# Songs featuring a named couple **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896 "2019-07-30T21:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/1 "2019-07-30T21:01:45Z")
Just because, I started thinking about songs that feature a couple where both people are named. But both members of the couple have to have names stated in the lyrics, not implied that one is the singer. In other words, _Me and Bobby McGee_ does not count. My offerings to get this rolling: [Jack and Diane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI) by John Cougar Melloncamp features Jack & Diane (duh) [Livin’ on a Prayer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk) by Bon Jovi features Tommy & Gina [Scenes from an Italian Restaurant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx8IWIvKg0) by Billy Joel features Brenda & Eddie What else ya got? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/2 "2019-07-30T21:09:31Z")
[Key Largo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2tsT32pHA) (“we had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall”). Unless you’re not counting mentions of real-life couples? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/3 "2019-07-30T21:11:50Z")
[Hey, Paula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOo-3XWxpo), by Paul and Paula ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/4 "2019-07-30T21:13:44Z")
[Copacabana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591d-XV5rEo) - Lola and Tony. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/5 "2019-07-30T21:13:45Z")
[Frankie and Johnny](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frankie_and_Johnnie), of course. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/6 "2019-07-30T21:15:29Z")
“There’s a hole in the bucket”, with Liza and Henry. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/7 "2019-07-30T21:18:32Z")
[Minnie and Santa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXCAeGTc) - Cyndi Lauper ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/8 "2019-07-30T21:19:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Hey, Paula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOo-3XWxpo), by Paul and Paula Hmmm, if couples named in a “dialogue” song count (i.e., a duet where each singer mentions the other by name rather than both members of the couple being named by a narrator who isn’t either of them), then there are parody versions of [“Daisy Bell”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell#Lyrics) (aka “Daisy, Daisy” and “Bicycle Built for Two”) that qualify, because they include a verse with Daisy addressing her suitor Michael. [Tom Lehrer’s “I Got It from Agnes”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k) probably holds the record when it comes to couples-naming. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/9 "2019-07-30T21:23:16Z")
[Waterloo Sunset](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU) by The Kinks - Terry and Julie [Judy Is A Punk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6GAGdBiJF0) and [The Return of Jackie and Judy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-FO-ZsQtOg) from The Ramones both feature Jackie and Judy Do Joan and Maxwell Edison (Maxwell’s Silver Hammer) count? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/10 "2019-07-30T21:33:03Z")
[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9NpHKrKMw): Desmond & Molly ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/11 "2019-07-30T21:45:21Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Hmmm, if couples named in a “dialogue” song count (i.e., a duet where each singer mentions the other by name rather than both members of the couple being named by a narrator who isn’t either of them) Another example of this would be Weird Al’s [Ricky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZlLQLFq_H4) (Ricky & Lucy Ricardo, from _I Love Lucy_) ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/12 "2019-07-30T21:51:26Z")
[Reuben and Cherise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YZEEQdpPzg), Jerry Garcia. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/13 "2019-07-30T21:53:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Hmmm, if couples named in a “dialogue” song count (i.e., a duet where each singer mentions the other by name rather than both members of the couple being named by a narrator who isn’t either of them) As the OP, I’ll allow it. My only stipulation is that both names are mentioned in the lyrics, and the singer can be one of the couple or the narrator, or both in the case of _Taxi_ by Harry Chapin “She said how are you Harry? I said how are you Sue? Through the too many miles and too little smiles I still, remember you” ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/14 "2019-07-30T21:59:22Z")
“You Can Call Me Al” with Betty and Al. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/15 "2019-07-30T21:59:58Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > [Key Largo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2tsT32pHA) (“we had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall”). Unless you’re not counting mentions of real-life couples? Both names are there, so it fits! But I wonder how many Romeo & Juliet, Adam & Eve or other famous references we will end up with. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/16 "2019-07-30T22:05:33Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > [Waterloo Sunset](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU) by The Kinks - Terry and Julie Revisited in Bob Geldof’s song [“Love Like a Rocket”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLEVqKYo944) (“Terry still meets Julie every Friday night down at Waterloo underground”). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/17 "2019-07-30T22:08:29Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > But I wonder how many Romeo & Juliet, Adam & Eve or other famous references we will end up with. “…Romeo & Juliet, [Samson & Delilah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcbPSoTels)…” - Bad Manners ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/18 "2019-07-30T22:20:56Z")
[The Ballad (Denny & Jean)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCmmtEEiqE) by Todd Rundgren, which remains, to this day, the saddest song I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s odd, because the lyrics are so totally simplistic, they’re like sixth-grade level poetry, but Todd sings them with such authority and finality. The chords contribute to it too. Billy Joel, with all his detailed world-building and stage-setting in _Italian Restaurant_, still can’t make Brenda and Eddie anything more than an abstraction in comparison to Todd’s doomed couple. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/19 "2019-07-30T22:29:14Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > But I wonder how many Romeo & Juliet, Adam & Eve or other famous references we will end up with. Lotsa Mary & Joseph too, e.g., in the [Cherry Tree Carol](http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-CherryTree.html). On a rather different theme, there’s [Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue](https://eugeneripper.bandcamp.com/track/cocaine-bill-and-morphine-sue). (Are there bonus points for having the couple’s names right in the song title? 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![MollyCatherine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@MollyCatherine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MollyCatherine)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896/20 "2019-07-30T22:31:31Z")
Trisha Yearwood’s [She’s in Love with the Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUFObCZtGWQ) features Katie and Tommy. I don’t suppose Jake Owen’s [I Was Jack (You Were Diane)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYzY2a64Sns) really counts? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-featuring-a-named-couple/837896.md?page=2)