The best songs named after girls/women... in the world!

[Seeker_UK]

 

[Paul56]

Tim Buckley :- Martha
Nick Drake :- Hazy Jane
Nick Cave :- Deanna, Watching Alice, Christina the Astonishing

 

[Mescalito]

Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe & The Fish
Martha - Jeffeson Airplane
Mona - Quicksilver Messenger Service (better than the Bo Diddley original)
Jennifer - Loyd Cole & the Commotions
Chris

 

[mik_rik]

1. 
   Dion and the Belmonts - Runaround Sue

 

[mik_rik]

Thread would be incomplete without Sir Tom .... Delilah

 

[mickyricky]

Beware!Beware ! Women here’s one

 

[rbrown]

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (hasn’t been mentioned yet). Beautiful song.

Edit: droodzilla mentioned it. Sorry!

 

[Marchbanks]

A quick search suggests no-one has mentioned Eloise yet - one of the greatest overblown, melodramatic pop songs. Search out some of Barry Ryan’s performances if you don’t believe me!

 

[Seeker_UK]

 

[Joe Hutch]

A quick search suggests no-one has mentioned Eloise yet - one of the greatest overblown, melodramatic pop songs. Search out some of Barry Ryan’s performances if you don’t believe me!

I saw him perform that song at the Liverpool Empire many years ago. Dusty Springfield was top of the bill.

 

[FC united]

Sweaty Betty

 

[demotivated]

Sweaty Betty

At last, a creative thinker. The only girl mentioned who swaps a knuckle shuffle for a note to get off games.

 

[MarkW]

Planet Claire

(How could I forget her, many years ago she worked as progress chaser in our art department. Lovely girl, quite a lot of her...)

Which would bring us round to A Whole Lotta Rosie, but that's another story entirely.

 

[windhoek]

When I started this thread I was thinking only about finding the best songs that had a girl/woman's name as the title, not as part of the title. But as FZ said at The Filmore East in '71: I know when I'm licked... all over!

 

[Engels]

Ok then, Phil Lynott wrote two different songs titled Sarah with Thin Lizzy, one earlier one for his grandmother and the better known later one for his daughter

 

[Marchbanks]

I saw him perform that song at the Liverpool Empire many years ago. Dusty Springfield was top of the bill.

I cede the points to you there. The best I can offer is Frankie Vaughan topping a variety bill at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens and a vague recollection of seeing The Bachelors in panto. Perhaps they sang their chart-topper Diane, he said trying to bring his post back on-topic.

 

[happy_chappie]

At last, a creative thinker. The only girl mentioned who swaps a knuckle shuffle for a note to get off games.

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I think that was Julie the schooly, but a girls name none the less.
Suzi Smiled by The Tigers of Pan Tang.

 

[stormyuklondon1]

Counting crows - Anna Begins

Counting crows - Goodnight Elizabeth

 

[YNWOAN]

Planet Claire

(How could I forget her, many years ago she worked as progress chaser in our art department. Lovely girl, quite a lot of her...)

Which would bring us round to A Whole Lotta Rosie, but that's another story entirely.

Planet Claire (B52’s) is the first track that came to my mind.

 

[Colonel_Mad]

And Ode to Joyce - HMHB.

The girl's name song to end all girl's names songs......


Hey Joyce
Rock and Roll never gave you a voice
It’s never given you so much as a lament
So I went to the store
And I bought a guitar
To bestow this accolade on you
Just you
Not Sally, Carrie-Anne or Peggy Sue
I’m going to spend my next half day with a girl called Joyce