Pearl Jam Corduroy:
I don’t want to hear from those who know…
They can buy, but can’t put on my clothes…
“Put on Your Sunday Clothes” - from “Hello Dolly”.
“Scarborough Fair” - the original folk song is about someone making a shirt.
“Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans on” - some country song I heard on the radio.
“Zoot Suit Riot” by the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.
Freaks in Uniforms - HorrorPops
From the early days of MTV, there was Dr. Hook, singing Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk
Leonard Cohen: Famous Blue Raincoat
I can’t believe it took this long for someone to mention Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress!"
Let’s get some country into the mix:
Tequila Makes Clothes Fall Off - Joe Nichols
Red High Heels - Kellie Pickler
Tight Fittin’ Jeans - Conway Twitty
I Got My Game On - Trace Adkins
Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart
And Suzanne: She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On
Honkytonk Badonkadonk (“Lord have mercy, how’d she even get those britches on!”)
Raspberry Beret
New Shoes by Paolo Nutini
(Kind of a hit last year)
(this is the only time I’ve been abke to add something original to one of these threads!)
Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hätt er nicht drei Ecken
Dann wär er nicht mein Hut
:o
"You Cut Up the Clothes in the Closet of My Dreams" from the M. Van Peebles’ movie/musical Don’t Play Us Cheap. (good stuff)
Japanese singer, aiko, performing “White Clothes & Black Clothes” live:
Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kndWxDzRXLw
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3UC3q_PDt80
(Watch both parts - a great, fun performance)
Puttin’ On The Ritz, Taco, Frankenstein’s Monster and others: Different types who wear a day coat, pants with stripes and cut away coat, perfect fits
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Brian Hyland
In These Shoes?" - Kirsty MacColl
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
Intruder - Peter Gabriel (“I love the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear”)
And One to keep all the clothes in:
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) - Genesis
Does that count?
Got my tweed pressed, got my best vest
All I need now is the girl
Got my striped tie, got my hopes high
Got a time and a place and I got rhythm
Now all I need’s the girl to go with 'em . . .
– “All I Need Is the Girl” from the musical Gypsy, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Why is this being resurrected after nearly nine years?
Hello, zombs, how ya doin?
The Call of the Wighat - The Cramps
My mama had twin babies
on one sweet summer day.
She beat one in the head,
and I’m the one that got away.
Protected by my wighat and
my Fredrick’s snaketip pants,
I rode my horse to Hollywod
and did a wondrous dance.