I have to wonder if any of the girls have listened to the songs on the MP3 player. It’s like the soundtrack of my life using only the songs with the word world in them. The songs include:
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (1941) by the Ink Spots
Goodbye Cruel World (1958) by James Darren
The End /Ind/ of the World (1962) by Skeeter Davis
What the World Needs Now (1965) by Jackie DeShannon
My World is Empty Without You (1966) by the Supremes
It’s a Five o’Clock World (1966) by The Vogues
There’s a Kind of Hush All Over the World (1967) by Herman’s Hermits
Colour My World (1967) by Petula Clark
Wild World (1970) by Cat Stevens
Hand Me Down World (1970) by the Guess Who
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (1971) by the New Seekers and all those people in the Coke commercial.
On Top of the World Looking Down on Creation (1972) by The Carpenters
Color My World (1970) by Chicago
Any World That I’m Welcome To (1975) by Steely Dan
Message In a Bottle (1979) by The Police
Imagine by John Lennon
Sweet Dreams (1983) by Annie Lennox
What a Beautiful World It Would Be (1983) by Donald Fagan
World Weary by Noel Coward
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) by Tears for Fears
We Are the World (1985) by everybody and his brother
It’s the End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M
All Around the World by Paul Simon
What a Wonderful World (1967) sung by Louis Armstrong
Spice World: Spice Up Your Life (1997) by the Spice Girls
The Whole World (2001) by Outkast
Money Makes the World Go Around Fred Ebb and John Kander
Waiting on the World to Change (2007) by John Mayer
All the World is Green (2002) by Tom Waits
When the World’s on Fire by The Carter Family
I’ll Never Find Another You by the Seekers
Viva La Vida (2008) by Cold Play
How the World Works (2021) by Bo Barnham
And the BOOKS, I haven’t forgotten about the books, the books are:
January: Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke (2021)
February: The Known World by Edward P Jones (2003)
March: Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. LeGuin (1989)
April: The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander (2016)
May: Half a World Away by Mike Gayle (2020)
June: The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (2000)
July: World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1985)
August: Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff (2005) It took him a while but he managed to get the world in there.
September: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (1989)
October: Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh (2017)
November: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina (2021)
December: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (2013)