Name of a Business or business owner

Some songs might name a boss or businessman without naming the business.


16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, they got an apartment with deep-pile carpets
And a couple of paintings from Sears

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

Roxana said...

I saw your book at a Borders in Kentucky,
Under a sign that said "New and Recommended,"
I stole a look at your picture on the inside sleeve,
and then I couldn't leave...

--A Summer in Ohio, from The Last 5 Years

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

Though at first we said, "No, Sir!"
Now we're two little dears
You might say we are closer
Than Rosebuck is to Sears

(Rodgers & Hart, "Bewitched")

Sally said...

Pulitzer and Hearst, they think they got us.
Do they got us? No!
Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothin'.
Are we nothin'? No!
And the world will know.

from "Newsies"

HoosierNan said...

"Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay."
"I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking.
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away."

--John Prine

Anonymous said...

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, i must make amends

Deborah in IL said...

Maybe if you forget to hide the keys
I'll take a ride to Applebees
I'll come home drunk on daiquiris
And throw up on the neighbor's lawn

Shop Vac
Jonathon Coulton

Anonymous said...

My name is Johnny Walker and I won't wanna make any advertising, you know?

Munich Girls by Falco

HoosierNan said...

Tell me why I bid on Shatner's old toupee?
Found it on eBay.

--"The eBay Song," Weird Al Yankovic

abi said...

Take the National Express,
When your life's in a mess,
It will make you smile

National Express - Divine Comedy

HoosierNan said...

Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road.
Rock Island Line is the 'road to ride.
Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road,
If you want to ride it, gonna ride it like you're flyin',
Get your tickets at the station for the Rock Island Line.

--From an album of folk songs that my parents had when I was a kid. About a railroad. Maybe a radio jingle?

Anonymous said...

Spaghetti Carbonara, e una Coca Cola
Carbonara, e una Coca Cola

Carbonara by Spliff

Sandra Dodd said...

They say that Richard Corey owns one half of this whole town

Simon and Garfunkel

Deborah in IL said...

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner
That is what I truly want to be
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner
Everyone would be in love with me

Shanona Ryder said...

Downstairs at Danny's
All-Star Joint
they gat a jukebox
that goes doit-doit...

---Ricki Lee Jones

abi said...

MGM has got a leo,
But mama has got a trio

From The Bandwagon I think, song maybe Triplets???