The Best or Single Most Favourite Song With Just A Name - Female & Male

[Murphy'sLore]

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Must confess I don't know Vampire Weekend but they really like naming their songs after people, don't they!

[Dancin' Douggy]

Re: The Best or Single Most Favourite Song With Just A Name - Female & Male

Just thought of a few more BIG ones.

Rhiannon. Fleetwood Mac
Rosalie. Thin Lizzy
Rosalita. Bruce Springsteen

And the epic. Mandy. Barry Manilow.

And perhaps one that might even be my favourite.

January, by Pilot (they used January as a girls name)
Just an absolute flawless slice of British Pop.
Incredibly layered, orchestral guitar lines. Perfect pop melody.
Dripping with hooks and a knock out 'get your attention immediately on AM radio'' power riff to wrap the whole bundle of jangly sweetness around.
Spent what seemed like months at No1 on the charts.

Pop perfection.

[Axe Man]

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Daniel - Elton John
Ben - Michael Jackson
St Jimmy - Green Day
Danny Boy

Strictly these probably don't meet the OP criteria, but:

Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Adam's Song - Blink 182
The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen

[AndrewP6]

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Veronica - Elvis Costello
Rosanna - Toto
Pamela - Toto
Maybellene - Chuck Berry (or it's country precursor, Ida Red!)
Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams (I have very broad taste in music!)
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

[Hotdog60]

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Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Substitute - Clout

[westdog54]

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[The Doctor]

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Seamus - Pink Floyd
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Miriam - Norah Jones
Laura - Greg Porter

[Happy Days]

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[whythelongface]

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A few more to add to the list

Alison - Elvis Costello
Norman - Teenage Fanclub
Escher - Teenage Fanclub
Peaches - The Stranglers
David (Watts) - The Jam

[The Underdog]

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Carol - Peep Tempel

You win

[The Underdog]

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A few that have been mentioned like Carol by Peep Tempel, Bob by DBT and Alison by Elvis Costello.
A few other faves that may or may not have come up.

Grant Hart - Posies
Johnathon Fisk - Spoon
Caitriona - Protomartyr
Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
Carla - Todd Snider
Alex Chilton - The Replacements
Desmond - Smudge (Unless I can sneak in Tenderfoot)
Dot - ALL
Paul - Girl Band
Pamela - Sweet Spirit (The greatest Pamela Anderson tribute song)
Richard II - Titus Andronicus
Richard III - Supergrass
Emily Kane - Art Brut
Daisy Glaze - Big Star
Vincent - Car Seat Headrest
Gareth Brown Says - Mclusky (Technically cheating but my favourite opening line of a song so I'm putting it in there)

[jeemak]

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Gloria - Laura Brannigan...….check this out, she looks like she barracks for Collingwood.

Seriously though, this tune means a lot to me. When I was a lad sitting in my high-rider in the back of my mum's corolla this tune was prevalent. Such a strong and beautiful voice, she shouldn't have gone into obscurity like she did, and she didn't deserve to be cut down like she was.

[jeemak]

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Sylvia - Pulp...…..Jarvis Cocker could get way with shit lyrics and Pulp were too good instrumentally to not get away with epic axe solos...

[Daughter of the West]

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Carol - Peep Tempel

Soooooooooo good!

And another vote for Ada by the National.

If either of our pups were girls, they would have been Ada. Except, I've since discovered there are about a squillion of them under 5 years old kicking around our neighbourhood.

[Twodogs]

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Buddy Holly-Weezer
Johhny B Goode-Chuck Berry

TISM have quite a few;

The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped
Mistah Elliot (the wanker)
Greg! The Stop Sign.
The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie
Honk If You Love Fred Durst
Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow

Dead Joe-Birthday Party
Nick the Stripper-the Birthday Party

And some one word titles...

Shivers-Boys Next Door
Loose-The Stooges
Hamlet Pow Pow, Pow. Birthday Party
Junkyard-the Birthday Party
EMI-Sex Pistols
(I'm) Stranded-the Saints
Boredom-Buzzcocks
Hurt-Johnny Cash
Creep (the Richard Cheese version)
Smut-Skyhooks
Loser-Beck
Anthrax-Gang of Four
Diseases-Thrush and the *!*!*!*!s
Relax-Frankie Goes To Hollywood
California (Uber Alles)-Dead Kennedys