Number Songs by PenningtonJ

When the band that wrote this song played it in concert, fans used to throw boxes of Kraft Dinner (i.e., what Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is called in Canada) on stage. Eventually, the band started a "Those in the know, don't throw." campaign to encourage fans to donate the boxes to local food banks instead.

Alan Vega of the 1970s synth-punk band Suicide called it, "Your national anthem, whether you know it or not!" This #1 song from 1966 by a Mexican-American garage rock band has a repetitive Farfisa organ riff and a lead singer who changed his name to a typographical symbol.

This indie antiwar song had a music video (pictured below) that features a Model UN session inspired by the movie Rushmore.

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This hip-hop track inspired a Saint Louis University Law Journal article that examined whether the traffic stop described in the second verse was constitutional.

Originally recorded by Shuggie Otis, this song, which hit #1 on the soul/R&B charts in 1977, was once pressed as a 12-inch single on scented red vinyl.

Originating from a 1957 Broadway musical, this song states that the title objects will be followed by "one hundred and ten cornets" close at hand.

Featuring an opening guitar break inspired by the saxophone from John Coltrane's "India," this 1966 song failed to chart above #14 due to the Gavin Report's claim that it encouraged drug use, although the group insisted it was really about a transatlantic airline flight.

This song (whose music video is featured in the image linked below) posed the question, "Should we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government?"

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On the song "Power," Kanye West sampled the distorted vocals (sung by Greg Lake) from this early progressive rock song from 1969.

Based on the singer's childhood experience with a flood, this country & western song recorded inspired the (slightly altered) title of De La Soul's debut album and the Sesame Street lesson linked below.

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This romantic 1958 song by an interracial doo-wop group was remade 26 years later by the Stray Cats for the soundtrack to a namesake coming-of-age movie.

Beginning with a harp sampled from the soundtrack to the movie Goldfinger, this trip-hop song from 1996 was originally not a hit, but became more popular later on after appearing on the soundtracks to The Saint and Cruel Intentions.