- Adella - UB40
- Alison - Elvis Costello
- Aja - Steely Dan. Is it about a girl?
- Amanda - Aisha Duo
- Amelia - Joni Mitchell
- Amie - Damien Rice
- Anna - Arthur Alexander
- Anna Stesia - Prince
- Angelina - Louis Prima
- Angelou - Van Morrison
- Angie - Rolling Stones
- Angie - Bert Jansch (instrumental)
- Babooshka - Kate Bush
- Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
- Bernadette - The Four Tops
- Bertha - Four Men & A Dog
- Betty Jean - Chuck Berry
- Billie - Pavement
- Billie-Jean - Michael Jackson
- Brandy - The O'Jays
- Britney - Busted
- Calypso - Suzanne Vega
- Candida - Dawn (odd to write a song about a yeast infection)
- Carol - Chuck Berry (Chuck teaching Keef)
- Caroline - lots of these
- Concrete Blonde
- David Gray
- Kirsty McColl
- Seventh Day Slumber
- Status Quo
- Fleetwood Mac
- Captain Kennedy
- Concrete Blonde
- Carolyn - Merle Haggard
- Carrie - Europe (YouTube)
- Carrie-Anne - The Hollies
- Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
- Cecilia Ann - The Pixies
- Charmaine - The Bachelors
- Christie Lee - Billy Joel. Written about Christie Lee Brinkley.
- Christina - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
- Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees
- Clare - Fairground Attraction
- Clair - Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Claudette - The Everly Brothers (written by Roy Orbison and named after his wife)
- Cleopha - Scott Joplin (instrumental)
- Corrina, Corrina - Bob Dylan
- Daphne - Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
- Darlene - Led Zeppelin
- Deborah - Dave Edmunds
- Deborah - T. Rex
- Debra - Beck
- Deirde - The Beach Boys
- Delilah - Tom Jones
- Diane - The Bachelors
- Donna - 10CC
- Eleanor - Hot Chip
- Eloise - The Damned (YouTube)
- Emma - Hot Chocolate, Sisters of Mercy
- Emma - America
- Emma - Alkaline Trio
- Eugenia - Scott Joplin (instrumental)
- Evangeline - Icicle Works
- Francene - ZZ Top
- Francesca - Richard Thompson
- Gigolette - Roy Orbison
- Gloria - Van Morrison (YouTube)
- Grace - Jeff Buckley
- Grace - Supergrass
- Grace - U2
- Hanna Hanna - China Crisis
- Hannah - Andrew Gold
- Hazel - Bob Dylan
- Helen - Bridge. Brilliant record from the Oxford band.
- Helena - My Chemical Romance
- Henrietta - The Fratellis
- Imelda - Mark Knopfler
- Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
- Isis - Bob Dylan
- Isobel - Dido
- Isobel - Bjöaut;rk
- Jacqueline - The Coral
- Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
- January - Pilot
- Jennie - Richard Thompson
- Jenny, Jenny - Little Richard
- Jessica (instrumental) - Allman Brothers
- Jessie - Joshua Kadison (YouTube)
- Jet - Wings. I'm almost convinced that Jet is meant to be a girl's name.
- Joanna - The Walker Brothers
- Jolene - Dolly Parton, Sisters of Mercy (LastFm)
- Jolene - Cake (LastFm)
- Josie - Steely Dan
- Juanita - The Flying Burrito Brothers
- Judy - The Pipettes
- Julia - The Beatles
- Julie Anne - Kenny
- Juliet - The Four Pennies
- Kayleigh - Marillion
- Kimberly - Patti Smith
- Kitty - The Pogues
- Lana - Roy Orbison
- Laticia - The Spectres
- Laura - The Scissor Sisters
- Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
- Layla - Richard & Linda Thompson
- Leah - Roy Orbison
- Lola - The Kinks
- Loretta - Townes Van Zandt
- Louise - The Human League, Tony Christie
- Louise - Alexis Korner
- Lucille - Little Richard (YouTube)
- L-L-L-L-Lucy - Mud
- Lucille - Kenny Rogers
- Lyla - Oasis
- Lyla - The Districts
- Mandy - Barry Manilow
- Maria - Blondie (YouTube)
- Marie - The Bachelors
- Mariella - Kate Nash
- Marina - The Gibson Brothers
- Margarita - Traveling Wilburys (sic! sic!)
- Marta - The Bachelors
- Martha - Tom Waits
- Mary - The Scissor Sisters
- Mary Jo - Belle & Sebastian
- Mathilda - Scott Walker
- Maybellene - Chuck Berry
- Melinda - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
- Melody - Steve Perry
- Melusine - The Would-Be-Goods. Well, not so much a girl as a mermaid-type thing.
- Michelle - The Beatles
- Molina - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Mona - Captive State
- Mona - Bo Diddley
- Monica - The Kinks
- Nadine - Chuck Berry
- Natalia - Van Morrison
- Nellie - Lindisfarne
- Nikita - Elton John
- Peg - Steely Dan
- Peggy-Sue - Buddy Holly
- Polly - Kate Rusby
- Polly - The Kinks
- Prescilla - Bat For Lashes
- Ramona - The Bachelors
- Renee - Talk Talk
- Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
- Rosabel - Bella Hardy
- Rosalee - Jack The Lad
- Rosalie - Thin Lizzy
- Rosalie - Alejandro Escovedo
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) - Bruce Springsteen. Disallowed for gratuitous addition of a parenthetical subtitle
- Rosanna - Toto
- Rosetta - Georgie Fame & Alan Price
- Rosie - Jackson Browne
- Roxanne - The Police
- Roxette - Dr Feelgood
- Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
- Sally Mae - John Lee Hooker (YouTube)
- Sandy - John Travolta. Why-ay-ay-ay-ay?
- Sara - Bob Dylan
- Sara - Fleetwood Mac
- Sarah - Thin Lizzy
- Sarah - Bat For Lashes
- Shambelle - The Police (instrumental)
- Sherry - The Four Seasons
- Sheila - Tommy Roe
- Sheila - Jamie T
- Sibella - Richard Thompson
- Sunny - Bobby Hebb
- Sussudio - Phil Collins. Might be a girl's name, might just be random meaningless drivel. Who cares?
- Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
- Suzanne - Lou Reed
- Sylvia - Focus (instrumental)
- Sylvia - Pulp
- Tara - Roxy Music (instrumental)
- Tulane - Chuck Berry, Steve Gibbons Band - I'm assuming Tulane is a girl's name, but, hey, who knows?
- Valerie - also popular
- Velouria - The Pixies
- Venus - The Shocking Blue, Bananarama
- Vera - Pink Floyd
- Veronica - Elvis Costello
- Victoria - The Kinks
- Victoria - The Fall
- Yvonne - The Saw Doctors
Tuesday 9 October 2007
Girl's (First) Name Songs
The name of the song must be purely the name. Dear Prudence doesn't count. See also the list of Girl's Full Name Songs.
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OK, name only so there goes "Sweet Caroline."
But I think Lady Fuschia by the Strawbs must count as a name.
Who is Amy Whitehouse by the way? Any realtion to Mary Whitehouse?
And didn't Richard Thompson do a Valerie. Or is that the same one (I know it's not the Zutons one)
Amy Winehouse was originally on my list as Amy Whinearse, then Winearse, then Shitehouse, and somehow she ended up as Whitehouse. I'd like to think of her being the offspring of Mary Whitehouse, but it seems unlikely.
Richard T did indeed do a Valerie that is different to the other Valeries.
OK but what's wrong with Lady Fuschia?
Also:
Caroline - Seventh Day Slumber
Carmalita - Flaco Jimenez
Elizabeth - The Prague Funfair Band
Carolina Rua - Mary Black
Jolene - whoever it was
Lili Marlene - ditto
Bridget Cruise - Turlough O'Carolan
Fanny Power - ditto
Yvonne- The Saw Doctors
Prompted by the obituary of Fritz Fryer of the Four Pennies I feel I should mention their 1964 no 1 hit "Juliet"
My original idea was for first names only, so Lady Fuschia or Marmalade would be out.
I am going to have to start a sub list for songs named after a full name. I'm not sure about folk tunes as you could out half the contents of Kerr's Merry Melodies on the list.
for H you could have
Henrietta-The Fratellis
and the Beach Boys did "Caroline, No" but does that not count.
and isn't there some tom jones song called delilah
Henrietta and Delilah added - many thanks. And you're right, Caroline No, or indeed, Caroline Yes, don't count.
The Bachelors did (in alphabetical order):
Charmaine
Diane
Ramona
Marie
Marta
Deirdre - The Beach Boys
"Song for Whoever" by The Beautiful South contains 11 girls' names (though none in the title):
Cathy, Shirley, Julie, Jane, Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel and Mary
Found another Caroline as performed by Irish band Captain Kennedy (with nice mando riff)http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=QgD8tow6ejI
That's seven without going near Neil Diamond
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