy
Appears in my mind, as a beautifully mysterious thing
Yes it does now baby
Questions 67 and 68.
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“Fotheringay” by Fairport Convention
Album: “What we did on our Holidays”
Date: 1969
Charts: ---
Last 5 lines:
To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door
But those days will last no more
Tomorrow, at this hour, she will be far away
Much farther than these islands, for the lonely Fotheringay
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"Fortunate Son" ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival
Album: Willy and the Poor Boys
Date: 1969
Charts: U.S. No.9 & No.3 released as a double sider with "Down on the Corner" same year
Last 4 lines:
(end fade-out)... It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate son, no, no
most people probably think that the title phrase recurs throughout
the song, but in fact the chorus goes:
"It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no [senator's / millionaire's / military] son,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate *one* " .. Thanks Bryn
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"Virginia Plain" by Roxy Music
Album: Roxy Music
Track Release: 1972
Charts: U.K. No. 4.
Last 4 lines:
And where my Studebaker takes me
That's where I'll make my stand but wait
Can't you see that Holzer mane?
What's her name, Virginia Plain?
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"Pigs on the Wing (Part One)" by Pink Floyd
Album: Animals
Date: 1972
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Wondering which of the buggars to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.
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"Pigs on the Wing (Part Two)" by Pink Floyd
Album: Animals
Date: 1972
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.
"Pigs on the Wing" part one & two are recorded as different songs on the album,
but could be classed as one song.
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"Beat Of The Street" by Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
Album: Beat Of The Street
Date: 1974
Charts: --.
Last 5 lines:
Giving to the beat
Stealing to the beat
Jerking to the beat
Firking to the beat
Beat of the street
BUT... he repeats it 3 more times as it fades!
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"Up The Junction" by Squeeze
Album: Cool For Cats
Track Release: 1978
Charts: U.K. No.4.
Last 4 lines:
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so its my assumption
Im really up the junction
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"Paranoid" by Dickies
Album: The Incredible Shrinking Dickies.
Date: 1979
Charts: No.45
Last 4 lines:
I Must Be Paranoid.
The Dickies song finished with the line "I Must Be Paranoid"
whereas the B.S. version does not use this line.
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"Twat" by John Cooper Clarke
Album: a non album song
Date: 1979
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
What kind of creature bore you
Was is some kind of bat
They can’t find a good word for you,
but I can... Twat.
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"The Prince" by Madness
Album: - -
Date: August 10th 1979
Charts: UK No.16
Last 4 lines:
Bring back the
Who is the
We want the
Bring back the Prince
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"My Way Of Thinking" by UB40
Album: Signing Off
Date: 1980
Charts: UK No.6
Last 3 lines:
Youll have to tell me what you want to do cos (come over)
You can't expect me to guess
My way of thinking
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"The Rose" by Bette Midler
Album: The Rose Soundtrack
Track Release: 1980
Charts: US Pop No.3 ~ US AC No.1
Last 5 lines:
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose
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"Hit It " by The Beat
Album: None album song
Track Release: 1981
Charts: UK No. 70
Last 2 lines:
Auto erotic, auto erotic
Auto erotic, auto erotic, hit it
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"Let's Go To Bed" ~ The Cure
Album: Japanese Whispers: The Cure Singles (1983)
Date: 1982
Charts: UK No.44 ~ US ??
Last 4 lines:
doo doo doo doo
let's go to bed!
doo doo doo doo
let's go to bed!
Technically .. right or wrong?? near enough for many .. maybe??
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"Private Investigations" by Dire Straits
Album: Love Over Gold.
Date: 1982
Chart: UK No. 2 ~ US ??
Last 4 lines:
Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes
Scarred for life
No compensation
Private investigations
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"The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd
Album: The Final Cut
Date: 1983
Chart: - -
Last 4 lines:
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
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"Like A Baby" by Wham!
Album: Make It Big
Date: 1984
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
I saw something in your face
Stay here, beside me, I need your love to hide me
You lied, and now you've gone away
You left me crying' like a baby .. Like a baby
Technically .. right or wrong?? near enough for me!
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"The Power is Yours" by The Redskins
Album: 'Neither Washington Nor Moscow'
Date: 1986
Charts: UK No.59 ~ US ??
Last 5 lines:
I know
You know
I know you know it but ...
I keep on coming back because
The power is yours
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"Greetings To The New Brunette" by Billy Bragg
Album: Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
Date: 1986
Charts: UK No. 58 ~ US - -
Last 6 lines:
Here we are in our summer years
Living on icecream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you were my missus
Shirley,
Give my greetings to the new brunette
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"Just Like Heaven" by The Cure
Album: 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'
Date: 1987
Charts: U.K No.29 ~ U.S No.10
Last few lines:
you
soft and only
you
lost and lonely
you
just like heaven
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"Manhattan Skyline" by A-Ha
Album: Scoundrel Days
Track Release: 1987
Charts: U.K No. 13.
Last 4 lines:
A chance of a lifetime to see new horizons
On the front page
A black and white picture
Of Manhattan Skyline
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"One More Try" by George Michael
Album: Faith
Track Release: 1987
Charts: U.K No. 8. ~ U.S No. 1.
Last 5 lines:
Because there ain't no joy
For an uptown boy
Who just isn't willing to try
I'm so cold inside
Maybe just one more try
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"Running To Stand Still" by U2
Album: Joshua Tree
Date: 1987
Charts: - -
Last 4 lines:
She is raging, she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She is running to stand still
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"Misty Morning Albert Bridge" by Pogues
Album: Peace and Love
Date: 1989
Charts: UK No. 41
Last 4 lines:
I'll see you then
As the dawnbirds sing
On a cold and misty morning
By the Albert bridge
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"Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)" by The The
Album: Mind Bomb
Date: 1989
Charts: UK No. 70
Last 3 lines:
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon days are here again
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"Made Of Stone" by Stone Rose
Album: The Stone Roses
Date: 1989 - r/e 1990
Charts: UK No.90 - r/e UK No. 20
Last 4 lines:
When the streets are cold and lonely
And the cars they burn below me
Are you all alone
Are you made of stone?
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"Everything's Ruined" by Faith No More
Album: Angel Dust
Date: 1992
Charts: UK No. 28
Last 4 lines:
He made us rich
But how were we to know
He's counterfeit
Now everything's ruined
Not mentioned to the last line but then ... he repeats it about 20 times!!
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"Our Mutual Friend" by Divine Comedy
Album: Absent Friends
Date: 2004
Chart: - -
Last 4 lines:
I stumbled out to find the bathroom
But all I found was her
Wrapped around another lover.
No longer then is he our mutual friend.
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"Bastardo" by Charlotte Hathaway
Album: Grey Will Fade
Date: 2005
Chart: UK No.31
Last 2 lines:
Yeah had been stolen by the two-faced lothario
Yeah had been stolen by the dirty two-faced lover bastardo
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"Love Will Set You Free" by Engelbert Humperdinck
Album: a non album song
Date: 2012
Chart: UK No.60
Last 4 lines:
If you're lucky enough
Though I'll miss you forever
The hurt will run deep
Love will set you free
(He repeats the line Love CAN set you free
throughout the song but only says
Love WILL Set You Free ... at the end!)

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TITLE MENTIONED IN THE VERY FIRST LINE
AND ONLY ONE MORE TIME
AS THE LAST WORDS.

"We Will Never Be As Young As This Again" by Danny Williams
Date: 1961
Charts: UK No. 44
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"Goin' Back" by Dusty Springfield
Date: 1966
Charts: UK No. 10
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Please Don't Go by Donald Peers
Date: 1969
Charts: UK No. 3
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"Coward Of The County" By Kenny Rogers
Album: Kenny
Date: 1979
Charts: UK No.1 ~ US No.3
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Thankyou to Paul who inspired this page
Big "thankyou" to FRANK who has sent me so many titles
and thankyou to anyone who sends more in
Please email me if you know of anymore

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SONGS STARTING WITH THE TITLE
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