appears in both Mrs Robinson and We Didn't Start the Fire...

Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole.

(Thanks, now I'm going to have to listen to that when I get home. Ah, round and round your head they go, where they stop...)

Goldie Lookin Chains "The Maggot" mentions Penelope Keith.

"Like a chameleon, i'm the master thief
using a disguise, dressed like Penelope Keith".

Ah Mr Rowland!

Dexys Midnight Runners and Burn It Down.

Penelope Keith in a song, cos I couldn't imagine who would include her in a lyric. Only to find I own the song in question.

...because I'm doing a google on the ones I don't know and it feels like cheating. Still two out of 10 off the top of my head at lunchtime isn't bad...

Mr. Sandman!

"...and lots of wavy hair like Liberace!"

Total Art 1& 2 by A House!!!

“Consolation Prize” by Orange Juice

.....from "John Kettley is a weatherman" by Tribe of Toffs.

Dylan and the Band's version of You Ain't Goin' Nowhere:
('So pack up your suitcase, McGuinn, pack up your tent.')
The Mamas and the Papas 'Creque Alley'.

also of course gets a mention in My Baby Just Cares For Me by Nina Simone

The only missing ones

4. Bernie Goetz: We Didn't Start The Fire
5. B Bumble & The Stingers: Life Is Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)/Reunion
6. Marianne Faithful: Melting Pot/Blue Mink

...just a-gettin' higher"
Mamas & Papas

"...and even Liberace's smile..."
Nina Simone, My Baby Just Cares for Me

...is mentioned in loads of songs.

I knew she was in the lyrics of two songs but I couldn't remember what one of them was, so I googled and found that she is mentioned in at least ten songs.

The two I was originally thinking of were Pretty Fly For A White Guy (The Offspring) and Strong (Robbie Williams) but she also crops up in songs by Luther Vandross, Black Eyed Peas, TLC, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tanya Stephens, Insane Clown Posse, Shooter and Japanther - the magnificently-named song "Dump the body in Rikki Lake"

Half of those mention her in the same breath as Oprah.

Probably not a record, but who gets mentioned in the most songs?

6pm to 8pm, Bryan Burnett has a show on Radio Scotland where the listeners phone in requests on a particular theme.

Tomorrow nights theme is *songs where other artists are named*. He left us hanging tonight with Pefab Sprouts "Faron Young".

Generally I can't be bothered with Burnett, but he does put out some good shows. I much prefer Tom Morton.

For those of you in BBC Radio Scotland region looking for something to listen to between 2 and 4pm weekdays, Tom's your man!

I've got absolutely nothing to do with Toms show(apart from winning a Little Feat DVD a couple of years ago)but he plugs "The Word" regularly so I thought I'd do the same for him.

I even wonder if *he* reads all this stuff?? A few weeks ago, one of the *Obnoxious Knobheads* here started a thread about the almost unheard Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham LP, and a few days later Tom played a track for it!

Anyway, good music, good craic.....a bit like this place actually!

As in She hasn't got a....., one of Mr Thompsons lesser known chooglers, mentions Scritti Politti as below:
"Well, her ma writes cook books, she wrote one once, and it sold one or two
Her pa's in the city, he's so witty, he calls it the zoo
Her boyfriend plays in Scritti Politti, Aunt Sally's brown bread
In a few more years she can marry some fool and knock it on the head"
One of my favourite rhymes, another being Graham Parkers rhyming of confetti and sweaty. (I need to know what song that is, so I wil now apply to the Word Massive thread)

Phil Lynott manages to cram refrences and puns on the following into the last few verses of Black Rose...

James Joyce
WB Yeats
Oscar Wilde
Brendan Behan
George Best
Van Morrison
John Millington Synge
George Bernard Shaw
and finally, most probably Sean O'Casey

"My roisin dubh is my one and only true love
It was a joy that joyce brought to me
While william butler waits
And oscar, he's going wilde

Ah sure, brendan where have you behan?
Looking for a girl with green eyes
My dark rosaleen is my only colleen
That georgie knows best

But van is the man
Starvation once again
Drinking whiskey in the jar-o
Synge's playboy of the western world

As shaw, sean i was born and reared there
Where the mountains of mourne come down to the sea
It's such a long, long way from tipperary"