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Thread #120038 Message #2794221
Posted By: MGM·Lion
22-Dec-09 - 07:52 AM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
Songs named for, or naming, other singers are verging on a sort of incestuous, aren't they?
Cole Porter, with his superb 'lists' songs, was a master of using names - check out You're the Tops, e.g.
"You're the Tops, you're Napoleon Brandy,
You're the Tops, you're Mahatma Gandhi.
You're the rhythm of a melody by Strauss -
You're [someone someone someone someone] -
You're Mickey Mouse."
and so forth...
(From memory, you will gather — but you get the general idea...?)