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

Ar, that is true.

Anyway, back to the spirit of the original post:

"Bungalows" - Roadhouse Blues by The Doors.

I mean, Bungalows, Jim? You want to tell us all about the Bungalows? Oh, OK then...

What about "LA Woman"...

They have bungalows in there as well?

Blimey, it does!

Jim Morrison - He sang of Bungalows like no-one else ever did!

Or will again.

By the way, there's also "Bungalow Bill," although I wouldn't call that a hit song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYA5tReVNmE

Lot of early 20th century hits with "bungalow" also, as it had come to signify the kind of generic small detached house you and your sweetheart might acquire someday, once you are wed, etc.

Yes, but this is The Doors..

I dunno, just seemed incongruous for some reason..

This play is run, my love
Your time has come, my love
I pledge my troth to lady Jane

i don't think any other hit song uses "troth"

"Ariel" has been described as a "quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl", from Paramus, New Jersey, where he grew up.[8] It is the only Billboard Top 40 song to contain the word Paramus. It describes the girl Ariel, "standing by the [since dismantled] waterfall at Paramus Park", one of the many shopping malls in Paramus.

Oh come on (Wikipedia, not DocC), proper place names don't count.

Like, has there been another song that has "Palisades", or "Itchycoo", or or or ..

Haha yeah I know I know, and in fact I've already cited that song itt for its brilliant use of "vertical hold," just couldn't resist that Wiki-graph.

How about "Representative"?

Alexei Sayle, "Ullo John Got A New Motor"

"Stimuli," in The Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes."

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ELO - "don't bring me down"

― Steve Shasta, Monday, February 4, 2008 2:28 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i got this record recently and was playing it for a friend and they asked me what they were singing during the chorus. i always thought it was "Don't bring me down, oooooh!" then i looked at the lyric sheet. lol it is actually written out "grooss":

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Grooss," which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß." After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down

He has to make his own entertainment..

Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her" has 'boohooed', though I think the Beach Boys sing 'hoohooed' in their version.

I saw someone on the bus in Prestwich with a record called (I think) 'Ted Christie's Brexit Bangers' but I can find any mention of it on discogs so chances are I got the name wrong

I did find this instead, though I wouldn't go as far as brexit banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gK-6kkXiI

The definition of "Hit" has changed so much in nine years...

"placenta" - "Lightning Crashes" / Live
― Pillbox, Tuesday, January 22, 2008

"placenta" -- live, lightning crashes
― bug, Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Lightning Crashes -- Placenta? As in...
"Her placenta falls to the floor"
― LimbsKing, Friday, April 18, 2014

I came here to post "placenta" and found that it's been posted three times already. What a weird hit, by the way.

C'mon people, We can find another placenta!

.. guess not.

"cosmonaut" on "Low" ?

"Scampi" in "That's What I Like"

"London Calling" may be the only song with "truncheon."

I wonder also about "loch" in "Synchronicity II."

"Puttin' on the Ritz" may be the only one with "spats."

"Dweeb" in "Self Esteem" ?

Came here to say 'Thunderdome' and was disappointed to find that it was already mentioned but then I remembered 'nicety' from the song of the same name, so that.

"chrysalis" in Kacey Musgraves' "Butterflies" comes to mind

“mentality” (in “No Tears Left to Cry”)?

mentality is in "I've Got You Under My Skin"

Ah ok. How about “compass” — from R.E.M.’s “Stand”?

Compass is in Human Behaviour by Bjork

Compass is also in "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady

Were those, like, Hot 100 hits? (Not sure how we're defining "hit" for purposes of this thread...)

Like if other charts count, I could say "detachable penis" or whatever...

feel like stevie wonder must've used "chrysalis"somewhere...

Feels like "Get Me to the Church on Time" should count as a hit since it's one of the more memorable tunes from one of the best selling original cast albums of all time, one which incidentally predates the Hot 100

I won't quibble, but it doesn't quite feel like an apples-to-apples comparison...

How about "serpentine," from "Welcome to the Jungle" (#7 on Hot 100)?

"Serpentine Fire" by Earth, Wind, and Fire (#13 Billboard pop chart)

If you're going all the way up to 100, then Wire's "Outdoor Miner" got to No. 51 and has 'serpentine' too. And 'silverfish'.

I don't consider that a hit song though.

Yeah I feel like it should at least be in the, well, Top 40 to qualify as a "hit"

(btw I appreciate and am awed by Josefa's instant song knowledge!)

oh thank you

Backing up a bit, I think "nicety" is a good submission. The word has probably been in songs before (hits, I don't know) but not in the way that Michel'le is using it, which is as an adjective meaning nice + nasty. Which puts it in the category of words/usages that were coined just for one song. Another one like that is the verb "surry" which was coined by Laura Nyro just for the song "Stoned Soul Picnic."

I saw 'nicety' and quickly thought of Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm' but that's niceties anyway.

I submit for consideration, from Another Bad Creation's 'Iesha', the word 'monkeybars'. Possibly also the word 'Nintendo'. I was tempted to go even further and include 'Cheerios' but then I remembered that it also appears in Al Jarreau's 'Mornin''.

"Nintendo" is a key line of American Hi-Fi's "Flavor of the Weak," a US modern rock hit in 2001.

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