Different, and very nice. Thanks for making me aware of it.


As a 60+ year old rocker, I'm still a fan of this one (I apologize for the ad at the beginning, you can skip it after about the 5 second mark) :

The Cowboy Junkies' version was the first one I heard (so very calm and zen-like).

As always, a complete and appreciation for the original.


(P.S. There was no ad. I think they only play those beginning ads when you watch it directly on YouTube)

Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her - Simon & Garfunkel
Amanda - Boston
Mandy - Barry Manilow
Emma - Hot Chocolate
Laurie - Dickie Lee
Angie - Rolling Stones


(damn, I could play this game all day......)

They had a new lead singer but he sounded exactly like Steve Martin (original singer). Wonderful show!

And they have several more girl's names songs! Goodbye Holly, Desiree, Ivy Ivy, Myrah (off top of my head).

The 60s were so exciting, what with new music coming at us daily! And really good stuff, too!!

Yes, I love that hit. Kind of a "wall of sound", IIRC

which led to their music being variously termed as "Bach-rock" or "baroque rock."
(Wikipedia)

I has been decades since I studied music, so I don't know.
Left Banke reminds me of the Four Seasons.

Roger Waters The Wall 1979

My high school band director took Brandy - sped up the tempo - and made it the school fight song.

They're still using it. No one but the old timers like me know the source.

I am glad Guardians II integrated the song into the plot. Give it life for another generation.

At least before my high school band got a hold of it.

I'm named after this song. The song was written by Lee Eastman about his one-year daughter, Linda Eastman. Linda would marry Paul McCartney.

I read in a book that Julia Lennon would sing it around the house when John was growing up. Talk about coincidence!

Three versions:

The studio version from Diamond Head. That's Brian Eno singing:

by Rod Stewart

[link:

I hated that song - maybe that's why I remember it.

I love that song!

MY name is Caroline. The second someone starts singing that song to me, I am anything but sweet.

you have to admit it is a catchy tune.

And even after the fame of Neil Diamond's song, nobody can pronounce it correctly.

Carolyn and Caroline are two different names.

Although this song mistakenly identifies Godzilla as "He", I'm sure she was a she!

"Laura" is a 1945 popular song. The music was composed by David Raksin for the 1944 movie Laura starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, and is heard frequently in the movie. The lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer after the film had made the tune popular. According to Mercer, he had not yet seen the movie when he wrote the lyrics, but was aware that it was a romantic, somewhat haunting story.

The song has become a jazz standard, with more than 400 known recordings.[1] Some of the best-known versions are by Woody Herman, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Johnston, Emil Newman, David Rose, Billy Eckstine, Charlie Parker, J. J. Johnson, Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra[2] and Julie London (included on her 1955 debut album Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 1). The first 10 notes of the song are sometimes "quoted" during jazz solos, especially since Dizzy Gillespie did it during his "Perdido" solo at the famous Massey Hall concert in 1953.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(1945_song)

And for a second, Eleanor Rigby.

How about Oh My Darling, Clementine.

Interesting song. Some of the lyrics mystify me. Is she "only a dream"?

they are chosen because they are beautiful. Sometimes because they rhyme with a word the lyricist wanted to use.

"only a dream" I love that.

TRADITIONAL LYRICS & VERSES

Oh My Darling Clementine Lyrics

Near a cavern, across from a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Lived a miner, forty-niner
And his daughter Clementine

CHORUS
Oh my Darling, Oh my Darling,
Oh my Darling Clementine.
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine
Herring boxes without topses
Sandals were for Clementine.
CHORUS:

Drove she ducklings to the water
Every morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine.
CHORUS:

Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles soft and fine,
But alas, I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.
CHORUS:

Then the miner, forty-niner,
Soon began to peak and pine,
Thought he oughter join his daughter,
Now he's with his Clementine.
CHORUS:

In the church yard in the canyon
Where the myrtle doth entwine
There grows roses and other posies
Fertilized by Clementine.
CHORUS:


Talk about a run of bad luck. Dang

Love this one!

Flo and Eddie~

Although, technically...

Ballad of John and Yoko
Carol
Clarabella
Dear Prudence
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Eleanor Rigby
Julia
Lady Madonna
Long Tall Sally
Lovely Rita
Lucille
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Maggie Mae
Martha My Dear
Michelle
Penny Lane
Polythene Pam
Sexy Sadie
What's the New Mary Jane

http://www.nefuri.com/Name_a_Beatles_song_with_a_womans_name_in_the_title_759993.html

I hate that song, but love Van Morrison.

LAYLA.

here's a version by the High Kings

Written to honor his little daughter

also:

Oh Donna - Richie Valens

Runaround Sue - Dion

Take a Letter Maria

Tell Donna I Love Her

Don Henley--Damn it, Rose, Annabell
Neil Diamond--Suzanne, Cherry
Crosby, Stills, Nash--Suite, Judy Blue Eyes
Journey--Oh, Sheri
Steely Dan--Ricki Don't Lose that Number

Never could decide if "Pieces of April", by 3 Dog Night was an ode to Spring, or the confession of a murderer.....

was written for Judy Collins. Frankly I did not know who Judy Collins is, but she has a great voice. Don't know how I missed her.

I figured this out listening to old Alice Cooper and noting Hello Hooray was a cover of Judy Collins' song.

by Steve Winwood.

Linda Lu

known as The Pastime.

The lyrics do include a girl called Linda Lou, but her name isn't in the title.
(In the Lynyrd Skynyrd song the bar's name was changed to The Jug)

However, in my opinion, it's one of the best rock & roll songs of all time....I LOVE it!

Mandy - Barry Manilow

But there are technicalities.

... that could be interpreted to mean the name of a particular female, or a name generally applied to females.

-- Mal

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy,
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not dumb but I don't understand
Why she walk like a woman and talk like a man
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Her love’s so heavy gonna make you stagger

"Hello, Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson.

Four Seasons--"Dawn," "Mary Ann."

Randy and the Rainbows--"Denise."

Musikladen, 1972: