Name Dropping Song Lyrics
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Big-Bo-Beep

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884 posts

82 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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In The Who's song The Seeker 60s dopehead Timothy Leary gets a mention.

Bette Davis Eyes
Robert De Niro's Waiting
Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Sacha Distel in Where Do You GoTo My Lovely by Peter Sarsted


The more obscure the name the better, prizes on offer.

NDA

25,333 posts

253 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Steely Dan in Hotel California...

anonymous-user

82 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them
Little Bo Peep she searched for her sheep
But didn't quite know how to find them
She looked everywhere
From here and to there
But still couldn't think where to find them
Little Bo Peep began to weep
And lay down to rest for a while
She fell fast asleep
While counting her sheep
Then dreamt they came home with a smile
Little Bo Peep had fallen asleep
And dreamt that she was all…

gazza285

11,065 posts

236 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Big-Bo-Beep said:
Bette Davis Eyes
Dickie Davis Eyes.

gazza285

11,065 posts

236 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Brenda Lee.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,967 posts

263 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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"Roy Orbison sings songs for the lonely"

Springsteen

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,967 posts

263 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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B. B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Righteous, Archies, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio
Life is a rock but the radio

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and Dale and Ronnie
Kukla, Fran and Norman, Okla Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Spoken: “Listen, remember, they're playing our song”

Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey, Make it bad and play it funky

Freddie King and Albert King B.B. King and frolicking
Get it on and Nat Gerardi, Papalardi, Hale and Hearty

There’s a perfect more than human gentle words of Randy Newman;
One, two, three; so oh so please, I need a breather!

Tito Puente, Boffalongo, Cuba, War and even mongo
(Line not credible) Peter Dial, Alex Hood, Boogie Brass

Whoo!!!

California, Beatlemania, New York City, Transylvania
S&G and (V&C?) and Bobby Vee and SRO, yeah yeah!

Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy
Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy

daddy cool

4,099 posts

257 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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"Leonard Bernstein!"

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

191 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Pericoloso said:
Vogue by Madonna has a few name drops in it ,none of which I remember without looking up.
I looked ,17 names ,not listing them.

Greta Garbo amongst others.

Jonboy_t

5,038 posts

211 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Neil Young, sweet home Alabama.

TwigtheWonderkid

48,734 posts

178 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" mentions loads of people, but only 5 are still alive......name them.

DickyC

57,977 posts

226 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Dylan: "Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote a song for you."

Bowie: "Now hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote this song for you."

Planet Claire

3,414 posts

237 months

Friday 6th March 2020
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Tori Amos refers to Neil (Gaiman) in some of her songs.

Edit: oh and Deacon Blue mentions Spencer Tracy and in the same song Oppenheimer and Einstein.

Edited by Planet Claire on Friday 6th March 22:40

anonymous-user

82 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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Jonboy_t said:
Neil Young, sweet home Alabama.
To turn that round:

“Sweet home Alabama, play that dead band’s song”......

(Warren Zevon , Play It All Night Long)

anonymous-user

82 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
"Roy Orbison sings songs for the lonely"

Springsteen
“Roy Orbison singing for the lonely”, to be pedantic!

paua

8,538 posts

171 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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Mao - Beatles (Revolution)

Voldemort

7,462 posts

306 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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Queen - Killer Queen - Marie Antionette, Kruschev, Kennedy

Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Marlene Dietrich, Zizi Jeanmaire, Rolling Stones, Sacha Distel, Picasso, Aga Khan

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London - Lon Cheney Jr, The Queen


Voldemort

7,462 posts

306 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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How could I forget A Tribe of Toffs..?

Ayrton Senna's got the voice of a tenor
Peter Snow sings very low
Mark Barano is a soprano
And John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley
Is a weatherman

and many more...

Pastor Of Muppets

3,838 posts

90 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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Santa gets a mention in Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody . getmecoat

CzechItOut

2,156 posts

219 months

Saturday 7th March 2020
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"Buck Owens" in Lookin' Out My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival

David Berkowitz "Son of Sam" in Insane in the Brain by Cypress Hill

"Jeffrey Dahmer" in Dark Horse by Katy Perry