Second thread now online ...

Ok, let's try please:

Please - Bing Crosby
Please - George Olsen
Please Be Kind - Red Norvo
Please Believe Me - Wingy Manone
Please Come Home for Christmas - Eagles
Please Come Home for Christmas - The Uniques
Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Please Don't Ask About Barbara - Bobby Vee
Please Don't Go - Ral Donner
Please Don't Go - K.W.S.
Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band
Please Don't Go Girl - New Kids on the Block
Please Don't Leave - Lauren Wood
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Gene Austin
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Bert Lown
Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard - Diane Ray
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
Please Help Me, I'm Falling - Hank Locklin
Please Love Me Forever - Cathy Jean & The Roommates
Please Love Me Forever - Bobby Vinton
Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John
Please Mr. Postman - The Carpenters
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Please Mr. Sun - Tommy Edwards
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Please Return Your Love to Me - The Temptations
Please Release Me - Englebert Humperdinck
Please Stay - The Drifters
Please Tell Me Why - The Dave Clark Five
Please Tell Me Why - Jackie Wilson
Please, Mr. Sun - Perry Como

Coward of the county - Kenny Rogers
Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek

Is There Something I Should Know Duran Duran
Please please tell me now

Some more Beat Les :

"Help" (Won't you please, please help me)
"Love Me Do" (So pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease.... love me do)

From Thanks That Was Fun, Barenaked Ladies:

Now I'm the one on my knees
Beggin' you please let me stay

Strong Enough, Sheryl Crow:

And if you lie to me
I promise I'll believe
Just please don't
Leave me...

Venus in Furs by Velvet Underground:

Severin, your servant comes in bells,
please don't forsake him
strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

"Devil or Angel" by Bobby Vee
Devil or angel please say you'll be mi-i-ine

"Mr. Custer" by Larry Verne
Please Mr. Custer, I don't wanna go

"In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry
We love everybody but we do as we please

"Unchain My Heart" by Ray Charles
Unchain my heart oh! Please me set me free

"Please Mr. Postman - The Carpenters
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes" - MarkN
aren't these the same song? It was also covered by the Beatles.

"Please Come Home for Christmas - Eagles
Please Come Home for Christmas - The Uniques" - MarkN
Aren't these also the same song?

"Please to meet you/Hope you guess my name"
- "Sympathy for the Devil" - The Rolling Stones
"Please, please/Hold my hand" - "Hold My Hand" - The Rutles
"Please don't be long" - "Blue Jay Way" - The Beatles
"'Yes, please sir'/'Thank you ma'am'" - "Cups and Cakes" - Spinal Tap
"So please, Interstellar Police Man" - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" - Klaatu/The Carpenters
"I'm down on my knees/Begging you please" - "Ceclia" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Here I am/On my knees/Begging if you please" -"Mr. Moonlight" - the Beatles
"If you find a hole/Please let me know, whoa" - "Screams" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Don't you give up/My young, young friend/Here's a story I'm sure will please" - "Redeemed" - Blue Oyster Cult (The second time I've referenced this song.)
"Snow is cold/But so is rain/Please save me" - "Death Valley Nights" - Blue Oyster Cult (Also the second time I've used the song. More importantly, it's the same line.)
"She said, 'Like me, I see you're walking alone/Won't you please stay?'" - "I Love the Nights" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Oh please, don't let these shakes go on" - "Veterans of the Psychic" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Please don't wear red tonight" - "Yes, It Is" - the Beatles

(All selections posted without using allmusicguide.com.)

"Fire and Rain - James Taylor (Benn missed this one?)" - MarkN

Uh, that's probably because I thought someone else had already mentioned it.

"Bus Stop - The Hollies
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine (Benn missed this one, too?)" - MarkN

I was reasonably sure it had the word "rain" in it. I just couldn't remember in what context and I was too lazy to check on it.

By the way, Mark, the reason I was surprised at you not mentioning "Laughter In the Rain" is because you're aficionado (sp?) of music from the '50s and early '60s, and Neil Sedaka was one of the biggies of those days.

Just fer the heck of it, a few more rain songs:

"Fool In the Rain" - Led Zeppelin
"Rhythm of the Falling Rain" - The Cascades
"Kuiama" - ELO ("No more silver rain will hit the ground")
"Shangri-La" - ELO ("Raindrops falling on everyone" "She seemed to drift out on the rain.")
"The Year of the Cat" - Al Stewart ("She comes out of the sun/In a sundress running/Like the watercolors in the rain.") (Another song I'm personally fond of. But then again, I was born in the Year of the Cat [In some cultures, it's the Year of the Rabbit/Hare].)
"Werewolves of London" - Warren Zevon ("He was walking through the streets of Soho in the rain")
"The Things We Do For Love" - 10cc ("Like walking through the rain and the snow")
"Runaway" - Del Shannon ("I'm a-walking in the rain.")
"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" - Waylon Jennings ("Singing Hank Williams' Pain Song/Jerry Jeff's Train Song/'Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain'")

Going back to "superstitious", a friend reminded me of Steve Miller's "Rock N Me": "Now I ain't superstitious/No I don't get suspicious").

I forgot to list a Blue Oyster Cult "work" song. (There are none for "superstitious". "Superstition", however...} Here's the song - "Live For Me" ("I was working late when I felt it happen.")

Oh yeah, "Let It Rain" - Eric Clapton.

And another "please" song: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon ("And you please explain about the 50 Ways?")

"Fire and Rain - James Taylor (Benn missed this one?)" - MarkN

Uh, that's probably because I thought someone else had already mentioned it.
Ok, but how was I to know that?

"Bus Stop - The Hollies
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine (Benn missed this one, too?)" - MarkN

I was reasonably sure it had the word "rain" in it. I just couldn't remember in what context and I was too lazy to check on it.
Hey! I'm the lazy one here, by golly! Da noive of some people!

By the way, Mark, the reason I was surprised at you not mentioning "Laughter In the Rain" is because you're afficionado [correction mine, but only by one letter] of music from the '50s and early '60s, and Neil Sedaka was one of the biggies of those days.
I know he was, and had a few hits in the 70's, too, which "Laughter In the Rain" is from. But I hadn't thought of it, and should've cuz I've got a greatest hits CD of his. However, I also should've thought of "Rhythm of the Falling Rain", "Runaway" and, liking country music, "Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain". Another Sedaka song with please in it is "The Diary": Please don't leave me blue, make all my dreams come true.

And just so you know, all of my selections were also posted without using allmusicguide.com.

"Ok, but how was I to know that?" - Mark2

I thought you've said you knew everything. As a matter of fact, I know you have.

"And just so you know, all of my selections were also posted without using allmusicguide.com." - Mark2

Okay. So what resource are you using?

Oh yeah! "Please, Please, Please" by the Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown! (Just heard "Livin' In America" by James and that reminded me of that song.)

Two more "please" songs I've thought of:

"Black Velvet" ("If you please") - Alannah Myles
"Garden Party" - Rick(y) Nelson ("You see you can't please everyone/So you've got to please yourself.")

RE: RAIN...You forgot...
"Here Comes the Rain Again" by the Eurthymics.
"Rain, Rain Go Away" By Bobby Vinton.

Don't know if these have been brought up...

"Rainy Days & Mondays," the Carpenters (don't listen to 'em...was used in some movie on VH1)

That Milli Vanilli song that just slipped my mind (does that count? The artist, not b/c I can't remember the title).

RE: RAIN...(Forgot one)

"It Might As Well Rain Until September" Carole King.

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head.

Okay. So what resource are you using?
Well, ok, I guess I'll come clean. It's Lyrics World. That's why I'll post some songs and acts I'm not familiar with. Of course, I also post some things I am familiar with. It also helps to think of common words used in other songs than the ones you're looking for originally.

That Milli Vanilli song that just slipped my mind (does that count? The artist, not b/c I can't remember the title [] ).

Yeah, somebody actually did go to the trouble of writing and performing it, so...It's Blame it on the Rain.

But I would like it on record that I only remember that because the Barenaked Ladies riff off it in their Blame it on Me (Milli Vanilli told you to blame it on the rain/but if you blame it on the rain tell me what can be gained...)

Hmmmmm...at the risk of picking another really easy one...what does everyone think of Blame, next?

Margaritaville – “Some people say that there’s a woman to blame” – Jimmy Buffett
Tie a Yellow Ribbon – “Put the blame on me” – Tony Orlando & Dawn
Blame it on the Sun – Stevie Wonder

Nobody knows what it's like
to feel these feelings...
Like I do...
And I blame you

-- Behind Blue Eyes, The Who

No One Is To Blame -Howard Jones

"Blame It On The Boogie" - Jackson 5

"Blame It On the Bossa Nova" by Eydie Gorme
"The Plumbing Song" by Weird Al Yankovic
Blame it on the drain

"On Bended Knee," Boyz II Men
Stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me...

Beautifully sung, great song... I used to be obsessed with them. Anyone else remember them?

I know that you can't love me
When there's no one left to blame

--"November Rain," Guns N'Roses

I love this song. I remember it's part of a trilogy--what are the other two? Can someone help me?)

Quick question: Has anyone ever heard the song:
"Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodnight" ?

Howzabout "mist"?

Off through the new day's mist I run
off from the new day's mist I have come
I hunt
therefore I am
harvest the land
taking of the fallen lamb
Metallica, "Of Wolf & Man" (I love this song!)

"Misty Mountain Hop," Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath - Children of the Sea: In the misty morning, on the edge of time

Marillion - Bitter Suite: The mist crawls from the canal\Like some primordial phantom of romance

Marillion - Easter: A ghost of a mist was on the field\The grey and the green together

Chris de Burgh - Don't Pay the FerryMan:
In the rolling mist, then he gets on board, now there'll be no turning back

Van Morrison, Brown-Eyed Girl:
In the misty mornin' fog...

Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree;
And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud,
I can' t understand
I get misty, just holding your hand.

-- Ella Fitzgerald, "Misty"

Peter, Paul & Mary, Puff, the Magic Dragon:

...And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honalee...

In The Misty Moonlight - Jerry Wallace

Riding on in the mist of morning, no one dared to stand in his way . . . - Rainbow Demon, Uriah Heep

"Mist"

"In the mist of time/I can see it now" - "Under a Raging Moon" - Roger Daltrey
"The misty gloom seemed to soak up my sorrows" - "I Love the Night" - Blue Oyster Cult
"See there a scarecrow who waves through the mist" - "Out of the Darkness" - Blue Oyster Cult
"A misty morning rider she came wandering through the hills" - "Mama" - Electric Light Orchestra

"Blame"

"You blame for my silence" - "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" - Blue Oyster Cult
"It's a game, it's a game/No let's call it a shame/For there's no one to blame for to pay" - "Goin' Through the Motions" - Blue Oyster Cult
"And the roar of the engine/Is calling me to blame" - "Here Comes That Feeling Again" - Blue Oyster Cult
"You can blame it all on me" - "Baby Come Back" - Player

I'll list more as I think of them.

Oh. And I have a little more than 20 more "please" songs, but I'll list those later. You have been warned.

I'm also thinking about what word I could suggest. You have been warned yet again.

I await your "word" with bated breath, Senior Benn. (knowing you'll choose a word that would tax our collective consiousness)

Here's a nice easy word while Benn concocts his word:

"red"

UB40 - "Red Red Wine"
Chris deBurgh - "Lady in Red"
Prince - "Little Red Corvette"
Basement Jaxx - "Red Alert"
Nena - "99 Red Balloons"

Billy Joel, Scenes From an Italian Restaurant:

Bottle of red, bottle of white;
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight...

Barenaked Ladies, Grade 9

I've got a red leather tie and a pair of rugger pants
I put them on and I went to the high school dance

(I should explain here that the narrator's high school years would theoretically be the early '80's. )

Well, I was gonna start one about colors but Sven beat me to it (great minds think alike!© I'm proud of you, boy, proud of ya!), but here are just a few more:

RED
When the Red, Red Robin Goes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
Red Red Wine was originally by Neil Diamond
Red Roses For a Blue Lady (also goes under the BLUE category below)
Red Light Special - TLC
Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle
Red Sails In the Sunset - The Platters (and others)
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen
Red Skies - The Fixx
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

BLUE
Blue Moon - The Marcels
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe
Blue Angel - Roy Orbison
Blue Autumn - Bobby Goldsboro
Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt
Blue Blue Day - Don Gibson
Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx
Blue Eyes - Elton John
Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain - Willie Nelson
Blue Hawaii - Bing Crosby, Andy Williams
Blue Jean - David Bowie
Blue Monday - Fats Domino
Blue Monday - New Order (not the same as Fats')
Blue Money - Van Morrison
Blue Morning, Blue Day - Foreigner
Blue On Blue - Bobby Vinton
Blue Satin Pillow - Bread
Blue Sky - A-Ha
Blue Skies - Willie Nelson
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Blue Winter - Connie Francis
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Bluebird - Helen Reddy
Bluer Than Blue - Michael Johnson
Blues - The Ink Spots
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Mule Skinner Blues - The Fendermen
Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond

YELLOW
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini- Brian Hyland
Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Yellow Balloon - The Yellow Balloon
Yellow River - Christie
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Johnny Desmond, Stan Freberg, Mitch Miller

PURPLE
Purple People Eater
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution

BROWN (no formatting for this color)
Brown-eyed Handsome Man - Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly
Brown-eyed Girl - Van Morrison

GREEN
Green, Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Green Grass - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Green Light - The American Breed
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
Green, Green - The New Christy Minstrels
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Greenback Dollar - The Kingston Trio
Greenfields - The Brothers Four

WHITE
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover - Kay Kyser, Glenn Miller, Kate Smith
White Horse - Laid Back
The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band
White Lies, Blue Eyes - Bullet
White on White - Danny Williams
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
White Room - Cream
A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
White Wedding - Billy Idol
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

BLACK
Black and Blue - Van Halen
Black and White - Three Dog Night
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers
Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots - Vaughn Monroe
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Black Friday - Steely Dan
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Black Or White - Michael Jackson
Black Pearl - Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd.
Black Slacks - Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones
Black Superman - Muhammad Ali - Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band (this reminds me of the cover of the comic book "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali)
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
Black On Black - Heart
Back In Black - AC/DC

[gulp]

What about anything by Deep Purple? Al Greene? Barry White? Cilla Black? The Moody Blues? The White Stripes? The Silver Beatles? [Hey, I jest everyone...]

As for "blue", let us never mention "Blue (Da ba dee)" by Eiffel 65, ever again.

"Deep Purple" is actually a song, so it qualifies. Other band names - Blue Oyster Cult, Blues Traveller, Blues Project, Blues Magoos, Blue Cheer, and just plain Blue. There's also King Crimson, Greenday, et al.

SONGS:
Red Balloon The Small Faces
Green Is The Color Pink Floyd
My White Bicycle Tomorrow
Voices Green And Purple The Bees
The Red And The Black Blue Oyster Cult
Blue World The Moody Blues
Shades Of Gray The Monkees

Does anyone know who WROTE "Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodnight"? I do. Here's a hint: It was written sometime between 1930-1940 in Chicago, Ill.

Mist

These mist-covered mountains...
are a home now for me..
but my home is the low-lands..
and always will be...
--Dire Straits, "Brothers in Arms"
(Does anyone else love this song? Anyone else think it's absolutely beautiful?)

Surprised nobody else suggested:
Misty Blue - Monica
Turns my whole world misty blue

and yes, CC, I love Brothers in Arms.

As for "blue", let us never mention "Blue (Da ba dee)" by Eiffel 65, ever again.

Ooh, that song pissed me off. God d*mn, was it ever annoying.

Belongs in the "Overrated songs" board.

Well, Sophie, how about "Midnight Blue" by Melissa Manchester? Lou Gramm also has a song by that name but with totally different lyrics.

Two other "brown" songs I've thought of are "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter", by Herman's Hermits, and (surprised this hasn't been posted yet) "Brown Sugar" by who else, the Rolling Stones. D'Angelo also has a song by that name but again different lyrics.

Now, how about "name" songs, starting with probably the most common name used in a song...

John/Johnny
Johnny Angel and Johnny Loves Me Shelley Fabares
When Johnny Comes Marching Home lyrics by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (also featured on the How The West Was Won soundtrack)
Abraham, Martin and John Dion
Big John Jimmy Dean (yes, the sausage guy)
Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh Orrin Tucker
Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen
John Henry (There are so many different versions of songs by this name. The only two I know of right offhand are by Johnny Cash and Tennessee Ernie Ford.)
Jack and Diane (Jack is a nickname for John) John Cougar Mellancamp

Sally
Long Tall Sally Little Richard
Mustang Sally Wilson Pickett
Sally G Paul McCartney & Wings
Sally, Go 'Round the Roses The Jaynetts

Ann/Annie
Dreamboat Annie Heart
Annie's Song John Denver
Ann David Gates (of Bread)
Anna (Go To Him) The Beatles
Annabella Rupert Holmes

Uncommon or One-Time-Only Names
Cecelia Simon and Garfunkel
Mony, Mony Tommy James & The Shondells, Billy Idol
Desiree Neil Diamond

Johnny Reb Johnny Horton
(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet The Reflections

Found a combo "Sally" and "Anne" song by The Merry Macs:
(I Got Spurs) Jingle Jangle Jingle
Oh Maryanne, oh Maryanne,
Tho' we done some moonlight walkin
This is why I up and ran.

Oh Sally Jane, oh Sally Jane
Tho' I'd love to stay forever
This is why I can't remain.

Uncommon names: Running Bear, ?

Enid, Barenaked Ladies

Jane, ditto

Oh, also Please Mr. Custer, Larry Verne

Alley-Oop, ? (name of a cartoon character)

Charlie Brown, The Coasters

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl), Looking Glass

Joy to the World, Three Dog Night (Jeremiah was a bullfrog/He was a good friend of mine...)

and

Kathy's Song Simon & Garfunkel

Roxanne - The Police
Goodbye Norma Jean - Elton John
Mandy - Barry Manilow
Wake up, Little Susie - Everly Brothers
Runaround Sue - Dion

(For years, my daughters thought that Runaround Sue was about Mrs. ScottN )

Goodbye Norma Jean - Elton John

Also known as "Candle In The Wind".

Running Bear! Good call, Kerriem! *high fives her* (But you left out Little White Dove. Silly girl.)

Charlie Brown! Another good call, K! Now how the heck did I miss that one? Oh, yeah, it was late, I was tired.

More "Uncommon" names:
Sunny Bobby Hebb
Honey Bobby Goldsboro

More "Jean" songs:
Jean Oliver
The Jean Genie David Bowie
Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie Eddie Cochrane (no relation to Ephram, as far as I know. )
I Dream of Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Ah! Another "brown" song, as well!) poem by Stephen Foster

More "Susie/Sue/Susan" songs:
Oh Susanna also by Stephen Foster, his most famous piece.
Susie Q Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dale Hawkins
Where's the Playground Susie Glen Campbell
Susan The Buckinghams
Susie Darlin' - Robin Luke, Tommy Roe

Another "blue" song:
Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran

This is fun...

For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her, Simon and Garfunkel (apparently meant to refer to Emily Dickinson)

Sweet Baby James, James Taylor

Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) Ricky Nelson

Ode to Bille Joe, ?

Lucille, Reuben James and Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town Kenny Rogers

You Can Call Me Al, Paul Simon (I could call you Betty/and Betty when you called me you could call me Al...)

Rene and Georgette Maigritte, With Their Dog, After the War, Paul Simon (I believe it was originally the title of a painting)


And how about a category for real-life name dropping:

One Night in Bangkok, Murray Head (a show with everything/but Yul Brynner)


Dream of a Child, Burton Cummings (Selling golden earrings/To Mrs. Mickey Mantle...I dreamed that Elvis Presley/was standing on my corner/Kissing Brenda Lee...)

Don Quixote, Gordon Lightfoot

Well, heck, kerriem, I'll see your Yul Brynner, and raise you a Joe DiMaggio!

Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkle
"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,
woo-woo-woo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away.
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey."

That phrase still brings tears to my eyes.

Yeah...good catch, Scott.

Oh, and thanks Mark. How I missed Little White Dove I'll never know...

...oh, and hey, while we're on the subject of what Dave Barry calls 'you-don't-love-me-so-it's-time-to-jump-into-the-bathtub-with
an-electrical-appliance' songs:

Patches, Dickie Lee and

Tell Laura I Love Her, Ray Peterson.
As Barry puts it, "This is about a guy who enters a stock car race to buy Laura a wedding ring, and of course he crashes in a seriously fatal manner, but he still manages to sing 'Tell Laura I LO-OVE her! Tell Laura I NE-EED her!' approximately 153 times before finally shutting up. (I suspect the ambulance crew turned off the oxygen.)"

Another John song
"John Hardy" I've got it by Burl Ives but, I think it was originally by The Carter Family.

Slightly off topic trivia question: What was the other 60's hit song with the word "Mony" in the lyrics?

Glad you like it, Kerri. And good call on your other choices, too! I know Patches and Tell Laura I Love Her only too well, being a fan of that era's music, but not necessarily all of that era's music. There were a few teen tragedy songs like those two, and Pat Boone's Moody River and of course Last Kiss, by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers (the link is to the song's origin). It was later redone by Pearl Jam, about 3 or 4 years ago.

And how could we all forget:
Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen? The Sandpipers also did a song with that name but I'm not sure if it's the same one. Then there's Brother Louie by Stories, and Neil Diamond's Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show.

More "Uncommon" songs, this time from ABBA, are Cassandra; Elaine; Chiquitita; Fernando; Andante, Andante; and Nina, Pretty Ballerina. And another one from Tommy Roe, Sheila.

Another combo song, of "brown" and "uncommon" names: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce.

More "uncommon" names:
Cindy's Birthday by Johnny Crawford
Oh Julie by The Crescendos

Uncommon: I don't know who did the original, but The Damned did a rather camp cover version of "Eloise".

Real-life name-dropping: how come no-one's mentioned Andy Kaufman referenced in REM's "Man on the Moon"?

And while I'm here, I'll see those Yul Brynner and Joe DiMaggio and throw in a "Free Nelson Mandela" (The Specials)!

"Cecilia" - Simon and Garfunkel

I seemed to have stumped the panel.

"Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodnight" was written by Lawrence W. Lang Sr....(my grandfather).
It is on a 45 RPM record along with "My Valentine (Arrived Just In Time)" which he also wrote.

Unfortunately, neither song made the charts.

Lawrence W. Lang Sr. (1910-1971)

Uncommon: I don't know who did the original, but The Damned did a rather camp cover version of "Eloise".
Are you thinking of The Hollies' Dear Eloise?

MarkN - that might be it, yes.

As for lots and lots of names (too many to list ), how about:

Beautiful South - "Song For Whoever"
Peter Gabriel - "Games Without Frontiers"

OK, here's one of them then:

"Games Without Frontiers"
Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it

and a little later...

Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue
They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu

AA! That song also qualifies for "red" and blue"!

more names:
Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground (again)
Ermine furs adorn imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there

Kayleigh - Marillion

and a colour:
Green Eyed Angel - Pendragon

And that song also qualifies for old word "play"!!! I really ought to pay more attention.

Another blue song:
Lavender-Blue, Sammy Turner

How about Jenny/Jennifer songs?
867-5309/Jenny Tommy Tutone
Jennie Lee, Jan & Arnie (Jan & Dean)
Jennifer Eccles, The Hollies
Jennifer Juniper, Donovan
Jennifer Tomkins, Street People
Jenny Take a Ride! Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Jenny, Jenny, Little Richard
Poor Jenny, The Everly Brothers

Mary/Maria/Marie Songs
Take A Message To Mary, The Everly Brothers
Along Comes Mary, The Association
Maria, Johnny Mathis (and more than a few others, I'm sure)
Take A Letter, Maria, R.B. Greaves
They Call The Wind Mariah, from the film Paint Your Wagon. (Gosh, who do you think was named after this song?)
Maria Elena, Jimmy Dorsey (this is also the name of Buddy Holly's widow, but the song's not about her)
Marianne, Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders, The Hilltoppers
Marie, Tommy Dorsey

Another Ann/Annie Song
Ruby Ann, Marty Robbins

More Uncommon Names
Help Me Rhonda, The Beach Boys
Claudette, The Everly Brothers

Trivia question: Name two songs with the most names mentioned in a song (extra points if you think of any others than the two I'm aware of).

This probably isn't a winner, but this classic tune has four names ...

The Wanderer - Dion

Oh, well there's Flo on my left arm and there's Mary on my right
And Jenny is the girl that I'll be with tonight
And when she asks me which one I love the best
I'll tear open my shirt and show her Rosie on my chest
'Cause I'm the wanderer - yeah, the wanderer
I roam around around around around

Sven, I already listed "Games Without Frontiers" as a play song.

Tarim! I've got some catching up to do!

First of all, I've just remembered another "table" word - "Eye In the Sky" - The Alan Parsons Project. ("Don't try turning tables instead.")

For "mist" there are "Cherokee Mist" by Jimi Hendrix. (See C.C. I told you Jimi had a song with "mist" in it!) And there's Sanford/Townsend Band's "Smoke of a Distant Fire" ("Girl your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire.")

"Blame": "Bang and Blame" - R.E.M.
"Nights On Broadway" - The Bee Gees ("Blaming it all on the nights on Broadway")
"Blame It On Love" - Rachel Sweet
"Sympathy For the Devil" - The Rolling Stones ("Tell you one time/You're to blame.")
"Bra Sized 45" - Ivor Biggun ("I'll blame it on the boogie/What do think about that?")
"Don't Blame Me" - Miles Davis

"Rain" (again):
"Rainy Day, Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Acid Rain" - Timbuk3
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" - Paul and Linda McCartney ("But there's no one left at home/And I believe it's gonna rain.")
"Rhinestone Cowboy" - Glen Campbell ("And nice guys get washed away/Like the snow and the rain.")
"She's So Cold" - The Rolling Stones ("When the rain comes/Nobody will know.")
"Hitching a Ride" - Vanity Fair ("I'm nearly drowning in the pouring rain.")
"Laredo Tornado" - Electric Light Orchestra ("And I never saw a rainy day" and "City sky, pouring down with rain.")
"Even In the Quietest Moments" - Supertramp ("Well, I feel the rain.")

Now for that massive "please" list I threatened y'all with last week.

"Please baby, baby. Please." - "Wild Thing" - Tone Loc
"Please baby, baby" - "Isle Thing" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
"I've been nice/I've been good/Please don't do this to me." - "The Brady Bunch" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
"Hold my breath as I pray for death/Oh God please wake me." - "One" - Metallica
"Before him beg/To serve or please" - "Christian Woman" - Type O Negative
"Dribble off those Bobby Brooks/Let me do what I please" - "Jack & Diane" - John Cougar
"And I can take or leave it if I please" - "Theme from M*A*S*H
"But please don't take it so badly" - "Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Please lock me away" - "World Without Love" -Peter and Gordon
"We're so pleased to be with you" - "Mr. Blue Sky" - ELO
"Please forgive me" - "Low Man's Lyric" - Metallica
"What I'd like Dad is to borrow the car keys/See you later/Can I have them please?" - "Cats In the Cradle" - Harry Chapin
"I just wanna please 'em now" "Doctor please believe me." - "Illusions In G Major" - ELO
"Mr. Kingdom help me please" - "Mr. Kingdom" - ELO (One of my favorite ELO songs, too.)
"It's pretty pleasing" - "Muskrat Love" - America/The Captain and Toenail, er Tennille.
"Say won't you please?/Stay won't you please?" - "Even In the Quietest Moments" - Supertramp
"Please don't ask me how I've been getting on" - "Pleasure and Pain" - the DiVinyls
"In between/What I find is pleasing" - "Heart of Glass" - Blondie
"Please Christmas don't be late" - "The Christmas Song" - The Chipmunks
"I'm your tall cool one/And I'm built to please" - "Tall, Cool One" - Robert Plant
"Somebody please, please help me" - "Going Down On Love" - John Lennon

Whew! There! I'm done!

Mark, "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" probably isn't one of the songs you're refering to, but it defintely contains a lot of names in it.

Then there's The Nails' "88 Lines About 44 Women".
That about says it all.

The colors and names listings y'all've got going is too vague and far reaching. I think I'll bow on it. If only because I'd probably wind up taking up the next two boards listing such songs.

Oh, hey, for Names I don't believe we all missed Mambo No.5!

Oh yeah, kerriem, well done - I guess that one slipped past the net yet again. Maybe it was the summer of '99 (it was a very good year) but I kept getting nightmares of that song being sung by Jar Jar Binks of all people...

OK Benn, time for a new word: has anyone actually done the word "Word" yet? If not...

"Word of Mouth" - Mike and the Mechanics
"Words" - Bee Gees (covered by Boyzone)
"Four Letter Word" - Kim Wilde
"More Than Words" - Extreme

Mark, "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" probably isn't one of the songs you're refering to, but it defintely contains a lot of names in it.
Actually, that is one of them, Benn! Good call! The other one is Neil Diamond's Done Too Soon.

Then there's The Nails' "88 Lines About 44 Women". That about says it all.
I've never heard of this one (at least that I can recall) but if it's got that many names in it then extra points to you.

More "word" songs:
Words, Missing Persons
Word Up, Cameo
Words Get in the Way, Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Words of Love The Diamonds
Words of Love, The Mamas & The Papas (different than above)

As for "name" songs, seems like every other Blue Oyster Cult song refers to Susie.

"Words" by The Monkees, a different song than the BeeGees hit.

No More Words Tonight, Luba


From I'll Have to Say 'I Love You' in a Song, Jim Croce:

Every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong...


Honesty, Billy Joel:

Honesty
Is such a lonely word...


Baby Can I Hold You Tonight, Tracy Chapman:

And baby if I told you
The right words
Ooh, at the right time -
You'd be mine...


The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel:

And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming...


Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles:

Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No-one comes near...

kerriem: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight...

... was another song covered by Boyzone!

(Apparently they heard the Tracy Chapman original over and over again while on tour and liked it so much they decided to do a cover of it. Ker-chingggg! Of course, you all didn't hear it from me...)

And speaking of "please", most of us forgot that little-known Elvis Presley track that *somehow* got to #1 in the UK hit-parade this week:

A little less conversation
A little more action please,

Boyzone?! <shivers at the thought of that wonderfully bitterly ironic song covered by a boy band with a dumb name...>

Sheesh...that has to be the worst cover decision since they picked Gordon Lightfoot's If You could Read My Mind for the 54 soundtrack. :P

A "rain" song came to mind while I was at work:
Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man), by The Serendipity Singers

kerriem: it could be worse... Westlife (once managed by Boyzone's Ronan Keating... why do I know so much about Boyzone of all people???!) did a cover of "Seasons in the Sun" which reached Xmas #1 as a B-side.

But anyway...

I never thought anyone else would cover Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun"! What in the world could've possessed them to do that?

Pharmaceuticals. Heavy, heavy doses of (quite possibly illegal) pharmaceuticals.

Yeah, that explains it just about as good as anything could, huh?

Under 'word' I nominate Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club. I counted the word 'words' 64 times. Is this a record? (No pun intended )

Derf, this is up to 107k. Man this one got big fast. Less than half the time of Pt. 1!

Another "brown" song, and a rather obvious one at that:
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce

Another Rene song:
Just Walk Away, Renee, The Left Banke

*shrugs* Well, Sven, m'boy, you've got young kids. Or are you becoming a fan? Hmm? Succumbing to the Dark Side, are we?

Blue Oyster Cult songs that mention "Susie/Susan":

"Before the Kiss: A Redcap" -

"So grab your rose and ringside seat.
We're back home at Conry's bar.
The blonde girl with her tattoos.
Reds and wines, cokes of course.
Oh my Susie, my Susie.
Why did we ever start?
It's morning now
You'd never know
The gin, the gin
Glows in the dark.
Glows in the dark."

"Dominance and Submission"

"Susan and her brother,
Charles the grinning boy.
Put me in the backseat
And took me for a ride.
The radio was on.
Can't you dig 'The Locomotion'?
Kingdoms of the radio
45 r.p.m.s
That's too much revolution man."

"Astronomy"

"Come Susie dear
Let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach.
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where winds come from.
But it's never said at all
On the maps that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar.

"The clock strikes twelve
And moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place.
Miss Carrie Nurse and Susie dear
Would find themselves at the Four Winds bar."

"The Marshall Plan (Here's Johnny!)"

"In a dark horse town in the middle of the west
Where Friday takes so long to arrive
Johnny wakes dreaming turns on the radio.
Then he jumps up plays his guitar in the mirror.
Starts his day with a rock and roll pose.
Tonight's the night the Susie and he are going to a rock and roll show."

According to the B.O.C. faq web page (http://members.aol.com/bocfaqman/), "Susie" was originally one of Sandy Pearlman's (Blue Oyster Cult's original manager) girlfriends. The name would later symbolize "some mean b*tch".

n.p. - Bigger, Better, Faster, More! - 4 Non Blondes

Lessee, "word"....

"Word of Mouth" - The Kinks
"More Than Words" - Europe
"Say the Word" - The Beatles
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth ("Word up!")
"My Word is Bond" - LL Cool J
"Emotions" - Yvonne Elliman/The Bee Gees ("In the words of the broken-hearted.")
"Gettin' Better" - The Beatles ("You gave me a word/I finally heard.")
"Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash ("Words for you are lies.")
"Fireworks" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Only sound she heard was/Sound, lovely words")
"The Quiet One" - The Who ("When words fails me you won't nail me." "It only takes two words to blow you away.")

I'll think of some more later. I'm sure.

n.p. - St. Cecilia, The Elektra Recordings - The Stalk-Forrest Group

Like this one: "Don't say a word my virgin child" from Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night".

n.p. - Welcome to Paradise - Nocturne (a local Goth-metal band. Their current drummer is Sara Lee Lucas from Marylin Manson.)

"Grease" ("Grease is the word...")

Frankie Valli. Good one Scott.

Okay. Going with the board title..

How 'bout "Song"?

Would post more than a few, but it's almost 3:30. I need sleeep. Sleeeep....


btw, as for my name: any comments, and I'll can you.)

At least you won't cane me.

"Same Old Song and Dance" - Aerosmith
"Same Old Song" - The Who
"The Song Is Over" - The Who
"Heard It In a Love Song" - The Marshall Tucker Band
"Good Morning, Starshine" - Oliver ("Song song song sing/Sing sing sing song")
"Debbie Denise" - Blue Oyster Cult ("She kept the light open all night long/For me to come and sing her my song.")
"Silly Love Songs" - Wings
"Redeemed" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Up on the north 40/I'm sure it was Christmas day/When Sir Rastus Bear/Taught children how to play/Games of life and love/And songs, oh those songs/Oh those deep but true/Hill country songs.")
"Randy Scouse Git" ("Alternate Title") - The Monkees ("It's not easy humming songs to a girl in yellow dress.")
"Doo Bop Song" - Miles Davis

At C.C.'s request, I'll stop for now.

n.p - Live At Montreaux 1982 & 1985 - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Well, one more. But only because no one else will list it.

"Like a Sunday In Salem (The Amos 'N' Andy Song)" - Gene Cotton ("For three thousand miles and for everyone's good/A man stood singing his song.")

And yet one more "word" song:

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana ("Oh no/I know/A dirty word/Hello, hello, hello/How low?")

Hm. For that matter there's "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana". "How do the words to it go?/I wish you'd tell me/'Cos I don't know/Don't know/Don't know/Don't know/Oh no." "What are the words?/Oh nevermind."

Okay, so that's two.

"Word":

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby ("Word to your mother.") [I'm sorry, I really am...]

"Song":

Blur - "Song 2"
Beautiful South - "Song For Whoever"
Elton John - "Song For Guy"
Elton John - "Your Song"
Scarlet - "Independent Love Song"
Stone Roses - "(Song for my) Sugar Spun Sister"
Neil Diamond - "Song Sung Blue"

btw, CC - I haven't succumbed to the Dark Side just yet (it's just what happens if you're exposed to the state of the Hit Parade in this day and age).

John Denver, Annie's Song

Anne Murray, Danny's Song; Love Song

Barbra Streisand, Songbird

Three Dog Night, An Old Fashioned Love Song

Boyz II Men, A Song For Mama

Al Stewart, Song On the Radio

Jim Croce, I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song

How about a trilogy of references from Marillion, to a song that never was:

Script for a Jester's tear:
I never did write that love song
The words just never seemed to flow

Kayleigh:
Kayleigh, I'm still trying to write that love song
Kayleigh, it's more important to me, now you're gone

and finally Lavender:
Then I heard children singing,
They were running through the rainbows,
They were singing a song for you,
Well it seemed to be a song for you,
The one I wanted to write for you...for you... you

Okay, a word I thought of while in the shower (stop droolin', ya neanderthals):

Time

"The Times They are A'Changin'," Bob Dylan
"Wannabe," Spice Girls (Now don't go wastin'/my precious time)
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," Roberta Flack
"Time in a Bottle," Jim Croce
"Turn, Turn, Turn," The Byrds (A time to cry/a time to laugh)

More to come, when I'm more awake...

Another "unusual" name: Layla (the original with Derek & the Dominoes is the best)

n.p.--"On My Own," Les Mis

Okay, okay, I think the Byrds' lines should be switched around...

Oh, well.

"Hazy Shade Of Winter": The Bangles
Time, time, time/See what's become of me

"Heart of Darkness": Chris de Burgh
Worlds away, this was my destiny/To be back here in another time

"Children of the Sea": Black Sabbath (again)
In the misty morning, on the edge of time

"Estonia": Marillion
And we won't understand your grief/Because time is illusion

"You were always on my mind": Various artists
Little things I should have said and done/
I just never took the time

"Time is on my side (yes it is!)" -- Rolling Stones

"Babe" -- Styx
Babe, I'm leavin', I must be on my way. The time is growing near...

"Bohemian Rhapsody" -- Queen
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on...

From True, Spandau Ballet:

Funny how it seems
Always in time
But never time for dreams...

No More Words Tonight, Luba:

I don't ever want to hear you say you love me
One more time

Say Goodbye to Hollywood, Billy Joel

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

Send in the Clowns, various:

Isn't it rich
Isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late
In my career...

Unloved, Jann Arden:

There will be no consolation prize
This time the bone is broken clean

Rocket Man, Elton John:

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time...

Solitary Man, Neil Diamond:

Well Linda was mine til the time that I found her
Holdin' Jim
And lovin' him

Carefree Highway, Gordon Lightfoot:

Turnin' back the pages, to the times I loved best
I wonder if she'll ever do the same...

Cold on the Shoulder, ditto:

All we need is time
Time, time time to make it nice...

Call and Answer, Barenaked Ladies:

I think
It's time to make this something that is more than only fair

Hello City, ditto:

Maybe I caught you at a bad time
Maybe I should call you back next week

The King of Bedside Manor, ditto:

You know he was quite a singer quite an actor
Quite some time ago

Sour Suite, The Guess Who

If I had the mind or I had the time
Maybe I could throw together a new kind of rhyme...

Fire and Rain, James Taylor (ad-lib to last chorus):

But I always thought that I would see you
One more time again now...

"I've Seen All Good People" -- Yes
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and
it's news is captured for the queen to use

Just a couple more...

I'll Be That Girl, Barenaked Ladies:

'Cause we've got plenty of time to grow old and die...

Undun, The Guess Who:

Came the time to realize,
And it was too late...

Too many lives to lead and not enough time...

"Always Be My Baby," Mariah Carey (We were as one babe/for a moment in time)

"If I Could Turn Back Time" - Cher
"Time, Love and Tenderness" - Michael Bolton
"Ride On Time" - Black Box
"A Little Time" - The Beautiful South
"Perfect 10" - The Beautiful South (Time takes its toll, but not on the eyes)
"Changes" - David Bowie (Time may change me / But I can't trace time)
"What Time Is Love?" - The KLF (and, for that matter the follow-up "America: What Time Is Love?")
and, of course:
"Sign 'O' the Times" - Prince

How could we forget this?

"Time Warp" (from The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show [Richard O'Brien])

"Unbelievable" - EMF (These times I've spent, I've realized / I'm going to shoot through / And leave you)

"Father and Son" - Cat Stevens (All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside...)

"One Moment In Time" - Whitney Houston. DUH!

"Time", Alan Parsons Project
"The Best of Times", "Too Much Time On My Hands", STYX (Scott, dude, how in the world could you forget these two?)
"Time In New England", Barry Manilow
"American Pie" (A long, long time ago...)
"Haven't Got Time For The Pain", "Legend In Your Own Time", Carly Simon
"Time", Hootie & The Blowfish
"Time (Clock of the Heart)", Culture Club
"Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper
"A Sign Of The Times", Petula Clark
"Time of the Season", The Zombies
"Time Out of Mind", Steely Dan
"Time Passages", Al Stewart
"Time to Get Down", The O'Jays
"Time Won't Let Me", The Outsiders
"Times Of Your Life", Paul Anka (if you're old enough to remember this as a Kodak jingle raise your hand!)

"The Best of Times", "Too Much Time On My Hands", STYX (Scott, dude, how in the world could you forget these two?)

AHHH! I love the Paradise Theatre album!

Continuing previous post...

Domo Arigato, Mr. MarkN-o!

Oh, gosh, Scott. Could you possibly be referring to... this? "Mr. Roboto", STYX (The time has come at last.)

"Baby one more time" by guess who. Sorry CC

[slaps forehead in disbelief]

From Moulin Rouge:

"Come What May"
I will love you/ Until the end of time

"Elephant Love Medley"
We could steal time/ Just for one day

Bad Timing, Blue Rodeo

Five Days in May, ditto:

To find the face you've seen a thousand times...

Photograph, ditto:

And all the time I was falling, well
You kept on stalling
Sizing up how big a fool I was...

"Prime Time", Alan Parsons Project
"Till the End Of Time", Perry Como
"Time and the River", Nat "King" Cole
"Time and Tide", Basia
"Time Don't Run Out On Me", Anne Murray
"Time for Livin'", The Association
"Time For Love", Air Supply
"A Time For Us (Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet)", Johnny Mathis
"Time Has Come Today", The Chambers Brothers
"Time Is Time", Andy Gibb

"Nothing Ever Happens"- Del Amitri (Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any more)

Benn, this board is at 178.6k!

Sven, that's Derf you need to bring this type of thing to the attention of. Having said that, I think Derf's gone briefly missing. Probably vacation or some other part of real life intruding. Anyway, since I'm a Roving Mod, I'm going to go ahead and close this part and create a part 3 and move everything starting with MarkN's Beauty/Beautiful post to the next part. Hope you aren't mad Derf, just trying to keep things neat.

Okay,done.