What’s your favourite song featuring a female name in the title?
That’s your question this week for you to mull over. Simply post your answer below and you could win a sprightly €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my good self.
Lines MUST close at 3.45pm EXTENDED until 2am!
Please include video links if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s fast winner here.
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So Long Marianne by the ever gorgeous Leonard Cohen.
https://youtu.be/3XzAjfwQtvM
Glorious. A beautiful earworm.
He and Jennifer Warnes did a duet of it after she released Famous Blue Raincoat. Well worth a listen. Of course I cannot find the link right now.
Oh wow that is a must listen. I’ll have to see if I can find it. My two favourite voices right there.
Excellent choice millie, I’ll throw Suzanne into the mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E
Yeh I’d prefer ‘Suzanne’.
‘And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China’ is pure lovely.
Here comes the Boy Named Sue… 10/1
I guess that had to be done :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
Also ‘God Save The Queen’ – The Sex Pustols
https://youtu.be/yqrAPOZxgzU
Indeed. God will be delighted with her shoutout. Bless.
Jennifer – Eurythmics
https://youtu.be/DRUg1uFAdGQ
The eight ball is all gone,it’s daylight,the sweats have started,all I have are some Valium and weed to ease the crash,the dealers aren’t answering …ok roll a joint take a pill blast some stones …hope the voices stop ..
Oh Angie I still love ya…
https://youtu.be/K5_EBAzIPJM
‘O Caroline’ by Matching Mole
https://youtu.be/MXXFp-9zsCQ
Sublime!
Sally MacLennane, The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvV5mryQF1I
(yes, yes, she’s stout!)
Jolene by Dolly Parton https://youtu.be/nwBNBcFAFso
Absolute classic
Winner winner winner
Hard to beat indeed
Hold my gin and grapefruit- God-daughter Miley Cyrus – The Backyard Sessions – “Jolene”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw
I really enjoyed that version and I have it on permalink: Miley has an incredible voice and range, and there were some great other songs in The Backyard Sessions.
She also did a wonderful duet with godmother Dolly at the Grammys a few years back.
But I must admit I still think there is something about the passion and vulnerability in Dolly’s original that makes it my favourite
Absolutely- strip it back- just people singing songs.
Alison, by Elvis Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnS_5JY0LAQ
The REAL Elvis, his aim is true
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8
Gloria – Them
I much prefer Van Morrison’s blues rock output like this than the MOR stuff that he’s maybe better known for now. Great tune.
https://youtu.be/sDo-GA1hLk4
https://youtu.be/AwuCF5lYqEE
Dylan’s Visions of Johanna
the most chilling, lyrically beautiful song ever
…Lola
https://youtu.be/LemG0cvc4oU
From the same canon,,
Victoria
https://youtu.be/z2GHlcwlT1Y
I still have nightmares!
https://youtu.be/qmOLtTGvsbM
Rosanna
i expect you to have this down pat by Monday:
https://youtu.be/NMI81yIlT0Q
that was really interesting, however you clearly did not witness my one and only drum lesson,
unfortunately any rythmn I have resides in the auld snake hips
for a second, I thought you were linking to a chris de burgh song, Janet
would have been so painful to insult you but I was resolved momentarily to doing it
nah can’t stand the boll*x
so far no ABBA or Beatles, more boll*xs imo
Na na na na-na-na na
Na-na-na na
Hey Jude
https://youtu.be/A_MjCqQoLLA
Have you ever seen Veda’s (Dublin drag) version of that Patrica the interior designer song?
New pint please?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m3oUpI8s3Tc&feature=share
Osez Joséphine
Ha!
;)
A l’arrière des berlines
On devine
Des monarques et leurs figurines
Juste une paire de demi-dieux
Livrés à eux
Ils font des p’tits
Il font des envieux
A l’arrière des dauphines
Je suis le roi des scélérats
A qui sourit la vie
Marcher sur l’eau
Éviter les péages
Jamais souffrir
Juste faire hennir
Les chevaux do plaisir
Osez osez Joséphine
Osez osez Joséphine
Plus rien n’s’oppose à la nuit
Rien ne justifie
Usez vos souliers
Usez l’usurier
Soyez ma muse
Et que ne durent que les moments doux
Durent que les moments doux
Et que ne doux
Osez osez Joséphine
Osez osez Joséphine
Plus rien n’s’oppose à la nuit
Rien ne justifie
Osez osez
Osez osez
Osez osez Joséphine
Osez osez Joséphine
Plus rien n’s’oppose à la nuit
Rien ne justifie
Excellent rendition
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her by Simon and Garfunkel. It’s pure poetry and Art Garfunkel’s voice is just beautiful.
https://youtu.be/jINFNxSxzhA
i’ll see your emily and raise you a cecilia
https://youtu.be/a5_QV97eYqM
sheena is a punk rocker
1-2-3-4-
https://youtu.be/yCW7Aw8ugOI
Evangeline by Angels of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UNecNMM50
Sarah, by Philo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ALdt53-_4
Showing another side of the man when his daughter was born
‘Brenda’s got a baby.’
https://youtu.be/NRWUs0KtB-I
nadine
seems like every time see you honey you got something else to do..
https://youtu.be/myPzYiTLvK0
i’ll see my nadine and raise myself a maybelline..
https://youtu.be/8RAfxiyMKAk
maybe she’s born with it… ( sorry )
peggy sue-hoo-hoo
https://youtu.be/bfu_gfPBPWc
Oooh scottser that’s a damn fine choice
I think I would have to go with the late but wonderful Laura Brannigan and Gloria. Listening to her voice make me lose my self control!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNEb2k_EmMg
Amy Winehouse’s cover of Valerie has to be up there too, actually. What a tune.
https://youtu.be/_naArkkHMMs
+1
the jam – Liza Radley
Wistful, much
https://youtu.be/sFtXjT4oQMY
Julia – The Beatles
https://youtu.be/TZip_br_v3w
i’ll see your julia and raise you a sexy sadie..
https://youtu.be/tSk5U4oHhu0
Maharashi!
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
https://youtu.be/n4zRe_wvJw8
Or a Dear Prudence
https://youtu.be/wQA59IkCF5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpo6yfJlUBM
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Dear Prudence
Complete with tacky flange so many DJ’s now think is current.
God yes. Excellent alternative.
Does Knees Up Mother Brown count? Of course by who else but Fozzy accompanied by Rolf on Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrvDiTB8QwA&ab_channel=MuppetSongs
Yay!
Martha by Tom Waits
Ike and Tina Turner
Proud Mary
https://youtu.be/sFtXjT4oQMY
Roll on the weekend
this
Mine has to be Katie (my daughter’s name) sung by the wonderful Mary Black who has just celebrated her 65th birthday. If you’re going to sing a song sing an Irish song :-)
My Sharona by the Knack.
Hypnotic bassline and killer guitar reef. This is a must.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng
Elvis
Marie’s the name
https://youtu.be/59pOE3OmUi8
You don’t have to put on a red light..
https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ
Damn you.
One for the Road.
The Marx Brothers – Lydia the tattooed lady
https://youtu.be/n4zRe_wvJw8
Any prizes for your least favourite song with a girls name in the title? If so I nominate Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.
I apologise in advance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo&ab_channel=parkerdonald1
a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-wop-bam-boom!
https://youtu.be/eFFgbc5Vcbw
RIP
what, no hollies yet?
https://youtu.be/sgA4-bLcoN8
Shack – Natalie’s Party
https://youtu.be/RLwRf6kO16w
Velvet Underground – Candy Says…beautiful song from a beautiful album of understated pop gems..he sure could write them…Sweet Jane, Stephanie Says…https://youtu.be/XPgGjUSEWss
not a dry knicker in the house:
reaching out – touching me, touching you…
https://youtu.be/GmK5_lnQUbE
Another excuse to sling smalls – The Welsh Joe Dolan
Tom Jones – Delilah
https://youtu.be/S87jWwzvwd8
Another Celtic Collossus –
Rod Stewart – Maggie May
https://youtu.be/KbI_awR4CKE
How about this little gem???
https://youtu.be/Hi5A9OCAyIk
co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-macka-stick..
https://youtu.be/jtQUdjrFdag
We had Dolly’s, now we have Ray Lamontagne’s Jolene.
From his 2004 album Trouble it’s a completely different song and melody to Dolly’s.
A powerful song about love, regret and pain and being a screw up. here it is performed live at the BBC.
https://youtu.be/PMQkszQVJo4
I really love this song and especially the chorus;
I found myself face down in the ditch
Booze on my hair
Blood on my lips
A picture of you, holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don’t know what love means
Still don’t know what love means
Jolene
Top song
Bad Manners – Lorraine
https://youtu.be/e1rCm5YozHg
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
https://youtu.be/Zi_XLOBDo_Y
And his guest star for Lisa It’s Your Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLuyHWP_wnM
Classic Undertones,
https://youtu.be/rVrgauVv-fQ
The Antlers – Sylvia
https://youtu.be/i9nYI0ezoOQ
been known to do this as me party piece, gotta love a bit of Bette Davis eyes
https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8
Alice Sisters of Mercy or Emma by Sisters of Mercy or Whole lotta Rosie by AC/DC
https://youtu.be/4Ucrw-z4ZH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx48wjBvBts
Many a big hair sprayed mohawk and puinkabilly fringed coat stomped on a dance floor to Sisters of Mercy – Alice
Derek and the Dominicans
Layla
https://youtu.be/0WUdlaLWSVM
Would that be an ecumenical matter?
The House of Love – Christine
https://youtu.be/OXOgRvj76zI
Grace by Jeff Buckley. A masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3adFWKE9JE
Ah lads…any one of you tell me you’ve never had a good evening smashing cans to this and I’ll call you a fibber!
The Police – Roxanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ
Ooh it’s a tough one, toss up between Nancy Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2wDyypszM
Or Eve is the apple of my eye (but only the live version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg420NW6vn8
Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
C’mon, restrictions beginning to lift and it is Friday afternoon. Wilson is the man to get your weekend going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u6w0cjjrU
Twenty five miles ……
Wilson Pickett reminded me and the reference to restrictions
Edwin Starr , feet don’t fail me now.
https://youtu.be/z2GHlcwlT1Y
Tindersticks “Kathleen”
a typically gloom-laden take on Townes Van Zandt already non-cheery original.
It’s plain to see, the sun won’t shine today
But I ain’t in the mood for sunshine anyway
Maybe I’ll go insane
I got to stop the pain
Or maybe I’ll go down to see Kathleen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgoz2cv9YS0
Neil Diamond
https://youtu.be/1vhFnTjia_I
I dance like a dervish to this
ah yeah the slow build :)
Sinead Lohan’s version of Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHwILs8bdo
I really love her work and her voice. I was sorry when she pretty much dropped out of sight, but I hear if you were lucky she occasionally turned up at gigs by friends, and particularly Donal Lunny.
Peg by Steely Dan – featuring Michael McDonald on the chorus!
RIP Walter Becker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7NDDQLvbo
[ Gloriously sampled by De La Soul for ‘Eye Know’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNzWuEYQpFA ]
Randy and the Rainbows – Denise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Xy8XLKwec
Dale Hawkins – Susie-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AtV7NTIt9g
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Jan :)
https://youtu.be/BUt0dZXPFoU
or
Angie
https://youtu.be/GlSbQNHHy50
One more from the man in Black
Goodnight Irene
https://youtu.be/YvNavReXi7U
Nina Simone
Celine woman
https://youtu.be/hVEbzdN_7n0
Yves Simon – Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFl-1cYQWa4
Nice choice, new to me
Mother Earth- jessie
https://youtu.be/TjHHNC02ztg
Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvE0yFnR0I
Because there aren’t enough songs about big boned girls.
Monk & Coltrane – Ruby, my dear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUIh3Vg-60
One of the great classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrje2rXLMA
The tale of a another woman as a rival, encompasses the female terrrtorial persepctive
Gill Scott Heron
Lady Day and John Coltraine
https://youtu.be/7aRNUsmfeck
I had to double check the link was right last four letters put me off.
Black Merda – Cynthy-Ruth (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN4eo0J1I8
Singer, VC L Veasey, on choosing the name for the band:
‘ I suggested “Black Murder” to bring attention to the widespread killing of black people that was occurring at that time in the fight for civil rights. We later changed the spelling to “Black Merda”. ‘
I am off down that rabbit hole to walk my dinosaur – thank you
Boomtown Rats, (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGgEcE3sIQ
Because to paraphrase the great H.J. Simpson, “No One Who Speaks German Could Be Evil”.
Boomtown Rats, Mary of the Fourth Form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsedHk4sUs
A different type of teenage kick
For a beautiful song, and not a bad rendition. Grace by Rod Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdnR4Q4zvMY
A teary classic with a swaying waltz chorus plinkedly plonked by Tom Waits – Martha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Mse62NFl4
Eleanor Rigby. Need I make a case for it?
No. One of the best.
https://youtu.be/HuS5NuXRb5Y
Just like Honey by The Jesus and the Mary Chain
https://youtu.be/7EgB__YratE
The always brilliant Revelino,
https://youtu.be/-pmXOSwpprw
And a second Emily songs from Pink Floyd,
https://youtu.be/7c0EDM-Yu9o
Blonde Tongues – Stephanie
https://youtu.be/5PjjA0kUfd0
Stand Down Margaret – The Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaFVhyjb5Y
Political, yet catchy, nice!
Bon Iver – For Emma, forever ago
and a charming acapella version featuring random French blokes and a dog
https://youtu.be/x5Swa9CYgRk
The Police – Sue Lawley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6MvV8cbh8
I used to fancy her when she was on Nationwide on BBC1
Martha by Tom Waits, heartbreak song
Michelle by the Fab Four but mainly Paul
Angie by the Stones
An of course Eileen, come on
Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Annie I’m Not Your Daddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLf6MIdE1BE
…..Cos if I was in your blood you wouldn’t be so ugly
One of the most haunting songs I’ve ever heard is Christy Moore singing Anne Lovett.
More of a dirge than a song, it’s raw, brutal and burns itself into your memory.
https://youtu.be/ndmSVBuNB8U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Lovett?wprov=sfti1
I’m going for:
1) Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
2) Dirty Diana – Mickey Jackson
3) Oh Annie I’m Not Your Daddy – Kid Creole
Am I really the first person to nominate Cornershop’s paean to Asha Bhosle, the most recorded artist in music history.
The excellent Brimful of Asha.
https://youtu.be/5LBnMRWeV-E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Bhosle?wprov=sfti1
Grace Kelly by Mika
I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be vi-o-let sky………
https://youtu.be/0CGVgAYJyjk
F me in TheA cause I love jesus by Garfunkel and Oates
TheA is a girls name ya know :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCMoZZq9LI
RHCP: Dani California
The video is well worth a watch, great fun.
https://youtu.be/Sb5aq5HcS1A
Vampire Weekend: Diane Young
https://youtu.be/oG6lTQNW04I
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
https://youtu.be/Fa9nN3G2CSg
Colin Blunstone – Caroline goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Pq9bcJgvw
Be My Girl Sally. The Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OKCHVekE7w
Perhaps the best song ever about a rubber dolly
Although not a song with a girls name in it, as soon as it’s starts it does mention some of the most important females of our time,
Please enjoy Ahouse,
https://youtu.be/cyBWXb2b9ho