September 7, 2011

It's a Monday kind of Tuesday.

I know it's Wednesday, but I was just thinking about "It's a Monday Kind of Tuesday," and the question occurred to me: What day of the week is most frequently sung about?

And if you're planning to say Friday, I hope the song on your mind is "Friday On My Mind."

I'm very fond of "Gloomy Sunday," and maybe it's Sunday.

I'm guessing the answer is Friday, Monday, or Sunday. No way it's Thursday.

35 comments:

SGT Ted said...

SAturday Nights all right for fighting.


S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!

MadisonMan said...

Monday Monday. So good to me.

Known Unknown said...

Here's another list, albeit with garish, eye-piercing color.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Stormy Monday Blues - T-Bone Walker

Ann Althouse said...

(I deleted 2 off-topic comments.)

Ann Althouse said...

@EM That's some choice old-school web design!

prairie wind said...

Old school website design, boring as it is, wins over the garish. Now, what about songs that have "weekend" in the title? That would add to the Sat-Sun count.

penelope said...

“Come Monday” – Jimmy Buffett

“Monday, Monday” – Mamas and Papas

Shanna said...

Just another Manic Monday...

Although my guess in Friday.

Known Unknown said...

It's Sunday. Look at the lists!

Clyde said...

I don't care if Monday's blue,
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too,
Thursday I don't care about you,
It's Friday, I'm in love...

-- The Cure

Bring on the weekend, baby!

MikeR said...

Today is muggy. Tomorrow is tueggy. The next day will be weggy.

edutcher said...

"Saturday Night At The Movies" - inspired by a TV show, no less.

Bob_R said...

Friday on My Mind is a killer pop song and that's a very cool video. Once again YouTube justifies the existence of the internet.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

Trooper York said...

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

Oh and really skinny people!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Sunday - Nikonn

Beta Rube said...

"Lady Madonna" covers the bases pretty well.

"Monday morning creeping like a nun."

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

On Sunday - 'Til Tuesday

William said...

@E.M. Davis. Thanks for the lists. Wednesday and Thursday are lustreless days without any kind of brand awareness. Neither day has inspired a great song. They don't even have their own color. How about Fuchsia Wednesday. That would be a good name for a song. Nobody knows what the color fuchsia is, but it sounds kind of sexy.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Sunday

Whiskey on a Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Dust Bunny Queen said...

@ Lem's 11:12 post Sunday. Who else knows what location that youtube video is portraying.

If you do.....Geek!!

Known Unknown said...

Blue Monday or The Beach?

mikeski said...

@William:

Kramer: What's today?

Newman: It's Thursday.

Kramer: Really? Feels like Tuesday.

Newman: Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel....

Kramer: I feel Tuesday and Wednesday...

Seinfeld - "The Sniffing Accountant"

DADvocate said...

"Never on a Sunday" hit every day of the week.

urpower said...

The title "Thursday's Child" is pretty common- recently a song by Bowie- based on the nursery rhyme "Monday's Child". "Thursday's child has far to go" is an image of the wanderer or quester. Bowie was born on Wednesday.

FleetUSA said...

The movie "Gloomy Sunday" was excellent.

Roy Lofquist said...

Sorry to be a stick in the mud here and talk numbers and such but a Google search shows the following for "lyrics xday" - all followed by 000,000.

Sunday - 236
Monday - 186
Tuesday - 165
Wednesday - 152
Thursday - 150
Friday - 285
Saturday - 201
weekend - 116

Known Unknown said...

Roy-

I was using song titles rather than lyrics, but you may well be correct that Friday is most popular.

Issob Morocco said...

Tuesday's Gone With The Wind;

Joseph said...

Never on a Sunday.

Astro said...

This has inspired me to write a love song called 'Thursdays in Omaha'. It's almost done. I just need a couple words that rhyme with orange and silver.

Popville said...

Ann warns, "No way it's Thursday.", and despite to Roy's lyric counts, Thursday must the the least sung about day.

That said, there's a tune that stands high above the rest, and that's To Claudia On Thursday" the opening cut from Begin, the only lp from the insanely great, criminally unheralded Millennium. One of the all time great pop albums, circa 1968.

Mr. Forward said...

Obviously it's Someday
And I will get around to proving that
Someday.

Veronica said...

I love that one Clyde!