Name




Zann found my song. I can't embed it, but here's a link. It has a great counterpoint once it's all put together in the last pass.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player/-/pgpv/videoplayer/0/f203d732-155e-11dd-a62f-919b98326687

47 comments:

Deborah in IL said...

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did well, really, what's it to you?

Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen

De said...

Every time I walk through that door, it's the same damn thing
That bitch bends over and I forget my name. Ow!

Domino
KISS

Sandra Dodd said...

I like my name
It suits me to a T
I like my name
It even sounds like me

A song from early Sesame Street that Bob and Olivia sang, and if anyone knows where it is online I'd love to listen to it repeatedly.

Chris said...

Like the singing bird or croaking toad...I got a name

Jim Croce

Chris S. said...

Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name.

~ Doors

Deborah in IL said...

Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl


Copacabana
Barry Manilow

Sandra Dodd said...

What's the name of the game
Does it mean anything to you

ABBA

Deborah in IL said...

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?

The Rolling Stones

Karen Gallant said...

You don't remember, you don't remember, why don't you remember my name?

Paranoid Android
Radiohead

ColleenP(NH) said...

and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme...

The Name Game
Shirley Ellis

Deborah in IL said...

Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Cowgirl in the Sand
Neil Young

Chris said...

I woke up in a Soho doorway...A policeman knew my name ... He said you can go sleep at home tonight ... if you can get up and walk away ...

Who Are You? - The Who

Deborah in IL said...

And by the way
Did she mention my name?

Gordon Lightfoot

Sylvia said...

I asked her her name,
and in a dark brown voice she said Lola

The Kinks

Deborah in IL said...

What's your name?
Who's your daddy?
Is he rich like me?

Time of the Season
Zombies

NLWooton said...

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor

Luka
Suzanne Vega

Deborah in IL said...

He calls his child Jesus
Cause he likes the name

Levon
Elton John

Sylvia said...

What's your name, little girl?
What's your name?

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sandra Dodd said...

One day my name and hers
Are going to be the same

"Bus Stop," The Hollies

Deborah in IL said...

And yes I guess they oughta name a drink after You

John Prine

Sandra Dodd said...

Had a dog and his name was Blue
Betcha five dollars he's a good 'un too.

Deborah in IL said...

Well you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
But you never even call me by my name

Steve Goodman and John Prine wrote it
David Alan Coe made it famous

Cap'n Franko said...

And her name is
G - L - O - R - I - A
Gloria!
Gloria!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Gloria - Van M0rrison

Deborah in IL said...

I can't reveal her name until she's mine

A Certain Girl
Warren Zevon

Never heard this before today - there's a video posted to the fb page of a friend who still hasn't revealed the name of his newest son (born Monday) :)

'Zann said...

I call your name
but you're not there
was I to blame
for being unfair?

I Call Your Name
The Beatles

robmderrick said...

Just tell me what your name is!
It's Alice Uber Deutchland
It's Alice, it's Alice, it is my lucky day!

PDQ Bach
from Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice

Sandra Dodd said...

Just because I asked a friend about you
Just because I spoke your name somewhere

"She Thinks I Still Care," (George Jones? Leon Russell, later.)

Deborah in IL said...

Passing trains that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

City of New Orleans
Steve Goodman

'Zann said...

Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart.

Stop in the Name of Love
Supremes

Deborah in IL said...

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

America

Sandra Dodd said...

La dee da de dum, la dee da de dum,
What's the name of that song?

(another Sesame Street wonder)

'Zann said...

Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to

Little Green
Joni Mitchell

Sylvia said...

And I won't tell no one your name

Goo Goo Dolls

Sandra Dodd said...

B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o

'Zann said...

They got a little place across the track
the name of the place is I like it like that

I Like It Like That
various artists

Sandra Dodd said...

One has my name
The other has my heart

(a country song from the 1960's or earlier)

Sandra Dodd said...

There was a man named Johnny Sands
Who married Betsy Hague
And though she brought him house and land
She proved a terrible plague

(A humorous ballad about pretending to be blind, and death by drowning. It's hilarious.)

Deborah in IL said...

Eleanor Rigby
died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came

The Beatles

Sandra Dodd said...

Good one, Deb. I played twice in a row, all excited about thinking of Johnny Sands, so I'm out. I'll wait until tomorrow.
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Sorry for the foul, folks.

'Zann said...

You could've been more
than a name on the door
on the thirty-third floor
in the air


Joni Mitchell

'Zann said...

What's your name?
Is it Mary or Sue


Don't know artist

'Zann said...

My boyfriend's name is Fatty
He comes from Cincinnati
with ten fat toes and a pickle in his nose,
that's way my story goes.

Children's clapping game song

(New one's up, so I've posted all the ones I'd thought of)

Sandra Dodd said...

We did
"My boyfriend's name is Tony
He comes from the land of baloney
With pickles on his toes and a strawberry nose
And this is how my story goes.

Chris said...

They called you Tookie in High School, you didn't mind it to much
Kind of nice to have a nickname, kind of like they thought about it...you wish it'd had stuck with you and you didn't have to trade it in on some crazy lovers pet name..wind up hurting so much...

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

When I was a little boy
And my momma would call my name
I'd say now, "Who do, who do you think you're fooling?"

(Paul Simon)

ps pirro said...

Her name was Joanne
and she lived in a meadow
by a pond



Joanne
Michael Nesmith

ps pirro said...

so I gave you that name
and I said goodbye
and I knew you'd have to get tough
or die


Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash (I think Shel Silverstein wrote this one)