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Randomly (not an exhaustive or all-inclusive list), what are some songs to which you know all of their lyrics by heart?

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Posted - May 27
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  • 44600
    About half or more of 'The Beatles" songs.
    "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" Meat Loaf.
    "Jessica" Allman Brothers Band.
      May 27, 2024 4:32 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      Thank you!
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      May 27, 2024 5:09 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    "Jessica" is an instrumental...you know the lyrics..

      May 27, 2024 6:27 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      My question is about which lyrics you and others who answer know, not which lyrics I know. Grr.
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      May 28, 2024 6:03 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    It's a joke...there are no lyrics to "Jessica"
      May 28, 2024 6:12 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      Is it funny?
      

      May 28, 2024 6:51 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    If I have to explain it...
      May 28, 2024 7:47 PM MDT
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  • 34240
    I thought it was funny. :)
      May 28, 2024 8:11 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    None that I can think of.  I'll recognize the music before the lyrics or the title of the song. Was hard of hearing all my life and didn't realize it.  Never could understand the words for the most part only in bits and pieces.  
      May 27, 2024 4:42 PM MDT
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      I see. Thank you.
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      May 27, 2024 5:10 PM MDT
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  • 34240
    Just about every 1980's metal song you can think of from:

    Talk Dirty to Me...Poison
    Dead or Alive...Bon Jovi
    Heaven...Warrant 
    18 and Life..Skid Row
    Kill Em All...Metallica 
    Kiss Me Deadly...Lita Ford
    Crazy Train..Ozzy
    Poison...Alice
    We're Not Gonna Take It...Twisted Sister
    Dr Feelgood...Motley Crue

    Stars...Skillet
    The Blessing

    And so many more....
    I can learn the words to most songs after only hearing them a couple times on the radio. 
      May 27, 2024 6:28 PM MDT
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  • 23572
    I tried to think of an answer -- I don't think I know any song's lyrics by heart off the top of my head, let alone 12, ha.  :)

    I might be able to sing along to a song I like as as I listen but that doesn't count as 'by heart' to me.
      May 27, 2024 7:02 PM MDT
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  • 34240
    I don't know that I could without the music, I did not take the question to mean that.    I can sing with these and almost any 1980 metal song and get the words correctly.   
    But sing the words myself without the song, that is a whole different ball game. I don't know of any radio song  of my head.  So that would put me to singing church songs. 
      May 27, 2024 7:15 PM MDT
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  • 23572
    Thanks for your expansion on the question. Made me think of an answer for me! :)
      May 30, 2024 3:34 PM MDT
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  • 16762
    The entire Icehouse catalogue prior to Big Wheel. They should never have made that album.
    I rarely need the words to most of the Karaoke tracks I sing either. Last Saturday night I did Take On Me by A-Ha (yes, I can hit and sustain that high note), Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles as a duet with my better half and the KJ held my final song back until the close (because he knows I can nail it) - Careless Whisper by George Michael. A fortnight from now (first weekend after our anniversary) I'm doing Two Strong Hearts by John Farnham as a duet (her favourite male artist, the song was playing on the radio when I proposed to her and it's been "our song" ever since), as well as Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You by Glenn Medeiros and Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel. Lyrics screen not needed for any of them.
    I can't write an exhaustive list here, there isn't room.
      May 27, 2024 10:08 PM MDT
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  • 23572
    I love "Video Killed the Radio Star."
    :)
      May 28, 2024 5:57 PM MDT
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  • 16762
    Works well as a duet - she does the "ooh-ah-oohs", the first half of the choruses and the outro, I do the rest.
      May 30, 2024 4:48 AM MDT
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  • 10993
    I can come pretty close, but unless we're talking about childhood ditties, I doubt there are any. I am reminded of a old game show called 'Don't Forget the Lyrics', hosted by Wayne Brady. (I heard that it's been brought back, but without Wayne Brady, so...), which sort of showcased how hard it can be to remember all the words.

      May 28, 2024 6:11 AM MDT
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  • 17592
    There are hundreds, seriously.  Off the top of my head these are favorite songs of which I know every word.  Every one.

    You Bring Me Joy, Anita Baker
    What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, Joan Osborne (a cover of Jimmy Ruffin)
    All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You, Heart
    End of the Line, Traveling Wilburys
    The Power of Love, Laura Branigan
    Losing My Religion, REM
    My Sweet Lord, George Harrison
    Morning Has Broken, Cat Stevens
    Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key
    Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue, Toby Keith 
      May 28, 2024 11:32 AM MDT
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  • 34240
    Yes, any song that played on the radio between 1985 and 1993, I could sing along word for word. 
      May 28, 2024 3:10 PM MDT
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  • 16762
    I notice that one of those is by Heart ...

      May 30, 2024 4:43 AM MDT
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  • 840
    The Peanuts - Vivre Pour Vivre

    Balanço - Mrs. Beat

    Roger Webb - Play Girl [Featuring Barbara Moore]

    Roger Webb - Dazzle [Featuring Barbara Moore]

    The Modern Playing Mate - Day By Day

    Robby Poitevin - Bubba Dub Bossa

    Piero Umiliani - Mah Na Mah Na (Tiki Mix)

    The Transistors - Mission On Venus (Gak Sato Custom Mix)

    Stan Butcher - Just Dandy [Featuring Barbara Moore]

    Swingle Singers - Going Vivaldi/Bach
      May 29, 2024 3:07 AM MDT
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  • 23572
    I think The Swingle Singers are great. I enjoy listening to them.

    (I am only referring to the group's 1960's albums. My parents had their albums.
    I've not listened to current work nor a group called The Swingles.)



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  • 23572


    If it does count "singing along with a song," while driving today I realized I had been singing right along to a song I really like by a group I really like. (Well, I like everything by the group!)


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