Name a song with a woman's name in the title.

[red dog 1]

My pick is an obscure little song called "Denise", by Randy and the Rainbows.

[liberal N proud]

1. Amanda - Boston

[hunter]

2. Rhiannon

[hlthe2b]

4. A fav of mine for sure

[hlthe2b]

3. angie (Rollng Stones); Mandy (Barry Manilow)

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corrected...

[hunter]

6. Rod Stewart: Maggie

[hlthe2b]

22. Yup.... corrected my post to reflect Angie was Rolling Stones..

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And def Rod Stewart for Maggie May

[In_The_Wind]

5. Brandy

[hunter]

7. Oh shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_D._Vinge

[In_The_Wind]

8. I've enjoyed her works for years.

[lastlib]

52. And Looking Glass

[In_The_Wind]

69. Thanks for that!

The early 70's have so many special memories, young love, innocence, awakening ...
my first divorce ... freedom to be single in NYC. If I knew then half of what I know now ....

[shanti]

147. don't forget her sister, Mandy!

[In_The_Wind]

150. Mandy

[LiberalEsto]

9. Gloria

G-L-O-R-I-A

[KamaAina]

182. And then there's that other Gloria

Who did that one again?

[Shadowflash]

10. My all time favorite song EVER!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

11. Wake up Little Susie

Everly Brothers

[red dog 1]

27. Good one!

I think I still have my 45 rpm copy of that great Everly Brothers song.

[Crabby Appleton]

12. Walk Away Renee

[red dog 1]

36. The Left Banke Co-founder Michael Brown wrote that great song,

He died last year at 65.

I think "Walk Away Renee" was their first record, and it went to # 5 on Billboard.

They disbanded in 1969, reformed in 2011, & again in 2015 with original singer Steve Martin Caro.

As far as I could find out, they have apparently disbanded again...this time probably for good.

http://www.leftbankeband.com/

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

13. Help Me Rhonda

Beach Boys

[red dog 1]

24. Outstanding song!

One of my all-time favorites.

[GeorgeGist]

14. Suite Judy Blue Eyes ...

[Mendocino]

85. Guinevere

CSN

[DFW]

15. Lili Marleen

Bernadette (Four Tops)
Gloria (Them, Laura Branigan)
Ruby (Kenny Rogers, Rolling Stones, if you add "Tuesday&quot
Agnes English (John Fred)
Tell Mary (Leo Kottke)
Sandy (Ronny and the Daytonas)
Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys)
Tell Laura (Ray Peterson)
Little Martha (Duane Allman)
Ma-ma-ma Marie (The Gaylords)
Marion The Librarian (from the Music Man)
Barbara Ann (Beach Boys et el)
Maria (Leonard Bernstein, from West Side Story)
My Sharona (The Knack)

etc etc etc etc etc

[red dog 1]

23. I still have a copy of "Sandy" by Ronny & the Daytonas (45 rpm)

On one side it has lyrics, and on the other side, also called "Sandy", is an instrumental version.

Barbara Ann is a truly great song, IMO....so is Help Me Rhonda

[DFW]

29. I saw someone else mentioned Help Me Rhonda while I was typing

But it was just one part of my list, so I didn't bother to edit it out.

Not too many of us who remember Sandy, I'll bet!

[red dog 1]

37. You're right about that!

It shows how old we both must be, right?

[DFW]

46. I won't tell if you won't n/t

[1monster]

104. I ain't old! And I remember Rhonda...

At least, my mind tells me I'm not old. (While my body says, Let's see what I can do to change your mind...

[Initech]

16. Let's let Brian and Stewie handle this one:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

(Yes, I know it's not about a woman named Lucy.)

[red dog 1]

38. Good one!

And, no, it's not about a woman named Lucy.

[KamaAina]

179. So what is it about?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Jolene

[Ghost Dog]

132. Very good one

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Maria

[Liberal_in_LA]

203. From westside story

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Che farò senza Euridice

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now

[red dog 1]

39. I'm cracking up just thinking about that one.

Good pick!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. Somewhere I heard a version of that song

sung by Porky Pig (Porky & Bess, of course), like (in that Porky Pig voice) "B-b-b-bess, y-y-ou is my w-w-woman now..." And I can't hear it any more without thinking of Porky Pig.

[red dog 1]

55. That's hilarious!

[ms liberty]

25. Melissa, The Allman Brothers

I hate that song, guys always thought they were being all original by coming up to me and singing it. Ugh.

[red dog 1]

40. I have to admit that I don't know that one, but I love "Ramblin' Man"

I also have always loved the name Melissa.

(I love Bernie too)

[ms liberty]

54. You would probably recognize it if you heard it

I like my name, but I hated the song association!

[lastlib]

41. and "Jessica"!

[ms liberty]

56. Which is my niece's name, lol

She's in her late 20's and I just realized we both had Allman Brothers songs with our names recently, when I heard Jessica one day on Sirius in my car. I was thinking to myself, well at least her's is an instrumental when it hit me.

[demmiblue]

26. Cowboy Junkies- Sweet Jane

[Manifestor_of_Light]

72. Lou Reed did it first

It's on the live album Rock 'n' Roll Animal.

Yeah I'm old.

[progressoid]

168. Also The Velvet Underground.

[KamaAina]

202. Another one from Lou - I Love You Suzanne

[bluedigger]

28. Alison, Elvis Costello

[red dog 1]

42. Good pick!

It's another great song, IMO.

[DFW]

30. Sweet Loraine

By Country Joe and the Fish

Black Betty, by Ram Jam

Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)

Maria Isabel (Los Payos)

Lola (Kinks)

Layla (Clapton)

Katyusha (Old Russian Folk Song)

For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Simon and Garfunkel)

Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)

Amie (Pure Prarie League)...one of my favorites

Miranda (Adam West as Batman)

[red dog 1]

49. Of the bunch you list, I think "Lola" is the best

I saw the Kinks back in the late 70s at Winterland (SF) and I think they did "Lola"

I also saw Country Joe do "Sweet Loraine" (on more than one occasion) at the Fillmore Auditorium.

(I'm pretty sure I saw Wilson Pickett at least once at the old Fillmore as well.)

A great '90s film about the formation of a soul band in Dublin is called The Commitments"
and the very first song they work on is "Mustang Sally"
Near the end of the movie, they do a version of it that is so good it makes Wilson Picket's version pale in comparison.

[DFW]

59. I remember "The Commitments," but never saw it

Just a lot of previews.

[Glassunion]

31. Layla

[red dog 1]

51. Great song!

Originally released by Derek & the Dominos.

Clapton wrote it with help from Jim Gordon

[jakeXT]

137. Just finished the chapter on Layla in the book "The Girl In The Song"

Eric Clapton, ‘Layla’: This song was released when Clapton was a member of Derek And The Dominos, and was inspired by his love for George Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd. The title was based on Nezami’s book Layla And Majnun, which told the story of a man who fell in love with a woman who loves him but isn’t free.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/photos/the-girl-in-the-song-the-stories-behind-music-s-great-muses/232132

Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' - Part Two

On another occasion I drove to Ewhurst and we met in the woods nearby. Eric was wearing a wolf coat and looked very sexy. We didn't go to his house because someone would have been there. A lot of people lived at Hurtwood Edge: his band, the Dominos, Paula and Alice Ormsby-Gore, another of Eric's girlfriends.

The convent girl in me found the situation uncomfortable but strangely exciting, and so it was later that year after Eric had played me Layla in the South Kensington flat that I succumbed to his advances.

After George and Eric's confrontation at Robert Stigwood's party, I went home with my husband. Back at the house I went to bed and George disappeared into his recording studio.

The next time I saw Eric, he turned up unexpectedly at Friar Park. George was away – I don't know whether Eric knew that in advance – and I was on my own. He said he wanted me to go away with him: he was desperately in love with me and couldn't live without me. I had to leave George right now and be with him.

'Eric, are you mad?' I asked. 'I can't possibly. I'm married to George.'

He said: 'No, no, no. I love you. I have to have you in my life.'

'No,' I said.

He produced a small packet from his pocket and held it out towards me.

'Well, if you're not going to come away with me, I'm going to take this.'

'What is it?'

'Heroin.'

'Don't be so stupid.' I tried to grab it from him but he clenched his fist and hid it in his pocket.

'If you're not going to come with me,' he said, 'that's it. I'm off.'

And he went. I hardly saw him for three years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-473206/Pattie-Boyd-My-hellish-love-triangle-George-Eric--Part-Two.html

Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' - Part One

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-473174/Pattie-Boyd-My-hellish-love-triangle-George-Eric--Part-One.html

[red dog 1]

138. Thanks for that

I didn't know anything about Clapton & George Harrison's wife
Very interesting!

I wonder if he was still married to her in the '90s when that insane freak broke into his house & stabbed him 27 times ? (He barely survived that knife attack)

His wife saved his life by hitting the intruder over the head with a lamp.

[jakeXT]

140. She was married to George from 1966-1977 and to Eric from 1979 to 1988/89

Husband: George Harrison (Beatle, m. 21-Jan-1966, div. 9-Jun-1977)
Boyfriend: Ron Wood (Rolling Stone, together briefly in 1973, extramarital)
Husband: Eric Clapton (guitarist, m. 27-Mar-1979, div. 1988)
http://www.nndb.com/people/491/000163002/

[red dog 1]

143. Thanks for that info & link

[In_The_Wind]

32. Roxanne

Our granddaughter is named Roxanne

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

33. Take a Letter Maria

`

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

34. Sweet Jane

Lou Reed

[cemaphonic]

35. Tom Waits - Lucinda

Dave Rawlings - Ruby

[Recursion]

269. Also, Tom Waits's "Martha" (different from Jefferson Airplane's "Martha")

[RandiFan1290]

43. Ween- Gabrielle

[sarge43]

44. Laura

Denise is one of my favorite bee-bops.

[red dog 1]

57. Mine too

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Denise was Randy & the Rainbow's one & only hit.

I can't think of any oldie I love more than "Denise"....It's a perfect rock & roll song!

Trivia fact: "Denise" was written as a "homage" to Denise Walton, the prolific Brill Building songwriter who worked closely with Allan Freed, the DJ who coined the term "Rock & Roll"
A good, (but not totally accurate) TV movie made about Allan Freed is called:
"The King of Rock and Roll..The Allan Freed Story"

[sarge43]

67. Then how about a trip down memory lane

[Mendocino]

45. Anna Lee

Traditional, but done a few years back by Levon Helm.

[lastlib]

48. "Cracklin' Rosie"! --Neil Diamond

"Suzanne" --Leonard Cohen
"Annie's Song" --John Denver
"Dreamboat Annie" --Heart
"Linda Was A Lady" --Kansas City (I bet NOBODY remembers THAT one! God, what a good song!)

(sorry about the record label--I completely forgot about that!)


"Kathy's Song" --Simon & Garfunkel
"For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" --Simon & Garfunkel
"Mrs. Robinson" --Simon & Garfunkel
"Peggy-O" --Simon & Garfunkel
"Laurie (Strange Things Happen in This World)" --Dickie Lee
"Emma" --Hot Chocolate

[Mendocino]

50. Boy Named Sue

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Maybeillene-Chuck Berry

Annie-Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend

Lola-Kinks

Elvira-Oak Ridge Boys

Jane-Starship

Dear Prudence-Beatles

Michelle-Beatles

Daisy Jane-America

Lady Jane -Stones

Sweet Virginia-Stones

Angie-Stones

Bernadette-Four Tops

[red dog 1]

62. I bought an Oak Ridge Boy's album just for "Elvira"

and I bought "Maybelline" back when it came out.

"Lola" might just be the best Kinks song ever....I love those lyrics!

[Art_from_Ark]

195. My name of my teacher when "Lola" came out was Lola

She HATED that song!

[jonno99]

53. Beth

[Xipe Totec]

58. Macarena

[Xipe Totec]

60. Lucia - Joan Manuel Serrat

[Xipe Totec]

61. Penelope - Joan Manuel Serrat

[Xipe Totec]

63. Rowena's Theme

[red dog 1]

139. Isn't that the name of the song that became "Mr. Holland's Opus"?

(I'm currently unable to view videos)

[Xipe Totec]

141. The very same.

Although there is a second Rowena's Theme that's very different and unrelated.

Also very moving and soulful. The second Rowena is from the movie "The Edge"

[Doc_Technical]

64. Mary

The wind cries Mary- Jimi Hendrix Experience

Oh Sweet Mary- Big Brother and the Holding Company

[Xipe Totec]

65. Celia - Simon & Garfunkel

[Xipe Totec]

66. Yolanda - Pablo Milanés

[Ghost Dog]

133. Yes

[IcyPeas]

68. Cocteau Twins (2 songs)

[hobbit709]

70. Corrine, Corrina, Janis, Martha, Maria Magenta, Lucy Jordan

[IcyPeas]

71. Christine and Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees

[LiberalElite]

73. Sheila - Tommy Roe

[LiberalElite]

74. Michelle - Beatles

[TexasBushwhacker]

99. Dear Prudence

[LiberalElite]

102. YES! How did I forget that - especially since

I love that song and loathe "Michelle".

[Arugula Latte]

115. Three more Beatles: Julia and Lovely Rita and Polythene Pam

[LiberalElite]

116. and Anna

&list=RD1wDr_ID5cYs#t=10

[IcyPeas]

75. Leonard Cohen....

[Hoyt]

76. Bar band favorite - - Amie. Grew to hate that song.

[rug]

77. Valleri

[flying rabbit]

127. Valerie?

[teach1st]

78. Zappa and Beefheart

Big Leg Emma - Mothers of Invention

Pena - Captain Beefheart

[teach1st]

79. Dead - Althea

Grateful Dead - Althea

[GoCubsGo]

159. And, "Bertha."

[Tobin S.]

80. "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC

A song praising the finer aspects of the full figured women, "You can say she's got it all!!"

[mainstreetonce]

81. Annie's song

Come let me love you

[Skittles]

82. Bernadette

[sakabatou]

83. "Poor Faye" by Yoko Kanno

[Mendocino]

84. Three Marlenas

Wallflowers

[hibbing]

86. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan

Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded but we're all doing our best to deny it.


He of course has a few more with women's names in the title.


Peace

[Mendocino]

87. Pamela Brown-Leo Kottke

Christines Tune-Flying Burrito Brothers

[DFW]

106. I can't believe I forgot Pamela Brown!

As one of Kottke's most fanatical fans, that should have been the first one I thought of.

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[Mendocino]

107. I like how he describes his own voice

"Geese farts on a muggy day"

[DFW]

108. On the Armadillo album

If I only had such geese farts........

[Manifestor_of_Light]

131. Yep, classic album with classic liner notes.

I remember the words "waking up in the middle of a nude volleyball game" on the back.

[betsuni]

88. Memphis Slim -- If You See Kay

[CTyankee]

89. Maria, I just met a girl named Maria...

West Side Story. Beautiful musical. Tears me up every time I hear it...

[MowCowWhoHow III]

90. mixed bag

The Cardigans - Celia Inside

Goldfrapp - Annabel

Aqua - Barbie Girl

Kaiser Chiefs - Caroline Yes

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy

Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen)

Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon

Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise

[GreydeeThos]

92. You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille

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It's on youtube; look it up.

[GreydeeThos]

93. Lucille - Little Richard

[mainstreetonce]

94. Jean Jean roses are red

Rod McKuen

[Paper Roses]

95. Lucille by Litle Richard

Edited to remove dupe video, like the other posted version better!

[frogmarch]

96. Sylvia's Mother (by Dr. Hook)

[TexasBushwhacker]

97. MyMyMy My Sharona!

The gal in the tank top is THE Sharona

[TexasBushwhacker]

98. Runaround Sue

[red dog 1]

216. Great Dion Dimucci song

His first hit after he left Dion & The Belmonts

[TexasBushwhacker]

100. Jenny

AKA 867-5309

[TexasBushwhacker]

101. Jolene

An interesting slowed down version

[Sanity Claws]

103. Come On Eileen

I can't remember the band.

Daisy - an old song from the early 20th Century

Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago

[KamaAina]

239. Dexys Midnight Runners

[femmocrat]

105. I didn't see "Long Tall Sally" or these ones:

Chuck Berry, I think.

"Windy" by The Association

"Oh Marie" Louis Prima

"Tangerine" Frank Sinatra

"Oh Donna" Ritchie Valens

"Sherry" The Four Seasons

Did anyone list "Layla" yet?

[red dog 1]

117. "Layla" has been mentioned a couple of times, as well as "Donna"

I think "Long Tall Sally" was a Little Richard song.

[mainstreetonce]

109. Eleanor Rigby

Beatles

[raccoon]

110. "Anna" by Arthur Alexander. Also recorded by Beatles.

"Carol," "Nadine," and "Maybelline" by Chuck Berry.

[3catwoman3]

111. Hey There, Little Red Riding Hood.

Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs.

Good thing I like this silly song, because it will now be stuck in my head all day.

One day, in my neighborhood Trader Joe;s, Run Around Sue came on, and all the customers and staff were dancing around in the store. It was great.

[red dog 1]

142. "Runaround Sue" was released in 1961, right after Dion left Dion & the Belmonts,

& went off on his own.
It became his first & only Number 1 hit.

I love just about all of Dion's songs, but I think "Runaround Sue" is probably my favorite.

Also, IMO, Dion's version of "Sea Cruise" is even better than the original version by Frankie Ford, (which is also very good).

[ghostsinthemachine]

112. Bertha, Grateful Dead

Written about a fan (the kind that moves air) that used to bounce around 710 Ashbury when plugged in

[trueblue2007]

113. Carmen --- it is an opera

[jmowreader]

114. Does this one count?

[fxw]

118. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

*

[fxw]

119. Delilah - Tom Jones

#

[fxw]

120. Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

[red dog 1]

153. Good one!

"Father-rapers...on the Group W bench.."

[Wounded Bear]

121. For Emily Whenever I May Find Her-Simon & Garfunkel

[Out of Time Man]

122. Vera - Pink Floyd

[mike dub]

123. "Sarah(Smile)" "Melissa" "(Little) Martha"

Sarah Smile--- Hall & Oates
Melissa-- The Allman Brothers Band
Little Martha-- The Allman Bros. Band

no links

[IADEMO2004]

124. Valerie, Amy Winehouse

[IcyPeas]

125. Amelia - Joni

[IcyPeas]

126. Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure

[ornotna]

128. Stephanie Says - Velvet Underground

[ornotna]

129. Annie's Scarlet Letter - Carolyn Wonderland

[Manifestor_of_Light]

130. Roxanne - The Police

Candida - Tony Orlando and Dawn

Tosca - Opera by Puccini about Floria Tosca

Madame Butterfly - Opera by Puccini

Samson and Delilah - Opera by Saint-Saens

Nola - ragtime song by Felix Arndt

Turandot - Opera by Puccini about Princess Turandot (The T on the end is pronounced as in DOT)

La Cenerentola (Cinderella) Opera by Rossini

Manon Lescaut - Opera by Puccini

Valerie - The Monkees
Valerie - Steve Winwood (different song)

Who is Sylvia? - Franz Schubert
Gretchen am Spinnrade - Franz Schubert

Lola - The Kinks

Suzie Q - Creedence Clearwater

Roberta (musical) - Jerome Kern

Auntie Grizelda - The Monkees

Frankie and Johnny Were Lovers - Mississippi John Hurt

Laura - David Raskin (from the 1945 movie)

Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

867-5309 Jenny --Tommy Tutone

Lady Jane - The Rolling Stones

Cecelia - Simon and Garfunkel

Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel

Pictures of Lily - The Who

Lizzie Borden - Chad Mitchell Trio

I Guess I Owe It All to Pamela Brown - Leo Kottke

Antonia - Pat Metheny

Jean - BeeGees (early period - pre-disco)

Maria - Leonard Bernstein

Juanita - Stephen Foster

How do you solve a problem like Maria? - Richard Rodgers

You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan - Richard Rodgers

[red dog 1]

144. Somebody actually wrote a song about Lizzie Borden?

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"Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one"

(It was her step-mother, actually)


I think you're the 1st to mention "Mrs. Robinson", a truly great song.

"Frankie & Johnny Were Sweethearts" is another great song.
I hate to admit it but I love Lindsay Lohan's version of that song in "A Prairie Home Companion"
(Robert Altman's last movie)

I didn't know the Bee Gees had a "pre-disco" period.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

146. Sure did.

Yep, the Chad Mitchell Trio. Couldn't find a video of it. Chad Mitchell left, and they were called The Mitchell Trio, and he was replaced by one Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. -- known to us as John Denver. That's John Denver you hear in the intro.

"You can't chop your mother up in Massachusetts, Not even if you're tired of her cuisine, You can't chop your mother up in Massachusetts, I know it's almost sure to cause a scene"

The Bee Gees first hit the charts in 1963. Hits were "To Love Somebody", "1941 New York Mining Disaster", "Massachusetts", "I Started a Joke" and many others.
Example of pre-disco Bee Gees. 1968-"Words"

&list=RDDq6YmSVAOG8

Massachusetts - BeeGees -

I was wrong about "Jean". It was done by somebody named Oliver. Sounded like the BeeGees though.

[red dog 1]

152. Thanks for that

I had no idea...Awesome lyrics!...(Somebody had a sense of humor there)

[red dog 1]

155. "I was Not a Nazi polka" by The Chad Mitchell Trio

is one of the videos on DU's front page right now.

[ArnoldLayne]

134. Pink Floyd- See Emily Play.

[lastlib]

135. Two more:

"Carol" --Al Stewart

"Valerie" --Steve Winwood

[Tab]

136. Aja (Steely Dan)

[lastlib]

169. And "Peg". And "Josie". eom

[KamaAina]

186. I thought Aja was "a continent of the mind".

[Tab]

188. Not sure if you're joking or not

but 'Aja' on the album was named after the girlfriend of a bandmember. Her face is hard to see in the cover, but it's there, and supposedly Walter Becker and Donald Fagen thought it would be a great name for the album.

[KamaAina]

189. That was the record company's marketing slogan for it

no, srsly, it was.

[red dog 1]

145. "Oh Julie" by The Cresendos

(1957) It's up on You Tube...Good song!


Also, since nobody's mentioned it yet,

"Jennie Lee" by Jan & Arnie

[shanti]

148. Barbara Ann, Mona Lisa

two right off the top of my head.

[IcyPeas]

149. Sheila Take a Bow - The Smiths

[cantbeserious]

151. Layla - Eric Clapton

eom

[Liberal Veteran]

154. Sara gets around a lot in music, Sara - Starship, Sara Smile - Hall and Oates, Sara - Fleetwood Mac.

[skippercollector]

266. there are also songs about sally

Mustang Sally
Sally Go 'Round the Roses
Sally G.

[fxw]

156. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers

[greendog]

157. "Caroline No" - The Beach Boys

[mainstreetonce]

158. Here's to you Mrs Robinson

Jesus loves you more than you can know

[red dog 1]

164. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!

I love that song, as well as the movie it's from (The Graduate)

[greendog]

160. "Kathleen" - Townes Van Zandt

[greendog]

161. "Pocahontas" Neil Young

[greendog]

162. "Stella Blue" - Grateful Dead

[greendog]

163. "Juanita" - Flying Burrito Brothers

[oberliner]

165. Oh Yoko / Dear Yoko

I prefer the second one, but the first one is catchy too.

[malthaussen]

224. Ballad of John and Yoko. n/t

[oberliner]

226. That's a great song too!

One of my all-time favorites.

[mainstreetonce]

166. Donna

Ritchie Valens

[mainstreetonce]

167. Janie's Got a Gun

Aerosmith

[lastlib]

170. "White Rabbit (Go Ask Alice)" --Jefferson Airplane

"Me An' Bobby McGee" --Janis Joplin, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson (I'm guessing that in Janis' version, Bobby is a guy, but in the other two, Bobby is a woman.....)

[red dog 1]

174. Kris Kristofferson wrote that song about a girl named "Bobbie"

(I think her actual name was Roberta)

Janis sang & recorded it, & you guessed right about her version being about a guy named Bobby McGee

I was fortunate enough to see & hear Grace Slick & the Jefferson Airplane do "White Rabbit" many times at the old Fillmore Auditorium.....Outstanding song!

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171. Aubrey was her name

Bread

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172. Quiche

Quiche Lorraine - B-52's

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173. Planet

Planet Claire - B-52's

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[Cal33]

175. "Sylvia." I wouldn't be surprised if half the people here aren't old enough to have heard it.

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222. "sylvia's mother" and "don't cry, sylvia" nt

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176. Angie

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177. Sugaree. Grateful Dead

Please forget you knew my name, my darlin' Sugaree.

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180. Great song!

Good pick!

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178. Diana. Paul Anka

Oh please stay by me,Diana

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181. Good one!

I was wondering if anyone, besides me, remembered that great Paul Anka song.

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183. Sweet Caroline

Neil Diamond

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184. Martha

Jefferson Airplane

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185. Diane

Husker Du.

[KamaAina]

187. Georgy Girl - New (and old) Seekers

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190. Rosalita and Sherry Darling - The Boss

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191. Candida - Tony Orlando and Dawn

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192. Carrie Anne - The Hollies

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193. Along Comes Mary - The Association

[The Polack MSgt]

194. no one said Jolene yet? OK - Jolene

I especially like the white stripes version

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196. AMY Pure Prarie League 1972

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi2rsK0r8rKAhVMOD4KHalkDg8Q3ywIHTAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DV4mCiYQeU_s&usg=AFQjCNE4VD4qS9qNN7x7nphVJC70tNokUw&sig2=p4is19DCERMwxwZavl8E1g&bvm=bv.112766941,d.cWw

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197. Oh Susannah

I win for oldest song

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198. Clementine

She's almost as old as Susannah

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199. Molly Molone

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The Irish Invasion

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207. Sweet Betsy from Pike

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208. Lorena

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210. I'll take you home again Kathleen

More Irish

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211. Good Night Irene

..

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217. An oldie but a goodie!

(I hate to admit it; but I remember that song)

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247. Barbara Allen

I think "Barbara Allen" is older.

[chemenger]

200. Leah (Donny Iris)

Rosanna (TOTO)

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201. Evangeline

Emmy Lou Harris

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215. Good one!

Emmy Lou Harris is one of my all-time favorite singers

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219. Tammy

Debbie Reynolds

[mike in raleigh]

204. Dinah-Moe-Humm

Frank Zappa.

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205. Maybelene by Chuck Berry

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206. julio iglesias de nina a mujer

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209. Sweet Georgia Brown

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212. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music

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213. Hello Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson

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220. Good pick!

One of his best, IMO.

Ricky Nelson died way too young (and his band mates as well)

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214. No, no, Nanette

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218. Polk Salad Annie.....Tony Joe White

I'm replying to my own post here, since it's been 8 days and no one has chosen this one yet.

(It's up on You Tube)

[LeftishBrit]

221. Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel)

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223. Lakme - The Flower Duet (Opera by Leo Delibes)

[malthaussen]

225. Jennifer Juniper

-- Mal

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227. Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

[laundry_queen]

228. Hélène by Roch Voisine

Ah, this was one of my favorite songs when I was 14. Roch Voisine was so hot, lol. First video is the song, because the second is the original video but it's horrible quality. Couldn't find a better one.

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229. Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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230. Jane Says - Jane's Addiction

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231. Didn't see "Dirty Diana" from Michael Jackson

[morgiedev]

242. Was thinking the same thing

[TBF]

232. Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin

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233. Hardhearted Hannah (the vamp of Savannah, GA)

My Dad used to sing this to me when I was small. -( No, I'm not named Hannah!)

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234. Mary is a grand old name

I used to sing this to my daughter of that name.

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235. "Little Annie Rooney

is my sweetheart"
I sang this to my other daughter.

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236. Lola (The Kinks)

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237. Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan)

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238. Rita the Meter Maid (The Beatles)

[Heidi]

240. Suzanne by Leonard Cohen

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241. Good pick!

I'm surprised it took so long for that great Leonard Cohen song to be mentioned.


"And she feeds you tea and oranges..that come all the way from China"
(Mandarin oranges)

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243. Roseanne - Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair - Molly McGee

[skippercollector]

244. Don't Cry, Joni

by Conway Twitty and his daughter Joni. There were two versions released: the longer one on the country stations and a shorter one with fewer verses on the rock stations.

[skippercollector]

245. Mrs. Robinson?

Does "Mrs. Robinson" count, since it's not her first name?

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246. billie jean

How is it that I'm the first to mention Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"?

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249. Darcy Farrow

Also Whispering Jessie

John
Denver

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250. another john denver song

"For Baby/For Bobbie"

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257. Annie's Other Somg

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251. A song associated with Australia

"Waltzing Matilda"

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252. "Marian the Librarian"

From The Music Man, my favorite musical

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253. "Jennifer Juniper"

by Donovan, I think

[skippercollector]

254. does "Honey" count?

"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. It's what she was called in the song. No real name was ever mentioned.

[skippercollector]

255. "Linda" by Hoagy Carmichael

"Linda" has been sung by umpteen artists.

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256. "Honolulu Lulu"

by Jan & Dean

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262. Good one!

"She's the Queen...of the surfer girls!"

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259. Hello Dolly

..

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260. Once in Love with Amy

..

[IcyPeas]

261. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard

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263. "Good Golly Miss Molly"was one of the first songs the Beatles did when they were in Hamburg, Germany

Little Richard was a huge influence on the early Beatles.
Their high-voiced wails came directly from listening to Little Richard records.
He was also a huge influence on Jimi Hendrix, who said that he wanted to do with his guitar what Little Richard did with his voice.

He's still alive, at 83, but he's been confined to a wheelchair since a 2009 hip surgery that went wrong:
"I went in for surgery on my hip..I was walking on my way in; but I couldn't walk out.
The hip surgery was really bad for me...I haven't walked since..I'm in pain 24 hours a day."

In 1955, after years on the "Chitlin' Circuit"..Little Richard's big break came when he signed with Specialty Records in New Orleans:
In the studio, Specialty's Producer Bumps Blackewll found a wild-dressing, wild-talking man with his hair waved up half a foot.
But Blackwell thought that the first tracks they recorded were too mild, too milquetoast, especially for a guy whose stage act was famously outlandish and untamed.
"If you look like Tarzan and sound like Mickey Mouse it just doesn't work out," Blackwell later explained.

Little Richard is not just a legend but one of the last people alive among that first wave of rock and roll, the prime movers and shakers.

"Keep Little Richard in your prayers..Praise and thanksgiving..And intercession too.
May he find comfort and ease.
May he find a little more of that old rhythm, a little more of that wild light."

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/719-prayers-for-richard

[skippercollector]

264. "I'm Not Lisa"

Recorded and released by both Jessi Colter and Tanya Tucker around the same time.
I thought it was a pretty but sad song when I was a teenager but when I heard it recently I thought it was strange, about a man calling his current girlfriend by his last girl friend's name.

[IcyPeas]

265. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

they played this on american horror story recently.

[skippercollector]

267. Do nursery rhymes count?

Mary had a Little Lamb
Jack and Jill

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268. Dominique - The Singing Nun