songs with your (sur)name in

[Gerontophile]

No link, sorry, but 'Boris the Spider' by the Who

[Crusoe]

songs with your (sur)name in

"Hey Matthew", Karel Fialka
"Matthew & Son", Cat Stevens

No songs have my surname.

[Mumpo]

songs with your (sur)name in

When I saw you
I thought that you were the one
Looking good, I assumed you were handy
You introduced yourself as handy

I thought you were the handy-man
I laid my love in your hands
Andy my man
I thought you were the handy-man

Then something went wrong
And the feeling was so gone
Slipped the hammer on your thumb
And the saw got caught in your thong

I thought you were the handy-man
I laid my love in your hands
Andy my man
I thought you were the handy-man

The Knife, 'Handy Man'

[hobbes]

songs with your (sur)name in

First name:
Frenzal_Rhomb - Phil (best I can do - there are no Philips.)

Surname:
Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out
Da band - Cheers to Me, Mr Bentley

[beak]

songs with your (sur)name in

I don't know about individual songs, but Insane Clown Posse have released two (for fuck's sake two) albums featuring my surname prominently in the title.

Also, there was a cheesy metal band on a label run by Games Workshop that used my surname as their band name.

[Carcass]

songs with your (sur)name in

I can't remember the name of the Duran Duran song but there's one that samples 'Barbarella' so it sounds like some is saying 'Doctor Doran is alive?' Or some such.

Son House 'John The Revelator'
David Bowie 'John I'm Only Dancing'
Lloyd Cole 'My Bag' (His hymn to cocaine: "Meet me in the john, John. Meet me in the john.")

[marke]

songs with your (sur)name in

"Mark" - too many to mention.
"Emsley" - behave, not a chance really is there.

[matt j]

songs with your (sur)name in

I have a pretty common surname, and I know of at least one song that I own that references "the ghost of William Jennings Bryan". (Robert Earl Keen - Out Here in the Middle)

allmusic says there are loads more, the best of which is of course Jennings' Revenge (on an album called Pile of Skulls by Running Wild), but I like Jennings Goes Down, John Jennings Blues, Here Lies Lenora Jennings, and Jennings Station One as well.

[adams house cat]

songs with your (sur)name in

'Les Bicyclettes de Belsize'. Sorry. Fucking awful, I know. I bet there are loads of french songs theat have 'les' in the title. Can't think of any english language titles, though.

[marke]

songs with your (sur)name in

adams house cat wrote:

'Les Bicyclettes de Belsize'. Sorry. Fucking awful, I know. I bet there are loads of french songs theat have 'les' in the title. Can't think of any english language titles, though.

i recently bought Mireille Mathieu's album called that.
not yet actually dropped it on the record deck, but the cover is ace, and easily worthy of £1

[Gerontophile]

songs with your (sur)name in

My surname kicks in after 1:11 of this... and I think that its the only time John Entwhistle ever sang. 2 points and a custard tart to anyone who can actually work my name out without resorting to Facebook.

[Alderman Barnes]

songs with your (sur)name in

Unless your name is Creepy I think I might have a good idea.

[G-Man]

songs with your (sur)name in

"68 Gunthers will never die, 68 Gunthers is my battle cry."

And google reveals that Bob Marley had fun with half of my surname, though apparently to wish half of me harm.

[erwin]

songs with your (sur)name in

.

Depressing references:

Lonesome Town by Rick Nelson.
Downtown by Petula Clark

Double entendres:

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us by Sparks
The Boys are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy

inter alia

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[Femme Folle]

songs with your (sur)name in

David Bowie, The Gospel According to Tony Day

[Guest]

songs with your (sur)name in

There's a suprising number of people who think they're the first to sing 'Hey Joe' at me.

I don't suppose there's many songs with Bannister in them though. Anyone come up with any? She's buying a stairway (with a bannister) to heaven?

[Heliotrope]

songs with your (sur)name in

"The Staircase (Mystery)" by Siouxsie and the Banshees has a line that goes something like "Climb up the banister."

[Guest]

songs with your (sur)name in

Well, I obviously got that badly wrong. Half past three in the morning and someone finds an answer within 10 minutes!

[hobbes]

songs with your (sur)name in

There's also When the Sun Goes Down, by Half man Half Biscuit:-

Opposite the Bannister and Shamrock,
Which used to be the Rose and Crown,
I like to play Pat Boone,
On the county bassone,
When the evening sun goes down

[kugelrund]

songs with your (sur)name in

Bafflin Smoke Signals: Lee Perry.

[Wyatt Earp]

songs with your (sur)name in

"You Phil up my senses, like a night in a forest."

[beak]

songs with your (sur)name in

"Doctor, Ive got this feelin deep inside of me, deep inside of me / I just cant control my feet when I hear the beat, when I hear the beat / Hey doctor, could you give me somethin to ease the pain / cause if you dont help me soon gonna lose my brain / Gonna go insane / I just dont know, dont know / How Im gonna deal with you / Dog, dog, dog, dog, dogbeak"

Shame I moved over to my Euro2008 commemorative username about half an hour ago.

[Andy C]

songs with your (sur)name in

Not a song, but Hemingway wrote about The Old Man Andy C.

[boris]

songs with your (sur)name in

Working on the Cheyne gang?

[boris]

songs with your (sur)name in

TRB did "You've never had a brother like Martin", but I don't think my surname appears in any songs (unless someone like Tchaikovski knocked out a three-minute wonder).

Hmmm, a quick Google search of a common misspelling of my surname threw up (almost literally) this glorious discussion.