In his song “ABM Machine”, Ed Sanders asks the musical question:
*Are you a vampire, Melvin Laird, are you a va-ham-pire?
Are you caught in the Transylvanian transvestite time trap, Melvin Laird?..
*
He also did a song called “Henry Kissinger”, and wrote a song about a yodeling robot who was in love with Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton is also mentioned in “Walk the Dog” by Laurie Anderson.
That was “Sweet Home Alabama,” which Dio eventually quotes from in Post #58.
Simon & Garfunkel “So Long Frank Lloyd Wright”
Jimmy Buffett’s “Incommunicado” mentions both John D McDonald and John Wayne.
The Kingston Trio’s “Remember the Alamo” includes Santa Anna, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and [William] Travis.
“You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals mentions Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson.
Nerf Herder has recorded songs about Courtney Love (“Courtney”) and Jenna Bush (“Jenna Bush Army”).
Does first name only count? If so, Prince’s “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” is directed at Ronald Reagan.
Also, at least one of the songs on Roger Waters’ Radio K.A.O.S. also mentions Reagan. The morse code open and close mentions Sylvester Stallone, according to Wikipedia.
I’m not sure Abraham is actual. Achilles gets mentioned in a title also.
Now, Abraham Lincoln is mentioned in Talkin’ WW III Blues - and I have versions using
Donovan and Carl Sandberg. And George Lincoln Rockwell is mentioned in Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues.
A slightly more obscure one - the version of “Who’s Next” used in Tomfoolery used Jerry Falwell getting the bomb instead of Alabama.
And of course there is Lobachevsky from the song of the same name, as well as Doris Day as part of hypotenuse - and a few other stars in other versions.
You forgot one - Albert refers to Albert Grossman. And of course Bob Dylan could probably be included as the person the singer intends instead of Dylan Thomas.
Weird Al Yankovic trots out Elvis (his ghost) and Hitler (his brain) to take a bow in Midnight Star.
Some more:
Leonard Peltier in Toad the Wet Sprocket’s “Crazy Life”
Chico Mendes in Living Colour’s “Sacred Ground”
Nelson Mandela in Special AKA’s “Free…”
Bob Marley in RHCP’s “Give It Away”
Otis Redding in The Police’s “When The World Is Running Down…”
Julian Cope (supposedly) in Blur’s “Pressure on Julian”
Bruce Willis and Langston Hughes in Gang Starr’s “DWYCK”
Margaret Thatcher in The Beat’s “Stand Down Margaret” and Morrissey’s “Margaret on the Guillotine”
Another Kinks song, “Mr. Churchill Says” references Winston Churchill, Lords Beaverbrook and Mountbatten, General Montgomery, and Vera Lynn.
“Harry Truman”, Chicago
“Marie Prevost”, Nick Lowe
“Roy Rogers” and “I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)”, Elton John
“Vera Lynn”, Pink Floyd
Along that same line, The Specials’ Gangsters starts with a line about Bernie Rhodes, their manager.
David Essex’s Rock On too.
The Tom Tom Club’s Genius Of Love too, as well as (George) Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Smokey Robinson, Bob Marley, Sly (Dunbar) & Robbie (Shakespeare), and Kurtis Blow.
My favorite, ‘cause it’s a weird tribute, Louis Armstrong added Lotte Lenya to the list of *Mack the Knife’*s female victims. :eek:
(She was in the studio when Armstrong recorded it, as well as having been the star of both the original 1928 German production and the 1954 Broadway version, and was the wife of Kurt Weill who, along with Bertolt Brecht, wrote the opera Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) that the song was translated from. (I love long, comma filled, run-on parentheticals.)) 
CMC fnord!
Lyle Lovett name-checks a lot of real people: Roy Rogers and Dale (Evans) in “If I Had a Boat,” Neil Armstrong and Hank Williams in “Here I Am,” and Wim Wenders in “The Truck Song.”
John Sinclair - song of the same name by John Lennon
Frank Sinatra - song of the same name by Cake
Rick James - Meanwhile Rick James . . . by Cake
Frank Mills from Hair:
He was last seen with his friend,
A drummer, he resembles George Harrison of the Beatles
Concrete Blonde’s “It’ll Chew You Up and Spit You Out” has a spoken word part at the end that mentions Miles Copeland (IRS Records) and his brother Stewart (The Police).
Tim Mcgraw’s Southern voice
R.E.M. - Electrolite:
“Hollywood is under me.
I’m Martin Sheen
I’m Steve McQueen
I’m Jimmy Dean”
Some country songs about country singers -
Hank III’s Country Heroes :
The Dixie Chick’s Long Time Gone
Johnny Cash’s Backstage Pass To The Willie Nelson Show mentions many of the above, plus Kris Kristofferson, Shooter Jennings, and Connie Francis.