Talk:Count off

A fact from Count off appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 February 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bono counts off the song "Vertigo" with "one, two, three, fourteen!" in Spanish?

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Examples[edit]

I don't think it's necessary to list every song we can think of that has a count off. However, some of the more unusual ones are nice to list. If anyone can find a reference for the following, feel free to add it to the article:

"Four Little Diamonds" by Electric Light Orchestra (1983)

Jeff Lynne begins the song by implying a count ("after four..."), before foregoing the count and simply shouting "four!" and the song begins.

matt (talk) 08:31, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Misc. list[edit]

Here's some other songs with count offs that may or may not be worthy of inclusion:

"Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra (1979)
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles (1966)
"Yer Blues" by The Beatles (1968)

It's slightly odd that 3 of the current examples (and two of the additional suggestions above) are by The Beatles and two by John Lennon. Should we spread the examples around more? Bondegezou (talk) 14:50, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me; they're only Beatles ones because I had them to hand at the time of writing the article! matt (talk) 10:00, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]