April 20, 2008 | In: Music, Music Monday
Music Monday: Songs and Books and a FREE iTunes GC
It’s Music Monday!
Today’s Music Monday will be a little different.
Since I’ve been working on my ebook all week, I thought I’d pose a book-related challenge to all you music aficionados:
–Name a song (or songs) with the word “book” in the lyrics.–
Whoever can name the most songs wins a $10 iTunes Gift Certificate.
(You are allowed to cheat by using Google as long as you let us know you used a search engine. Entries will be appropriately weighted.)
Have fun! (And if you like giveaways, there are more happening here.)
(Next week, we’ll be kicking Music Monday up a notch. The theme will be “If I ran a record label, I would…” Stay tuned for more info.)
43 Responses to Music Monday: Songs and Books and a FREE iTunes GC
Kelsey Smith
April 20th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Book Of Live by Peter Gabriel
Book of Dreams Steve Miller
Open Book by Gnarl Barkley
The Book Sheryl Crow
Ok im out lol
Seth Ward
April 20th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
sho nuff do be cookin’ … in my BOOK.
“You’ve got the look.” -Prince.
Not sure if that’ll serve your purpose but…
Oh, and I think “Longer than” by Dan Fogelberg has “book” somewhere in the last verse.
Sarah D.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Open Book – Gnarls Barkley
Book of Days – Enya
The Book I write – Spoon
Picture Book – Young Fresh Fellows
The Book – Sheryl Crow
The Book of Love – The Monotones
Open Book – Da Truth
I could write a book – Frank Sinatra
Green Book – Steely Dan
A Beautiful Book – Butterfly Boucher
Book of Rhymes – Nas
Eating a Book – He is Legend
Bible Book Bop – Go Fish
Book Ends – Joe Walsh
Black Book – Stephen Malkmus
I looked these up on itunes.
By the Book – Michael Penn
Book – Sissy Wish
Number in the Book – Lucky Dube
Open Book – The Rakes
Bell, Book, and Candle – Eddi Reader
The Lamb’s Book of Life – Sinead O’Conner
Picture Book – Bill Lloyd
Like a Book – Kosheen
Book of Dreams – Bruce Springsteen
The Book I read – Talking Heads
Noreen
April 20th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Book of Love (I wonder, wonder, wonder whooooo wrote the book of love) now I am sing that song in my head. No idea who sings it, I have a cd with it on it somewhere
Lesha
April 20th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Wishes and Dreams by Stellar Kart
lilia
April 21st, 2008 at 12:47 am
”..she was only BOOK’n fun” – song in the Grease2 soundtrack
“who wrote the book of love” – song from the 50’s
“I could write a book” – frank sinatra
I just looked in iTunes for the name of the Frank Sinatra song.
That’s all I got!
palmersf@comcast.net
April 21st, 2008 at 4:02 am
The B I B L E yes thats the BOOK for me!
palmersf(at)bellsouth(dot)net
erin
April 21st, 2008 at 4:02 am
The first thing that popped into my head:
“Pulling out my big black book ‘cause when I need a word defined, that’s where I look.” dcTalk, “Love is a Verb” Hehe
Paul J.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:39 am
I was gonna try, but I think Sarah D. kicked everyone’s butt…
Jill
April 21st, 2008 at 5:41 am
Good golly, people gave you a lot there. I’m going with I Could Write a Book- Sinatra
lilia
April 21st, 2008 at 6:03 am
I just heard another one…
‘all the school kids so sick of books, they like the funk and the metal bands’ – Walk Like An Eygptian, The Bangles (that has books AND music in it)
Kevin
April 21st, 2008 at 6:22 am
Here are my top 10 favorite “book” songs:
1)Everyday I write the book-Elvis Costello
2)I could write a book-Harry Connick, Jr.
3)The book I read-Talking Heads
4)Book of dreams-Bruce Springsteen
5)Book of days-Enya
6)Book of love-Fleetwood Mac
7)When I write the book-Nick Lowe
8)The book-Sheryl Crow
9)The book of my life-Sting
10)Open book-Petra
Source:my iTunes library
erin
April 21st, 2008 at 6:22 am
Rats, I was going to do the B-I-B-L-E one and the Bangles one, but here are a few others, courtesy of Google:
“Half my life’s in books’ written pages”
Aerosmith, Dream On
“No more pencils, no more books”
Alice Cooper, School’s Out
“This is the book I never read
“These are the words I never said”
Annie Lennox, Why
“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?”
Beatles, Paperback Writer
“Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above?”
Don McLean, American Pie
“Don’t know much about the science book, don’t know much about the French I took…”
Sam Cooke, What a Wonderful World (this would be)
A. Snodgrass
April 21st, 2008 at 7:06 am
My favorite would be by Harry Connick Jr., it is on the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack.
I could Write a Book
If they asked me I could write a book
About the way you walk and whisper and look
I could write the preface on how we met
So the world would never forget
And the simple secret of the plot
Is just to tell them that I love you a lot
Then the world discovers as my book ends
How to make two lovers of friends
omyjonas
April 21st, 2008 at 8:04 am
I LOVE ITUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ambre Sautter
April 21st, 2008 at 8:05 am
um, yeah, so i had a little help from the little engines that could
Songs With “Book” in the Lyrics:
1) Toya “Book of Love”
gnarls barkley “open book”
2) Deadsy “Book of Black Dreams”
3) Nas “Book of rhymes”
4) Suzanne Vega “Book of Dreams”
5) Live “Tibetan Book of the Dead”
6) Blur “Black Book”
7) Sting “The Book of my Life”
9) Sheryl Crow “the book”
10) Twiztid “The green book”
11) Pinback “this red book”
12) P.Y.T. “book of dreams”
13) Stars “my favorite book”
14) Simply red “picture book”
15) Agnetha Faltskog “my colouring book”
16) Butterfly Boucher “A Beautiful Book”
17) Belle & Sebastian “Put the Book Back on the Shelf”
18) the Shins “Pressed in a Book”
19) Moffatts “Don’t Judge this Book”
20)Backstreet Boys “You wrote the book on Love”
21) O.A.R. “Favorite Book of Poetry”
22)Shareefa “Assumptions”
23)Mika “Love Today”
24)Boondox “They Pray With Snakes”
25)Keshia Chante “Cool On You”
26) Shayne Ward “Breathless”
27)Damien Rice “Me, My Yoke, and I”
28)Daughtry “Breakdown”
29)Julie Roberts “the Chance”
30) Counting Crows “On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago”
31)Billy Talent “Surrender”
32)Paul Wall “My Life”
33)Jet “Radio Song”
34) Fair to Midland “Gaining One”
35) Kate Melua “If you were a sailboat”
36)Kaiser Chiefs “Everything is Average Nowadays”
37)The Shins “Sleeping Lessons”
38)The Shins “Fighting in a sack”
39)The Shins “Know your onion!”
40) the Shins “Pink Bullets”
41) Lifehouse “Broken”
42) Ashlee Simpson “Fall in Love with Me”
43) Delta Goodrem “Possessionless”
44) Saliva “One More Chance”
45) Saliva “Two Steps Back”
46)the white stripes “Little Bird”
47) The White Stripes “Wasting my time”
48) Blue October “Inner Glow”
49)Blue October “the answer”
50 Blue October “Italian Radio”
Songs with “Book” in the title:
1)record book by marco benevento
2)b.o.o.k. by beyond
3)the good book song by new main street
4)the book i read by talking heads
5)book i read by bruce springsteen
6)open book by cake
7)like a book by kosheen
8)picture book by bill lloyd
9)the book of love by mark kibble
10)the Lamb’s Book of Life by sinead o’connor
11)bell, book, and a candle by eddi reader
12)my book by k-ci
13)book of days by enya
14)i could write a book by miles davis quintet
15)open book by the rakes
16)number in the book by lucky dube
17)book by sissy wish
18)by the book by michael penn
19)my book by the beautiful south
20)when i write the book by rockpile
21)black book by stephen malkmus
22)book ends by joe walsh
23)Bible book bop by go fish
24)open book by mates of state
25)eating a book by he is legend
26)book of life by i wayne
27)book of rhymes by nas
28)coloring book by blockhead
29)a beautiful book by butterfly boucher
30)my little brown book by john coltrane
31)green book by steely dan
32)the book and the canal by calexico
33)whitefall/book by greg edmonson
34)i could write a book by frank sinatra
35)baby got Book by dan smith (my favorite!)
36)this book is a movie by spoon
37)you can’t judge a book by its cover by the yard birds
38)the book of love by the monotones
39)the book by sheryl crow
40)picture book by young fresh fellows
41)book of love by book of love
42)the book of love by peter gabriel
43)open book by gnarls barkley
44)book by oblivion
45)book by global communication
46)in my little red book by original dixieland jazz band
47)the complete book of lush and lovely by attilio
Ambre Sautter
April 21st, 2008 at 8:07 am
I’d like to thank Jordin Sparks and “No Air” which is currently on repeat for keeping me entertained while doing my hunt.
Shannon
April 21st, 2008 at 8:45 am
American Pie:
Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above…if the Bible tells me so.
And do you believe in Rock n ROll…can music, save your mortal soul, and can you teach me how to dance reeeaaal slow.
Well, I know that you’re in love with him, cause I saw you dancin’ in the gym, you both kicked off your shoes…oh I dig those rythmy blues.
I was a lonely teenaged broncing buck, with a pink carnation and a pick-up truck, but I knew I was out of luck, the day, the music died…and they were singing….
I hope I got it right, lol, I wrote it from memory! I love this song…always brings a smile to my face and it’s so much fun to sing!
Amy
April 21st, 2008 at 9:13 am
As much as I love both books and music, I could not think of anything!
Melissa
April 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
LOL…all I could think of is:
The B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the book for me…
Please enter me!
BlondeBlogger
April 21st, 2008 at 9:38 am
Ack….I don’t see how I can win this one but I’ll give it a try (I just got an Ipod shuffle and I’m addicted to iTunes!)
~The Book of Love
~The B-i-b-l-e (that’s the book for me)
And that’s all I have, lol. Thanks!
Jess
April 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Fantastic giveaway! Okay, here are the ones I know:
Sheryl Crow – The Book
K-Ci & JoJo – My Book
Backstreet Boys – You Wrote the Book on Love
Parasite – Take A Leaf Out Of My Book
Enya – Book Of Days
I searched and got about 900 songs with book in the lyrics from AZLyrics.com and there is no way I’m going to post all of them on here, haha.
Sharla
April 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
oooh! A blog giveaway about books and music, two of my favorite things!
The Book of Love
Every Day I write the Book
Wonderful World
Book of Mormon Stories
I don’t know how to compete with some of the other entries but that’s all I could think of off the top of my head.
Brooke Allen
April 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
“End of the Beginning” by David Phelps
I was taking a trip on a plane the other day, just wishin’ that I could get out.
When the man next to me saw the book in my hand and asked me what it was about.
So I settled back in my seat. “A best-seller,” I said, “a hist’ry and a myst’ry in one.”
Then I opened up the book and began to read from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John…
Lori
April 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I only have two songs that I want to share, but they are great songs. Michael W. Smith has a song “End of the Book” that’s on his Michael W. Smith 2 CD. It reminds me of what I need to do when things get tough.
The other song is “Unbelievable” by Downhere. This song is on their Wide-Eyed and Mystified CD. Downhere is my favorite band, and I feel so blessed to have found them and their music. I am so inspired by their talent and passion. The song “Unbelievable” talks about all the songs that have been written for God because God’s love is so great, even all the songs in all the hymn books can’t fully describe it. I really love Jason Germain’s voice on this song. I can just really feel the love of God when I hear this song. Plus, I’m a big fan of Handel’s “Messiah”, so I like the way Jason sings “For the Lord God omnipotent reigns” in a “Hallelujah Chorus” type of way.
Nessa
April 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
From Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, “Belle.”
“Good morning, finished the book I borrowed!”
Chelsey
April 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
The B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the BOOK for me, I stand alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E
Julie
April 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The B I B L E, yes that’s the Book for me….and no, I didn’t cheat from the one above me!!!
GInny
April 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Well I don’t know if this counts, but I thought of the BOOKends theme by Simon & Garfunkel
Melani
April 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Metallica’s “One”
Not even one I like, but I just heard it the other night and thought of the haunting video.
jennessa
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 am
“Deeper Look!” I don’t know how common the song is, but it’s beautiful!
“Is it all just a story in some old book, or have you had a deeper look? “
—
and the old hymn, “I Love the Old Bible” (^^,)
This old Book is my guide, ‘Tis a friend by my side, It will lighten and brighten my way;…”
~~
Fun fun! Thanks!
Marilyn
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 am
What fun!
Book of Love – Fleetwood Mac
RubiaLala
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Belle & Sebastian: Put The Book Back On The Shelf
Mary
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Love iTunes! I just used my last giftcard up last week – so this is perfect timing! Thanks!
Alexis
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
The only thing I can think of (because I am alone with toddlers all day) is The Jungle Book theme song.
Jodie@The Sky Is Only Dark Between the Stars
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
(Who Wrote the) Book of Love – someone else may have said this- I didn’t read the other comments.
jydardeau(at)bellsouth(dot)net
Check out my giveaway, too!
Great giveaway – thanks!!
ktjrdn
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 am
i was going to say The Book Of Live by Peter Gabriel, before I read the commetns. I swear. And then I see that it was the first thing everyone thought of and I’m not very original. oh well.
Dani '
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 am
Book of Love
The Look err is that what the prince song is called?
Little Black Book
Bookin’ it
Shama-Lama Mama
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Everyday! Everyday! Everyday!
Everyday I write the book!
Elvis Costello, baby!
Adriana
April 24th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Everyday I write the book, by Elvis Costello. Thank you.
Ricki
April 24th, 2008 at 11:09 am
“Don’t know much about a science book” – Wonderful World by Sam Cook
Took a while to think of this, all I kept thinking was of the line in the song If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot that says “Like a paperback novel”, but that is not the word “book.”
pam
April 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
The day the music died – Jim Croce
Kristen Johnson Ingram
May 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Be Thou my Vision
Come, Thou Fount
Like the murmur of the doves’ song
My Song is Love Unknown
The Church’s One Foundation
Come, Thou Almighty King
Ride on in Majesty
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Hail, thee, Festival Day
I Bind Unto Myself Today
What wondrous love is this, O my soul?
When Morning Gilds the Skies
Morning Has Broken
O Love that Wilt not let me go
Drop, Drop, Slow tears
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
Love Divine, All Love Excelling
Were You there?
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
He’s Got the Whole World
Lord, I Want to be a Christian
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
I’ll Fly Away
As the Deer Longs
A Keeper of the Door
The Strife is O’er
Lo,the Green Bud Swelling
Silent Night
O Come all ye faithful
Hark the Herald
It Came upon a Midnight ClearWe Three Kings
That’s enough! Purpose 37