# Music with one-word female name as its title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516 "2014-08-25T23:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/121 "2014-08-29T07:15:59Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1cU7ZvRTlC8/hqdefault.jpg "T. Graham Brown ~ Darlene [New Stereo Recordings]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cU7ZvRTlC8) ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/122 "2014-08-29T09:01:44Z")
Two obscure ones from ABBA: [Elaine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53KGHEi_QWI) [Cassandra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2SQhnOxqiU) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/123 "2014-08-29T10:39:39Z")
[January](http://youtu.be/X50KJp-oq9M) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/124 "2014-08-29T10:52:09Z")
[Magdalena](http://youtu.be/TZV4Dn5CVQg) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/125 "2014-08-29T11:22:59Z")
Sorry for my third post in a row. I’d have saved them for one post if I’d realised I could come up with more 🙂 [Mona](http://youtu.be/ygxjE-y3Upc) [Amanda](http://youtu.be/kNebT63is8A) [Julie](http://youtu.be/HtykSv-wiCg) [Lucy](http://youtu.be/J4OvQlTwsHs) [Ita](http://youtu.be/JUONdYMPbXs) [Diane](http://youtu.be/czHYV76lFEY) [Henrietta](http://youtu.be/0gpMlAiqcjU) [Annie](http://youtu.be/wBotAp-WVqc) [Jacqueline](http://youtu.be/AogtividIuk) (ok, most of those were courtesy of Div, except the really bad ones). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/126 "2014-08-29T11:45:41Z")
[A different Donna than the one already mentioned.](http://youtu.be/hkN3WoO84lI) [And a different Delilah.](http://youtu.be/rnnMad3c9y4) [Edit - oops, someone beat me to this one…] Surprisingly, the first [Mary](http://youtu.be/o5s2AbsPHdQ). [Jeanette](http://youtu.be/ptAJ-TCYB5w). [Samantha](http://youtu.be/LNL1cp6Ypdc). [Anastasia](http://youtu.be/Lr0J0pKaXsM). [Charlotte](http://youtu.be/LkRWTWBBsAc). Bound to be controversial, since it’s a hyphenated name, and an odd one at that, but definitely the name of a young woman in the song - [Mari-Mac](http://youtu.be/3AT07v9V4-w). From the same band, we have [Margarita](http://youtu.be/sW8BslsX5Vs). ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/127 "2014-08-29T13:12:53Z")
[Vampira](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMQmTSPuFbw) – Bobby Bare [Debora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1houuS6Q0) – Tyrannosaurus Rex ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/128 "2014-08-29T13:16:06Z")
[Nadine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8ktxzaumg) [Natalia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRqgZJRtRM) And surely very much in the spirit, if not quite to the letter, of the OP: [Barbara Ann](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRonG87eKw). (I actually knew a girl called _Barbaran_ once, one word, so it ought to count.) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/129 "2014-08-29T13:37:49Z")
Somebody already posted _The Doors_ version of this much covered song (it became pretty much the “Johnny B. Goode” of British punk), but this is the original of [Gloria](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkaMVLHxzWE) (_Them_, featuring Van Morrison), and surely [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxygqSTO1lQ) is the most interesting of all the many reworkings. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/130 "2014-08-29T13:48:24Z")
And I don’t think we have had this [Juliet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNIj0wyR0U). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/131 "2014-08-29T14:00:34Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Bound to be controversial, since it’s a hyphenated name, and an odd one at that, but definitely the name of a young woman in the song - [Mari-Mac](http://youtu.be/3AT07v9V4-w). [Mary Mac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy1apUtM9NQ) which I only include because it’s such a fun song. Especially if you are a merry=Mary=marry person. Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac Well I’m going to marry Mary for when Mary’s taking care of me We’ll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mac ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/132 "2014-08-29T14:12:36Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > … Seeing your post reminds me that there is actually a song called [Gigi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG49MZ2XvUs), from the musical of the same name (vocal does not start until about two and a half minutes in!). ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/133 "2014-08-29T17:22:14Z")
A different [Clair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFfjLBFe-MI) – Gilbert O’Sullivan [Emmie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_mdy9VfCs) – Laura Nyro ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/134 "2014-08-29T23:24:39Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > [Kelly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pvEYas2Yhc) –Del Shannon > > And three by the Four Seasons: > > [Marlena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpXkQ2XDyPI) > > [Dawn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE40KM4SGAY) > > [Ronnie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmyIBWJKwPc) > > …and another [Ronnie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vO7Jnw8zM) – The Rubinoos I was going to contribute “Dawn”, but the actual title is “Dawn (Go Away)”, so it doesn’t quite qualify. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/135 "2014-08-30T01:43:49Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sqA4IviTEwQ/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-AoACoAKKAgwIABABGHIgWSgRMA8=&rs=AOn4CLByOddGajO_0psJPgeHg4BIsTgcDg "Louis Prima - Angelina") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqA4IviTEwQ) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/136 "2014-08-30T03:54:22Z")
[Mabel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfePGKzjmPY). [Deborah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7piV28fT-0) (not the same as “Debora”). And a different [Anna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txr55UfLdiY). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/137 "2014-08-30T05:45:53Z")
**burpo the wonder mutt** is a fucking awesome username! Uh, howabout Angelyne, _Jayhawks?_ (can’t be arsed to post a link) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/138 "2014-08-30T12:29:21Z")
[Célimène](http://youtu.be/Fzz-iUQbkb0) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/139 "2014-08-30T14:51:34Z")
[Yolanda](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_gEHnIobQ) by Pablo Milanés. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-one-word-female-name-as-its-title/696516/140 "2014-08-30T22:05:42Z")
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