Skipping on nearly 3 decades ...

Back to the 70s. Ronnie Van Zant was the best pure songwriter in music. His lyrics and soulful singing touches everyone.

Good stuff. I'll throw in this:

I know how Hoss likes snappy outfits, so here's:

I know I could put this in 'One Word Song Titles':

Rubberbandman - Yello

1991 track from the eccentric Swiss duo. My CD single came in a great 3D rubber sleeve:

I picked up some cool, limited edition CDs and vinyl back then. There used to be so many good record stores in London - maybe four major chains and over a dozen independents. When I went back recently I found that the only surviving major store, HMV, had closed one of its three large West End stores and there are only about three or four independents of the ones I used to visit. I guess this is the price we pay for MP3s.

While we're on 'rubberband' songs, I thought I'd also include Rubberband Girl by Kate Bush. I must dig the single out so I can rip it to my computer.

Brian Coltrane said:

I know how Hoss likes snappy outfits, so here's:

Thanks Brian, these guys could give Rosco's '10 Million Dollar Sheriff' suit a run for its money.

Continuing our 'manly' songs I'm surprised this one hasn't come up yet!

Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers

Well, MaryAnne, I'm surprised you ain't posted this one yet:

This tune was also covered by Elivs.

Hoss! I didn't forget about you either. I share your pain with the disappearing independent music stores. There's a few stores in my neck of the woods that are independent, carry everything and anything, and also have a great selection of vinyl albums. New releases, re-releases, ect. One of these great stores, "The Exclusive Company" survived by diversfying and being as unusual as possible. Where else can you find new music by great undiscovered bands like "Deer Tick" ? Heh.

Unfortunately I don't think they'll ship albums overseas, and if they did it'd cost a fortune. Their web store only shows CD and downloads. (HNet has no affilate relationship with The Exclusive Co, and this is just more sidebar rambling by yours truly.)

"But what can a poor boy do, except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band?":

Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones

Well, MaryAnne, I'm surprised you ain't posted this one yet:

I beat her to it just over a week ago .

"But what can a poor boy do, except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band?":

Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones

I beat her to it just over a week ago .

And I beat you to Street Fighting Man a while ago too...

And I beat you to Street Fighting Man a while ago too...

Touché Capt. - thought I'd checked

Pretty confident we haven't had this before:

The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel

We ran a long time before hitting duplicates. Figured I'd trip up eventually, oh well.

Bridge songs are harder to come by. Fortunately I know one:

Bridge - Queensryche

It's gonna have to be another track from Paul and Arthur:

It's gonna have to be another track from Paul and Arthur:

Beat me to it, Hoss, I was gonna post that as soon as I saw Brian's.

Here's one - though it could go in One-word song titles too:

I'd like to assure MaryAnne that this song is not about a certain NASCAR driver .

Here's a classic country song remade quite a few times. But I love this version.

Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud Loud Music - Daryle Singletary

This version has a long, quiet intro, so stick with it. The video reminds me of James Duke's recently posted space pics.

Mountain Music - Alabama

Yeehaw!

I'd like to assure MaryAnne that this song is not about a certain NASCAR driver .

Good thing otherwise it would totally ruin the song.

I'm not sure if we've had a classical track in this thread before (and I'm not going back to check). It takes a while to build, but it's well worth the wait.

I first discovered this tune when it was used as the backing music for the 1983 computer game Manic Miner. We used to stop into the computer shop on the way home from school and play it for ages. You can see a version with better graphics

. It may not have the realism of Call of Duty: Black Ops, but you do get chased by penguins and toilets .

The original game ran on a computer with 48k of RAM and had to be loaded from a cassette!. If your current computer has 2Gb of RAM, that's nearly 44,000 times as much memory. It looked like this:

Can't remember if I used this one or not, but this is the one that came to mind with this. Hope y'all don't mind a repeat if I did use it before. Love this song...Love TK's music. Just awesome!

Kids In America - Kim Wilde

One of the most beautifully done songs ever.

Letter From America - The Proclaimers

1987 track from Scottish twins Charlie and Craig Reid.

Great song...JMM puts so much emotion into this song.

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp) - Allan Sherman

Fun novelty song from 1963.