favorite 'name' song

[magnus]

...your favorite song with a person's name in it/with a person's name as the title?

Mine:
Instrumentally, "Laura". Preferably solo piano or done with solo wind over strings, a la Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker. Beats out "A Portrait of Jenny". Chances are you've never heard either song.

Straight up vocal song: Wind Cries Mary, Jimi Hendrix.

 

[wossa]

I can't resist because I just downloaded this one - no lie



Black Betty - Ram Jam


for real tho I got many favorites

Peg - Steely Dan

Sweet Melissa - Allman Brothers

Sara Smiles - Hall and Oates

just off the top of my head.

 

[Y2Buddy]

Boy that's a tough one.......ok

"Angie"....I still love you baby......

"Rhiannon" ....she is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness

Oh, "Susie Q", Oh, Susie Q,
Oh, Susie Q, Baby I love you, Susie Q

You don't have to sell your body to the night....."Roxanne"

"Maggie May".....But you turned into a lover and mother, what a lover, you wore me out.....

 

[LarryD]

mary, mary
mandy
layla (is that a name)
rosanna
billie jean
mr. bojangles

 

[smashmouth5]

Amanda-Boston

 

[wossa]

Originally posted by Y2Buddy
Boy that's a tough one.......ok

"Angie"....I still love you baby......

"Rhiannon" ....she is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness

Oh, "Susie Q", Oh, Susie Q,
Oh, Susie Q, Baby I love you, Susie Q

You don't have to sell your body to the night....."Roxanne"

"Maggie May".....But you turned into a lover and mother, what a lover, you wore me out.....

all good ones there Y2 - add em to my list

 

[Y2Buddy]

Big wheel keep on turnin’
"Proud Mary" keep on burnin’

"Maybellene"...why can't ya be true...oh Maybellene why can't ya be true...ya done started out doin' the things ya used to do"....

"Georgia"... oh Georgia, a song of you
Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the pines

And anytime you feel the pain, "hey Jude", refrain,
don't carry the world, upon, your shoulders

 

[magnus]

Caldonia! Caldonia! What makes your big head so hard?

Ahh, Louis Jordan.

 

[Superfluous_Nut]

About 10 years ago I had a compilation tape of "Name" songs...

I'll have to look for that. It was very contemporary (bands like Live, Faith No More, Screaming Trees, Afghan Whigs, etc.)

 

[Savio]

Goodnight Elizabeth - Counting Crows
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Roselita - Better than Ezra