Songs that mention specific actors by name

Hes got Marty Feldman eyes

jb

 

Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation- works in Georgia O’Keefe, Michael Jackson, and Goofy (the only actor among the three)

His Detox Mansion mentions Liz and Liza

 

Italian actress. Do not Google her at work!

 

MDC - John Wayne Was A Nazi

 

It was just recently that I caught the John Wayne line in that song—cracks me up.

 

Nirvana: "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"

 

Cinerama- "Lollogbrigida"

 

Yo La Tengo- "Tom Courtenay" (which mentions Julie Christie)

 

Guy Clark, "South Coast of Texas" (Gilbert Roland)

 

Frank Sinatra - Nancy (With the Laughing Face)

Keep Betty Grable, Lamour, and Turner
She makes my heart a charcoal burner
No angel could replace
My Nancy with the laughin' face

 

Eve Marie Saint. -. Lloyd Cole etc

 

Jonathan Richman - Abu Jamal

So join Nelson Mandela
And Susan Sarandon
Join Harry Belafonte as the list goes on and on
And protest with a letter, or maybe a phone call
For there on death row, stands Abu Jamal

 

So that's who Terry and Julie are!

 

Phil Ochs - Jim Dean of Indiana

Yep, song about James Dean, and it's a good one.

 

I absolutely adore this song.
"West is Mike and Susy"
Susy is Susan Penhaligon an actor friend of Peter Hammill

 

Donovan "Sunny South Kensington" (Jean-Paul Belmondo)
Bob Dylan "Desolation Row" (Bette Davis)

 

And Sandra Dee, Doris Day and Annette Funicello

 

R.E.M. - "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I"
Hilary Duff - "Mr. James Dean"

 

"The Mighty Quinn" by Manfred Mann, a Bob Dylan song about Anthony Quinn.

 

TV Personalities " My Favorite Films" ( Malcom MacDowel)
Supercharger "Sooprize Package For Mr. Mineo" (Doris Day)

 

Bowie

Don't Look Down

Rudy Valentino

 

not mentioned so far:

"Rock On" - David Essex (James Dean)
"Manic Monday" - The Bangles (Rudolph Valentino)
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" - Frank Zappa (Gregory Peck)
"Wnnebago Warrior" - Dead Kennedys - (John Wayne)

"Johnny Depp" - Wesley Willis

 

Also mentions Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. (apparently Eddie Murphy was super pissed he was used in this song which was cowritten with Bob Dylan and those three names came from a newspaper entertainment page)

Bob Dylan's "Motorpsycho Nightmare" mentions Tony Perkins.
"My Own Version Of You" mentions Brando and Pacino.

 

Tim Curry - I Do the Rock

Liz and Dick and Britt and Lisa
Jaclyn, Kate and Farah
Meg and Roddy, John Travolta

 

The Who - "A Man is a Man" ("He don't have to perform like John Wayne in some B feature flick")