Over on the Festival or Jestival thread, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin get a mention, and it reminded me that they are responsible for one of the few songs I know of to feature my first name – Stuart. A quick google suggests Green Day and the Dead Milkmen also have Stuart songs, but that’s about it. Mrs Wilson Wilson is a Laura, and has more choice. So, are there any songs featuring your name? Do we have any Roxannes or Lolas or Sharonas here?
Songs with your name in them
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And here’s a Laura:
We share the same name, Sir. So I will share your song, above, if I may.
Same first letter of the surname, too [assuming yours is Wilson]. Your middle name doesn’t begin with A, does it???
Not an A, no. You’ll just have to be content to share your intials with the 80s pop producers.
Ah.
I am aware of a number of artists who have “done” me:
Soft Cell
Marvin Gaye
Dion
Donovan
Of course!
“Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo…I say Algy old fellow.”
Your name is either Guinevere or Sex Dwarf.
Oh Dougie do be do,
I’m in love with you, Dougie do be do,
I’m in love with you, Dougie do be do,
I’m in love with you…
David Bowie – Phil Your Heart
Stereophonics – I Stopped To Phil My Car Up
The Feeling – Phil My Little World
Detroit Emeralds – Phil The Need In Me
Vera, Chuck and Dave ….
Boogie now, Dave…
Live and Let Dai?
Not many – off the top of my head:
“Stephen You’re Really Something” (Billy McKenzie’s response to Morrissey’s opinion that it was really nothing)
“Stephen’s Song” MES sings a song about Stephen. Possibly.
Wondering which name has the best/most songs. Maria?
And for those of us of the other spelling, although the only people who use the ‘n’ are my mum and my headmaster, and only when I’ve been a naughty boy.
It’s just you, the remastering wallah and yer man from the E Street Band with the hanky on his head.
Me too mate.
from minimal research, I think the name “Sally” is one of the most mentioned female names in song.
(But I’m probably wrong – I usually am)
That’s cos it rhymes with “anally”
Mmm.. my money’s still on Maria but minimal research also.
Probably Johnny for the male of the species?
That’s cos it rhymes with entry from tha rear
And Johnny sounds a bit like. ….. Rubber Johnny!
You know…
A bit ….. rude!
Really. How childish.
One of my more tedious tasks at work is to keep the electronics component database updated. Being of stone age vintage, the database isn’t big enough to hold the manufacturers’ names in full. So Texas Instruments, Inc. becomes TEXAS. Any guesses at what the code is for Analog Devices, Inc.?
Makes me smile every time.
What’s funny about ADI?
I’m so vain, I probably think this song is about me.
Anyone mentions me rowing a boat ashore, I swear I’ll do time for ’em.
As I have found, when people make jokes about my surname, the irritation is not so much in hearing it, but in the teller somehow thinking that their words are original; that somehow I’ve gone through life and never heard them before.
Toni Basil thinks I’m so fine.
She’s not wrong.
My parents weren’t big on nominative determinism. The mad fools.
https://youtu.be/rb5MelvXZBQ
I used to work with a simple but nice bloke called Stan who was really upset at work one night. It turned out that he had sent off to a company in America for some special part for his telescope and when it arrived they had added an extra ‘a’ into his name, so he was quite upset to receive a parcel addressed to Satan.
Could have been worse, he could have got a letter from that twerp Eminem.
This Joy Division song features a version of my first name and surname…
To be followed by threads on ‘What was your first pet’s name?’, and ‘What’s your pin number?’…
Anyway, here’s mine. At the relevant line, all my mates in the 90s indie discos we used to frequent would point at me:
Coincidentally… at this time I knew a guy who lived in Stanhope Road. Coming from shitey provincial England, hearing the name of a street I knew on a pop record was kinda epic. Simpler days thy knows.
Le sigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8zI5xjwKYw
As you were, Mr Bear!
That’s Ursus Saltus to you pal!
Ursus…
Ursus…
Ursus…
Ursus…
Gotta know how to pony…
Well my real surname is Merrick, so a certain Adam and the Ants song with a rapping bit made me very popular in the playground… for about a week…
Worry not… all that dosh you warned producing Songs From The Big Chair, who’s laughing now, eh??
Earned.
(Butcher’s Choice fingers)
Lucky old me, I’m in an XTC song
Me too…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDQ_WxPE4sM
That explains why you’re moving in a mysterious way. To be honest I had thought it was the Watusi.
Me too.
Bane of my life back in the day 🙁
Hey Jude. It was number one when I was born, but I think that was a coincidence.
There’s this:
And then there’s this:
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhguvwMuSxI
One of only 2 songs I have with me referenced personally. Considering this one is from an officially unreleased Brinsley solo record, am astonished to find it on the youtube. The other is by Ian King, for a couple of seconds the most hoped of Folk Roots with his 2010 acoustic trad arr reggae hybrid. Which isn’t on the youtube.
I was named after The Hollies’ ‘Sorry Suzanne’. I would love to think I was named after Leonard Cohen’s song, although that would be a hell of a lyric to live up to.
(Lou Reed’s ‘Suzanne’ is surely one of his more irritating songs.)
Do you like “awnges” then?
I don’t. I do like tea though.
@mousey Yeah, that takes things to a slightly more…. stalkery plane.
@Wilson_Wilson Noooo! Z all the way.
Did the same thing happen with King Midas? I’m no historian.
@RubyBlue and then there’s Randy Newman. He describes this song on a live album as “kind of like Leonard Cohen’s but on a slightly lower moral plane”…
Different spelling, but there’s this by Weezer too:
I’d like to think I inspired this, but then again, no
Do Christmas songs count ?
Second posting for XTC – Making Plans For Nigel, obviously.
Oh the joy when that came out….
I feel your pain.
https://youtu.be/11fFE9lR56U
Ohhhhh!
Your actual name is Dusty? Coool.
Close enough I guess
Or alternatively:
A quick look at Francophone songs with my name in the title did not make me curious to explore further. Sharing a moniker with Messrs Rieu & Peter is rather depressing, made slighly better by Mr 3,000.
I fare slightly better with films, including one which must be a documentary about me, surely? https://www.flickr.com/photos/wayfarer88/32416510391/in/album-72157675866170674/
Back in 1972, Paul Simon ‘did’ me…
“Couple in the next room bound to win a prize
They’ve been going at it all night long …”
Snow Patrol, from when they were good.
You could have knocked me down with a feather.
And your favourite band as well. What are the odds?
It’s a total coincidence. I was born in the 60s, so I was around well before what I now know to be a DM song.
Yes! (And no, my name isn’t actually Lincoln, before anyone asks, impishly).
XTC did me.
My name is not Sargent Rock.
How do, Pop!
Do you have a plan?
I said pretend you’ve got no money,
She just laughed and said,
“Oh you’re so funny.”
I said “Yeah?
Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you Sewer?
What? You’re Yannis Varoufakis’s girlfriend?
Wow, this is better than the Brian Cox incident!
Yanna Svar what?
If I can’t get my tongue round it I ain’t puttin’ my tongue in it..
You and your excuses!
I’m going home to mother.
For me
from my old nickname
or this.
This was unfortunately a hit when I grew up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHoHxuetUNE
(“Anna Anaconda” – Stefan Demert)
But despite being a massive Beatles fan growing up, I always hated this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwO9HwPsWM
I’ve grown more tolerant over the past couple of decades, and now I can almost appreciate it. 🙂
“Anna” is a cover, of course. Written and originally recorded by Arthur Alexander, whose “You Better Move On” was also successfully covered by the Stones. He never had any great lasting success himself as a singer, but Elvis Presley, Ike & Tina Turner and Robert Plant also covered songs of his.
The Beatles’ Anna is gorgeous – especially on the 2009 stereo version. It’s got that delicious early 60s pop eeriness, and Lennon’s vocal is wonderful – he goes from yearning to pleading to blank resignation.
I was a cold-hearted little girl…I thought the lyrics was way too mushy and embarrassing for my taste! Also, the style of that song isn’t very exciting, and the melody isn’t beautiful enough to make up for that. OK; so I’m still quite cold-hearted when it comes to that track…! But I agree that the vocal is ace.
Nuff said.
Ooberman – Beany Bean
Beany and Cecil
You never can tell.
the poor people of Paris
When the light go out all over Europe (divine comedy)
Hanging on the good times (little feat)
Acadian Driftwood (the band)
ETCAETERA…
I’m a Gavin – I got nuthin’
Roger Diltrey – Gavin It All Away
I found this. Mind you, it’s a bit not good.
I have the Wedding Present and the Undertones. I loathe the latter song with a passion.
Never heard this before. It’s quite the toe tapper.