Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes
Carrie Anne - Hollies about Marianne Faithful 
Candle in the Wind by Elton John - Marilyn Monroe



 
1          The Carefrees – We Love You Beatles
2          Al Fisher & Lou Marks – Paul, George, John & Ringo (All The Way To The Bank)
3          Donna Lynn – My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut
4          Bonnie Jo Mason – Ringo, I Love You
5          The Angels  – Little Beatle Boy
6          Murry Kellum – I Dreamed I Was A Beatle
7          Bill Clifton – Beatle Crazy
8          The Starlettes  – Ringo
9          Larry Finegan – A Tribute To Ringo Starr (The Other Ringo)
10        The Bulldogs – John, Paul, George And Ringo
11        The Bagels – Meet The Bagels Singing I Wanna Hold Your Hand
12        Veronica Lee  With The Moniques  – Ringo Did It
13        The Twiliters – My Beatle Haircut
14        Little Cheryl – Yeh, Yeh, We Love 'Em All
15        The Young World Singers – Ringo For President
16        Dora Bryan – All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle
17        Scott Douglas – The Beatles' Barber
18        Annie And The Orphans – My Girl's Been Bitten By The Beatle Bug
19        Tracy Steel – A Letter To Paul
20        Jack White  – I Ain't No Beatle
21        Gene Cornish & The Unbeetables – I Wanna Be A Beetle
22        Neil Sheppard  – You Can't Go Far Without A Guitar (Unless You're Ringo Starr)
23        Brad Berwick – I'm Better Than The Beatles
24        Homer & Jethro – Gonna Send 'Em Home
25        Johnny And The Hurricanes – Saga Of The Beatles
26        Li'l Wally Plus The Venturas – Welcome Beatles

Last edited by Taz (January 18, 2025 8:49 am)

The Curly Shuffle by Jump 'N the Saddle Band - Three Stooges

Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) by Ed Byrnes and Connie Stevens Although Kookie is a fictional character, the song is about Ed Byrnes hair.

Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" mentions Lou Rawls, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James Brown, and someone named Dizzy G.

Oh Donna - Ritchie Valens
Written for his girlfriend in high school, Donna Ludwig

Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
The song, written by Jerry Allison, Norman Petty and Buddy Holly, was originally titled Cindy Lou (Holly's niece). but was changed to Peggy Sue by Allison in an attempt to win the favor of Peggy Sue Gerron, who became Allison's girlfriend and wife.

Sheila - Tommy Roe
Tommy always tells this story when he performs it live.  He wrote the song for a high school friend, Frita. but the producers didn't like the name.  Tommy's aunt Sheila was visiting when he was told to change the name, hence the title. 

Cher had several aliases. I knew about the Cheryl LaPiere but didn't know about the Bonnie Jo Mason.  And I knew she hung here hat in Greg Allman's place for awhile but did not know she actually changed her name to Allman.
 

Little Rich wrote:

Cher had several aliases. I knew about the Cheryl LaPiere but didn't know about the Bonnie Jo Mason.  And I knew she hung here hat in Greg Allman's place for awhile but did not know she actually changed her name to Allman.
 

You can sort of make out the Cher she would become in this early song from 1964.

“The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton (1959) references then Major General Andrew Jackson.

My favorite trivia question, until the Blackberries became popular around 2002, was, “where was the Battle of New Orleans fought and in which year was it fought?”.

“Sink the Bismarck” by Johnny Horton (1960) references Winston Churchill who told the people "put every ship a-sail”.

Johnny Horton also had an album released in July, 1960 entitled “Johnny Horton Makes History” which has songs about several historical people.

The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace - Al Capone
 
OK, I didn’t come up with it on my own.  “The Keg” episode of “That '70s Show“ was on tonight.  Red and Bob are in the car with the song playing on the radio.

Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" is an unusual tune for this category, because it not only mentions Ronnie Spector repeatedly ("Just like Ronnie sang...") but it then features her on the record actually singing her famous chorus of "Be My Baby" on the tune.

That's up to Lorne to decide, but I thought the Eddie Money song worked because Ronnie Spector was a huge hitmaker from the 60s. Therefore it seemed fair to include it here. 

GrimsbyFan wrote:

Is this Oldies Board now expanding its scope to include songs from the 1980s as oldies?

In the word of Bluto, “It don’t cost nothin”
 

Last edited by Taz (January 24, 2025 1:15 pm)

Ron had begun his site in 1996, and so a lot of 1980s music was still pretty recent during the early years of the board. And yes, I remember that at one time he would delete posts about post-1970s music, but in his board's latter years I saw that he had stopped doing that.

In recent years, I've also seen that some stations with "oldies" in their names or branding are including 1980s music. And as someone who used to work in market research, that's made perfect sense to me -- that including at least some 1980s music as oldies was good for them from a demographics point of view. So I've also felt that it was good for the board to allow some discussion of 1980s music ... it's a way of making it relevant to newcomers who might not go back as far as many of us do. And personally, I'm actually on the cusp in that regard. Although I've always loved 1960s and 1950s music going back to when I was young, as someone who was born in 1960 I continued to also be into current music right through the 1970s and 1980s.

Finally, Taz's "don't cost nothin'" quote is quite literally true of this site. Not only is it hosted for free by Boardhost, but so far I haven't seen any limit from them on the number of messages that can be posted. If anything, I'd like to see more messages here, and so that also makes me want to be inclusive regarding what can be posted.