A category in an episode of Danger weekend Saturday April 22nd focused on words that ended with the letter O. I can’t remember exactly how I fared on those particular answers, mainly because I was thinking about a somewhat related topic.

My mind spent the rest of the game coming up with one-word song titles that end with the letter O. Here are the fifteen most popular I ended up with.

Phil Ochs’s “Bracero”

This hymn to Latin American migrant workers shows the folk singer’s ability to point out social injustices as well as the wars he so despised.

“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Neil Young wrote this classic shortly after four students were shot and killed by the National Guard at Kent State University.

“Chicago” by Crosby, Stills and Nash

This hymn is another antiwar song from the late sixties.

“Hello” from Lionel Richie

The video concept for the song seems a bit dated now, thirty years later, but the ex-Commodore certainly proved that he could make nice solo singles.

“Hostage-O” by Warren Zevon

The artist who appeared with “Werewolves of London” twenty years earlier recorded this last album and the rest of the Life’ll Kill Ya album knowing he was terminally ill.

Eagles “Desperado”

Before traveling to the Hotel California, the quintet hit the charts with this title track.

“Rio” by Duran Duran

A gorgeous rotating video about the early days of MTV helped propel this title track to the Top Ten.

“Candy-O” from the Cars

This title track was less of a hit than other albums like “Let’s Go” and “It’s All I Can Do.”

Billy Joel’s “Stiletto”

The Piano Man tackles this melody by 52nd street to a woman who knows how to sculpt the hearts of the unfortunate who desire her.

“Velcro” by BellX1

The substance serves the indie band here as a metaphor for a boy’s attachment to his lover.

Van Morrison’s “Domino”

The horns help differentiate this hit from his other classics, “Moon Dance” and “Brown Eyed Girl.”

“Buffalo” by Tori Y Moi

The chillwave artist included this track on his latest album, So that?

“Wilco” by Wilco

It is not just the title of the song and the band, but Jeff Tweedy also used it as the name of the album.

“Fernando” from ABBA

The Scandinavian quartet had many big hits, but this was the only one with a man in the title.

“Portobello” of the Lords of the New Church

The new wave band of the eighties included this in their self-titled debut, memorable especially for the line “If voting made any difference, they would make it illegal.”