Joe Jackson - 'I'm The Man' "But I can sell you anything... Anything from a thin safety pin to a pork pie hat."
Nat Stuckey - Sock It to Me Country Style Texas country singer. "Sock It to Me Country Style" is the closing track from his album "Keep 'Em Country", released on RCA Victor in 1969. "I dig a lot about the new generation And the clothes they wear ain't bad I didn't design those clothes and funny lookin' shirts And knee high boots and mini skirts But now I kinda wish that I had"
Marshall Crenshaw, Passing Through In our old shoes, we walked last night Sparkling concrete under the lights Traffic sounds, bouncing off the steel and glass We traced our steps from the past
Robert Gordon - Black Slacks No, not the original; I just like this one better. (NOT Link Wray as suggested, but Chris Spedding.)
Frank Sinatra - Bim Bam Baby A 1952 single B-side (c/w "Azure-Te (Paris Blues)"), released on Columbia. One of his last recordings for Columbia before he moved on to Capitol in 1953. "When I get my jacket and my trousers pressed I'll follow the swallow right back to my nest"
Year Of The Cat. "She comes out of the sun, in a silk dress running, like a watercolor in the rain"...
Roy Orbison - Domino A track - sometimes labeled as "A Cat Called Domino" - that remained in the vaults. Recorded in 1957, but released for the first time in 1973 on the Sun compilation "Sun Rockabillys - Put Your Cat Clothes On". "There's a cat in town that you might know He goes by the name of Domino A long tweed jacket and a diamond ring A blue sport car, he's a crazy king They love him so that cat called Domino, Domino, Domino"
Joni Mitchell - I Had a King Opening track from her debut album "Song to a Seagull", released in 1968 on Reprise Records. Joni's song about the breakup of her marriage to Chuck Mitchell. "I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley Lately he's taken to saying I'm crazy and blind He lives in another time Ladies in gingham still blush While he sings them of wars and wine But I in my leather and lace I can never become that kind"
Todd Snider - My Generation (Part 2) Opening track from his debut album "Songs for the Daily Planet", released on Margaritaville Records in 1994. "Here's to drum machines Stone-washed jeans Credit cards, fax machines Big bow-headed chicks and frat guys Wearin' forty dollar tie-dyed t-shirts And big, bold paisley ties"
Loudon Wainwright III - Bell Bottom Pants From his fourth album "Attempted Mustache", released in 1973 on Columbia Records. "Everybody got the bell bottom pants Ain't got the pants, ain't got a chance At the pop festival, rock festival or folk festival or the dance Oh baby"
brian eno - kings lead hat "The killer cycles (humdrum) The killer hertz The passage of my life is measured out in shirts" trivia: the song title is an anagram of talking heads
The Smiths - Vicar in a Tutu From their third album "The Queen Is Dead", released on Rough Trade Records in 1986. "The vicar in a tutu He's not strange He just wants to live his life this way"
From "Someone to Lose" on Wilco's Schmilco: "Where you gonna go in your winter coat? I wonder what you're hiding cause it's not too cold"
Big Audio Dynamite, "Medicine Show" Now if you're bald, it'll give you hair If you've got straight trousers, it'll give you flares
I was gonna post the immortal summer camp song "Underwear" (sung to the tune of "Over There") until I realized the OP doesn't want songs with the article of clothing in the title. But in researching other posts, I was surprised to not see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance" cited in this category.
"Leader of the Laundromat" – The Detergents (a parody of The Shangri-las' "Leader of the Pack"): I felt so messy standing there My daddy's shorts were everywhere
I can't remember which songs right now, but at least two songs from Bob Lind's later recording career mention underpants.
Rock lyrics can be educational (if you do a bit of research), as is proved in the Stones' The Under Assistent West Coast Man: Yeah, I'm sharp I'm really, really sharp I sure do earn my pay Sitting on the beach every day, yeah I'm real real sharp, yes I am I got a Corvette and a seersucker suit Yes, I have 'Seersucker' is one of the many words the colonial British imported from the Indian subcontinent and beyond. It's derived from Persian/Urdu sheer-shakkar meaning 'milk and sugar.'
