I was wondering which name popped up the most when it came to female names in song titles. For the purpose of this thread religious songs/hymns are excluded.
For rock/pop songs, I bet it’s some shortening of Susan like Sue or Susie.
Probably not a record, but I know of at least three pop-rock songs (all good, IMHO) about “Diane”: by Fleetwood Mac, Material Issue, and Trip Shakespeare.
Wiki lists eight different songs titled “Gloria”(not counting the religious hymns).
Since the name doesn’t have to the only word in the title, I’m putting “Mary”'s count at 20.
Maria has 28.
Candy has been used about a dozen times, but I was thinking out the Iggy Pop version.
“Doreen” is an unusual name, and yet I can think of two songs right off the top of my head with that title (Frank Zappa, and Old 97s).
There’s several in Spanish not listed there, but Spanish ones tend to refer to compound names since those are more common than María no más (“just plain María”… WTF, a cover by Cliff Richards?). María de los Guardias is a compound nickname (“Mary of the Guards”); that’s the original version, it has enough covers to fill multiple vynils.
I was thinking Jane was a good candidate. But I got lazy and googled it. Here’s a website listing 30 Jane songs, presumably compiled by someone with too much time on their hands.
Intriguingly, the site boasts 30 Jane songs listed “in order”. But of what, though?
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Jen/Jenny/Jenni/Jennifer has at least 50.
This sitelists 11 pages of songs with *Mary *in the title. About 30 titles per page.
Some of them are duplicates, i.e. the same song by different artists. Some of them might have a religious theme, if not actual hymns, but there’s probably at least 250 separate songs there.
For the purposes of this thread, does A Boy Named Sue count? The point of the song is that it’s not used as a female name in this particular case.
It counts.