Posted in: Musicouching by Alistair Briggs on January 8, 2010 | 7 Comments
Here we will take a look at songs that have a day of the week in their title. A song for every day of the week if you like!
The song Manic Monday was the debut hit by girl band the Bangles in 1986. It had actually been written 2 years previously by the much more famous music star Prince. It was given to the band at a time when Prince was trying to court one of the members. The song was a massive hit reaching number 2 in the charts in the UK, the US, Ireland, Austria and Germany.
Released as one half of a double A-side; the other side being ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’. It was released as a single in early 1967, reaching number 1 in the US and number 3 in the UK. The song has been covered by many different artists but it is arguable that any of them live up to the original.
This song was the last one on Simon & Garfunkel’s debut album and gave its name to the title of the album. The album was released in 1964 but flopped dramatically. But it was all to change on re-release. Due to radio success, the album was re-released in January 1966 and became a massive hit. The duo were on the map.
A top twenty hit in the UK for David Bowie in 1999, peaking at number 16. The song came from the album ‘hours’. Along with many other songs on the album, it was originally written for inclusion on the computer game ‘Omikran – the Nomad Soul’. It was released as a single two weeks previous to the albums release.
The Easybeats were an Australian rock-pop band from the 1960’s. This song was written by band members George Young (originally from Scotland) and Harry Vanda (originally from Holland). It was a worldwide smash-hit, peaking at number 1 in Australia, number 6 in the UK and number 16 in the US. Despite most band members not being Australian, this song was voted as the best Australian song of all time.
Originally this song was released in 1973 when Gordon Clark was the lead singer of the Bay City Rolls; it flopped. One year later however, with new lead singer Les McKeown, the song was included on the album but not released in the UK. It was released in the US in 1976 where it reached the top of the charts.
This song came from the U2 album called ‘War’, released in 1983 Sunday Bloody Sunday was the band’s third single. The lyrics to the song describe some of the horrors felt in Northern Ireland and specifically the ‘Bloody Sunday’ incident in Derry where British troops murdered civil rights marchers.
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Cassiopeia Antares October 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
awesome article and idea. I would never have thought of this great job
9rty Agisti October 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
This article probably the answers of my tweets about “what day is today?” But why the answers are all days in a week?
So, this is a neat job. By the way, I like manic Monday.
Katien October 21st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Good idea for an article. I don’t remember hearing that Simon and Garfunkel one before.
Juancav October 21st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Great list of songs to everyday of the week.
bethenya October 24th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Nice collection, too! My gosh, I can sing all these songs!
Great job, Alistair!
Teves October 26th, 2009 at 7:33 am
NIce one…
BradONeill October 30th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
The bay city rollers really looked like they were laboring to get through that song. I know it was painful for me to get through. I never heard the Bowie song before that one was interesting. I think I liked it but I may have to listen a couple times to be sure.