Hollywood Seven by Jon English
The dead girl’s age is never identified, but it’s about a sweet little girl who goes to Hollywood, wanting to be a movie star, can’t get parts, starts prostituting herself and…
“She done brought the wrong one home this time, there were crazy lipstick marks up on the wall/Now she’s going home to Omaha, but not the way she planned…”
As part of the historical context, it is worth noting that even at the height of the teenage death song craze some people thought that the whole thing was getting excessive, and in 1960, Bob Luman’s comment song Let’s Think About Living got to #7 in the U.S. Also, Joey Reynold’s 1958 Endless Sleep was notable in that he saves his girlfriend from a near-drowning, thus preventing her from falling into the clutches of “the endless sleep”.
Heroin Girl by Everclear (while it doesn’t say she’s a teen, Art has said it’s about a girlfriend he had as a kid, though the cop saying “just another overdose” was said about his brother, not her)
**People Who Died ** The Jim Carrol band (lots of kids)
And of course ** All The Young Dudes** by…lots of artists. Anyone know who the orginal is by and/or the one with the voice overs of the kid talking to his dad about going to 'nam? I don’t know where Mom’s 45s are to check.
Verve Pipe’s The Freshmen, beloved of karaoke singers everywhere. Well, at least it was last time I did it, which was a while ago…
KISS - Detroit Rock City
I always assumed the dude in Seasons in the Sun was about to be executed… maybe that says more about me than about Terry Jacks
I have always been partial to Tom Lehrer’s song I Hold Your Hand in Mine wherein it turns out that she is dead and he kept her hand as a souvenir… God I love that man!
"Hello, this is Joanie"
They have a fight and she drives off mad and gets killed in a crash.
He keeps calling her number just to hear her voice on the answering machine…
yecchh
Actually the sister killed the guy’s wife and lover. The sheriff pins it on him, the judge declares him guilty, and they execute him before she can confess.
So the Georgia Patrol was makin’ the rounds and he fired a shot just to bring them down. A big-bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said Why’d you do it?
I could never figure if he fired the murder weapon in the air or if it was another gun. If the former, he deserved to be executed just for being that stupid.
And it always seemed to me that if they had time enough to hold a trial, (make-believe or no) sis had time to confess.