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

And how could I forget "straafed". And possibly "rugger". And surely "Cam" (in the context of the river). I could go on.

In fact, it pretty much shuts this thread down. But I can't think of another UK Top 40 single apart from "October Swimmer" by JJ72 which mentions Helsinki. Or October, for that matter (though I may have missed something really obvious ... but it's just such an *un-pop* month).

Something obv?

Howabout "The Calendar Song" by the Trinidad Oil Company?

gets a mention in Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren.

But "stance" can't be all that common.

and before anyone says, "Dance Stance" doesn't etc...

Is FC Robin C?

euphoric, incessantly - Mariah Carey, "Heartbreaker"

Dingbod - seeing how I know who you are, I'll concede - yes, I am.

The thing is that ages ago I had "Garden Party" down as the ultimate song for a phantom thread like this, but had posted here several times before I remembered it. Of course, the songs it's pastiching didn't appear on the singles chart, with one exception - which reminds me, how many other hit singles bar Genesis's first mention "lawnmower" or, indeed, "wardrobe" itself?

Away from toffism, in relief:
"Yehudi Menuhin" (Sparks "Amateur Hour")
"beverage" (The Scaffold "Thank U Very Much")

"wardrobe" is in Babies by Pulp.

hurdy gurdy - "Hurdy Gurdy Man"

Thanks, Ailsa. "lawnmower" is still open though.

Another October song (and every month) to answer my own question: "Calendar Girl" by Neil Sedaka.

Der Kommissar - Falco or After the Fire, take your pick.

But "stance" can't be all that common.

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Hot Chip's "Ready for the floor"

Silent "Lucidity" by Queensryche

"advantageously" in "Not So Manic Now" by Dubstar - although that was written by another band, right?

no that was them. you probly thinkin of their cover of st swithin's day

well I'm not sure, Alan - I've no idea who the original band were, but I found this on the web, apparently the lyricist was a guy called David Harling who used to work as a psychiatric nurse. The text below comes from an email written by Harling, to a guy in Colchester:

This text is taken from an email written to me by David Harling.

'Not so manic now' attempts to capture something of the mundanity of everyday existance, and so tells a tale of one persons stuggle beyond this.

My writing the song was triggered by working with a gentleman who had killed his neighbour. In brief what happened was that he was living in some high rise flats with his family when one day his wife announced she was leaving him and taking the children with her.

Over the following months, he became more and more depressed which in turn led him to develop a psychotic depression.

He lost all sense of reality and over a period of days began to believe that his neighbour, who happened to be a body builder, had kidnapped his family and killed them.

The twist was that in the depths of his psychosis he began to develop the delusional belief that the noises he could hear from the upstairs flat were those of his neighbour 'grinding the bones' of his dead family.

In actual fact his neighbour was using body building equipment.

(Emily again - weird or what?? I can't find any trace of a pre-Dubstar version of this song, though.)

"Romford" - Underworld "Born Slippy"

(there was - and I think this might have been the worst record ever made - "The Romford Rap" by Chas and Dave, but mercifully it didn't make the Top 40)

"Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis <--------
We'll get through somehow" -- Warren Zevon

Toxic - "Toxic"?

Cheney; Ovulating - "Without Me"

La Isla Bonita has "Tropicaly"

'Hubcap'* from "Bang A Gong"

*No, the Sleater-Kinney song of the same name doesn't count

Flux-capacitor - that song by Busted.

pesos, waffle-house, damning, boy-shorts, doubling
- R Kelly feat Usher 'Same Girl'

dresser, spatula, unheard, sniggles, midget,
- R Kelly 'Trapped in the Closet'

"EINS-ZWEI-DREI-VIER!!!"

(ahem)

Delaware, Perry Como

Inspired by a recent listen to Thriller:

"the doggone girl is mine"

^^^ "Glad All Over" by the Beatles

Ah, forgot about that one. And theres probably 846 different country songs I haven't heard that use "doggone".

"Glad all over" is either "by the Dave Clark Five" or "recorded for a radio 1 session", so either way wasn't a hit.

"Doggone" also appears in Marvin Gaye's "I'll Be Doggone."

"Midget" also appears in Sly & the Family Stone's "Stand."

How about "fruitless"? (Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes")

the word "agrophile" appears in Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies"...perhaps not a big "hit", but we all know the song...so there...

and just what the hell is an "agrophile"?

"Snakes On A Plane" = that Kanye song where he says "Snakes On A Plane"

I'm guessing "You're So Vain" is the only hit song to reference Nova Scotia...and Saratoga, for that matter...

Nova Scotia's also in Translator's "Everywhere I'm Not."

Was that a hit single?

I had thought it was, but now that I check, it wasn't. Still comes up on SF radio every once in a while, though.

It should've been, though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9TfJjKHUM

"designated driver": Montell Jordan, "This is How We Do It"

"reaper"...you know the song...

It's not a pop hit (yet), but the use of "thus" in Rick Ross & T-Pain's "The Boss" must be very rare indeed, and possibly unique in its genre.

"hen fap" in Kanye West's "Gold Digger"

"academia" - Saint Etienne, He's On The Phone
"piscean" - The Sundays, Summertime

in terms of hip-hop (and perhaps more widely), "bakery" and "fakery" - Three 6 Mafia "Poppin' My Collar"

and although it was probably never used in any other context by anyone ever, so it shouldn't really count, "knockatize" in "Pigeons" by Genesis (if only because it's probably the best thing they did)

"Jacques Derrida" by Scritti Politti has some great words in it, like "Cashanova", "Rapacious", "Assuage" and last but not least "Bop sh'day-o" (according the lyric site I'm looking at), which also appears in "The sweetest girl", sort of.

How about grody, from Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl?"

If that's how you spell it....

"academia" - Saint Etienne, He's On The Phone

"Academia Blues" - Perfect Skin, Lloyd Cole

"shtick" - Barry White, "Never Never Gonna Give You Up"

"TVC15", not much of a word.

But it counts.