Word(s) that only ever appeared in one (hit) song, ever.

I can't see what that is

Pretty sure 'Body Movin'' was at least an airplay hit, w/ the Fatboy Slim remix? Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.

my pic was Sardines by the Junkyard Band

Top 90s band Radiohead had a song with Sardines in the title but not the lyrics. Sorry that's the best I can do.

Gavotte - You're So Vain (pace Christgau)

"furry donkey"

(The Who, "Happy Jack")

Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:41 PM Bookmark

Oh yeah good point. But I don't think any hit song has featured sardines as prominently as "Clock Strikes"

"Pitchfork" appears in one hit song.

"Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.

I thank you.

Wow, that's kind of surprising! You'd think it'd be in at least one throwaway line about the devil or something. Good one.

In "Seminole Wind" by John Anderson (#2 country hit, 1992):

Everglades
Seminole
Okeechobee
Micanopy
gar
flood control

Maybe a couple of those have showed up in other hit songs, but I bet most of them didn't.

Also, Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has "Gitche Gumee" (also "Chippewa," but that's in Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw" and maybe other songs too. "Indian Outlaw" also has "Choctaw," though; might be alone with that one.)

"Ode to Billy Joe" has "Choctaw!"

arapahoe (Spitting Image - the Chicken Song)

― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:13 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3 years late, I'll point out this has been in at least one other v well known and awesome UK #1

Yes indeed. Which makes me wonder if any other hit songs have "Yucatan" in them?

"Wrapped Around Your Finger" references Scylla and Charibdes, that's gotta be a one-time thing
"Sprits in the Material World" has "subjugate"

"theosophies"

i'm always touched by your presence dear

i know its already been mentioned but 'centrifugal' is my favorite example of this

Lady GaGa's "Judas" has "condom" in it. I don't think I've heard it in another Top 10 hit before.

Belisha Beacon still wins IMO. I stand by 2008 Lex.

The band Fujiya & Miyagi mention the Belisha Beacon in the lyrics of their song "Ankle Injuries".

But I guess that's not a 'hit' exactly..

"puff" (as in the derogatory term - not the mythical creature) in Jilted Jonh?

Come to think of it, Barry? Gordon?

Is Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" the only U.S. hit to contain the word "pissing"?

Funeral Pyre got to No. 176 (with a bullet).

"nullify" - 'Heroin', The Velvet Underground

"Architecture" in "You Can Call Me Al," I think?

i was going to say 'minarets' in 'rock the casbah'

but apparently dave matthews has a song titled 'minarets' lol

whippoorwill

Also in "My Blue Heaven"! (Fourth song listed on this thread that uses this word! I'm surprised it took this long: it's the first thing I think of any time I hear the word.)

Toby Keith "Red Solo Cup" possibilities:

receptacle
testicles (maybe in some rap hits, I'm not sure)
decomposable
forclosable
Freddie Mac
sharpie (as in the writing utensil)

(I assume "yucky" and "smitten" have been in at least a few others, but maybe not.)

"geometric" in Rush's "Subdivisions"

"Titanium" in David Guett feat. Sia, "Titanium"

er, Guetta

Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis, y'all.

"balsa" in Suede's 'It Starts and Ends With You'.

steely dan has a song where fagen's "building the andrea doria out of balsa wood."

also in Jerry Lee Lewis - "Great Balsa Fire"

Btw, "titanium" from upthread was also in Wings' "Magneto and Titanium Man," which was the b-side of a hit record ("Venus and Mars/Rock Show")

I can't believe I of all posters forgot ''Magneto and Titanium Man.'' It's a technicality, sure, but still.

"sacroiliac" in Grandmaster Flash's Melle Mel's "The Message"

"anesthetize" in Girls Aloud's "No Good Advice"

"Are you waiting for loneliness to paralyze?
Are you waiting for sister midnight to anesthetize?"

~American Music Club, "Firefly"

"my rap snaps your sacroilliac" - Jeru

Sacroiliac also in Blondie's Rapture

no one but Tina Turner has ever sung the word "Thunderdome"

I think Club Country by The Associates might be the only song that features the word "Refrigeration"

"Disinclined" in The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud.

Sacroiliac also in Blondie's Rapture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFVh0UoY6c

... not a hit single though

I have heard a version of "Do the Hucklebuck" that uses "Sacroiliac"

"Macaroons" in "Sweet City Woman."

"Incomprehensible" -- ABBA, "Lay All Your Love On Me"

Thread seems to make fairly liberal interpretations of what constitutes a "hit".

I'll toss in "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna" from Me and Bobby McGee (went #1 in the US for Miss Joplin, #12 for Roger Miller, and #13 for Gordon Lightfoot).

I feel like Mariah Carey has to have a bunch of these

"Gnome" and "overfed" in "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon & War.

Is Thrift Shop the only hit song to have the word "skeet" in it?