Fictional Characters Who Appear in More Than One Song

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  1. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    A few from Steve Earle:

    "Everybody talk about Maybellene
    Yellow Rose Of Texas and the Sweet Sixteen
    Well, I don't wanna hear about no Peggy Sue
    I don't wanna think about nothin' but you"
     
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  2. Buggyhair

    Buggyhair Forum Resident

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    Also a song of the same name by Jerry Lee Lewis and redone by The MC5 (based on the Ted Taylor version).
     
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  3. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    Billy the Mountain

    His own song, and "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary."
     
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  4. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    Potatohead Bobby

    "San Ber'dino" and "Advance Romance."
     
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  5. Pena appears in two Captain Beefheart tracks, in Pena on Trout Mask Replica, and in Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat on Ice Cream for Crow.
     
  6. Two of the greatest albums of the 60’s both had a character with the same name in the title; despite being different songs:

    Guinevere.

    Featured on CSN’s debut album and Donovan’s Sunshine Superman.
     
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  7. bataclan2002

    bataclan2002 All You Need Is Now.

    “Spooky Electric” appears in both Eye No and Poistivity from Prince’s Lovesexy.
     
  8. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    'Marie' of the song of that name on Randy Newman's Good Old Boys may or may not be the same Marie who pops up in the lyric of 'Mikey's' from Trouble in Paradise.
     
  9. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    Possibly the Julie from the Crescendos' song which had been a Top Ten US hit a few months previously
     
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  11. edenofflowers

    edenofflowers A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular!

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    And in 'I'm Stealing The Towels' on 200 Motels.
     
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  12. Buggyhair

    Buggyhair Forum Resident

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    Suzy Creamcheese makes more than one appearance in Zappa songs.
     
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  13. stewedandkeefed

    stewedandkeefed Came Ashore In The Dead Of The Night

    The Zappa In New York version of "Illinois Enema Bandit" has the line "ain't talking about Potato-Headed Bobby".
     
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  14. Chemguy

    Chemguy Forum Resident

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    Just listening to The Basement Tapes...

    Argh! So close...Goin’ to Acapulco...Rose Marie

    Rosemary...and the Jack of Hearts!

    Rats.
     
  15. keyse1

    keyse1 Forum Resident

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    Tom Joad by Woody Guthrie
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad by Springsteen
     
  16. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    “Johnny” appears on two songs from Thin Lizzy’s “Johnny the Fox”

    Mentioned already?

    Meh, if so.
     
  17. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    But Jeffrey is not fictional is he? That’s Jeffrey Hammond who played bass in the band for several years.
     
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  18. mschrist

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    Jolene, the subject of Sloan's "Friendship", is referred to earlier on the same album on "So Beyond Me" ("I put a quarter in the record machine/I thought of dedicating one to Jolene/But it was full of records I'd never seen"...). The album is "Between the Bridges".
     
  19. johnsiddique

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    Peter Gabriel created the character Mozo just after he left Genesis and there are songs based on the character across his first 5 solo albums. It’s a pretty complex weaving... I think he had a film or a play in mind initially... the songs I can remember from the cycle are:

    Here Comes the Flood
    Down The Dolce Vita
    On The Air
    Exposure
    Red Rain
    That Voice Again

    Don’t think any of IV is Mozo... but other songs like White Shadow, and the later Signal to Noise might also be connected.

    I’m sure someone much more knowledgeable than I, here, might be able to shine more light on this for us. There’s a few blog posts around that talk about it.
     
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  20. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Mr. Lee: "Mr. Lee" and "I Shot Mr. Lee" by the Bobbettes
     
  21. The Killer

    The Killer Dung Heap Rooster

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    Elkie Brooks had a song Pearl's A Singer, Miss Pearl also showed up on the Chris Isaak album Beyond The Sun.
     
  22. humpf

    humpf Allowed to write something here.

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    There is Cpt. Ahab in Shiver Me Timbers by Tom Waits as well as (famously and misspelled) in Bob Dylan's 115 Dream.
     
  23. crustycurmudgeon

    crustycurmudgeon We've all got our faults, mine's the Calaveras

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    Well, that's Rose Goes To Yale.
     
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  24. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    Could be. Thanks.
     
  25. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    .......and a garage rock song by Teddy and his Patches.
     
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