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Name a song with GREEN in the title. (Original Post) Dulcinea Jan 2018 OP
Green, Green by the New Christy Minstrels, 1963 CurtEastPoint Jan 2018 #1
Green green grass of home. MLAA Jan 2018 #2
Green Acres lkinwi Jan 2018 #3
My high school band played this at halftime for about three or four years in a row. TexasTowelie Jan 2018 #31
Green Onions - The greatest ever. pangaia Jan 2018 #4
This!! Docreed2003 Jan 2018 #7
I actually did a few sessions at STAX when I lived in Memphis way back when.. pangaia Jan 2018 #12
Not in the title but from the song "Paradise"; Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Botany Jan 2018 #5
Heard him do that song on Austin City Limits years ago underpants Jan 2018 #8
Another Green World - Brian Eno hurl Jan 2018 #6
Little Green Bag mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2018 #9
Green, Green Rocky Road cemaphonic Jan 2018 #10
Greensleeves The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #11
Mountain GREENery Chipper Chat Jan 2018 #13
The Orange and the Green by the Rovers Leith Jan 2018 #14
Not Easy Bein' Green eppur_se_muova Jan 2018 #15
Bein' Green Orrex Jan 2018 #16
Potatoes, artichoke hearts,...... Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #17
Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf Runningdawg Jan 2018 #18
Buckingham Green RandiFan1290 Jan 2018 #19
Sproston Green RandiFan1290 Jan 2018 #20
Green Corn Thyla Jan 2018 #21
Frankie Vaughan - The Green Door Donkees Jan 2018 #22
Green Grass & High Tides pintobean Jan 2018 #23
+ MANY..... N/T flotsam Jan 2018 #41
Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2018 #24
Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts - Aussie Kids Songs hurl Jan 2018 #25
"Green Door... mithnanthy Jan 2018 #26
Green Hell - Misfits mikeysnot Jan 2018 #27
Green Bayou True Dough Jan 2018 #28
Green Grow The Rushes by REM TexasTowelie Jan 2018 #29
Fleetwood mac - Green Manalishi DBoon Jan 2018 #30
Green is the Colour-Pink Floyd PossiblePasts Jan 2018 #32
Little Green Bag lunasun Jan 2018 #33
Little Green Apples lunasun Jan 2018 #34
"Bitter green", by Gordon Lightfoot. eom guillaumeb Jan 2018 #35
New Order - Everything's Gone Green IcyPeas Jan 2018 #36
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Gray Cell Green IcyPeas Jan 2018 #37
+1 n/t FSogol Jan 2018 #43
Ed McCurdy - "Green Grow the Lilacs" (Civil War Song) Glorfindel Jan 2018 #38
Zappa - "Little Green Rosetta" Drifter Jan 2018 #39
Elvis Costello - Green Shirt IcyPeas Jan 2018 #40
Little Green. nolabear Jan 2018 #42

TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
31. My high school band played this at halftime for about three or four years in a row.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 06:27 PM
Jan 2018

I think that the band director was sending a message to the people in my hick town. Unfortunately nobody else in town was smart enough to get the message.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
12. I actually did a few sessions at STAX when I lived in Memphis way back when..
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:33 PM
Jan 2018

Never ran into these guys, though.

Oh, if only.



And I never knew why Duck's head didn't fall off.


Botany

(70,489 posts)
5. Not in the title but from the song "Paradise"; Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:10 PM
Jan 2018

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts)
9. Little Green Bag
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:21 PM
Jan 2018

I love this tune.



George Baker Selection was a rock band from Hoorn, the Netherlands.

History

In 1967, Johannes Bouwens was living in Wormerveer and joined the band Soul Invention, a soul band which played covers of songs by Otis Redding and Sam and Dave. They changed their name to "George Baker Selection", Bouwens naming himself for a character from a detective novel. The band consisted of Jan Hop, Jacobus Greuter, George Thé, and Jan Visser. Their first album, Little Green Bag (1970), produced an immediate worldwide hit: their debut single, "Little Green Bag" reached No. 16 on the Cash Box magazine chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Top 100 in the United States. The success came as a surprise for Baker, who remembers hearing it on the radio at work, in a lemonade factory. The single sold over one million copies globally, and received a gold disc. A string of singles and albums followed; the second single, "Dear Ann", was such a success that Baker quit his job in the lemonade factory and became a full-time musician. Besides scoring hits with his own band, he also wrote songs for others, including BZN, The Shoes, Andy Star, and Next One. In 1974 singer Lida Bond joined the band, and combining her voice with Baker's proved highly successful.

Their fifth album, Paloma Blanca, was released in 1975, and the single "Paloma Blanca" reached No. 1 on charts in several countries. "Paloma Blanca" sold more than seven million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful Dutch singles ever.

In 1978 the George Baker Selection split up because "the pressure had become too much." The band has sold over 20 million records worldwide. George Baker formed a new George Baker Selection in 1982, which stayed together until 1989. The band has released twelve albums and several compilation albums.

The band experienced a brief return to the international charts in 1992 when the song "Little Green Bag" was used in the title sequence of the film Reservoir Dogs and in "Machos", a cheesy Chilean soap opera in 2003. The song is also featured in a Moto X smartphone commercial circa 2013.

So if the next thread asks for a song with "white" in the title, there's this:

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