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| From | "Michael" <mkropp@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: famous people/character songs |
| Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:54:48 -0500 |
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<<Marshall Crenshaw - I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)>>
written by my hero Ben Vaughn - sorry, just had to get a shout-out in for
Ben. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@comcast.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: famous people/character songs
>> 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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