“I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”
from the inimitable Humpty Dance by Digital Underground.
nvm
You can’t mention that song without including “A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request”. Both songs written by Steve Goodman.
Steve Goodman (no, not Arlo) also wrote a song about “the train they call the City of New Orleans,” but I don’t think the train’s name if trademarked.
ETA: And can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
That reminds me that Jason Isbell has a song titled “Super 8 Motel”.
Elastica spelled it correctly - Vaseline
how about 2 names? Sheraton Gibson by Pete Townshend
80’s Mercedes (Maren Morris)
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker jack, I dont care if I ever come back.
But “Vegematic” is.
For maybe the oldest car brand name drop in a song title, there’s “Terraplane Blues” by Robert Johnson.
Roy Clark - “Thank God And Greyhound You’re Gone”
Kingston Trio - “(In The Valley Of) The Jolly Green Giant”
Avril Lavigne - “Hello Kitty”
Ed Sheeran - “Lego House”
The Ramones - Go Lil’ Camaro Go
The Dead Milkmen - Bitchin’ Camaro
Dead Kennedys - Winnebago Warrior
REM - Orange Crush
The Dickies -Stukas Over Disneyland
And the phonetic (spelling supposedly changed to avoid legal trouble):
Dada - Dizz Knee Land
Includes the weird 80s video…
What the heck do Egyptians have to do with Velcro?Mrs Paul, Mrs Paul by Root Boy Slim
Okay. I’m the biggest Tom Paxton fan on this board, and it’s taking me a day to come up with his two songs that mention trademarks? And one is very well known, and nobody mentioned it?
I’m changing my name to Chrysler
And I’m going down to Washington DC
I’ll tell some power broker
What he did for Iaccoa
Would be perfectly acceptable to me.
Thank you, Republic Airlines
For treating my instrument with care
My guitar case was so good that nothing could go through it.
Way to go, Republic, only you can do it.
Steve Goodman Dying Cub Fans Blues
I Know Vaseline has been mentioned…Leo Kottke also did a tune Vaseline machine gun
Three songs about record labels (all not too friendly towards them):
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Working For MCA
Sex Pistols - EMI
Stiff Little Fingers - Rough Trade
There is a Cub Fan Blues which was inspired by Steve Goodman’s A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Lament (already mentioned up thread) but written by someone else.