Songs about people with odd, strange, or unique names

Meridian Leeward - The Nazz

 

Suzy Creamcheese.......what`s gotten into you?....Frank Zappa.

 

Here's a long and unusual name - "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen By The Sea".
By David and Jonathan from their 1st album (1967)
This song title was performed by the Beatles (one line only) at the Get Back Sessions

 

Eminem- The Real Slim Shady

Technically, a lot of Rap/Hip Hop titles would fit here (as these uniquely-named artists regularly write about themselves or their alter egos):

Digital Underground- The Humpty Dance

Public Enemy- Cold Lampin' With Flava

Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby

MC Hammer- Here Comes The Hammer

Soulja Boy Tell'em- Crank That (Soulja Boy)

 

Caravan - C'Thlu Thlu

 

"Horace The Wimp" by ELO.

 

"Bob Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina" - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien's Mistadobalina


Famously sampled from The Monkees - Zilch

 

Erwilian - Royal Forester - Steeleye Span

 

KISS - Shandi

 

Sgt Pepper and His Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

Brad Jones - Ophelia Floats Away

 

Pretty obvious, doncha think?

Speaking of obvious, I'm surprised no one mentioned the first one that came to mind for me: "A Boy Named Sue"

which was odd, strange, or unique enough to cause a memorable fistfight.

 

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

 

Easy to miss but it's in the OP.

Scott Walker - The Amorous Humphrey Plugg (Scott 2)

 

"Dumas Walker" by the Kentucky Headhunters (another real person)

"Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of Arts" by the Bee Gees

 

From The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands
"I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts)"

 

Mean Mr. Mustard - The Beatles

 

Lincoln Duncan--"Duncan" - Paul Simon

 

"Mr. Guder" by The Carpenters
"Solomon Grundy", by The Foundations
"Heygoode Hardy" by The Guess Who
"Mr. Kite" by some loose band of miscreant low-talents masqurading as a band...
"D. W. Washburn" by Some Monkees But Not All Of Them
"Particle Man" (and all his friends therein), by They Might be Giants
"Small Change" by Tom Waits

 

Not common in the uk

 

Yup - here in the USA pretty normal to encounter a guy named Tracey/Tracy. Sometimes if it's a man they may shorten it to Trace. It's a unisex type name. Like 'Chris'.

 

Swag - Trixie

 

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Trishalana