# Songs about groupies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049 "2017-12-22T15:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/41 "2017-12-23T12:15:13Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > The Wanderer is about the lead character and what a sad loser he is, according to Dion, who wrote it. He’s all bravado but has no one except girls he treats like notches on his belt. Isn’t that the definition of groupies? ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/42 "2017-12-23T13:11:15Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > **Grand Funk Railroad - American Band** - Sweet Sweet Connie from Omaha > > **KISS - Plaster Caster** - just eww. > > **Led Zeppelin - Livin’ Lovin’ Maid** - It was a dig of a song to a woman who was hanging around the studio; can’t recall if she was a groupie, per se. > This was all from a different time. Can’t say I have an issue with that. > > ETA: Double-ninja’d by **Telemark**!!! Who had already been ninja’d!!! O, the agony!! Not real important but Connie was from Little Rock, I knew her well. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/43 "2017-12-23T13:30:36Z")
British Power Pop / Punk / Rock band **The Jam** and **Butterfly Collector** (Nice simple acoustic style guitar track.) New Zealand Pop band **Crowded House** and **Mean to Me** (Jaunty happy pop.) British Punk legends **The Sex Pistols** and **Bodies** (very NSFW with the lyrics concentrating on the subject of a mentally frail young woman and her abortions.) TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/44 "2017-12-23T14:04:21Z")
> [@Donegal\_Dragon](#): > > Not real important but Connie was from Little Rock, I knew her well. Yes, Little Rock. What can you tell us about her? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/45 "2017-12-23T14:56:03Z")
Kid Creole - Annie I’m not your daddy ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/46 "2017-12-23T14:56:04Z")
Elton John’s Tiny Dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/47 "2017-12-23T16:19:00Z")
I’m surprised the Stones’ [_Stray Cat Blues_](https://www.google.com/search?q=stray+cat+blues+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS773US773&oq=stray+cat+b&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.12300j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) hasn’t been mentioned yet. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/48 "2017-12-23T18:45:01Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > Elton John’s Tiny Dancer. [Wiki on Tiny Dancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Dancer) No evidence Maxine Feibelman Taupin was a groupie. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/49 "2017-12-23T22:22:44Z")
_Jaimie’s Cryin’_ by **Van Halen**? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/50 "2017-12-23T22:40:00Z")
_Motherly Love_ by the **Mothers of Invention**. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/51 "2017-12-23T22:50:29Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > The Wanderer is about the lead character and what a sad loser he is, according to Dion, who wrote it. He’s all bravado but has no one except girls he treats like notches on his belt. “The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/52 "2017-12-23T23:20:55Z")
> [@2Bits](#): > > “The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca I did not know that. I heard Dion interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air and the way he talked about the lyric, I thought he write it. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/53 "2017-12-24T00:11:53Z")
> [@2Bits](#): > > “The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca Not Ernie “Shout! Shout!” Maresca???!? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/54 "2017-12-24T12:26:38Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Not Ernie “Shout! Shout!” Maresca???!? He wrote songs for Tears For Fears too? Who is this guy? ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/55 "2017-12-24T18:31:02Z")
I figured this applied to most rock songs about women. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/56 "2017-12-26T14:10:24Z")
What about the Carpenter’s “Superstar” obviously being sung by a groupie? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/57 "2017-12-26T22:56:21Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > What about the Carpenter’s “Superstar” obviously being sung by a groupie? Check out [Post 17](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20680691&postcount=17). Incidentally, the song seems to sung from the perspective of someone whose gone from being a groupie to an obsessed stalker. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/58 "2017-12-27T00:21:04Z")
_Pink Floyd_ - **Young Lust** (from The Wall) The sequence from the film is explicitly about groupies … ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/59 "2017-12-27T15:27:59Z")
Rod Stewart’s “Hot Legs” seems to be about a teenage groupie who’s too energetic and horny for an aging rocker to keep up with. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-groupies/805049/60 "2017-12-28T22:47:21Z")
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