Title Says it All! - Songs with Wordplay, Rhymes and Similar Tricks in their Titles

Artist Song
Curtis Mayfield  (If There's a Hell Below) We're All Gonna Go 
Carolyn Crawford  My Smile is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down) 
The Ronettes  Best Part of Breaking Up (Is When We're Making Up) 
Clarence Carter  Take It Off Him (And Put It on Me) 
Brian Setzer Orchestra  Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder) 
The Fleetwoods  Lovers by Night, Strangers by Day 
PJ Proby  Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu 
Isaac Hayes  If Loving You is Wrong (I Don't Wanna be Right) 
The Dramatics  Beware of the Man (with the Candy in his Hand) 
The Ark  Clamour for Glamour 
The Crystals  He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss) 
Spiritualized  She Kissed Me (It Felt like a Hit) 
Roy Wood  Why Does Such a Pretty Girl Sing Such Sad Songs? 
Don Ciccone  Down When It's Up, Up When It's Down 
Little Richard  Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin') 
Linda Jones  You Hit Me Like TNT 
Jackie Wilson  No Pity (in the Naked City) 
The Marvelettes  The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 
Impressions  Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey) 
Sly & the Family Stone  Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 
The Turtles  I'm Chief Kamanawanalea 
Ricky Shaw  Wounded (in the Battle of Love) 
The 5th Dimension  Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes 
Heatwave  Posin' till Closin' 
Shangri-Las  Sophisticated Boom Boom 
Clinger Sisters  Shoop Shoop De Doop Rama Lama Ding Dong Yeah Yeah Yeah 

Comment:

I have this thing about songs with titles based around clever wordplay, rhymes, contradictions or old sayings. Some songs have titles that just make you love them even before hearing them - Carolyn Crawford's "My Smile is Just a Frown (turned Upside Down" being just one example... Oh, and I love it when songwriters put parenthesis in their titles. In fact, every song ought to have paranthesis in them... And parenthesis WITHIN the paranthesis... ;-)
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hemizen
Date: 7/16/2006
Great! I especially like 1 & 23
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sammyg123
Date: 7/16/2006
Utterly, ludicrously fantastic. Nice one!
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Barrydali
Date: 7/16/2006
Very very good. That Crystals/Spiritualized coupling is terrific!
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SteveRaglin
Date: 7/16/2006
How can this not make you smile (and happy to see the heavy dose of R&B)!
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 7/16/2006
Fun concept! Likin 1,8,15,17 especially.
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Mixxer
Date: 7/16/2006
LOL! Cute idea.
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fritz1
Date: 7/16/2006
great concept, parenthesis rules hard!
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kwan_dk
Date: 7/17/2006
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm surprised no one's commented on "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea" yet. It was only recently that I 'got' the hidden filth in that song's title. :-)
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Rob Conroy
Date: 7/17/2006
Nice. "Sophisticated Boom Boom" is a classic, as are 1, 3, 8, 11-13, 15, and 17-20.
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p the swede
Date: 7/20/2006
great
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Nest of Vipers
Date: 7/20/2006
Fun theme made excellent with lots of great tunes!