An easy one this Friday: song titles that mention musical instruments, whether strumming, banging, plucking, or blowing. Bonus points to the first person who can identify the song that I nicked this week's title from.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps--Beatles
The Guitar--They Might Be Giants
Piano Man--Billy Joel
The Happy Organ--Dave "Baby" Cortez (showed up last Friday too!)
Bang the Drum All Day--Todd Rundgren
Sound Your Funky Horn--KC & the Sunshine Band (for Renny)
Alvin's Harmonica--Chipmunks

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying) - George Harrison
Drumming Is My Madness - Ringo Starr
Bang On The Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren


Band - GTR

"Sax and Violins" by Talking Heads
"Fiddle About" by the Who
"Get It On (Bang a Gong)" by T.Rex
"Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell
"Guitar" by Prince

flute thing - the blues project

My guitar wants to kill your mama - The Mothers of Invention

(Tryin to play a guitar solo with this band in like tryin grow a) Watermelon in easter hay - F Zappa

Guitar and Pen - Who

was just listening to The Mekons - Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet yesterday

Peter Laughner - Take The Guitar Player For A Ride
title of a posthumous comp, and a lyric from his forgotten classic song Amphetamine, Wilco also uses this line in Misunderstood

Nick Cave - The Lyre of Orpheus

"Orpheus strummed till his fingers bled
He hit a G minor 7
He woke up God from a deep, deep sleep
God was a major player in heaven"

gotta love Nick!

"Trumpet Clip" by Paul Westerberg
"Red Guitars" by The Bluebells (DOUBLE SCORE?)
"Brass in Pocket" by Pretenders
"Organ Song" and "Mandolin Strum" by R.E.M.
"Daddy Sang Bass" by Johnny Cash
"This Old Guitar" by Neil Young

Piano Concerto in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven

(heh-heh-heh snicker snicker, this is TOO easy)

Different Drum - P.P. Arnold

album:

Twang Bar Key - Adrian Belew

albums:

Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones - Four Freshmen
Four Freshmen and Five Saxes - Four Freshmen
Four Freshmen and Five Guitars - Four Freshmen
Voices and Brass - Four Freshmen

blue guitar - heart

“Mandolin Rain” by Bruce Hornsby
“Viola Lee Blues” by Grateful Dead
“Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart” by Frank Sinatra, others ...
“Moog Raga” by The Byrds

Cello Song -- Nick Drake

Blue Guitar -- Cowboy Junkies

Guitarzan - Ray Stevens
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Slow Marimbas - Peter Gabriel
Organ Donor - DJ Shadow
Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar - Duane Eddy
Drums & Wires (album title) - XTC

"Jail Guitar Doors" by The Clash
"Mandocello" by Cheap Trick
"Guitars, Cadillacs, etc." by Dwight Yoakum

Nice one, Glenn, you beat me to posting Guitarzan!!

Revised Music For A Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra - Frank Zappa
Red Guitar - Loudon Wainwright III
The Mafia Stole My Guitar - Alex Harvey

Daniel and the Sacred Harp - The Band

Band:
The Lyres

Bagpipes - Ray Stevens (The B-side to Guitarzan, I got the 45 when I was about 10.)
Squeezebox - The Who (also made the list last week)

Album titles/song titles too

Shut up n' play yer guitar - F Zappa
Shut Up n' play yer guitar some more - F Zappa
The Return of the son of shut up n' play yer guitar - F Zappa

Album titles
Guitar - F Zappa
Bongo Fury - Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers

Song titles
Harmonica Fun - F Zappa
Music for a Violen and a llow budget ochestra - Jean Luc Ponty with F Zappa
Dance with the Guitar Man - Duane Eddy
Boss Guitar - Duane Eddy
Play Me Like You Play The Guitar - Duane Eddy
Strollin Guitar - Eddie Cochran

Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt

I had to. That was one of the first records I ever owned. My mother gave it to me when I was a kid, telling me she thought it was something I might like. She was right, and I probably drove her crazy playing it over and over.