Friday Five – Year Songs
2008 January 11
Art Ruch lists five songs with years as titles, and challenges us to list some others.
- 1999 – Prince
- Summer of ‘69 – Bryan Adams
- 2000 Man – Rolling Stones
- Early 1970 – Ringo Starr
- Walk, Don’t Run ‘64 – The Ventures
Sorry, I couldn’t find a video clip for Ringo’s tune. The Ventures became the first act to have two top ten hits with recordings of the same song for Walk, Don’t Run (and Walk Don’t Run ‘64). In some ways I like WDR ‘64 better with all that extra drippy reverb on that rhythm guitar.







Here are the ones I found on my iPod:
Pop Song ‘89 – R.E.M.
Thunder Kiss ‘65 – White Zombie
‘49 Mercury Blues – Brian Setzer Orchestra