Music: Songs With People's First And Last Names In The Title

[frisco]

Elvis Presley And America-U2
Tom Dooley-Kingston Trio
Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Carnes
Steve McQueen-Sheryl Crow
James Dean-The Eagles
Robert DeNiro's Waiting-Bananarama
Eleanor Rigby-The Beatles
Ballad Of Ira Hayes-Johnny Cash
Me And Bobby McGee-Kris Kristofferson

Jackie Brown-John Cougar Mellencamp
John Wayne-Jack Wagner
Rueben James-Kenny Rogers
Albert Flasher-The Guess Who

My Best-Carey

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[jw2]

Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin

 

[kihei]

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

 

[reckoning]

Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Nirvana
The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
Hey Jack Kerouac - 10,000 Maniacs
Alex Chilton - Replacements
Amber Waves - Tori Amos
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker - Prince
Jacob Marley's Chain - Aimee Mann
Ty Cobb - Soundgarden

There's also a great old folk song that I think is called "Sally Brown", but I don't know who the original artist is or if that's even the actual title.

 

[Mimsy]

Billy Bragg: Levi Stubbs' Tears

 

[Staniowski]

Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
Be My Yoko Ono - Barenaked Ladies

They were from the same album too.

 

[Staniowski]

The Ballad of Wendel Clark - Rheostatics

 

[Mescaleroman]

the Pogues - Sally MacLennane

 

[plank]

The Drive by Truckers have a few:

The Day John Henry Died
Carl Perkins Cadillac
Pauline Hawkins
Steve McQueen

 

[plank]

Richmond Fontaine have a bunch:

Song for James Welch
Wilson Dunlap
Horace Hopper
Hector Hidalgo
The Fight with Raymundo Figueroa
Angus King Tries to Leave the House
Claude Murray's Breakdown
Allison Johnson
Ballad of Dan Fanta
The Disappearance of Ray Norton

 

[Staniowski]

Bo Diddley was a nickname, but in 1958 he released his best-known album entitled "Bo Diddley". Two of the songs from the album were: "Bo Diddley" and "Hey, Bo Diddley".

Here is the song Bo Diddley from the album Bo Diddley, by the great Bo Diddley.

 

[frisco]

I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)-Elton John
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown-Jim Croce
Wendell Gee-R.E.M.

My Best-Carey

 

[Jovavic]

Paul Revere- Beastie Boys

 

[PepperKeenan]

Mando Diao - Welcome home, Luc Robitaille

 

[Eisen]

Bobby Brown - Frank Zappa
Henry Lee - Nick Cave feat. PJ Harvey
Ich hab geträumt, ich wäre Pizza essen mit Mark E. Smith - Tocotronic
Dougy Giro - Toy Dolls

 

[angusyoung]

 

[Hockey Outsider]

A Tribe Called Quest - Steve Biko (Stir It Up)
Curved Air - Marie Antoinette
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great
Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
Jethro Tull - For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me
Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode
OutKast - Rosa Parks
Rage Against the Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad*
Rush - Tom Sawyer
The Who - Sally Simpson
Wolfsbane - Kathy Wilson

* Does this count? It's a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song, which has already been named.

 

[peate]

 

[PepperKeenan]

Rancid- Brad Logan

 

[plank]

Songs: Ohia - John Henry Split My Heart

 

[Mescaleroman]

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Tony Adams

 

[Sam Spade]

"Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" - Brand New
"Michael Jordan" - Five For Fighting
"Virginia Wolfe" - Indigo Girls

 

[peate]

 

[plank]

BJM - Ballad of Jim Jones