Song Titles With Only Three Letters Quiz

Answer: SOS

ABBA released the single "SOS" from their self-titled 1975 album. ABBA's song "Man in the Middle" was released as the B-side.

Rihanna released "SOS" from her 2006 studio album "A Girl like Me". Rhianna recorded multiple music videos this song due to advertising for Nike and Agent Provocateur.

Answer: Bad

Michael Jackson recorded the international smash hit "Bad" for his 1987 album with the same title. The song had an elaborate eighteen minute music video directed by Martin Scorsese and starred a young Wesley Snipes. The music video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography in a Video. The song won the American Music Award for Favorite Single.

Answer: Low

The song "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain was featured on the 2008 soundtrack to the film "Step Up 2: The Streets". This was the debut single for rapper Flo Rida. The frequently downloaded single spent ten consecutive weeks at number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Ben

The Michael Jackson 1972 song "Ben" was written and recorded for the 1972 movie with the same name. The movie was about a trained rat named Ben. This song won a Golden Globe for Best Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song was Michael Jackson's first solo number one hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Frankie Avalon

Franky Avalon's single "Why" was number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 for the weeks of December 28, 1959 and January 3nd, 1960. The song was the last number one single of the 1950s and the first number one single of the 1960s.

Donny Osmond covered Avalon's song in 1972. Annie Lennox recorded a song titled "Why" for her 1991 studio album "Diva". Mary J. Blige recorded a song titled "Why" for her 2011 studio album "My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)".

Answer: ABC

The Jackson 5 1970 song "ABC" knocked the Beatles' "Let it Be" out of the number one spot on the United States Billboard Hot 100. The song was the first single released from their 1970 album "ABC". The song was performed on television on shows like "American Bandstand", "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Flip Wilson Show".

Answer: Edwin Starr

In 1970, the Temptations recorded the song "War" for their studio album "Psychedelic Shack". Motown records didn't want to release the Temptations' version of the song as a single. The label was afraid that the song would tarnish the image of their most popular group. The label allowed one of its solo artists, Edwin Starr, to record the song and release it as a single to much success.

Both Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Frankie Goes to Hollywood remade the song "War" during the 1980s. Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded a different song titled "War" during 1976.

Answer: Him

The song "Him" was released as the second single from Rupert Holmes' 1979 studio album "Partners in Crime". The song was a top ten hit in New Zealand and the United States. The male subject in the song thought his wife or girlfriend was cheating on the relationship after finding a random pack of cigarettes in her possession.

Answer: Steely Dan

Rock band Steely Dan was founded by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972 in New York. "Rolling Stone" magazine called Steely Dan "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies". The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Songs in the band's library include the 1977 songs "Peg" and "Aja".

Answer: Fat

The parody song "Fat" is from "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1988 studio album "Even Worse". The song parodied Michael Jackson's 1987 "Bad". The music videos mirrored each other with the Yankovic version having characters wear fat suits.