# Songs with a brand name in the title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628 "2019-05-07T18:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/81 "2019-05-19T23:49:15Z")
White Castle Blues by The Smithereens > [@](#): > > Saturday night and it’s gettin’ late > I’m gettin’ hungry, I just can’t wait > Not just any kind of burger will do > I’m being hit by those > White Castle blues > White Castle blues ---
**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:** [May 20, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/82 "2019-05-20T13:53:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > [Forest Lawn.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WGuw3TuPomQ) Another Tom Paxton song. [The John Birch Society](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRhVEU2iCU) by the Chad Mitchell Trio ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/83 "2019-05-20T14:10:34Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > That reminds me that Jason Isbell has a song titled “Super 8 Motel”. Was that where he was staying [when Father John Misty checked in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_WjZfIDasw)? 😉 ---
**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:** [May 21, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/84 "2019-05-21T14:37:21Z")
Two more from Tom Paxton that sort of apply here: Talking Watergate. Watergate was a tradmarked name for the complex. Paxton wrote 'MY Dog’s Bigger Than Your Dog," which was later bought by Ken–L-Ration and became “The Ken-L-Ration” song that everybody knows. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/85 "2019-05-21T17:47:16Z")
Does it count if the brand name came about because of the song? Alice’s Restaurant of Sky Londa, California, founded in the 1960’s, was named in homage to the Arlo Guthrie song. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/86 "2019-05-28T13:58:40Z")
Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C. Riley Baby on Board - B Sharps ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/87 "2019-05-28T23:48:38Z")
Jimmy Olsen’s Blues before you complain about it just being a character, they used to publish comics called [sup]Superman’s Pal[/sup] Jimmy Olsen, making it a brand as well. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/88 "2019-06-08T14:08:45Z")
[People Who Read People Magazine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qivMfz3VFYE) by Kinky Friedman ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628/89 "2019-06-08T16:55:37Z")
Railroads inspired a lot of songs. > **[List of train songs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs)** > > A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads. Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde. While the prominence of railroads in the United States has faded in recent decades, the train endures as a common image in popular song. > The earliest known train songs date to two years b... “Amtrak (Ain’t Coming Back)” (Billy Joe Shaver) “Amtrak Blues” (Alberta Hunter) “Amtrak Crescent” (Scott Miller) “Amtrak Is for Lovers” (Houston Calls) “B & O Blues”, separate songs, artists followed by composers:Bumble Bee Slim(Amos Easton),[78]Big Joe Turner(Big Joe Turner)[79] “C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific Railway) Blues” (Robert Charlebois) “K.C. Railroad Blues”, also titled “K.C. Moan”, (Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter, 1927) “L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore, The” (Jean Ritchie) “L.& W. R.R. Station in Kentucky” (Frank Crumit) “M & O Blues” (Big Bill Broonzy) “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” (Harry Warren,Johnny Mercer) byJudy Garland,[17][93]Harry Warren,[17][190]Johnny Mercer[17][190] “Pan American” (Hank Williams) “Southern Pacific” byNeil Young “Texas and Pacific” byLouis Jordan & His Tympany Five[86] “Wabash Cannonball” (Traditional) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-brand-name-in-the-title/833628.md?page=4)