Songs that mention film stars
Kolaga
Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
Largo"
Any others?
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JimNeibaur
American Pie by Don McLean mentions James Dean
Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks mentions Valentino, Bette Davis, George
Sanders, Mickey Rooney, and Marilyn Monroe.
Year of the Cat by Al Stewart mentions Bogart and Peter Lorre
Junior's Farm by Paul McCartney mentions Ollie Hardy
Seaside Rendezvous by Queen mentions Valentino
Key Largo by Bertie Higgins (not Jimmy Buffett) mentions Bogey and Bacall
Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott by the Statler Brothers mentions
Scott, as well as Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Rex Allen ( by
first name only, unless they were referring to Roy Barcroft and Rex
Lease), and the Durango Kid by character name (not Charles Starrett).
Monster Mash mentions Boris Karloff (by first name only)
Another Saturday Night by Sam Cooke mentions Frankenstein (does that
count?)
Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes mentions, ummmm, William Bendix
JimN
Shiow-Jiau Yung
"Video Revue" is an "Animaniacs" song that is pretty cute and mentions
many film stars.
SJY
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Hogan
In article <33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Kolaga
<NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net> writes
>Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>
>Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
> Largo"
>
>Any others?
in your car"
--
Hogan
FilmGene
A wonderful silent era song called "At the Moving Picture Ball".
Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC
Maureen Goldman
NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net (Kolaga) wrote:
> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>
> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
> Largo"
>
> Any others?
Lots, but I think the tendency is to stay away from that sort of thing
unless you want to invoke a particular time - i.e., mentioning various
rock singers in "Grease"..
--
Maureen Goldman
To reply, please remove fog.
FilmGene
Oh yes:
"You're the Top" by Cole Porter
"You're the nimble tread of the feet of Fred Astaire.."
"You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Camembert.."
Michele Tirone
"The Big Strong Man", an Irish song, mentions Mae West in the last verse.
Brigitte Bardot, French sex symbol has 2 songs completely devoted to her: a
South American (don't excactly know what country) song "Brigitte Bardot"
and in a Serge Gainsbourg's song "Initials BB" (maybe more songs...)
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Kolaga <NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net> a écrit dans l'article
<33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>
> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
> Largo"
>
> Any others?
SEVGREEN
"When Harpo Played the Harp", or it may be ""When Harpo Plays His Harp".
oh! Something like that.
Anyway, close enough to find it. Good tune. The song in question is by
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers from "Modern Lovers ' 88"
Mark LoPresti, Buffalo NY
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With ABC cutting dynamite gags from cartoons, do you
find that your children are using explosives less frequently?
Palestarr
"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel mentions a lot of film stars.
There's also an REM song, from one of their more recent albumns, that
mentions James Dean and Steve McQueen.
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" is about Marilyn Monroe.
Arthur Wohlwill
>Subject: Re: Songs that mention film stars
>Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:19:30 GMT
Didn't the Eagles have a song about James Dean?
Arthur Wohlwill adwo...@UIC.EDU
Diana1138
Oh drat! I can't remember the name of the song, but Judy Garland sings it
in a movie and it's all about Mr. Gable.
I can't believe I can't remember the name of the film either. I'm sure
someone will know what the heck I'm talking about.
-diana
Unknown
dian...@aol.com (Diana1138) wrote:
>Oh drat! I can't remember the name of the song, but Judy Garland sings it
>in a movie and it's all about Mr. Gable.
Dear Mr Gable
>I can't believe I can't remember the name of the film either.
Me either.
Unknown
Hogan <ho...@xhogan.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Kolaga
><NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net> writes
>>Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>>
>>Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
>> Largo"
>>
>>Any others?
>'Movie Star' by Harpo - "You feel like Steve McQueen when you're driving
>in your car"
>--
>Hogan
Prefab Sprout - 'Steve McQueen'
Bananarama - 'Robert de Niro's Waiting'
Bauhaus - 'Bela Lugosi' (sp?)
A GREASE Soundtrack song - 'I'm Sanda Dee' ( which contains a few film
stars' names such as Tab Hunter, Avalon, etc.)
Dogs D'Amour - 'Here's Errol Flynn'
Elton John - 'Candles In The Wind' (Norma Jean Baker aka MM)
(again) Elton John - 'Marlon Brando'
Sacha Distroll (?) - 'BB' (Brigitte Barot)
Danny Wilson (a band, actually) 'The Song About Me and Shirley
MacLaine'
Extreme - 'Keeping Up with the Jones' (mentioned Fred Astaire but not
too sure about the song title though. That line was deffo in the song)
Deacon Blue - 'Looks Like Spencer Tray Now'
The Eagles - 'James Dean'
Nik Kershaw - 'Hey Bogart'
Madness 'Michael Caine'
Haysi Fantazyee (?) 'John Wayne was (or is) Big Legged' (I can't
*believed* that I remembered this one!!)
Catty - who remembered too many 80s songs...
Patrick Kearney
Kolaga (NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
: Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
: Largo"
: Any others?
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Hows about "Star, Star" by The Rolling Stones. A mention of
Steve McQueen I recall, and quite a raunchy one as well.
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I Can't Get Started by Bunny Berrigan.
Daniel Eagan
Kathy O'Connell
From the Rocky Horror Picture Show's opening song:
"Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes"
(or, ruins, if you prefer)
Kolaga (NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
: Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
: Largo"
: Any others?
: ---
: Remove the letters NOSPAM from the beginning of my e-mail address to reply
Stephan Eichenberg
Catty wrote:
>
> dian...@aol.com (Diana1138) wrote:
>
> >Oh drat! I can't remember the name of the song, but Judy Garland sings it
> >in a movie and it's all about Mr. Gable.
>
> Dear Mr Gable
was rewrittenm with a special part for Judy Garland to sing at a
Birthday party of Clark Gable and made such an Impression, that
it was put into Broadway Melody of 1938.
"You are my Lucky Star"(Brown - Freed) features in it's 2nd verse,
as sung by Robert Taylor in that movie following line:
... You are my Hepburn, Crawford, Shearer and my Garbo,
you are my Lucky Star
There's also the Finale from Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Williams,
Kelly, Sinatra) that brings the names of the stars closest rivals,
Astaire, Garland and Bing Crosby)
Stephan Eichenberg
http://129.187.245.125/~eichenbe
M"unchen, Germany
Sweet Caroline
Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
"...Red China, Johnnie Ray,
North Korea, South Korea,
Marilyn Monroe..."
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.97073...@dclsn2.cen.uiuc.edu>,
Shiow-Jiau Yung <yu...@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>"Video Revue" is an "Animaniacs" song that is pretty cute and mentions
>many film stars.
>
> SJY
>
>
>> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>>
>> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
>> Largo"
>>
>> Any others?
>> ---
>> Remove the letters NOSPAM from the beginning of my e-mail address to reply
>>
>>
>
>Shiow-Jiau Yung
>Electrical and Computer Engineering
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~yung1
>
>
The song "Stereophonic Sound" from SILK STOCKINGS mentions:
Ava Gardner "if Ava Garnder played Godiva, riding on a mare.."
Marilyn Monroe "stare at Marilyn's behind..."
Stefan
Ellie
Maureen Goldman <inkslinger@{fog}sunshine.net> wrote in article
<33e2f94f...@news.sunshine.net>...
> dian...@aol.com (Diana1138) wrote:
>
> > Oh drat! I can't remember the name of the song, but Judy Garland sings
it
> > in a movie and it's all about Mr. Gable.
>
> Isn't that an introduction to "You Made Me Love You"?
>
> --
>
> Maureen Goldman
> To reply, please remove fog.
What about the ending to TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME? It
mentions..Astaire..Crosby..Garland..and...oh drat!! someone else.!! sorry
but I am drawing a blank..
Liz
>
Ellie
Palestarr <pale...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970731221...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
> Vogue By Madonna mentions a whole slew of them...........
liz
Maureen Goldman
Diana1138
An Irish band named Stump did a song called "Charlton Heston". I was
sorta impressed with the line "Charlton Heston put his vest on."
Did "Tippararie" (horribly misspelled) have a line about Harold Lloyd? Or
did Crow just make that up during "MST3K - The Movie".
Speaking of MiSTies - There's "Kim Cattrall", "Ode on Estelle" (for
Estelle Winwood), "Godzilla Genealogy Bop" (does he count?) and, of
course, "(Let's Have) A Patrick Swayze Christmas".
Sorry about getting silly.
-diana
Ellie
Palestarr <pale...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970731221...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
> "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel mentions a lot of film stars.
>
> There's also an REM song, from one of their more recent albumns, that
> mentions James Dean and Steve McQueen.
>
> Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" is about Marilyn Monroe.
>
>
> Vogue..by Madonna..AStaire.Rogers.Kelly. Bette Davis..Marilyn Lana..Rita
Hayward..MArlon Brando..and the list goes on
Liz
andrew_gilmour
On 31 Jul 1997 22:16:19 GMT, pale...@aol.com (Palestarr) wrote:
>"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel mentions a lot of film stars.
>
>There's also an REM song, from one of their more recent albumns, that
>mentions James Dean and Steve McQueen.
Elecrolite - it also mentions Martin Sheen.
Pocohontas by Neil Young - "Pocohontas , Marlon Brando & Me"
Half Man Half Biscuit - 99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd
another song goes "James Dean was just a
careless diver"
Madness - Michael Caine
Adam & The Ants - Los Rancheros Clint Eastwood
Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting
Connie Chau
Ellie wrote:
>
> Maureen Goldman <inkslinger@{fog}sunshine.net> wrote in article
> <33e2f94f...@news.sunshine.net>...
> mentions..Astaire..Crosby..Garland..and...oh drat!! someone else.!! sorry
> but I am drawing a blank..
>
> Liz
> >
Was "Vogue" by madonna mentioned yet?
Perry Melchor
Someone please confirm - wasn't the a Pretenders' song called "Message of
Love" that mentioned Bardot?
Perry
McKenzie Black
Diana1138 wrote:
>
> Oh drat! I can't remember the name of the song, but Judy Garland sings it
> in a movie and it's all about Mr. Gable.
>
> someone will know what the heck I'm talking about.
>
> -diana
is supposedly writing a fan leter to Gable. I can't recall the film name
either!!
mac
JMAXSTEIN
The Kim Carnes song "Bette Davis Eyes" mentions some actress, but I can't
remember who at the moment....
Jeff Downs
R.L. Schoolcraft
There've been a number of country songs that mentioned film stars. The
Statler Brothers did two, "Whatever Happened To Randolph Scott" and "The
Movies" which listed lots of stars and movie titles. Roger Miller also
did a tribute to Hopalong Cassidy shortly after his death called
"Hoppy's Gone". And Ray Stevens did a tribute to John Wayne in "Marion
Michael Morrison".
Shiow-Jiau Yung
"Always True To You In My Fashion" from _Kiss_Me_Kate_: "Mr. Gable -- I
mean, Clark..."
Ted Thompson
Sinatra's "Nancy with the Laughing Face" mentions "Betty Grable, Lamour
and Turner"
Ted
lewis angel
Key Largo (I think that was the name of the song) mentioned "Bogie and
Bacall"
Bette Davis Eyes mentions (of course) Bette Davis and Jean Harlow.
Hogan
In article <tedt-03089...@blv-pm104-ip25.halcyon.com>, Ted
Thompson <te...@halcyon.com> writes
>Sinatra's "Nancy with the Laughing Face" mentions "Betty Grable, Lamour
>and Turner"
swears he's Elvis"
And of course Elvis is mentioned again in "Walking in Memphis" by Cher
I suppose it depends if you consider Elvis a 'film star'.
--
Hogan
Vincent G. Macek
Anyone mentioned Dion's 'Donna (the Prima Donna)'?
"She wants to be just like Zsa Zsa Gabor"
VMacek
Michele Tirone
Not exactly the subject, but interesting too, in the same idea:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stevemcqueens
are a musician band that took the name of a star for their group: Steve
McQueen
Are there some others?
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Shawn50273
Madonna's "White Heat" is a tribute to James Cagney
Pet Shop Boys had a song that went: "I wanna dance with Cyd Charisse...",
Ms. Charisse even appeared in the video.
--------
Shawn
Arthur Wohlwill
In article <01bca11c$af3566c0$21becec2@mimi> "Michele Tirone" <mi...@dawnrain.com> writes:
>From: "Michele Tirone" <mi...@dawnrain.com>
>Subject: Re: Songs that mention film stars
>Date: 4 Aug 1997 21:21:24 GMT
>Not exactly the subject, but interesting too, in the same idea:
>http://home.t-online.de/home/stevemcqueens
>are a musician band that took the name of a star for their group: Steve
>McQueen
>Are there some others?
I dont know about bands named after stars, but there are at least a couple of
bands named after movies including
They Might Be Giants
and
Fine Young Cannibals
Arthur Wohlwill adwo...@UIC.EDU
Ted Thompson
"I Can't Get Started" - "Greta Garbo has asked me to tea"
Ted
Phil
"I feel tragic, like I was Marlon Brando,
when I look at my China Girl." - - Iggy Pop
Don Cashon
"Where have all the cowboys gone" mentions John Wayne.
Kolaga <NOSPAMXiu...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
<33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
wardog
In article <33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Look at the
bottom of this article for instructions on how to e-mail me wrote:
> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>
> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
> Largo"
>
> Any others?
How about the Clash and their song "The Right Profile," which laments the
rise and fall of Montgomery Clift?
FilmFile
In article <wardog-0808970046030001@pm2_05.webwide.net>, wardog
<war...@webwide.net> writes
Glenn Miller's "Peggy the Pin-up Girl" refers to Dorothy Lamour, Lana
Turner and maybe Betty Grable.
Glenn Miller's "The Gentleman Needs a Shave" might be about Orson
Welles.
Frank Zappa's "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" tells of Gregory
Peck's amourous adventures in a notorious south seas island (I think).
Mark
George W. Harris
Tom Lehrer's "Send the Marines" mentions John
Wayne and Randolph Scott, and his "George Murphy"
mentions Ronald Reagan, Helen Gahagan (sp?), and
(predictably) George Murphy.
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On Walter Egan's 1980 album "The Last Stroll" (Columbia Records) he does
a song called "Tuesday Weld," which in addition to Weld also mentions
Sandra Dee, Yvette Mimieux, Carol Lynley and Connie Stevens.
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andrew_gilmour
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:44:13 GMT, mimy...@interlog.com (A. Taylor)
wrote:
>Phil <alian...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>"I feel tragic, like I was Marlon Brando,
>>when I look at my China Girl." - - Iggy Pop
>
>Uh, I think you mean David Bowie's CHINA GIRL and not Iggy Pop.
>
No he was right. Iggy wrote it and recorded it in 1977. Bowie did a
cover version in 1983.
A. Taylor
Phil <alian...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"I feel tragic, like I was Marlon Brando,
>when I look at my China Girl." - - Iggy Pop
Uh, I think you mean David Bowie's CHINA GIRL and not Iggy Pop.
Andy
Vincent G. Macek
Tina Louise is one of the "52 Girls" by the B-52s (hey, she played a
movie star)
...there's Effie, Madge, Mabel, Biddie, (Tina Louise), Hazel, Mavis,
Wanda, Janet, Ronnie, Reba, Kate, Cindy, Crystal, Candy, Mercedes, Joan,
Betty, Brenda, Suzy, Anita, Phoebe and Jackie O. That's actally 23
girls.
Kate and Cindy sing the song, and Jackie O is self-explanatory, but are
any of the others movie stars?
Can you name, name, name, name them today?
VMacek
DBroo42539
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.
Lynn Woolery
"Puttin' On The Ritz" mentions Gary Cooper...
"Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" (new one from Paula Cole) mentions John
Wayne.
A. Taylor
Its kind of an obscure reference, but The Tragically Hip mention Kurt Cobain in
"Don't wake Daddy".
"Sled dogs after dinner
close their eyes on the howling wastes
kurt cobain, reincarnated,
sighs and licks his face"
Andy Taylor
A. Taylor
Andrew Gilmour wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:44:13 GMT, mimy...@interlog.com (A. Taylor)
>wrote:
>>Phil <alian...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>No he was right. Iggy wrote it and recorded it in 1977. Bowie did a
>cover version in 1983.
I stand corrected. I guess I'm showing my age (late 20's), and as such am more
familar with the Bowie version. Not to mention I heard Bowie's version on the
radio while reading the newsgroups, so it was fresh in my mind.
Andy Taylor
James W Cundy
"It's Hard to be a Saint in the City" (early Bruce Springsteen):
"I could walk like Brando right into the sun..."
Vincent G. Macek
'Mack the Knife', at least the cover by Bobby Darrin, mentions Lotte
Lenye (sp?), who played Rosa Klebb.
VMacek
Dan Helmick
I'm no William Holden,
And you're no Suzie Wong,
So I'll do the samba
While you march along.
- Martin Mull, "Sex and Violins"
--
Sweet Caroline
"It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney..."
-Animaniacs, "Yakko's Universe"
-Caroline
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Diana1138
Did anyone say "Lon Chaney will get you if you don't watch out" yet?
-diana
Jim Beaver
"Dear Mr. Gable"
"Puttin' On the Ritz" (Gary Cooper)
"Done Too Soon" (Humphrey Bogart, Buster Keaton, Fanny Brice, etc.)
"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?" (Scott, Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, etc.
)
"Bette Davis Eyes"
"Don't Bogart That Joint"
"The Late John Garfield Blues"
Off the top of my head.
Jim Beaver
Jim Beaver
"James Dean of Indiana" by Phil Ochs.
The Eagles' "James Dean"
"Werewolf of London" (Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr.)
That Don McLean song about George Reeves.
What I can't figure is why no songs about Louis Jean Heydt.
Jim
jke...@voicenet.com
Sorry. I'm entering this thread late. Did anyone mention "Celluloid
Heros" by the Kinks?
Jack
Ghyle
Al Stewert mentions both Bogart & Lorre in "The Year of the Cat".
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Two Monty Clift mentions - REM's "Monty got a Raw Deal" and The Clash's
The Right Profile" are both about Mr. Clift.
And REM's Man in the Moon is about Andy Kaufman.
Peggy Wilkins
From one of the Marx Brothers' films (was it Copacabana?):
What's another Alice Faye worth?
Or another Rita Hayworth?
If Jane Russell made it, so can I.
Lynn Woolery
Actually it was Bertie Higgins that wrote and performed the song "Key
Largo".
S Sittig <the...@atlas.vcu.edu> wrote in article
<5rt8al$u...@mercury.vcu.edu>...
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.97073...@dclsn2.cen.uiuc.edu>,
> Shiow-Jiau Yung <yu...@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >"Video Revue" is an "Animaniacs" song that is pretty cute and mentions
> >many film stars.
> >
> > SJY
> >
> >On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Kolaga wrote:
> >
> >> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
> >>
> >> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
> >> Largo"
> >>
> >> Any others?
> >> ---
> >> Remove the letters NOSPAM from the beginning of my e-mail address to
reply
> >>
> >>
> >
> >-------------------------------------------
> >Shiow-Jiau Yung
> >Electrical and Computer Engineering
> >University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> >http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~yung1
> >
> >
> Oh yes!
>
> The song "Stereophonic Sound" from SILK STOCKINGS mentions:
>
> Ava Gardner "if Ava Garnder played Godiva, riding on a mare.."
> Marilyn Monroe "stare at Marilyn's behind..."
>
> Stefan
>
Lynn Woolery
Joan Jett "Ridin' with James Dean"
Michele Tirone <mi...@dawnrain.com> wrote in article
<01bc9df8$8dae6c80$5419fac2@mimi>...
> "The Big Strong Man", an Irish song, mentions Mae West in the last verse.
>
> Brigitte Bardot, French sex symbol has 2 songs completely devoted to her:
a
> South American (don't excactly know what country) song "Brigitte Bardot"
> and in a Serge Gainsbourg's song "Initials BB" (maybe more songs...)
>
> --
> Michele - Paris (France) http://dawnrain.com/
> LF Brian Keith films to complete my collection - My list:
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dancertm
On 19 Aug 1997 05:52:27 GMT, bir...@aol.com (Birtha2) wrote:
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>"candle in the wind" by elton john
Never used in a film, but check out Noel Coward's Parody of "Lets Fall
In Love."
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kirby warnock
Yes, he did.
Other songs that mention film stars include "Rock On" by David Essex who
sang about James Dean, and John Prine who also sang, "James Dean went
out to Hollywood got himself in a picture show." on his song, "Picture
Show."
Also, the obvious, "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John, and "Roy Rogers"
by him, too.
Then there is Bananarama, who did the song, "Robert DeNiro's Calling."
And Al Stewart, who mentions Peter Lorre in "The Year of the Cat."
I'll come up with some more, but I'm tired.
Watch my TV show, RETURN TO GIANT, on Chicago PBS station WYCC, Aug. 30
at 6:30 pm.
KW
R J Briggs
Rattlesnakes, by Lloyd Cole: "She looks like Eve Marie Saint / In On The
Waterfront".
Regards,
R J Briggs
David Tenner
I know that "Bette Davis Eyes" has been mentioned, but there were also a
couple of parodies of it: "Sammy Davis Eyes" and "Marty Feldman Eyes."
And Cole Porter's "You're the Top" had the line, "You're the National
Gallery, you're Garbo's salary." (And "you're the nimble tread/of the
feet of Fred/Astaire." And, for that matter, "You're Mickey Mouse.")
--
David Tenner
ten...@m3.sprynet.com
fyns...@webtv.net
Rupert Holmes' Widescreen has a reference to Steve McQueen. And Drop
That Name from Bells Are Ringing is one celebrity name after another,
including Rin Tin Tin and Lassie.
Catty
kirby warnock <big...@onramp.net> wrote:
>Then there is Bananarama, who did the song, "Robert DeNiro's Calling."
Pardon me, but shouldn't it be called 'Robert DeNiro's Waiting'?
Catty
Agnar Kristjan Thorsteinsson
> There愀 also a song that was called Moviestar with some guy called
> Harpo.It mentions Steve McQueen and few other actors in it
A.K.Thorsteinsson
Phil
Some more:
"Car Jamming" by the Clash mentions Lauren Bacall.
There was also some lite-rock thing called "Key Largo" that said "we had
it all/just like Bogie and Bacall"
"Science Fiction", the opener from Rocky Horror Picture Show, mentions a
bunch of film stars.
Springsteen's "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" mentions Brando.
Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" includes Lon Cjaney AND Lon Chaney
Jr.
Phil
Dan Kenneally
Marilyn Monroe:
START A FIRE
AMERICAN ROULETTE with Presley and Dean
DIAMOND DOGS
CELLULOID HEROES
Writer216
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>From: Agnar Kristjan Thorsteinsson <M...@vortex.is>
>Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 00:25:38 -0100
>Message-id: <33FE3C12...@vortex.is>
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>> There愀 also a song that was called Moviestar with some guy called
>> Harpo.It mentions Steve McQueen and few other actors in it
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>A.K.Thorsteinsson
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the statler brothers had two such songs (both #1's on the country charts):
Do You Remember These and the other was simply called The Movies
Unknown
Do any of you remember the 80's song by Madness called "My Name Is
Michael Caine."?? That's a great one and features Caine actually
saying, well... "My Name Is Michael Caine" in it. Very funny song.
It's on the same album as "Our House"
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:13:56 +0100, FilmFile <Film...@antispam.ss>
wrote:
>In article <wardog-0808970046030001@pm2_05.webwide.net>, wardog
><war...@webwide.net> writes
>>In article <33e20c28...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Look at the
>>bottom of this article for instructions on how to e-mail me wrote:
>>
>>> Kim Carns (sp?) -- "You've got Bette Davis eyes"
>>>
>>> Jimmy Buffet (???) -- "We had it all, Like Bogey and Bacall, In Key
>>> Largo"
>>>
>>> Any others?
>>
>>How about the Clash and their song "The Right Profile," which laments the
>>rise and fall of Montgomery Clift?
>
>Glenn Miller's "Peggy the Pin-up Girl" refers to Dorothy Lamour, Lana
>Turner and maybe Betty Grable.
>
>Glenn Miller's "The Gentleman Needs a Shave" might be about Orson
>Welles.
>
>Frank Zappa's "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" tells of Gregory
>Peck's amourous adventures in a notorious south seas island (I think).
>
>
>
>Mark
"There You Go!"
Thomas G Corrigan
The song, "Puttin' on the Ritz" contains the line:"...trying hard to look
like Gary Cooper, super-duper."
Opencity
The Sammy Kershaw country song "Cadillac Style" has the singer wailing
"Well I ain't Burt Reynolds and I ain't Tom Selleck."
(Considering how their respective careers are going, it is probably best
he isn't.)
Thomas G Corrigan
Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Palm Beach
"Puttin' on the Ritz" contains the line:" ... trying hard to look like
Gary Cooper, super-duper."
Thomas G Corrigan
p045...@pb.seflin.org
Mehitabel
Thomas Hickey wrote:
>
> Distribution:
> I know that most of them were not in films, muchless film stars, but
> Hillbilly Heaven by Tex Ritter probably mentions the most know names.
And Great Big Green Eyes (I think that's the title) by George Fox
includes the line "She walked just like Marilyn; I felt just like James
Dean"
--
To e-mail me, remove SPAMHK from my address.
Thomas G Corrigan
Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Palm Beach
The song "Puttin' on the Ritz" contains the line: " ... trying hard to
Thomas G Corrigan
Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Palm Beach
"Puttin' on the Ritz" contains the line: " ... trying hard to look like
Gary Cooper, super-duper."
Thomas G Corrigan
Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Palm Beach
My apologies to this group for what appears to be insistent repetition on
one note. It was inadverent and due to a computer glitch which told me
messages were not sent. Tom Corrigan. Thanks.
chance
On 4 Sep 1997 14:34:22 GMT, p045...@pb.seflin.org (Thomas G Corrigan)
wrote:
[]Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Palm Beach
[]"Distribution:
[]
[]"Puttin' on the Ritz" contains the line: " ... trying hard to look like
[]Gary Cooper, super-duper."
[]
[]Catty (c...@zen-centaur.demon.co.uk) wrote:
[]: kirby warnock <big...@onramp.net> wrote:
Dunno how long this thread's been going, so someone may've already
mentioned "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", about 1980, by Jon and Vangelis.
The lyrics contain a string of actor's names against the song's general
motif of film noir - including Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, Edward
G. Robinson and "all those guys who always shoot between the eyes..."
[There's also a ref to Citizen Kane shortly before the actor string]
Art Rockwood
In article <340f6ca0....@news.lynx.bc.ca>, timbe...@lynx.bc.ca wrote:
>On 4 Sep 1997 14:34:22 GMT, p045...@pb.seflin.org (Thomas G Corrigan)
>wrote:
>
>mentioned "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", about 1980, by Jon and Vangelis.
>
Knife" mentions Miss Lotte Lenya who starred as the evil Miss Krebbs in "From
Russia with Love". (Love them spiked toed shoes she wore). Lotte Lenya was
also the wife of Kurt Weill who wrote "Mack the Knife".
Also, "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins has the line "Just like Bogie and Bacall".
Pasquale J. Di Pillo
In <5upkl5$gmp$2...@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> rock...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Art
Rockwood) writes:
>Just joined the thread too. This one's probably been mentioned. "Mack
the
>Knife" mentions Miss Lotte Lenya who starred as the evil Miss Krebbs
in "From
>Russia with Love". (Love them spiked toed shoes she wore). Lotte Lenya
was
>also the wife of Kurt Weill who wrote "Mack the Knife".
>Also, "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins has the line "Just like Bogie and
Bacall".
>
I don't know the original lyrics to "Mack the Knife", but I always had
the feeling that Bobby Darin ad-libbed Lotte Lenya into the song. Same
rhythm pattern as Jenny Diver.
Pat Di Pillo
FRAJM
>Just joined the thread too. This one's probably been mentioned. "Mack the
>Knife" mentions Miss Lotte Lenya who starred as the evil Miss Krebbs in "From
>
>Russia with Love". (Love them spiked toed shoes she wore). Lotte Lenya was
>also the wife of Kurt Weill who wrote "Mack the Knife".
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Lenya is mentioned only in a
version of the song that was recorded by Bobby Darin, who also recorded a
little classic called "Splish, Splash, I Was Takin' a Bath." She was not in
the German original or the canonical English translation. (Personally, I
always treasured the recording of Ella Fitzgerald live in West Berlin
forgetting the words and singing "I've forgotten the words" and then
filling in with some marvelous scat singing until she got to a part she
remembered -- such presence of mind.) Lenya was in the original Berlin
production of "The Three-Penny Opera" that "Mack" comes from, btw.
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
http://members.aol.com/frajm/frankm.htm
FilmGene
<<Lenya was in the original Berlin
production of "The Three-Penny Opera" that "Mack" comes from, btw.>>
Lenya, the wife of composer Kurt Weill, was in the German film version in
1931 of the opera directed by G. W. Pabst.
Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC
ab...@pipeline.com
dip...@ix.netcom.com(Pasquale J. Di Pillo) wrote:
>In <5upkl5$gmp$2...@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> rock...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Art
>Rockwood) writes:
>>Just joined the thread too. This one's probably been mentioned. "Mack
>the
>>Knife" mentions Miss Lotte Lenya who starred as the evil Miss Krebbs
>in "From
>>Russia with Love". (Love them spiked toed shoes she wore). Lotte Lenya
>was
>>also the wife of Kurt Weill who wrote "Mack the Knife".
>>Also, "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins has the line "Just like Bogie and
>Bacall".
>>
>I don't know the original lyrics to "Mack the Knife", but I always had
>the feeling that Bobby Darin ad-libbed Lotte Lenya into the song. Same
>rhythm pattern as Jenny Diver.
>Pat Di Pillo
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Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife" uses the English lyric from
Marc Blitzstein's phenomenally successful off-Broadway
adaptation/translation of the Brecht-Weill musical THE
THREEPENNY OPERA, and salutes the star of that
production--"Miss Lotte Lenya"--by inserting her name
instead of "Polly Peachum."
Abfou
WallSt612
Rodney Crowell wrote a song in the mid-70's that was first recorded by
Gary Stewart, AIN'T LIVIN' LONG LIKE THIS.
I live for Angel she's my roadhouse queen
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
FRAJM
>
>Lenya, the wife of composer Kurt Weill, was in the German film version in
>1931 of the opera directed by G. W. Pabst.
>
>
>
>Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC
>
>
Good to know. Thanks.
It's shame that in her busy stage career she could not have found the time
and opportunity to make more than a handful of films. She pretty much stole
the show in _The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone_, for example.
Scott Andrew Borton
Thomas G Corrigan <p045...@pb.seflin.org> wrote:
> The song "I Can't Get Started (with You)," recorded in the late 1930s by
> Bunny Berrigan contains the following: "I've been consulted by Franklin
> .; Greta Garbo has had me to tea ...D;
A version of "I Can't Get Started" that Maynard Ferguson sings replaces the
quoted line with "I've been invited to tea with the queen / Linda Lovelace,
she thinks I'm obscene..." A different kind of film star, of course.
Furthermore, the Kinks' "Celluloid Heroes" mentions Marilyn Monroe, Mickey
Rooney, Bela Lugosi, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, and George
Sanders.
--scott
Will Flor
In article <19970908165...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, wall...@aol.com (WallSt612) wrote:
>There was a song by The Statler Brothers that had the line:
>"What ever happenned to Randolph Scott
>riden the range alone?
> It goes on to mention Gene(Autry) Roy(Rogers) and other western stars.
>
I'm pretty sure the title was "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?"
-Will Flor wi...@will-flor.spamblock.com
Appropriately adjust my return address to reach me via e-mail.
WallSt612
There was a song by The Statler Brothers that had the line:
"What ever happenned to Randolph Scott
riden the range alone?
It goes on to mention Gene(Autry) Roy(Rogers) and other western stars.
Also there's a Don Williams song where he says:
If you see old Burt(Reynolds) tell him I like all his movies.
Bruce
Robert Ready
Cole Porter's "You're the Top" includes the verse: "You're the
top--you're Garbo's Salary".
Rudy Vallee (film and radio star)'s "Kansas City Kitty" includes (the
self-deprecatory) line: "She's so dumb, it really, really kills--why
she thinks Rudy Vallee is a place between two hills".
A major orchestral work worth mentioning in this context is French
composer Charles Koechlin's "Symphony of the Stars" (1933). The work is
in seven movements; each named for a major star: including Greta Garbo,
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings , Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie
Chaplin . It's been quite a while since I heard this work (Angel/EMI
L..P.).
Does anyone recall the other two stars?
Michele Tirone
Johnny Cash has a song dedicated to Gene Autry "Who's Gene Autry"
French singer Eddy Mitchell names many actors and actresses in different
songs: Gary Cooper (in "La dernière séance"), Marylin, Elvis...
Michele - Paris (France)
LF Brian Keith movies and shows
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