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

OK, how about "Hydromatic"

(You know the song)

On "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide": "zoomy," maybe "mobilize" and "hoot."

Ha -- definitely way to go, Avalanches. Now about that second album...

Okay, I feel good about this one - "amoebas" in John Hiatt's "Thing Called Love." A #11 on US Rock for Bonnie Raitt.

Amoeba wasn't in "Kokomo"?

hahaha, would go well with the "mounds of rotten steak" reportedly found in Martinique (thanks, ILX)

"Bravado" in "Baby Come Back" by Player?

"Worcestershire sauce" in "Crack a Bottle." Kind of a wretched song but it would be cool if the "bottle" in question actually contained a tangy condiment for beef dishes.

"Cargo," in "Rock the Boat"?

Well, there's also this, but I doubt it was ever a hit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfZKdE5OOw

Has there ever been a hit single version of 'This Old Man'? If not, I'm going to nominate Pop Muzik by M as the only hit to include 'knick knack paddy whack'

― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 4:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and Ludacris's "How Low!" Wish he'd really followed through and tried to include it, somewhere, in every song.

Any other uses of soppy aside from slap & tickle? (Squeeze)

"Orphanages" in "You Can Call Me Al"

"TransPass" and probably "corns" (the things people get on their feet) and maybe (though I doubt it) "alakazam" (not to mention all sorts of pseudo-words in Carnese or whatever the made-up language is -- not Double Dutch, apparently): "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith

"Alakazam" is indeed in "Open Sesame" by Kool & the Gang.

Also there's the old bubblegum classic "Wham Bam Ala Cazam" by The Tricks but dunno if it was a real hit or not.

Now I'm wondering if "skippers" is in any other songs other than McLaren's "Double Dutch".

"Alakazam" is in Nat King Cole's Orange Coloured Sky, as well as The Marvelettes' My Baby Must Be A Magician.

"eloquence" from When Smokey Sings by ABC

This one is also in De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

when Sting's 'eloquence' escapes you...

And Elton's "Sartorial Eloquence" ..

(I read that as Trio's "Da da da", and was thinking "probably the 12" version..")

God, "Sartorial Eloquence" - got introduced to that through the Elton ballot poll and I swear it now gets stuck in my head more than any of his classic hits. DON'T YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAME NO MORE???

It also has "indisposed," but I'm sure that has to be on other things.

Black Hole Sun:

"In my eyes. Indisposed. In disguise as no one knows..."

oh duhhhh

Lightning Crashes -- Placenta? As in...

"Her placenta falls to the floor"

"By the middle of March when the pregnancy starts in your lady's placenta - that means L just entered"

"cavalier" in "She's Out of My Life". Probably there's some other hit song that has used it but I can't think of it

no fear, cavalier, renegade and steer clear
a tournament, a tournament, a tournament of flies

That song has too many words in it, invalidates half the songs on this thread

Does "Hormones" appear in any other song besides "Genie in a Bottle" ?

''Area Codes'' for one...

'streamers' in 'Cars and Girls'?

Dean Friedman's "Ariel" has "vertical hold" - and, a long shot, "Jewish."

"faculty" in Bowie's 'Blue Jean'

"trepidation" in pet shop boys - being boring

"congruent" in Eve 6's "Leech." Not a great song by any stretch, but came on my ipod this morning.

"finagling" in "Chug-a-Lug"

"chancellor" and probably a few other things in "Triumph"

Sheryl Crow discussion elsewhere suggests "vending machine," "intellectualism," "brochure," and "nicotine" in "Every Day Is A Winding Road."

"Communist" on "Soak Up The Sun" has to have appeared elsewhere. "Crummy," maybe?

"If It Makes You Happy" has some good proper names (Geronimo, Benny Goodman) and "mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second (not to mention "Red Mosquito" by Pearl Jam, which wasn't a commercial single but barely cracked the Modern Rock top 40 anyway).

"A Change Will Do You Good" had "Falstaff," "bottom-feeder," "cement shoes" and "jack off."

Also - "poultry" on "Long Tall Glasses"?

(nothing to do with Sheryl Crow)

'Sodomy' in "What's My Age Again?"

got halfway through typing "it's in 'Disarm'" before I caught myself.

"mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second

Smells Like Teen Spirit?

(slaps forehead, squashes mosquito)

This wasn't a big hit, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOe5ie_cZa0

"2011" in Chromeo's Jealous, which is currently a modest hit in Canada.

there's also loco mosquito by iggy, a jonathan richman song about them, and I think a Stan Ridgway solo track

"Alabaster?" (Wrapped Around Your Finger)

In a few things - discussed upthread. And wow, that Ike & Tina b-side is something.