This series about songs with numbers in the title has now reached what might prove to be the most difficult of those between 1-10 to identify. The number 6 does not readily bring to mind much in the of music. It is not a number that one associates with anything in particular. So yet again we set off on a voyage of discovery to see if any musical gems are awaiting our discovery.
“Six Days on the Road” is an American song written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous by singer Dave Dudley. The song was initially recorded by Paul Davis and released in 1961 on the Bulletin label. In 1963, the song became a major hit when released by Dudley, peaking at #2 on the Billboard chart and being hailed as the definitive celebration of the American truck driver.
“6 O’Clock” is a track from Everything Playing the 6th album by The Lovin’ Spoonful, released in 1967. It was one of three of the songs that made the Top 40 along with “She Is Still a Mystery,” and “Money”. The songs were recorded at Mirasound Studios in Manhattan using a prototype 16 track tape recorder which was custom built for the studio by Ampex. This was one of the earliest recordings to use 16-track technology.
“25 or 6 to 4” is a song written by American musician Robert Lamm, one of the founding members of the band Chicago. It was recorded in 1969 for their second album, Chicago, with Peter Cetera on lead vocals. The album was released in January 1970 and the song was edited and released as a single in June, climbing to number 4 on the US Billboard chart and number 7 in the UK.
“Six O’Clock News” is a track from the eponymously named debut album by country/folk singer-songwriterJohn Prine and was issued by Atlantic in 1971. In 2012, the album was ranked number 452 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was later ranked number 149 in a revised version of the list published in 2020.
‘Six Days” is a song by American trip-hop artist DJ Shadow, from his second album, The Private Press. The song was written by Brian Farrell and Dennis Olivieri, and was produced by DJ Shadow. It was released as the third official single from the album in 2002. The main vocals of the song are sampled from the 1971 song “Six Day War” by the British band Colonel Bagshot, with some riffs taken from the 1970 song “I Cry in the Morning” by the American singer Dennis Olivieri. Brian Farrell of Colonel Bagshot and Olivieri are both given songwriting credits on the track.
