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HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
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Is there even a such thing as a numismatic song?

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  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    'Once I built a railroad,
    I made it run,
    I made it run against time.
    Once I built a railroad,
    But now it's done.
    Buddy, can you spare a dime?"

    Written in 1931 during the depths of the Great Depression.

    Best Regards,

    George
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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Money,Money,Money! by the O'Jays ( For the love of money )

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

    --- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a 45 RPM record imaged on Angel Dee's website that has a song called "Our Love Is Rarer Than A 1909-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent"

    image

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  • zap1111zap1111 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭
    Unbelievable! Didn't know that one!
    zap
    zap1111
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  • halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
    I write coin parodies to many Beatles and Wings songs. I have about five of them. I am in the process of getting them recorded by a talented tenor vocalist in my wife's high school. I plan on putting them on Youtube at some point.
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Midnight Rider

    I just got one more Silver Dollar

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Money by Pink Floyd
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wasn't there a Beatles tribute band in the '90's that recorded "All you need is CASH" ?

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There was an issue of The Numismatist from the mid '90s that had numismatic songs, probably mostly corny ones from the early 20th century, as a feature article. It is left as an exercise to the reader to find that issue and article, because I don't remember anything else about it.
    John
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  • howardshowards Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wasn't there a Beatles tribute band in the '90's that recorded "All you need is CASH" ? >>



    Not exactly a tribute band. This was done by the Rutles, and is a very satirical take on the Beatles.
    Howard
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  • howardshowards Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon
    Howard
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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Almost forgot about the classic "100 Dollar Bill Y'all" by Ice Cube... image

    Word.

    Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448

  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    No Quarter-Led Zepplin

    Greg Allman-Midnight Rider
    I've got one more silver dollar, but i'm not gonna let catch the midnight rider.
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven.

    Deano Martino
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    We're in the money

    Gold Diggers of 1933
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Penny Lane

    The Beatles
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a famous march called "Under the Double Eagle" which refers to the Austrian coat of arms.
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There was a band in the 1990's named "Sixpence None the Richer"
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, Saor Alba, you remind me that there is a whole musical, Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill's "Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)," whose most famous songs are the "Ballad of Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny."
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    is there a rap singer 50cent or something like that?
  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,333 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>is there a rap singer 50cent or something like that? >>

    From one era to another... How 'bout " Three coins in the fountain"image

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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  • HCumberdaleHCumberdale Posts: 46 ✭✭✭


    << <i>There's a 45 RPM record imaged on Angel Dee's website that has a song called "Our Love Is Rarer Than A 1909-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent"

    image >>



    I was able to contact the original musician that produced this record and bought several from him.
    He told me that when he broke up with his girlfriend, he changed the record to "a 1909-S V.D.B, Lincoln Cent is Rarer Than Our Love." Unfortunately, he didn't have any more of those left!

    The music is instrumental, guitar and piano.
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There's a 45 RPM record imaged on Angel Dee's website that has a song called "Our Love Is Rarer Than A 1909-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent"

    image >>



    It was my pleasure to find this disk at a Baltimore(?) convention and gift it to Andy. I knew instantly where it was going. I was so excited I forgot to chisel.

    Not exactly a coin song, but there's "First I Look at the Purse" (Smokey et al. writers, performed by the Contours.)

    HRH has an encyclopedic knowledge of vinyl. Perhaps.....image
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  • Garloo57Garloo57 Posts: 12 ✭✭
    Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) Title song of the movie of the same name......image
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>is there a rap singer 50cent or something like that? >>

    From one era to another... How 'bout " Three coins in the fountain"image >>

    that works as well imageimage
  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Money" by Pink Floyd

    JH
    JH

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  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭
    "The Dollar Lyrics" Jamey Johnson


    i had started a thread about bullion in lyrics.
    lots of those too.

    me and my uncle - Grateful Dead
    gallows pole - Led Zeppelin
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can hear the parody lyrics by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in my head.


    "I've got one more silver dollar, but I'm not gonna let 'em catch me. No, I'm not gonna let 'em catch the Moonlight Minter" ..
    a song about peace dollars.
    image
  • mingotmingot Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭
    the pretenders - brass in pocket
    Sell me a coin or three!
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    Calexico - Sunken Waltz

    One of what has to be very few songs which mention the SBA dollar.
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin Show Junkie
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Merle Haggard

    I wish a buck was still silver
    It was back when the country was strong
    Back before Elvis
    Before the Vietnam war came along

    Before The Beatles and 'Yesterday'
    When a man could still work, still would
    The best of the free life behind us now
    And are the good times really over for good?

    Are we rolling down hill
    Like a snowball headed for Hell?
    With no kind of chance
    For the Flag or the Liberty Bell

    Wish a Ford and a Chevy
    Could still last ten years, like they should
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?

    I wish Coke was still Cola
    And a joint was a bad place to be
    It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV

    Before microwave ovens
    When a girl could still cook and still would
    The best of the free life behind us now
    Are the good times really over for good?

    Are we rolling down hill
    Like a snowball headed for Hell?
    With no kind of chance
    For the Flag or the Liberty Bell

    Wish a Ford and a Chevy
    Could still last ten years, like they should
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?

    Stop rolling down hill
    Like a snowball headed for Hell
    Stand up for the Flag
    And let's all ring the Liberty Bell

    Let's make a Ford and a Chevy
    Still last ten years like they should
    The best of the free life is still yet to come
    The good times ain't over for good
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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    I won a 45 on eBay with 1909-S VDB in the title if I remember correctly. I never did open it. I will poke around and see if I can find it. image
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  • stevkcstevkc Posts: 166
  • heavymetalheavymetal Posts: 620 ✭✭✭✭
    Here is a music video with PCGS coins prominently featured in the story line. Also contains a 1964 D Peace dollar.lol



    Happy Birthday Song by Mass Confusion Band


    edited to fix bad link.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭

    Why, anything by Johnny Cash, of course!

    image
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why, anything by Johnny Cash, of course!

    image >>



    Or Dollar Brand.image

    Who eventually changed his name.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • breweryratbreweryrat Posts: 20
    Joan Jett - I love Rock n Roll, put another dime in the jukebox baby...
  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭
    Rock This Town- Stray Cats
    I'll have a whiskey on the rocks, change of a dollar for the jukebox...
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Queen of the Silver Dollar


    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar, and she rules this smokey kingdom
    And her sceptre is a wine glass and a bar-stool is her throne
    And the jesters, they flock around her, and they fight to win her favours
    And see which one will take the queen of the Silver Dollar home

    She arrives in all her splendour every night at nine o'clock
    And her chariot is a cross-town bus that stops right down the block
    The ol' piano minstrel plays a song as she walks in
    And the queen of the Silver Dollar, she's home again

    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar, and she rules this smokey kingdom
    And her sceptre is a wine glass and a bar-stool is her throne
    And the jesters flock around her, and fight to win her favours
    And see which one will take the queen of the Silver Dollar home

    Her royal gown is a satin dress, that's stained and slightly torn
    And her sparkling jewels are rhinestones, and her shoes are scuffed and worn
    From the many roads she's travelled and the wonderous sights she's seen
    And I watch her and I pray God save the queen

    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar, and she rules this smokey kingdom
    And her sceptre is a wine glass and a bar-stool is her throne
    And the jesters flock around her, and fight to win her favours
    And see which one will take the queen of the Silver Dollar home

    The queen of the Silver Dollar is not as haughty as she seems
    She was once an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams
    But I found her and I won her, and I brought her to this world
    Yes I'm the man who made a queen of a simple country girl

    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar, and she rules this smokey kingdom
    And her sceptre is a wine glass and a bar-stool is her throne
    And the jesters flock around her, and fight to win her favours
    And see which one will take the queen of the Silver Dollar home

    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar, and she rules this smokey kingdom
    Andy Lustig

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hoagy Carmichael was a coin collector- he wrote a number of great songs Stardust, Lazy River and Rockin' Chair

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  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    And Jascha Heifetz.
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "You can keep the dime"

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  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭
    THE GEORGIA SATELLITES "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"

    I got a little change in my pocket going ching-a-ling-a-ling
    Wanna call you on the telephone, baby, give you a ring

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love this number by the great Merle Travis.......

    Too Much Sugar For A Dime


    Too much sugar for a dime
  • kimber45ACPkimber45ACP Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭
    Roy Buchanan: A Nickel And A Nail

    youtube

    I once had love and plenty of money
    Yes I did.
    Someway, somehow I know I failed
    Yes I did

    Now all, all I have in my pocket,
    All I can give account of
    Is a nickel and a nail
    All, all I have is a nickel and a nail....
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "It Had To BU"
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Penny Lover Lionel Richie

    Money, Honey Clyde McPhatter

    Money (That's What I Want) Barrett Strong
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"It Had To BU" >>


    image

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Brother can you spare a dime....Bing Crosby..... Cheers, RickO

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