People named in songs

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 04:03 AM

lisdoonvarna North And South Of The River
Aisling
The Craic Was Ninety In The Isle Of Man
Missing You
The Reel In The Flickering Light
Messenger Boy
Lakes Of Ponchartrain
Official page
Christy Moore wiki
Lisdoonvarna video
Christy Moore twitter
CHRISTY MOORE
Lisdoonvarna Lyrics

Lisdoonvarna
Lisdoonvarna is the name of a town in Co. Clare - a place famed for its festvals!

Tabs by Oliver St John & Pete Cassidy

G
How's it goin' there everybody,
D C
From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy.
D
Here we are in the County Clare
C
It's a long, long way from here to there.
D
There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher,
C
And the Tulla and the Kilfenora,
D
Miko Russell, Doctor Bill,
C
Willy Clancy and Noel Hill.
D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere.
C
If it's music you want,
You should go to Clare.

CHORUS
G C
Oh, Lisdoonvarna
G C
Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!

Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Some head off to exotic places,
Others go to the Galway Races.
Mattie goes to the South of France,
Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance.
A cousin of mine goes potholing,
A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan.
Summer comes around each year,
We go there and they come here.
Some jet off to ... Frijiliana,
But I always go to Lisdoonvarna.

CHORUS

I always leave on a Thursday night,
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight.
I like to hit Lisdoon,
In around Friday afternoon.
This gives me time to get me gear together,
I don't need to worry about the weather.
Ramble in for a pint of stout,
And you'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin,
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn.
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald,
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World.
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand,
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band.
.. Ain't it grand?

CHORUS

The multitudes, they flocked and thronged,
To hear the music and the songs.
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans,
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans.
Mighty craic. Loads of frolics,
Pioneers and alcoholics,
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA,
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA.
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs,
And mickey dodgers in disguise.
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs,
Massage parlours in horse boxes.
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns,
Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks,
RTE are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin' shapes.
This is heaven, this is hell.
Who cares? Who can tell?
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)

CHORUS

A 747 for Jackson Browne,
They had to build a special runway just to get him down.
Before the Chieftains could start to play,
Seven creamy pints came out on a tray.
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan,
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'.
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game",
Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain".
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields,
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields".
Van the Man and Emmy Lou,
Moving Hearts and Planxty too!

CHORUS

Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee,
Oliver J. Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea.
But I like the music and the open air,
So every Summer I go to Clare.
Coz Woodstock, Knock nor the Feast of Cana,
Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna.

CHORUS

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: PHJim
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 01:52 AM

John Hartford's "Howard Hughes' Blues"

If he didn't have a nickel
If he didn't have a dime
He could do whatever he damn well please
He could do it all the time
But success is just a mess of overdues
For old Howard Hughes and all of his blues

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 11:02 AM

Billy Henry, Willie Leonard and Willie Lennox, who were all poor swimmers.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 10:03 AM

For another inconsistency: Sir Hugh Montgomery features in both "Chevy Chase" and "The Battle of Otterbourne", two songs on the same battle. He's alive at the end of one of them and dies horribly in the other.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 05:39 AM

We used to play this game by "type" so...

Musicians (and a poet)
Waylon Jennings (Goodman & Prine)
Charley Pride (id.)
Merle Haggard (id.)
David Allen Coe (id.)
Brenda Lee (Hay & Kooymans)
Sidney Bechet (Patricia Kaas)
Frankie D (Guy Clark)
Roger Miller (id.)
Ramblin' Jack Elliot (id.)
Larry Mahan (id.)
Anita Bryant (Jimmy Buffett)
Patsy Cline (Jimmy Buffett; Emmylou Harris)
Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley)
Mama Cass (Phillips & Gilliam)
Dwight Yoakam (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
Lyle Lovett (id.)
Johnny Rotten (Neil Young)
Charlie Watts (John Hiatt)
T.S. Eliot (Brad Roberts – Crash Test Dummies)

Actors
Bob Hope (Billy Joel)
Carol Merrill (Jimmy Buffett)
Richard Pryor (Jackson Browne)
Lotte Lenya (Bobby Darin)
Betty Davis (Donna Weiss & Jackie De Shannon)
Jean Harlow (id.)
Greta Garbo (id.)
Tuesday Weld (Donald Fagen)
Bette Davis (Mark Knopfler)
Charlie & Oona Chaplin (Steve Forbert)
Warren Beatty (id.)

Sports
Joe DiMaggio (John Fogerty; Paul Simon)
Dale Earnhardt (John Hiatt)
Red Grange (Weston & Weston)

Politics (etc)
Rose Kennedy (Patricia Kaas)
George Murphy (Tom Lehrer)
Wernher von Braun (id.)
Eva Braun (Danny O'Keefe)
Harry Truman (id.)
Henry VIII (Murray & Weston)
Anne Boleyn (John Popper; Weston & Weston)

Characters
Oedipus Rex (Tom Lehrer)
Rita Ballou (Guy Clark)
Spider John (Willis Alan Ramsey)
Mona Lisa (Emmylou Harris; Livingston & Evans)
Charlie Brown (Clark M. Gesner; Leiber & Stoller)
Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)

More to follow...

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 05:34 AM

Too many to list, so listen for your own self:

"Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)

"We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 01:57 AM

John the Revelator, along with Peter, Paul, Judas, and Noah and Adam and Eve. Then there's Pharaoh, Moses, and Joshua. Oh, and Abraham and Martin and John, Charlie of MTA fame and Walter/George O'Brien.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 01:08 AM

I once mentioned this inconsistency to Bob Copper, who said that they had of course noticed it & thought of amending it; but as that was how it was in "The Book", they felt that family faith & loyalty required that that was how they should go on singing it.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 01:04 AM

Also worth a mention -- Captain Somerville, named as "the Irish captain" of the warship in the Coppers' "Warlike Seamen". Oddly, the name of the ship is inconsistent within the song, being "The Nottingham" in verse 1, but "The London" in a subsequent stanza.

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Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 12:52 AM

"probably as extensive a list of names in a song as you will ever find"
I wrote above about The Chevalier's Muster Roll. But surely outdone in that respect, it occurs to me, by The Tour Of The Dales which Mike Waterson used to sing -- a list of all the Daleside villages, with a couple of the most prominent inhabitants of each specified. It is on Youtube at


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTzsOc0avg

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Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Airymouse
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 11:31 PM

Tom Dula, Laura Foster, Billy Stafford, Sanford Obrien, Jess Harold, John Jacob Jingleheimer Scmidt

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Bert
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 11:08 PM

Grace Darling
Noreen Bawn

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: CupOfTea
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 07:44 PM

Ecclectricity's "Back to Beethoven" names a batch of country music stars to be avoided.
Crystal Gale, Willie Nelson, & Charlie Daniels get first & last name treatment, along with groups like Mandrell sisters, Oak Ridge Boys or George & Tammy.

How about an anti-name? "My name is Morgan but it ain't J.P."?

Then there was George O'Reilley (or O'Brian, YMMV)who was going to get Charlie off the MTA.

In the annals of weird, there's Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins."

The rest of my favorite double-name songs have already been mentioned - sorry I missed this thread in earlier incarnations.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 01:09 PM

There would generally have been 'camp-followers', eh Dick?

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Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 12:59 PM

Michael all those men coming, but no women?

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 12:47 PM

Famous smallpipe tune, Derwentwater's Farewell. Lord Derwentwater aka in balladry as Lord Allenwater &c--

'James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (26 June 1689 – 24 February 1716) was an English Jacobite, executed for treason. His death is remembered in an English traditional ballad, "Lord Allenwater", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1904 from the singing of Emily Stears' - Wikipedia

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Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 11:47 AM

William Angus Jamieson Jock McCall in "you can come and see the baby"

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 11:18 AM

http://chrsouchon.free.fr/muster.htm

is the URL to access The Chevalier's Muster Roll, a song {which I recall hearing Ewan sing more than once} listing the clans gathering for the 1715, probably as extensive a list of names in a song as you will ever find.

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-- typical couple of stanzas:

Duncan's coming, Donald's coming,
Colin's coming, Ronald's coming,
Dougald's coming, Lauchlan's coming,
Alaster and a's coming.

Borland and his men's coming,
Cameron and M'Lean's coming,
Gordon and M'Gregor's coming,
Ilka Dunywastle's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming.
M'Gillavry o' Drumglass is coming..........

&c &c &c......

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: PHJim
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 09:13 AM

Michael Chaser (With My Hands In The Pockets Of My Old Ragadoo)

Then there's John Hartford's "Tater Tate and Alan Mundy" in which he unfortunately spelled Al Munde's name incorrectly.

Tater Tate And Alan Mundy (Munde)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 04:20 AM

Going completely off the subject, as you could go through thousands of name songs...and the thread was first and second names in songs. One of the most difficult to sing songs, 'Dear old Donegal' is a right old name tongue twister and memory tester. I was always amazed that my father could sing that one at gigs.

You could go on forever with first and second name songs, everything from folk songs through to the Beatles Eleanor Rigby, Free Nelson Mandela and a million other ones.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 03:49 AM

a Lyrics

Lisdoonvarna
Lisdoonvarna is the name of a town in Co. Clare - a place famed for its festvals!

Tabs by Oliver St John & Pete Cassidy

G
How's it goin' there everybody,
D C
From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy.
D
Here we are in the County Clare
C
It's a long, long way from here to there.
D
There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher,
C
And the Tulla and the Kilfenora,
D
Miko Russell, Doctor Bill,
C
Willy Clancy and Noel Hill.
D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere.
C
If it's music you want,
You should go to Clare.

CHORUS
G C
Oh, Lisdoonvarna
G C
Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!

Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Some head off to exotic places,
Others go to the Galway Races.
Mattie goes to the South of France,
Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance.
A cousin of mine goes potholing,
A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan.
Summer comes around each year,
We go there and they come here.
Some jet off to ... Frijiliana,
But I always go to Lisdoonvarna.

CHORUS

I always leave on a Thursday night,
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight.
I like to hit Lisdoon,
In around Friday afternoon.
This gives me time to get me gear together,
I don't need to worry about the weather.
Ramble in for a pint of stout,
And you'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin,
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn.
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald,
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World.
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand,
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band.
.. Ain't it grand?

CHORUS

The multitudes, they flocked and thronged,
To hear the music and the songs.
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans,
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans.
Mighty craic. Loads of frolics,
Pioneers and alcoholics,
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA,
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA.
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs,
And mickey dodgers in disguise.
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs,
Massage parlours in horse boxes.
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns,
Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks,
RTE are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin' shapes.
This is heaven, this is hell.
Who cares? Who can tell?
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)

CHORUS

A 747 for Jackson Browne,
They had to build a special runway just to get him down.
Before the Chieftains could start to play,
Seven creamy pints came out on a tray.
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan,
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'.
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game",
Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain".
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields,
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields".
Van the Man and Emmy Lou,
Moving Hearts and Planxty too!

CHORUS

Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee,
Oliver J. Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea.
But I like the music and the open air,
So every Summer I go to Clare.
Coz Woodstock, Knock nor the Feast of Cana,
Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna.

Source: click here

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Guest; MikeK
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 10:18 PM

and..."We'll have William Jennings Bryan stoking coal on Number Nine... on that old Blue Water Line."

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Gealt
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 04:40 PM

John Henry
Tim Finnegan
Master McGrath
Johnny Lad (not the same Johnny who went to Hilo)
(Red Hugh) O'Donnell Abú
(Bauld)Robert Emmet
Lord Franklin
Sullivan's John
Dan Murphy (who had a stone outside his door)
Jack Doyle (the man who boxed like John McCormack)
Wiliam Bloat (from the Shankill Road)
Persse O'Reilly
Napoleon Bonaparte
Henry Joy McCracken
Lily Bolero
Old Tom of Oxford

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 08:21 AM

Ah, I see - cheers!

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 08:16 AM

Also, of course, the other Willie More - the one who was young, scarce 21, whose sad tale was told by Doc Watson & others — dependent on whose version as to whether he died of his broken ❤ by his true lover's grave or in Montreal; he ended up just as dead in either event.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 07:49 AM

Captain Kidd does make it if you are ref'ing to version that begins, "My name was William Kidd, As I sailed..."

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 06:16 AM

Read thread, didn't see it, may have missed it... sorry if so.
Haven't time to re-read.

Bonny George Campbell (Child 210)

And if 'rule' is first and surname,
not sure Captain Kidd makes it?
- tho' later on someone did mention Willie Moore...
...Cap Kidd 'left him in his gore' - so that was good save!

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 03:45 AM

Has anyone ever counted how many Child Ballads have somebody's name [often more than one person, at that - e.g 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annet'] just as their titles, apart from who else may be named in the ballad? (How many are named in 'Chevy Chase', say - anyone know?) A quick count yielded me 29 of the first 50 — I hadn't the ❤ to count any further!

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Neighmond
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:39 AM

Arthur Clyde

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 11:48 PM

"Amelia Earhart" The Handsome Family

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 11:40 PM

And here's to the churches of RICHARD NIXON and BILLY GRAHAM
Where the cross, once made of silver, now is caked with rust
And the sunday mornin sermons pander to their lust
All the fallen face of jesus is chokin' in the dust
And heaven only knows in which God they can trust
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
richard nixon find yourself another country to be part
                                  from Phil Ochs

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Allen in Oz
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 03:56 PM

Jenny Jenny Jenny ( Little Richard)

K-K-K Katie

AD

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Allen in OZ
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 06:31 PM

A few more:

Peggy Sue

Angela Jones


AD

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Genie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:15 PM

"Later on, if ya wanna,
We'll dress up like Madonna"
Walkin' Round In Women's Underwear


(Yes, I know her last name isn't mentioned, but it's clear which "Madonna" the lyric is about.)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Neighmond
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:48 PM

Dewey Lee - Carter Family
Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
Freeda Bolt - ?
Joe Bean - Johnny Cash

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:59 AM

As for shanties: *Haul away for Rosie, e.g. with Round-the-Corner-Sally et al; & Little Sally Racket has every verse predicated on the name of a sailortown whore ···

Forebitters too - Maggie May &c &c &c

* {Have always btw found it of interest that this one of few shanties mentioned in Moby Dick — when the Puritan owner's wife comes aboard with improving tracts for the crew & the Quaker Captain Peleg attempts some psalmody, the 'hands at the windlass' prefer to 'roar forth a sort of chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will'[ch22]. A couple of forebitters/whaling·songs in ch 40 also - Spanish Ladies & Greenland Fisheries.}

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Genie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 04:44 AM

Red Wing

"Leonard Cohen's Day Job" (Austin Lounge Lizards)

The Ballad Of Anne Frank

Davy Crockett, Colonel Travis, Santa Ana, Jim Bowie, Captain Dickenson (songs about The Alamo)


The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
The Ballad Of Tonya Harding
The Ballad Of Harry Truman (of Spirit Lake)
The Ballad of Dennis Conner

Mother Jones

Pretty Boy Floyd
Clyde Barrow (and Bonnie Parker, whose last name isn't always given in the songs)

Guy Fawkes

Matt Casey (The Band Played On)

Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?

The Virgin Mary

Huckleberry Finn

"From the halls of Montezuma ... " (who I don't think had a last name)

"Goodbye, Norma Jean (... our Marilyn Monroe)" - by Elton John

"The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" (by Greg Brown)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,allen in Oz
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:49 PM

Dear Quokka

Quite right....

Ned Kelly
Dan Kelly
Steve Hart and
Joe Byrne

AD

Not to mention

Ben Hall

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: quokka
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 06:49 PM

Ingrid Bergman (words by Woody Guthrie, music Billy Bragg)
Woody Guthrie
Brendan Behan
Penny Evans' husband, Will
Bob and Charlie Ford
Mick Ryan
Edmund Ryan (Ned of the Hill)
Sally McLennane
Jock Stewart
and some from Oz -
Ben Hall
Ned Kelly
Dan Kelly
Kate Kelly
oh all right,the whole Kelly gang
John Boyle O'Reilly
Henry Lawson
Miss Nancy Blair (South Australia)
Jim Jones of Botany Bay
Flash Jack from Gundagai

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM

May we also include the esteemed Christine Lavin ditty:

Harrison Ford

"Harrison Harrison Harrison Ford

The only movie star I ever adored"

Quite a touching ballad   ;D

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 05:41 PM

"There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama."

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Mike B.
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 12:39 PM

Sam Stone
Little Jackie Paper
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Captain Kidd
Billy the Kid
Belle Starr
Sarah Palin (mentioned in at least two songs I heard at last year's Takoma Park Folk Festival)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:58 AM

Darcy Farrrow
Yancy Derringer
Wyatt Earp

Sam McCord, Billy McCord and George Pratt - North To Alaska

Virgil Cane (Caine) and Robert E Lee - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Sean O'Farrell - By The Rising Of The Moon

Gunga Din
Angelina Baker
Rosa Parks

Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, and Cynthia Wesley (Birminham Sunday)

Abe Lincoln
General Washington and Squire David (Yankee Doodle)
Jim Weaver - (The Ballad Of Weaverville)

Stenka Razin


Wee Sandy Waugh
Wee Tammy Tyrie
Franklin D Roosevelt
Jack Doolan (Donald, Dugan), the Wild Colonial Boy
William Glen
William Grismond
Earl Richard - (Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter)

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:29 AM

How can we forget Viki Duggan? LOL

Or the Limeliters' tribute to the "finest name in gar-bazhe": Max Goulis!

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:15 AM

In the interest of cultural completeness, I must mention Vicki Duggan.

For those young people here who never knew, or those who don't remember, I need to explain who the divine Vicki was.

I had seen the famous photo of her in her ball gown, and it was spectacular. But it was some years later that I heard the Limeliters' great song, Vicki, Turn Your Back on Me. As best I can remember the Limeliters' intro to the song, it went something like this:

"We have a song about a significant event. At (some newsworthy ball) a beautiful actress named Vicki Duggan was seen--and photographed!--in a gown that was back-less! It was cut sooooooo loooooow in back that it revealed . . . A NEW CLEAVAGE! We were disappointed that none of our younger composers had been inspired to celebrate the event in song, so we decided to do it ourselves!"

And then they sang the folk-rock-type song, which included this memorable snippet:

Vicki, turn your back on me
Come on, darlin' don't you see
There is something so revealing
That your gown is not concealing...
Oh! Miss Duggan, you're for me! Oh-oh! Oh-oh! Oh-oh!

Her face was gorgeous, but the "assets" revealed by the gown were outstanding!   Unfortunately, though she got lots of publicity from the photo, it doesn't seem to have done much for her acting career. I never heard of her again, except for the Limeliters' song.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 09:32 AM

Dicey Reilly

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 05:14 AM

Lester Maddox, in 'Rednecks' by Randy Newman.
Hilarious song.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: GUEST,Mike B.
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 06:13 PM

Michael Brown's "The John Birch Society" (performed by the Chad Mitchell Trio) mentions Westbrook Pegler, Rosemary Clooney, Pinky Lee, Red Skelton, Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Warren and Mrs. Nikita Krushchev.

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 05:00 PM

Jamie Foyers
John MacLean
Leezie Lindsay
Soutar Johnny
Roddy McCorly
Annie McKelvie
Ted McGrath
Willie Moore
Jean McPherson

Subject: RE: People named in songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 04:58 PM

I confess that I've only skimmed through the above, but in the process I didn't happen to see the following:

Pearl Bryan
John Henry
John Hardy
The Lost Jimmy Whalen
Old Mose Gilbert(and Dandy Bat, too)
Albert Johnson


Dave Oesterreich