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| From | "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: famous people/character songs |
| Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2006 00:01:15 -0800 |
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> I've been thinking of putting together a mix CD of songs titled
> after famous
> people/characters. Here are a few I can think of off the top of my head:
>
> Van Halen - Nerf Herder
> Courtney (Love) - Nerf Herder
> Jenna Bush Army - Nerf Herder
> Paul Stanley - Hellacopters
> Gladys Kravits - (The band name escapes me)
> Johnny Carson - Beach Boys
> Miss Emma Peel - Dishwalla
> Betty Ford - (Another brain cramp)
> Alfred Hitchcock - Mockingbirds
> Winona (Ryder) - Matthew Sweet (I know he denies it but...)
>
> What other ones am I missing?
> Thanks, Mike
The Tories did "Gladys Kravitz."
I'll see your "Miss Emma Peel" and raise you "John Steed" by Tahiti 80.
I had the same idea for a SOTT theme a while back (specifically, musicians
writing about other musicians), but never finished the research. Here's some
of it:
Replacements - Alex Chilton
Phil Angotti & The Idea - Being Colin Blunstone
Easy - Between John & Yoko
John Kruth - Blonde John Lennon
Neil Young - Buffalo Springfield Again
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
Prefab Sprout - Faron Young
Robbie Fulks - Fountains Of Wayne Hotline
Montgomery Cliffs - Gary Numan
Robyn Hitchcock - I Saw Nick Drake
Paul Melancon - Jeff Lynne
Marshall Crenshaw - I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)
Wreckless Eric - Joe Meek
Cosmic Rough Riders - Laura Nyro
Tahiti 80 - Mr. (Ray) Davies
The Sunshine - Simon Le Bon
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (Ellington)
The Blondes - Suzy Quatro
Splitsville - Husker Du
Splitsville - Love Songs of B. Douglas wilson
Jenny Toomey - Patsy Cline
Crash Into June - Pete Ham
Eggplant - Rolling Stones
Frampton Bros - Johnny Doesn't Like The Ramones
And more songs about real people, though not all musicians:
Splitsville and The Action Slacks both have a "Joan Of Arc," and Clem Snide
gets a two-for-one in "Joan Jett Of Arc."
Dillon Fence - Ben Franklin's Theme
Kim Karnes - Bette Davis Eyes
Johnny Wakelin - Black Superman Muhammad Ali
Richard Davies - Chips Rafferty
7 Deadly 5 - Fredric March's Pinecone
Specials - Free Nelson Mandela
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Dangtrippers - Henry Slade
Jill Souble - Houdini's Box
The Negro Problem - I'm Sebastian Cabot
Don Dixon - Jean Harlow's Return
Clientele - Joseph Cornell
64 Spoons - Julius Caesar
Tommy Keene - Karl Marx
Barcelona - Kasey Keller
Chris Stamey - Kirkegaard
Asteroid No. 4 - King Richard
Day One - Lawrence of Arabia
Dubstar - Liz Taylor & Richard Burton
Warren Zevon - Lord Byron's Luggage
Dangtrippers - Nehru
Doug Powell- Nietzche Is Dead
Elvis Costello - Oliver (Cromwell)'s Army
Dickies - In The Pagoda With Tricia Toyota
Dangtrippers - Piper Laurie
Toto - Rosanna (Arquette)
Rich Arithmetic - Russ Meyer's Revenge
The Bad Examples - She Smiles Like Richard Nixon
Kyle Vincent - Van Gogh Sunset
Michael Penn - Walter Reed
The Guess Who - Clap For The Wolfman (Jack)
Splitsville - Ponce DeLeon
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