What is the most common song title ever?

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And the winner is... "Move Your Body", with 56.

Gene Farrow & The GF Band
Xpansions
Anticappella
Eurogroove
Eiffel 65
Nina Sky
Isley Brothers
Odyssey
Venom X
Marshall Jefferson
DJ Dainskin
101
Tatact
Tyree
Reel 2 Real
Off
Unlimited Nation
Breaker Mixer
Ruffneck ft Yavahn
Systemex
Maxx
Mark "Ruff" Ryder
Piece Process
Max V
M.C. Pony-Tail
DJ Pierre
OSIO
Staccatto
Coco-Nuts
Savastano
Boston DJ's
Madame-X
Unit
M.D.M. Dee
Selector
Paralizer
Malicious Mike
Korda
Malcolm Frisco
Interstate
Zone 1
2 Eivissa
M Double A
Casseopaya
DJ Trix
Vibeman
Sy & Unknown
Justin Bourne
Jazz Juice
Tungsten & Morph
John B
James Christian
Frankie Knuckles
Julius Papp
Chicago Syndicate
Vinylgroover & The Red Hed

God bless Discogs. Some of these may be covers, but still...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oy, mike T's chart. Whatever happened to my "Rock and roll"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith Moon wrote "I need you" for the Who...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

The first title that popped into my head was "You and I," but I'm not going to do the research.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Cosmo Vitelli brings the "Dance With Me" list up to 16...

― Telephonething, Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

This could be Dave Gorman's next project: tracking down and meeting the makers of all 56 versions of "Move Your Body". A sort of odyssey of obscure studios in the Benelux countries, maybe. They could put then their version on, and Dave could have a little dance to it on camera.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

The Beatles have an "I Need You" as well, with sad honking guitar and George.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I Love You - People (same version as the Zombies)

I Want You - KISS

Fire - Jefferson Starship

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Fire - Komeda

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"Walk Away"

Bad Religion
Sisters Of Mercy
Christina Aguilera
Nitin Sawhney
Dropkick Murphys
Donna Summer
Tom Waits (on some soundtrack, I believe)

no AMG here at work, probably lots more I don't know about.

― StanM, Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe Pearl Jam has a song called "Hold On" - 13.

― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Valvola have a song called One Love (Le Blues Ermetique), if that counts.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a "Walk Away" by Ben Harper, though Eliza Carthy's recording of it ruleth.

And the Lisa Loeb song was originally just "Stay," so it definitely counts.

Glad someone added the Beatles "I Need You."

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Walk Away - Shane Fenton & The Fentones
Walk Away - Matt Monro
Walk Away - Joyce Sims
Walkaway - Cast
= 12.

One Love - Blue
= 7.

Move Your Body - 56.
Dance With Me - 16.
I Want You - 15.
Hold On - 13.
I Need You - 13.
Rock And Roll - 13.
Stay - 13.
Walk Away - 12.
Come Together - 11.
Fire - 11.
Baby - 10.
Run Run Run - 10.
I Love You - 9.
Love - 9.
Sunday Morning - 8.
One Love - 7.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

"Call Me":

Aretha Franklin
Chris Montez
Blondie
Go West
Tweet

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

U2 has a "Stay (Faraway So Close)," which gets that title to 14. Unless the parentheses disqualify it.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

The Orchids = Hold On = 14

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Lou Reed - Hold On (from New York) = 15

The Skinflicks - Hold On = 16

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Hold On = 17

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Sarah McLachlan - Hold On = 18

Limp Bizkit - Hold On = 19

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Stay" Dave Matthews Band (14)

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

er, so 15. actually the dmb song is "Stay (Wasting Time)" i guess, but we'll count those.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

The Verlaines = Hold On = 20

Good Charlotte - Hold On = 21

Noel Pointer - Hold On = 22

Dave Gahan - Hold On = 23

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Runaway - 25.

Del Shannon
Janet Jackson
E'voke
Salsoul Orchestra ft Loleatta Holloway (also covered by Nu Yorican Soul ft India)
The Corrs
Sahlene
Linkin Park
Bon Jovi
Pat McGee
Bill Champlin
Cher
Jefferson Starship
NB Rydaz
The Real McCoy
Natural
Nina Sky
Wyclef Jean
Zebrahead
Hazel O'Connor
Mae
John Hiatt
Bonnie Raitt
The X-Possibles
Gary Allan
10cc

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Power of Love"

Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Jennifer Rush (originally an Air Supply song, IIRC, also covered by Celine Dioin)
Luther Vandross
Huey Lewis and the News

there must be many more

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"Call Me" - Sinatra (do jazz standards count?)

― dewey, Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Spiritualized - Hold On - 24

Badfinger - Hold On - 25

Pete Sandberg - Hold On - 26

JJ Cale - Hold On - 27

Phylis Hyman - Hold On - 28

Redskins - Hold On - 29

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Call Me - Spagna
Call Me - Le Click
Call Me - Jamelia
Call Me - Bill Wolfer
Call Me - The Jiving Juniors
Call Me - Nancy Wilson
Call Me (Come Back Home) - Al Green (if we're counting brackets, which we seem to be).
= 13.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

More Hold Ons

Jason Anderson - 30

Yngwie Malmsteen - 31

Eric Clapson - 32

2pac - 33

Dwele - 34

Dashboard Confessional - 35

Foreign Beggars - 36

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The Luther Vandross is actually "Power Of Love - Love Power". No "the" + hyphen = disqualified...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Hold On there's more

Herman's Hermits - 37

Jet - 38

Mikey Spice - 39

Trick Daddy - 40

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Add Bon Jovi to the "Runaway" list.

Some of these may be covers, but still...

Covers can't count, can they? If they do, "Yesterday" wins by a landslide, doesn't it?

Then again, I'm not about to do the research, so ...

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Duh. Sorry. Bon Jovi's there.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

You - 10.

Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon
George Harrison
Au Pairs
Delta Five
Kleenex
Bill Withers
Ten Sharp
Bonnie Raitt
Point Break
S Club 7

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Covers can't count, can they? If they do, "Yesterday" wins by a landslide, doesn't it?

Covers are being weeded out. But who on this PLANET could possibly know whether all of those 56 dance tracks called "Move Your Body" are, um, original compositions?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Like I said, not me. Rock (Someone's) Body!

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The Creatures also do a song called "You" on [i]Boomerang[/i],
so "You" - 11

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oops, damn bbcode

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

AMG lists 457 song entries for "You and I." A few of them are doubles.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Freedom - 20.
Wham!
George Michael (covered by Robbie Williams)
Michelle Gayle
Shiva
QFX
Robert Miles ft Kathy Sledge
Erasure
Rage Against The Machine
Neil Young
Paul McCartney
Andy Griggs
Jurassic 5
Overlife
Madonna
Garzilli Enrico
RJ Helton
Ashanti
The Judds
Barbara Lewis
Pointer Sisters

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and Moose have a "Hold On" at the end of Honey Bee

so "Hold On"
Moose - 41

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking up "I Love You" on AMG - 1150 results. Even if on average the song appears 10 times for each composer, ~115, probably more.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't the AMG results count titles that include your keywords, though? So if you put in "I Love You" then it would count "I Love You Honey Baby La-Di-Da" or something?

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

It shows those separately. I didn't count them.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

More "You":

Marvin Gaye (later covered by Three Dog Night)

Rita Coolidge

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm totally going to write a song called "I Love You Honey Baby La-Di-Da."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You - Radiohead. 14

― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

You, R.E.M. - 15.

This thread rules the effing roost.

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

1 for "The Half Eaten Sausage Will See You in His Office Now"
(The Locust)

― Waking Up Onstage at Jumbo's (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

'California' - 45

low
wedding present
phantom planet
the aislers set
the adicts
beach boys
chuck berry
joe brooks
glen campbell
bobby conn
mikel erentxgun
eriq
facet
jad fair and kramer
mylene farmer
jay farrar
favorite atomic hero
flash and the pan
jeffrey foucault
the gadjits
14a
the freddy jones band
kingston trio
lenny kravitz
la guns
magnapop
lil' rob
manfred mann
john mayall
joni mitchell
gianna naninni
nantucket
rick nelson
tom petty
liz phair
gene pitney
jean luc ponty
quasi
josh ritter
eddie reader
semisonic
sexual milkshake
frank sinatra
mary timony
rufus wainwright
zen mafia

― Michael B, Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"Tonight"
Ken Laszlo
The Raspberries
Shirley Bassey
The Move
Rubettes
Zaine Griff
Modettes
Steve Harley
Boomtown Rats
Kool & The Gang
David Bowie
New Kids On The Block
Def Leppard

(and these are all singles)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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