# Song Titles: Just a girl's name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960 "2002-05-14T03:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stankow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@stankow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stankow)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/41 "2002-05-14T11:34:16Z")
Jesse – Joshua Kadison ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/42 "2002-05-14T11:40:52Z")
A couple more from Ben Folds Five: **Alice Childress** and **Emaline**. Smashing Pumpkins **Glynis**. The Beatles **Eleanor Rigby**. In the vein of George Michael’s **Faith** : Jeff Buckley **Grace**. Also, U2 **Grace**. Really stretching it: Simon & Garnfunkel **Mrs Robinson** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![qshapadooy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c67d28/32.png) [@qshapadooy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qshapadooy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/43 "2002-05-14T12:04:25Z")
atom and his package - jenny s. ben folds five - julianne ben folds five - emilia bright cake - daria eurythmics - jennifer hadji and the turbans - sylvia impossibles - erin with an e mxpx - marie, marie mxpx - andrea nerf herder - courtney nerf herder - vivian nerf herder - diana nerf herder - annalee ozma - lorraine ozma - natalie portman pain - ellen pixies - allison pixies - cecilia ann self - meg ryan they might be giants - ana ng they might be giants - ondine they might be giants - tigerella weezer - jamie wesley willis - alanis morissette wesley willis - oprah winfrey ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/44 "2002-05-14T13:26:30Z")
**Lucretia McEvil** –Blood, Sweat, & Tears **Sunny** –Classics IV **Amanda** –Boston **Jolene** –some country singer in the 70s **Suzy Q** –CCR ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/45 "2002-05-14T13:31:51Z")
OK, I looked it up– **Jolene** was Dolly Parton. And we forgot **Delilah** by Tom Jones… ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/46 "2002-05-14T14:23:49Z")
**Roberta** – Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/47 "2002-05-14T15:00:50Z")
Same names, different songs: We’ve seen Kenny Rogers’ “Lucille,” but not Little Richard’s We’ve seen several “Jane” songs, but not (Jefferson) Starship’s - Then there’s… “Luanne” by Foreigner "Sussudio by Phil Collins (HE says it’s a girl’s name! It’s not MY fault I don’t know any real girls by that name!) “Emma” by Hot Chocolate “Dawn” by Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons “Bernadette” by the 4 Tops “Eleanor” by the Turtles “Georgia” by Boz Scaggs “Rosalita” by Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/48 "2002-05-14T15:32:53Z")
“Sandy Mary” - Fleetwood Mac (the original lineup with Peter Green) “Mona” - Bo Diddly “Carmelita” - Warren Zevon “Mary” - the V-Roys “Amphetimine Annie” - Canned Heat “Carrie-Anne” - the Hollies ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/49 "2002-05-14T16:14:51Z")
“Mary, Mary” by the Monkees “Oh Sheila” by Ready for the World ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/50 "2002-05-14T19:03:52Z")
“Alice” - Eyes of Mind “Alicia” - Comsat Angels “Ana” - Pixies “Annabel” - Bardots “Annie” - Elastica “Carol-Anne” - Orchids “Cath” - Bluebells “Cecilia Anne” - Pixies “Charlotte Anne” - Julian Cope “Cindy” - Acetone “Clair” - My Bloody Valentine “Collette” - Durutti Column “Deanna” - Nick Cave “Diana” - Prefab Sprout “Emily” - AC Acoustics “Eva” - Butterfly Child “Felicity” - Orange Juice “Francesca” - Durutti Column “Irene” - Bardots “Isabel” - Unrest “Ivy Ivy Ivy” - Primal Scream “Janine” - David Bowie “Jeane” - The Smiths “Karen” - Go-Betweens “Leilani” - Game Theory “Louise” - Artery “Louise” - Acetone “Louise Louise” - Orange Juice “Polly” - Moose “Therese” - Bodines “Veronica” - Jasmine Minks ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/51 "2002-05-14T19:28:25Z")
Dragon Phoenix – everyone knows it’s _Windy_. That reminds me of The Beach Boys’ \*\*Wendy[/b. Cake also had a **Jolene**. Everclear - **Amphetamine** Pink Floyd - **Vera** ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/52 "2002-05-14T19:35:17Z")
“Jennifer” and “Lorelei” by Styx ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/53 "2002-05-14T20:07:27Z")
Did anyone mention “Evangeline” by Matthew Sweet? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/54 "2002-05-14T20:15:14Z")
**Sharon** by (or at least performed by) David Bromberg ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/55 "2002-05-14T20:43:53Z")
“Iris” Goo Goo Dolls ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/56 "2002-05-14T21:46:42Z")
Roxanne was by the Police. Layla was originally Derek and the Dominos, of which Clapton was a member, and later redone by Clapton on Unplugged and overplayed by every radio station since the beginning of time. Chloe by Elton John. Leah by Roy Orbison. Joanna from “Sweeney Todd”, by Stephen Sondheim. Marie by Irving Berlin, recorded by many. My favorite is by Leon Redbone. \<8)))\>\< ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/57 "2002-05-14T22:43:49Z")
The oldest two mentioned so far, **Ida** and shortly there after **Mary** sung Al Jolson. Actually, **Mary** was mentioned earlier, but it could well have been a totally different song that was suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/58 "2002-05-14T23:38:33Z")
**Sharleena** - Frank Zappa **Magdalena** - Frank Zappa **Debra Kadabra** - Frank Zappa **Mary Lou** - Frank Zappa **Dinah-Moe Humm** - Frank Zappa **Doreen** - Frank Zappa **Ms Pinky** - Frank Zappa **Ruthie Ruthie** - Frank Zappa **Valarie** - Frank Zappa ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/59 "2002-05-15T10:32:05Z")
Ok here are two more: Alice - The Sisters of Mercy Marian - The Sisters of Mercy ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960/60 "2002-05-15T15:34:31Z")
jolene - the white stripes (yes, it’s the one done by dolly parton!) gloria - u2 anne arbour - the get up kids (pun!) bonita applebum - a tribe called quest ms jackson - outkast wendy clear - blink 182 (kinda?) maria - rage against the machine cailin - unwritten law elva - unwritten law debra - beck kim - eminem kate - ben folds five lee rennick - the go betweens [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-just-a-girls-name/108960.md?page=4)