Film Stars Mentioned in Songs
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Steve Oldham
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>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Dylan's 'Brownsville Girl' includes:
there was this movie I seen one time, About a man riding cross the
desert and it starred Gregory Peck. He was shot down by a hungry kid
trying to make a name for himself. The townspeople wanted to crush
that kid down and string him up by the neck. Well, the marshal, now
he beat that kid to a bloody pulp as the dying gunfighter lay in the
sun and gasped for his last breath. Turn him loose, let him go, let
him say he outdrew me fair and square, I want him to feel what its
like to every moment face his death.
Then later in the song:
Well, Im standin in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory
Peck, Yeah, but you know its not the one that I had in mind. Hes got a
new one out now, I dont even know what its about But Ill see him in
anything so Ill stand in line.
Steve
John Harkness
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Well, how many people get cited in Madonna's Vogue?
John Harkness
David
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel (Monroe)
"Candle in the Wind" by Taupin & John (Monroe)
"You Made Me Love You" by McCarthy & Monaco (Gable)
"How About You?" by Freed & Lane (Garbo)
"There Goes a Tenner" by Kate Bush (Bogard, Raft, Cagney)
"Garbo" by Stevie Nicks (Garbo & Dietrich)
"National Brotherhood Week" by Tom Lehrer (Lena Horne)
GC
Yeah, let's see, there's Greta Garbo and Monroe, Dietrich and DiMaggio
(was he in a film?), Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean - on the cover of a
magazine, Strother Martin and Michael J Pollard, Franklin Pangborn
and... um, no, wait a minute...
Jim Linwood
>
The following Bob Dylan songs:
I Shall Be Free: Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Ernest Borgnine,
Yul Brynner, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton..
Motorpsycho Nightmare: Tony Perkins.
Desolation Row: Bette Davis.
TV Talking Song: Elvis
Clean Cut Kid: Peter O'Toole
Jim
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JL
Steve Oldham
>I Shall Be Free: Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren
"..........Country'll grow".
Steve
Maureen Goldman
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Lots, but I'm particularly thinking of a song from "Bells are Ringing"
that takes place at a party where people are dropping names and the
working class heroine feels mightily outclassed. Mostly it consists of
lists of celebs plus sophisticated laughter.
CleV
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>> How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>"Bette Davis´ Eyes" - sung by Bonnie Tyler
Did she also do a version, or are you confusing her with equaly raspy
voiced Kim Carnes?
Robert de Niro's Waiting - Banarama - Robert de Niro
Crying at the Discoteque - Alcazar - Richard Gere
Hello Hello (some britpop band of the 90's), We Didn't Start the Fire
(Billy Joel) and Born To Be Sold (Transvision Vamp) all had a whole
list of names, some of which may have been film stars.
Andy Averill
Vogue
Bette Davis Eyes
My Baby Just Cares For Me
You Made Me Love You (Judy Garland version)
Key Largo
Then I'd Be Satisfied with Life
Candle in the Wind
James Dean
Ridin' with James Dean
Laurel & Hardy
Talk To Me
Puttin' on the Ritz
The Camelot Song
Zombie Zoo
The Desperate Things You Made Me Do
Modern Day Mae West
Solex West
Public Park
Hooray for Hollywood
... I could go on all day, that's enough for now.
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Stephen Cooke
The day a Madonna song mentions Franklin Pangborn...I'll eat my shorts.
Here's my suggestion:
The Humphrey Bogart Rhumba by The Happiness Boys.
It's a real song (I have it on 78 r.p.m.), where the boys go on to say
that if you don't care for Humphrey Bogart, you can name it after any star
you desire ("...Clark Gable or Myrna Loy...").
And just to get it the hell out of the way...Candle in the Wind. There,
that's all we have to say about that one.
Stephen
Mark LoPresti
Played the Harp" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers?
BTW, as much as I don't care for the Farrelly Bros., I do give them an A++ for
giving Richman a role in a mainstream film.
Mark LoPresti, Buffalo NY
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John Harkness
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Hmmmm -- nobody's mentioned Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead
Lisa
>We Didn't Start the Fire
>list of names, some of which may have been film stars.
At least one, Marilyn Monroe
Lisa
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
"James Dean" The Eagles
"Detox Mansion" Warren Zevon - "been rakin' leaves with Liza, me and
Liz clean up the yard"
"Tom Courtenay" Yo La Tengo, also mentions Julie Christie
"Celluloid Heroes" Kinks, too many to list
"Waterloo Sunset" Kinks- mentions "Terry and Julie" Terence Stamp and
Julie Christie
--
Lisa
Wull
Wull
Jim Linwood
Phil Ochs: Jim Dean of Indiana
Ian Campbell Folk Group: Marilyn
JL
Jack Lefton
> How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Robert De Niro's Waiting by Bananarama
David Matthews
who looked like Montgomery Clift.
Dave
n/a n/a
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> How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
Public Enemy's "Fight the Power":
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne...
lst...@webtv.net
Yule Bryner - One Night in Bangcock
John Wayne - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
Marlon Brando - Mismatch [Harry Chapin}
Randolph Scott, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Whatever Happened to Randoph
Scott
James Dean, Jimmy Dean - Rock On
Brad Pitt - That Don't Impress Me Much
Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr. - Werewolves of London
Joe Gillis
describes a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Nick Lowe's "Marie Prevost" (1977) tells the sad tale of the silent film
actress who, um.. well, here are some lyrics:
"She was a winner
Who became the doggie's dinner..."
In the early 70s didn't Alice Cooper record "The Ballad Of Dwight Frye"?
Another thread - songs INSPIRED by movies.
THE SEARCHERS gave a British rock band their name, & a song title to Buddy
Holly -- "That'll Be The Day."
Elvis Costello's song "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea" was allegedly inspired by
the movie SMASHING TIME.
The writer of "Green Green Grass Of Home" was inspired by Sterling Hayden in
the closing moments of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE.
My favorite example:
Sometime in 1967 Bob Dylan was watching TV & saw THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS (directed
by Nicholas Ray in 1960) -- in which Anthony Quinn plays an eskimo...
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GC
The title track from the new Super Furry Animals album, Rings Around the
World, has a verse about TETSUO II: BODYHAMMER for some reason...
>Sometime in 1967 Bob Dylan was watching TV & saw THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS (directed
>by Nicholas Ray in 1960) -- in which Anthony Quinn plays an eskimo...
Well, that would count for film stars being mentioned in songs, too...
Mpoconnor7
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
"The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion to
the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
Grethe Bachmann
know if it“s Kim Carnes - but now you say it - I really doubt my memory.
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Lisa
>Might be!! I“ve got it on an old tape - and there“s no text - so I don“t
>know if it“s Kim Carnes - but now you say it - I really doubt my memory.
>Grethe `)
It's Kim Carnes
James L. Neibaur
Valentino, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe)
Year of the Cat by Al Stewart (Bogart, Peter Lorre)
Junior's Farm by Paul McCartney (Ollie Hardy)
Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott (Scott, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers,
Rex Allen, Charles Starrett)
Rock On by David Essex (James Dean)
Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett (Boris Karloff)
JN
(I have a terrible temptation to state that Moe Howard is mentioned in the
Beatles' I Should Have Known Better because they say "if this is love ya gotta
give me Moe!")
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> Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott (Scott, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers,
> Rex Allen, Charles Starrett)
Randolph Scotts son, C. H. Scott, heard this song on his car radio in the early
70's in route to his dad's house. When he got there, he discovered Randolph had
already bought the album by the Statler Bros.
Later in l994, C. H. Scott wrote a memoir of his dad and used the song title
"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?" for his book title.
Rosanne
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> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:57:18 +0000, GC <G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
> Dylan's 'Brownsville Girl' includes:
> <snipped>
Dylan's "Motorpsycho Nitemare" also refers to Tony Perkins, and later says
the girl looks like something from "La Dolce Vita"...
Jeff
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Lee Remick by The Go-Betweens (also named after a movie)
Charlton Heston Put His Vest on by Stump
Buster Keaton by John Southworth
Lon Chaney's Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out from Hollywood Revue of
1929
Stephen
npfe...@one.net
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Jimmy Buffett songs:
They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More - Carmen Miranda
Pencil Thin Mustache- Boston Blackie
Incomunicado - John Wayne
Nate
David Sander
>
> How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
Here's an obscure one for you - "Mary" from "It's a Wonderful Life" as
uttered by a Jimmy Stewart impersonator (amidst various other actor
impersonators), Jon Anderson & Vangelis "Friends of Mr Cairo".
David
Tony Spadaro
"Go out and try your luck
You could be Donald Duck
HooRay for Holl-y-wood"
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"Ingrid Bergman" by Woodie Guthrie
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larry legallo
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
James Dean (The Eagles)
Ridin' With James Dean (Joan Jett)
Cadillac Ranch (Springsteen)- James Dean, Burt Reynolds
The Right Profile (The Clash)- Montgomery Clift
Winona (Matthew Sweet)- Winona Ryder
Dr. Bernice (Cracker)- "Though the wind may whisper an epic
sometimes, the cast must include Karen Black"
sch...@gefen.cc.biu.ac.il
: How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
"You're the Top" (Cole Porter): "You're the National Gallery, you're
Garbo's salary, you're cellophane. . ."
"Rock On" (David Essex): "prettiest girl I've ever seen, see her shake on the
movie screen, Jimmy Dean...James Dean"
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The Flame That Killed John Wayne - The Mekons
We Are Jonah - The Waterboys (Montgomery Clift)
My Name Is Jack - Manfred Mann (Greta Garbo)
Hey Miss Betty - Chris Spedding (Betty Page)
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.
"You're My Favorite Star" - Bellamy Brothers
"The Movies" - Statler Brothers
Ivan
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Steve Oldham
wrote:
>Celluloid Heroes by the Kinks (George Sanders, Mickey Rooney, Rudolph
>Valentino, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe)
>
>Year of the Cat by Al Stewart (Bogart, Peter Lorre)
>
>Junior's Farm by Paul McCartney (Ollie Hardy)
>
>Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott (Scott, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers,
>Rex Allen, Charles Starrett)
>
>Rock On by David Essex (James Dean)
>
>Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett (Boris Karloff)
>
>JN
>(I have a terrible temptation to state that Moe Howard is mentioned in the
>Beatles' I Should Have Known Better because they say "if this is love ya gotta
>give me Moe!")
>
The Shemp Shemp Song (It's In His Kiss)
Steve
DESSCRIBE1
I can't remember the title or artist, but I remember hearing a song (circa
mid-80s) that contained the line "While I was laughing at Dom DeLuise."
Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" contains the lines: "Like Harrison Ford, I'm
getting frantic/Like Sting, I'm tantric" and "Like Kurosawa, I make mad films"
If you consider them film stars as well as musicians, the Beatles are mentioned
in "Life in a Northern Town."
A fairly obscure band called The Original Sins has a song (and album) titled
"Sally Kirkland."
And another whose title and artist I don't know: A few years ago, while tuning
in a college radio station, I heard a pretty bizarre song with the chorus: "You
can't throw me to the lions! I'm Charlton Heston!"
Erich
"I'm like a tree, I'm all root, hep to the jep what it's all aboot."--Cab
Calloway
"And so it was, baby/As the miller told his tale/Better face it first, just go
see/Turn a whiter shade of pale"--The World's Worst Karaoke Transcription
Mitchell Kaufman
> "You're the Top" (Cole Porter): "You're the National Gallery, you're
> Garbo's salary, you're cellophane. . ."
More Garbo: "I Can't Get Started (With You)"--"I've been consulted by
Franklin D., Greta Garbo has had me to tea." (And "Greta Garbo" is
changed to "Robert Taylor" when a woman sings the song [e.g., Billie
Holiday])
Doesn't Dylan mention Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg in one of his early
songs?
MK
Lisa
>>JN
>>(I have a terrible temptation to state that Moe Howard is mentioned in the
>>Beatles' I Should Have Known Better because they say "if this is love ya gotta
>>give me Moe!")
>>
>
>The Shemp Shemp Song (It's In His Kiss)
The Curly Shuffle
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>
> > How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
> Robert De Niro's Waiting by Bananarama
Ice Cube refers to his own role in "Boyz in the Hood" in a song from "The
Predator":
"I make dough, but don't call me dough boy. I was a boy in the hood before
the movie..."
Lisa
>>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
>I can't remember the title or artist, but I remember hearing a song (circa
>mid-80s) that contained the line "While I was laughing at Dom DeLuise."
Roger Daltrey, "After The Fire"
Dennis Thompson
Robert Gaimari
: On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:57:18 +0000, GC <G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk>
: wrote:
:>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
: Jimmy Buffett songs:
Also Ricky Ricardo, Andy Divine, and Errol Flynn.
Another song: "Joan Crawford" by Blue Oyster Cult.
- Bob
Kelley P Swilley
"Sweet Transvestite" (Steve Reeves)
"We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions Grace Kelly (Princess Grace) as well as Marilyn Monroe
John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane" (Jack does his "best James Dean")
Toby Keith's "Should've Been a Cowboy" (Roy Rogers, Gene Autry)
(speaking of it) Roy Rogers' "Cowboy Heaven" (just about every cowboy star in the lexicon)
Somebody mentioned "You're the Top" -- also includes references to Jimmy Durante, Mickey Mouse
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS' "Somewhere That's Green" (Donna Reed)
A Broadway/London musical A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE (anybody heard of this obscure gem?)
is packed with references from beginning to end.
Just for starters, its opening song, "Just Go to the Movies," makes references to Busby Berkeley, Dick
Powell, Tom Mix, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Errol Flynn...
pauldcr...@yahoo.com
wrote:
>How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
"Pocahontas" by Neil Young mentions "Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and
me."
Paul
Tom Cervo
Jim Beaver
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:57:18 +0000, GC <G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
Neil Diamond's "Done Too Soon": Fanny Brice, Humphrey Bogart, Buster
Keaton.
Nanci Griffith has a song that mentions John Wayne, but I don't recall the
title.
"Key Largo" -- isn't that the title of that song with a refrain about "just
like Bogart and Bacall?"
"Putting on the Ritz": Gary Cooper (Super-Dooper)
Tom Lehrer's "Tell The Marines": John Wayne, Randolph Scott
John Prine: "The Late John Garfield Blues"
Don McLean: Can't remember the title, but it might be "The Ballad of George
Reeves"
"If Troy Donahue can be a movie star, then I can be a movie star..." from A
CHORUS LINE.
Jim Beaver
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Only in the Bobby Darin version.
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"Maureen Goldman" <inksl...@FOGsunshine.net> wrote in message
news:v8sott8tah04kt29s...@4ax.com...> Lots, but I'm particularly thinking of a song from "Bells are Ringing"
> that takes place at a party where people are dropping names and the
> working class heroine feels mightily outclassed. Mostly it consists of
> lists of celebs plus sophisticated laughter.
"Errol Flynn -- Rin Tin Tin. Raymond Massey -- Lassie."
Andy Averill
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> The champ of this category may be "Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks (1972),
which
> describes a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
>
> Nick Lowe's "Marie Prevost" (1977) tells the sad tale of the silent film
> actress who, um.. well, here are some lyrics:
>
> "She was a winner
> Who became the doggie's dinner..."
>
> In the early 70s didn't Alice Cooper record "The Ballad Of Dwight Frye"?
>
> Another thread - songs INSPIRED by movies.
>
> THE SEARCHERS gave a British rock band their name, & a song title to Buddy
> Holly -- "That'll Be The Day."
>
> Elvis Costello's song "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea" was allegedly
inspired by
> the movie SMASHING TIME.
>
> The writer of "Green Green Grass Of Home" was inspired by Sterling Hayden
in
> the closing moments of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE.
How about groups named after movie stars, like Shirley Temple of Doom and
Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Andy Averill
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> Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett (Boris Karloff)
I had the same thought, but I checked the lyrics and couldn't find him.
Maybe we're both thinking that cause the guy who sang it imitated him.
Joe Gillis
>
>These are mentions; Ethan Edwards inspired a Buddy Holly song.
>
As well as a British band.
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Joe Gillis
>
>I had the same thought, but I checked the lyrics and couldn't find him.
>Maybe we're both thinking that cause the guy who sang it imitated him.
>
"Tell them Boris sent you"?!
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"'I Dig a Pygmy', by Charles Hawtry on the deaf-aids, phase I in which Doris
gets her oats", and
"Like the CIA, and the BBC, BB King, and Doris Day", both from The Beatles'
album "Let It Be".
DESSCRIBE1
If you include novelty songs, The Bonzo Dog Band's "I'm Bored" contains the
line "I hate each Julie Andrews film they've made."
Michael Penn's "No Myth" has a line about someone being able to "dance like
Astaire."
"Mr. Sandman" refers to the dream man as having "lots of wavy hair like
Liberace." (Okay, so Liberace was better known as a pianist than as a film
star, but he did make some screen appearances.)
Once, I was in a record store where they were playing a song with the chorus
"What's your take on Cassavetes?" I don't know the artist/band's name.
Did anyone mention R.E.M.'s "Man on the Moon" yet? ("Andy Kaufman in the
wrestling ring, yeah yeah yeah yeah...")
Andy Averill
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> I haven't seen people discuss "You Made Me Love You". I don't think
Gable
> is mentioned - so we have to watch a movie to see a song sung about a
movie
> star.
A couple people have listed it. The original version doesn't mention Clark
Gable -- that was a special verse written for Judy Garland to sing. And of
course people have been taking off on it ever since.
Stephen Cooke
A few odd ones:
John Wayne Was A Nazi by Millions of Dead Cops
Tsui Hark by Sparks
Martin Scorsese by King Missile
Claire Danes by Sifl & Olly
Stephen
Kilroy Bass
the New Wave song by the band Taco. Just a small mention of an actor.
Lyrics snippet:
"Dressed up like a million dollar trooper,
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper.
Super-duper!" (robotic voice)
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> Lee Remick by The Go-Betweens (also named after a movie)
>
> Charlton Heston Put His Vest on by Stump
>
> Buster Keaton by John Southworth
>
> Lon Chaney's Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out from Hollywood Revue of
> 1929
>
> Stephen
Kilroy Bass
heroes.
In their song, Electrolyte, Steve Mcqueen, Martin Sheen and James Dean
are mentioned, but is used primarily for its rhyming meter.
Lyric snippet:
Hollywood is under me.
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Jimmy Dean
Monty got a Raw Deal is about Montgomery Clift.
Although the song, "Clint Eastwood" by the Gorillaz is very catchy, it
has nothing to do w/Clint. It's a fun song to listen to, though.
The Real Deal
a tribute to Nicolas Roeg and his films.
-------------------------------------------
"The Real Deal" Mark Thomas
"I smile when someone laughs at me, that's why I'm always smiling."
Robert Gaimari
:>> Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett (Boris Karloff)
:>
:>I had the same thought, but I checked the lyrics and couldn't find him.
:>Maybe we're both thinking that cause the guy who sang it imitated him.
:>
: "Tell them Boris sent you"?!
I've looked around, and lyrics web sites seem to agree with you, but I
would have sworn it was "Tell them Bobby sent you".
- Bob
Joe Gillis
Kilroy Bass wrote:
>
>"Puttin on the Ritz", written by Irving Berlin, but best remembered as
>the New Wave song by the band Taco. Just a small mention of an actor.
>
>Lyrics snippet:
>"Dressed up like a million dollar trooper,
>Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper.
>Super-duper!" (robotic voice)
>
This is the politically correct version. Berlin's original version went like
this:
"Come let's go where every lulubelle goes,
Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus,
Rubbing elbows..."
This was changed sometime in the 30s -- as "lulubelle" is a slang term for a
black woman. Berlin -- more concerned for his pocketbook than his art --
changed the song to be about Park Avenue rather than Harlem. It's this Park
Avenue version that's sung in BLUE SKIES (1946) & YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974).
A shame, since IMHO the original "Harlem" version of POTR is one of Berlin's
masterpieces.
Jeffrey Davis
DESSCRIBE1 wrote:
Once, I was in a record store where they were playing a song with the chorus
> "What's your take on Cassavetes?" I don't know the artist/band's name.
Le Tigre
Gary Cooper gets a mention in the Irving Berlin song Putting on the Ritz --
the remake which gets rid of the Harlem/race references
There's a wretched Leo Sayer song that mentions Fred Astaire. I forget the title.
Alice Cooper has a song The Ballad of Dwight Fry
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Jeffrey Davis <res0...@verizon.net> E Pluribus unum
BlakeMF
1929."
Michael F. Blake
GC
Reminds me of John Wayne is Big Leggy by Haysi Fantatyzee, a jolly 80's
pop hit that turned out to be about (how to put this politely?) John
Wayne taking advantage of Indians. If you know what I mean.
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includes a line where Ellen sarcastically asks, "What are you gonna do? Watch
reruns of the Muhammad Ali-Marlene Dietrich fight?"
Brent McKee
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> HooRay for Hollywood
> "Go out and try your luck
> You could be Donald Duck
> HooRay for Holl-y-wood"
The song was published by a music company owned by Warner Brothers and was
seen in a Warner Brothers film ... which made it fair game for use in a
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon. However by the time it was, Warners
had their own duck, so when the song was used in a cartoon they changed the
lyric to:
"Go out and try your luck
You could be Daffy Duck"
While he was not a film star someone who helped a lot of film stars was also
mentioned, by his last name only, Max Factor:
"You want to be an actor
See Mister Factor
He'll make your kisser look good"
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- Margaret Atwood
Brent McKee
Marilyn Monroe's real first name in the first line "Goodbye Norma Jean" and
Elton John has specifically stated that it refers to MM.
Stephen Cooke
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Brent McKee wrote:
> No one has mentioned it yet, so the original "Candle in the Wind" refers to
> Marilyn Monroe's real first name in the first line "Goodbye Norma Jean" and
> Elton John has specifically stated that it refers to MM.
Actually, I mentioned it at the very start, so we wouldn't have to hear
any more about it.
Stephen
Likes Elton John, but never needs to hear that song ever again.
W. Lydecker
Tim Pierce
"Brent McKee" <bSm...@the.link.caN> writes:
> No one has mentioned it yet, so the original "Candle in the Wind"
I think about twenty people mentioned "Candle in the Wind."
Jeff Coleman
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What about that Elton John song about Princess Diana? Oh wait, Di wasn't a
film star, nevermind!
:)
Peter Krynicki
> Lon Chaney's Gonna Get Ya, If You Don't Watch Out!" from "Hollywood Revue of
> 1929."
>
> Michael F. Blake
I didn't read every post, but...
From Easy Rider:
Don't Bogart that joint my friend,
Pass it over to me
And
I saw Lon Chaney walking with the queen
from Werewolves of London (awwwwwwwooooooooooooo)
hth
Pjk
Kevin FilmNutBoy
>I saw Lon Chaney walking with the queen
>
>from Werewolves of London (awwwwwwwooooooooooooo)
Well, I saw Lon Chaney JUNIOR walking with the queen. (It's a two-for-one
deal.)
--Kevin
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"Art is born of constraint and dies of freedom."
Parry
>
> GC <G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
>
>
> "Detox Mansion" Warren Zevon - "been rakin' leaves with Liza, me and
> Liz clean up the yard"
>
> "Tom Courtenay" Yo La Tengo, also mentions Julie Christie
And the best line: “I spent so much time dreaming ‘bout Eleanor Bron”
> "Celluloid Heroes" Kinks, too many to list
“If you covered him with garbage, George Sanders would still have
style.” Ray Davies warmed-up for this song with “Oklahoma USA,” which
mentions Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, and
Errol Flynn.
> "Waterloo Sunset" Kinks- mentions "Terry and Julie" Terence Stamp and
> Julie Christie
The Bonzo Dog Band’s “The Intro & The Outro” -- John Wayne, Robert
Morley, Roy Rogers, Trigger (and “J. Arthur Rank on gong”)
Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” mentions Joe Dallesandro and other
creatures who appeared in Warhol/Morrissey movies
Blondie, “Platinum Blonde” -- “Marilyn and Jean, Jayne, Mae and Marlene”
Sparks, “That’s Not Nastassja”
April March, “Stay Away from Robert Mitchum”
Robert Wyatt, “All She Wanted (was Marlon Brando)”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ lascivious “Sherilyn Fenn”
Half Man Half Biscuit have several, including:
“God Gave Us Life” -- Una Stubbs
“Venus In Flares” -- Robert Powell
“Carry On Cremating” -- Hattie Jacques
“Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite” -- Kenneth and Emma (Branagh &
Thompson]
“Split Single With Happy Lounge Labelmates” -- Donald Sinden
Ian Dury, “Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3” -- Harpo, Groucho, Chico;
and “Common as Muck” -- Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Shirley Temple,
Fred Astaire, Lionel Blair (?)
Elliott Murphy did a song about Monroe, I think called “Marilyn.” Not
one of his better songs.
Also, Roxy Music’s “2 H.B.” -- the initials refer to Humphrey Bogart,
though he’s not actually mentioned in the song
-- Parry
Wishy13764
a movie, but can't remember the title. It goes something like this..."When
someone Like Hedy Lamarr, steps into the swankiest bar, all the fellows get up,
light her cigarette up and me, I have to smoke a cigar."
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The lesbian folk-singer Phranc has a song titled "Hitchcock," which opens with
the verse "When you were blonde you looked just like Kim Novak/You looked like
her when you were brunette too..."
Singer/actress Jane Birkin once did a song titled "Jane B.," referring to
herself.
Birkin's onetime husband Serge Gainsbourg also composed a song titled "La
Ballade de Johnny Jane." The opening line of the song is: "Hey, Johnny
Jane...tu souviens-tu cet film de Gainsbourg? 'Je t'aime moi non plus'?"
Translation (as best I can decipher): "Hey, Johnny Jane...you remember that
Gainsbourg movie? 'Je t'aime moi non plus'?" (Serge Gainsbourg had directed
the film of that title, starring Jane Birkin. So, although my French is too
rusty to decipher the rest of the song, I'm pretty sure that "Johnny Jane"
refers to Jane Birkin.)
Here's a real obscurity: I own a CD by "Bongos, Bass & Bob," a rock band
featuring Penn Jillette (that's right, of Penn & Teller fame) on bass & vocals.
Several of their songs mention film stars:
"Hey Shirley" is about Shirley MacLaine, though I can't recall whether they
ever mention her last name or not.
"Clearly Unhealthy" mentions Frank Sinatra.
"Die Trying to Escape" mentions Steve McQueen, Sal Mineo and James Dean.
"Girls with Guns" mentions Sean Connery and Ursula Andress.
"Gun in My Hand (And I'm Waitin' on My Woman)" mentions John Lennon, Yoko Ono,
and Jodie Foster.
Jeff Coleman
"DESSCRIBE1" <dessc...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >How many songs can you name that mention film stars?
> Singer/actress Jane Birkin once did a song titled "Jane B.," referring to
> herself.
>
> Birkin's onetime husband Serge Gainsbourg also composed a song titled "La
> Ballade de Johnny Jane." The opening line of the song is: "Hey, Johnny
> Jane...tu souviens-tu cet film de Gainsbourg? 'Je t'aime moi non plus'?"
> Translation (as best I can decipher): "Hey, Johnny Jane...you remember
that
> Gainsbourg movie? 'Je t'aime moi non plus'?" (Serge Gainsbourg had
directed
> the film of that title, starring Jane Birkin. So, although my French is
too
> rusty to decipher the rest of the song, I'm pretty sure that "Johnny Jane"
> refers to Jane Birkin.)
And on the subject of Gainsbourg, his "Initials B.B." is a cool, sexy ode to
Brigitte Bardot.