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    Songs Mentioning Actors

    Madness - Michael Caine
    Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (Eva Marie Saint)
    Roxy Music - 2HB (Humphrey Bogart, quotes Casablanca)

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    Robert de Niros waiting-Bananarama
    John Wayne is big leggy-Hayzee Fantayzee
    Hits and misses by Stiff little fingers mentions Michael Caine
    Key Largo 80s hit by someone I can't remember mentions Bogey and Bacall

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      #3
      Bette Davis Eyes — Kim Carnes (et al.) would be an obvious one.

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        #4
        They Might Be Giants - Au Contraire (Jodie Foster)

        Also features David Bowie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bach, and Gandhi.

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          #5
          Tom Courtenay - Yo La Tengo

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            #6
            Stephen Malkmus - Jo Jo's Jacket (Yul Brynner)

            Also Vogue, obviously.

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              #7
              Lee Remick - The Go-Betweens (mentions Gregory Peck too)
              Fight The Power - Public Enemy (John Wayne and Elvis Presley)

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                #8
                Anthony Perkins: Motorpsycho Nitemare, Bob Dylan

                also Peter O'Toole in Clean Cut Kid

                I suspect a comprehensive search of Dylan lyrics would turn up quite a few more.
                Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 05-06-2018, 22:22.

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                  #9
                  Ian Ogilvy and Roger Moore - Simon Templar- Splodgenessabounds

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                    #10
                    Peter Lorre - Al Stewart (Year of the Cat)
                    Marilyn Monroe - Elton John (Candle in the Wind)
                    Edie Sedgwick - The Cult (Edie (Ciao Baby))
                    Brigitte Bardot - The Pretenders (Message Of Love)

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                      #11
                      Marlene Dietrich - Peter Sarstedt (Where Do You Go To My Lovely)
                      Jean Seberg, Steve McQueen - Divine Comedy (Absent Friends)

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                        #12
                        That song about Barbra Streisand from a few years ago

                        (well I say "about" Barbra Streisand, but in fact it just repeated her name over and over again)

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                          #13
                          REM's Electrolite, the last track on New Adventures In Hi-Fi :

                          If I ever want to fly
                          Mulholland Drive
                          I am alive
                          Hollywood is under me
                          I'm Martin Sheen
                          I'm Steve McQueen
                          I'm Jimmy Dean

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                            #14
                            John Wayne & Gary Cooper - MC Solaar, Nouveau Western

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                              #15
                              Sub-category: Actors you hadn't heard of until the song ...

                              Peter Lorre, Year of the Cat (Al Stewart) - edit: as mentioned by SG
                              Annette Funicello, Ariel (Dean Friedman)

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                                #16
                                I suspect a comprehensive search of Dylan lyrics would turn up quite a few more.[/QUOTE]

                                In I Shall Be Free his answer to President Kennedy's question, what do we need to make the country grow? is Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren.

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                                  #17
                                  Probably too many HMHB songs to mention, but Nerys Hughes springs to mind.

                                  Leonard Nimoy—Freaky Realistic
                                  Grace Kelly—Mika

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                                    #18
                                    Ships Don't Disappear in the Night, Do They? - 10cc (Vincent Price)
                                    Winona - Drop Nineteens (Winona Ryder)
                                    Kenuwee Head (Dude Idol) - Voodoo Queens (Keanu Reeves)
                                    Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus (errm, Bela Lugosi)
                                    Telephone Thing - The Fall (Gretchen Franklin [Ethel from EastEnders])

                                    Key Largo was recorded by Bertie Higgins - which has to be one of the best pop names ever.
                                    Last edited by Jah Womble; 10-06-2018, 08:24.

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                                      #19
                                      Pocahontas - Neil Young (Marlon Brando)
                                      Somewhere in Hollywood 10cc (Jean Harlow and Lassie)
                                      Last edited by wittoner; 06-06-2018, 10:11. Reason: Lassie, not Rin Tin Tin!

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                                        #20
                                        Creedence's Ramble Tamble predicted Ronald Reagan's presidency 10 years in advance

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                                          #21
                                          Hollywood Boulevard by Big Audio Dynamite contains a few (Errol Flynn, Oliver Reed, Fatty Arbuckle)
                                          Terry by Kirsty MacColl (Marlon Brando)
                                          Loads by Adam and the Ants: Scorpios (Diana Dors); Los Rancheros (Clint Eastwood);Don't Be Square (Dirk Bogarde)

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                                            #22
                                            Donna the Prima Donnna - Dion and the Belmonts (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

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                                              #23
                                              Ooo! Excellent call.

                                              But not Dion and the Belmonts. Dion split with the Belmonts in 1961. On all his doo-wop material from Runaround Sue until the mid-60s he was backed by the Del-Satins (who rarely received credit.) [/pedantry]

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
                                                Stephen Malkmus - Jo Jo's Jacket (Yul Brynner)

                                                Also Vogue, obviously.
                                                I've mentioned Katherine Longworth's excellent podcast on here before. It's called 'You must remember this' and it deals with hollywood's golden age. I've often wondered, whilst listening, why Longworth became such a devotee of that era. Turns out she was turned onto it as a kid by the vogue video.

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                                                  #25
                                                  You got Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole, Satchmo but you missed Sean Penn Blues which references both Penn and Madonna and also Mr Malcontent which is based on Daniel Day Lewis' character in My Beautiful Launderette.

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