Top 60 Songs with One Word Titles

Neil’s Top 30 Songs With One Word In The Title

Plenty of great songs have only one word in their title and, in this countdown, Neil selects his 60 favourite one-word title songs. How many of these would you include in your list?

  1. Something – The Beatles
  2. Imagine – John lennon
  3. Fernando – ABBA
  4. Evie – Stevie Wright
  5. Yesterday – The Beatles
  6. Stop! _ Sam Brown
  7. Crying – Don McLean
  8. Rockaria! – Electric Light Orchestra
  9. Alone – Heart
  10. Layla – Derek & The Dominos
  11. Superstar – Colleen Hewett
  12. Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
  13. Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
  14. Waterloo – ABBA
  15. Galveston – Glenn Campbell
  16. Hello – Lionel Richie
  17. Africa – Toto
  18. Desire – U2
  19. One – Johnny Farnham
  20. Volare – Bobby Rydell
  21. Help! – The Beatles
  22. Desperado – Eagles
  23. If – Bread
  24. Cecilia – Simon & Garfunkel
  25. Photograph – Ringo Starr
  26. Convoy – CW McCall
  27. Babe – Styx
  28. Tragedy – Bee Gees
  29. Rosanna – Toto
  30. Rachel – Russell Morris
  31. Words – Bee Gees
  32. Michelle – The Beatles
  33. Delilah – Tom Jones
  34. Cherish – David Cassidy
  35. Gloria – Them
  36. Drive – The Cars
  37. Apeman – The Kinks
  38. Howzat – Sherbet
  39. Vienna – Ultravox
  40. Babooshka – Kate Bush
  41. Cassandra – Sherbet
  42. Downtown – Petula Clark
  43. Heroes – David Bowie
  44. Lady – Styx
  45. Joanne – Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
  46. Massachusetts – Bee Gees
  47. Poison – Alice Cooper
  48. Faith – George Michael
  49. Sorrow – David Bowie
  50. Maniac – Michael Sembello
  51. Believe – Cher
  52. Sailing – Rod Stewart
  53. Mornin’ – Al Jarreau
  54. Lola – The Kinks
  55. Groovin’ – The Young Rascals
  56. Dreamer – Supertramp
  57. True – Spandau Ballet
  58. Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
  59. Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac
  60. Classic – Adrian Gurvitz

The next 10 cabs off the rank if we had taken it to number 70 – in chronological order:

  • Domino – Van Morrison – 1970
  • Action – The Sweet – 1975
  • Carrie – Cliff Richard – 1980
  • Jesse – Carly Simon – 1980
  • Jump – Van Halen – 1984
  • Barbados – Models – 1985
  • Sara – Starship – 1986
  • Venus – Bananarama – 1986
  • Joey – Concrete Blonde – 1990
  • Candy – Iggy Pop – 1990