Topic Playlist (Part 3)

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1841

Song titles: Celebrities

  1. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
  2. Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
  3. Pete Davidson - Ariana Grande
  4. Roy Rogers - Elton John
  5. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult
  6. James Dean - The Eagles
  7. Frank Sinatra - Cake
1842

Song titles: Celebrities

  1. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
  2. Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
  3. Pete Davidson - Ariana Grande
  4. Roy Rogers - Elton John
  5. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult
  6. James Dean - The Eagles
  7. Frank Sinatra - Cake
  8. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
1843

Song titles: Celebrities

  1. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
  2. Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
  3. Pete Davidson - Ariana Grande
  4. Roy Rogers - Elton John
  5. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult
  6. James Dean - The Eagles
  7. Frank Sinatra - Cake
  8. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
  9. Harry Truman - Chicago
1844

Song titles: Celebrities

  1. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
  2. Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
  3. Pete Davidson - Ariana Grande
  4. Roy Rogers - Elton John
  5. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult
  6. James Dean - The Eagles
  7. Frank Sinatra - Cake
  8. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
  9. Harry Truman - Chicago
  10. Buddy Holly – Weezer

Thought sure this one would have been mentioned before now

Next up … Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan

named after a prosthetic phallus (dildo) mentioned in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch

-“BB”-

1845

Next up … Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine

Burroughs again, the name being the title of a novel and a reference to the human body.

1846

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf

By the 1927 novel of the same name.

1847

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep

Named by the band on the 100th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, from the character in David Copperfield.

1848

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax

Chicago-based jazz/new age band, active from the 1970s to 1990s. Named after Gandalf’s remarkable horse in The Lord of the Rings.

1849

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax
  6. The Doors

From The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

1850

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax
  6. The Doors
  7. Sixpence None the Richer

From a passage in Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

1851

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax
  6. The Doors
  7. Sixpence None the Richer
  8. The Boo Radleys

from a character in To Kill A Mockingbird

1852

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax
  6. The Doors
  7. Sixpence None the Richer
  8. The Boo Radleys
  9. Supertramp

From The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by William Henry Davies (no relation to the band’s Rick Davies).

1853

Literary References in Band Names

  1. Steely Dan
  2. Soft Machine
  3. Steppenwolf
  4. Uriah Heep
  5. Shadowfax
  6. The Doors
  7. Sixpence None the Richer
  8. The Boo Radleys
  9. Supertramp
  10. Aerosmith

From the book Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
1854

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
1855

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
  3. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
1856

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
  3. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  4. YMCA - The Village People

And you have to do the dance forming the letters with your arms. So I guess if you’re driving, you have to hope it doesn’t come on the radio.

1857

And then you get people like me who spell out the letters in semaphore…
Only time I’ve ever been able to use it since I got out of Boy Scouts.

-“BB”-

1858

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
  3. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  4. YMCA - The Village People
  5. Mony Mony - Billy Idol/Tommy James and the Shondells
1859

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
  3. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  4. YMCA - The Village People
  5. Mony Mony - Billy Idol/Tommy James and the Shondells
  6. Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters & Collectors
1860

Sing along songs

  1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  2. Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
  3. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  4. YMCA - The Village People
  5. Mony Mony - Billy Idol/Tommy James and the Shondells
  6. Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters & Collectors
  7. Hey Jude – The Beatles

-“BB”-