Need your help! I need a list of songs with John or Johnny in them. Please include the name of the song and the line, if possible.
Thanks!!!
There’s Johnny B. Goode…
Just from titles alone:
Johnny Get Angry
Big Bad John
Johnny Don’t Do It (by 10cc)
Frankie and Johnny
John Brown’s Body
John Henry
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
Oh, Johnny!
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Belle and Sebastian’s “Slow Graffiti”:
“Listen Johnny, you’re like a mother to the girl you’ve fallen for”
New Order, 1963
NoFX, Johnny Appleseed
That’s all I got.
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros also had a song called “Johnny Appleseed.”
Also, “Abraham, Martin, and John.”
Come Back Jonee by Devo
or
Johnny, Are You Queer? by Josie Cotton
Johnny Angel - Don’t know who sings it, I think it was a Motown Girl Group.
This has already been done. I’ll look for the link.
Here you go:
“Songs about Johnny”:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142624
There’s Angry Johnny by Poe.
From Jimmy Dean (the Sausage King):
The Ballad of Big John;
. . . and it’s sequel:
Big John’s Cajun Queen
Well Only a Lad by Oingo Boingo is mentioned in the other thread.
Does the theme from the Dear John TV show count?
I do have one good one: Jesus, John, and Elvis by Dick Siegel.
I couldn’t find the lyrics online but if I remember correctly it goes: “Jesus, John, and Elvis, Son of God, President and Pelvis, they were all men divine, and they had nice hair.”
There’s Edith Piaf’s song “Johnny, tu n’es pas un ange.”
Johnny Johnny Johnny by Shonen Knife, one of the bounciest, most addictive songs I have ever heard. If you’re compiling a Johnny mix tape, you have to include this; it will be different from everything else.
Johnny, It’s Downhill From Here by Uncle Bonsai, a song about the one redeeming feature of superachievers, that when they leave their protective environment they fail miserably.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky and *Tear[i/]. The name Johnny is said repeatedly in the first one at the end of the chorus. In the latter, John is included in the line “say it loud, cos John and Jane would like to know.”
Pink Floyd: Not Now John. “Not now John, we’ve got to get on with these” etc.
Charlie Daniel’s Band: Devil went Down to Georgia “The boy said my name’s Johnny”
Tim McGraw: Don’t Take the Girl “Johnny hit his knees and then he prayed."
The Eagles: New Kid in Town “Johnny Come Lately, the new kid in town, everybody loves him and you’re still around.”
Uh, “The Ballad of John and Yoko” and Lennon’s self-referential “Hold On.”
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Anyway, just thought of a couple more for you:
Iggy Pop: Lust for Life. “Here comes Johnny, in again, with liquor and drugs and a fast machine.”
Elvis, Little Richard, or the Beatles, take your pick: Long Tall Sally. “Well, long tall Sally, she’s built sweet, she’s got everything that Uncle John needs.”
“A Girl called Johnny” by The Waterboys
“John, I’m Only Dancing” - David Bowie
“Be Good Johnny” - Men at Work
“Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky” - Red Hot Chili iPeppers
“Sloop John B.” - Beach Boys
“Hurry Up John” - The Idle Race
“Uncle John’s Band” - Grateful Dead