NEW GAME--" WHAT'S IN A NAME"

[mariana44]

I was going to include "How about you" also--

The Frank Sinatra version goes--
"I like a Gershwin tune" and also --"And James Durante's looks give me a thrill"

In the Bobby Darin Version--he sings of "A Bernstein Tune" and "Mr Kennedy's looks " and in the next verse it is "Mrs Darin's looks" [aka Sandra Dee.]

Some of the other versions I have heard mention "Frank Sinatra's looks"
and Shirley Bassey sings of "Frankie Vaughns Good Looks"

So there may well be some more different versions about.

[Marian]

"There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Thinks He's Elvis"...
Marian

[paul jh]

Here's another great song where the names often get updated:

I Can't Get Started which I believe originally included Franklin D and Greta Garbo in the lyrics.

[mariana44]

On the Elvis theme-I do not know what it is called, but I keep hearing it

"Elvis isn't dead, cause I heard him on the radio "

[john]

How about "BETTE DAVIS EYES" by Kim Carnes?

[john]

And "Roy Rogers" by Elton John.

[john]

And one more, "GRACE KELLY" by Mika.

[paul jh]

Marian -- The song is called "Elvis Ain't Dead" by Scouting For Girls, and it's almost as bad as their first single "She's So Lovely".

Here's a much better song: Just One Of Those Things with this excerpt from the opening verse:

As Dorothy Parker once said
To her boyfriend, "fare thee well"
As Columbus announced
When he knew he was bounced,
"it was swell, Isabel, swell".

It could only be written by Cole Porter!

[john]

"THE ROAD TO MOROCCO" has this line in it,
I'LL LAY YOU EIGHT TO FIVE THAT WE'LL MEET DOROTHY LAMOUR (YEAH GET IN LINE).

[Lena & Harry Smith]

There's "Nancy With The Laughing Face," Words by Phil Silvers music by Jimmy Van Heuson

Keep Betty Grable, Lamour, and Turner.
She Makes My Heart A Charcoal Burner,

[mariana44]

I never realised there were so many-but I knew that you guys would come up with some great ideas.

Here's my next one--from Shania Twain--That don't impress me much"--

"So you think you're Brad Pitt--that don't impress me much"

and further on---"So you think you're Elvis....."

[Marian]

I'm not sure this will count, but it is a song..
"Lloyd George knew my father,
My father knew Lloyd George...."
Marian

[Marian]

How about "Jesus Christ, Superstar".
Marian

[john]

KEEP A DREAM IN YOUR POCKET from The Seekers features the line "IF JOHN AND PAUL NEVER WROTE A SONG FOR YESTERDAY" referring of course to Lennon and Mc Cartney.

[mariana44]

Yes Marian-of course Lloyd George counts.--Although I have never heard that one !

How about "Roll over Beethoven" from the Beatles.