Songs About Media (TV, Radio, Publications, Internet) and Media Personalities

[MaVolta]

So, here's a new topic to try out . . . songs about the media, such as tv, radio, publications, the internet, and any media personalities you can think of. It can be song titles or part of the lyrics.

I'll start off with - - - 

Cover of the Rollin' Stone - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

[DarcyFarrow]

Television (Talking Heads)

[BeatleloverKT]

Song for Bob Dylan  Bowie

[BeatleloverKT]

Have you heard the news?  Talk Talk

[MaVolta]

Wired for Sound  -  Cliff Richard

Power from the needle to the plastic
AM FM I feel so ecstatic
Now it's music I've found
And I'm wired for sound

[BeatleloverKT]

Radio radio   Elvis Costello

[DarcyFarrow]

Blow Up Your TV (John Denver)

"Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home"

[BeatleloverKT]

Bennie and the jets Sir Elton John (You

know I read it in a magazine, You’re

gonna hear electric music)

[DarcyFarrow]

Front Page Story (Neil Diamond)

[BobH07]

Radio Nowhere:  Bruce

57 Channels And Nothin' On

[DarcyFarrow]

Please Ms. Newslady (Bill Danoff)

[BobH07]

You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio:  Joni Mitchell

[1968Hoya46]

My True Confession: Brook Benton (an under-played song by a guy with a great voice; he wants the magazine editor to print a story apologizing for his cheating).

[DarcyFarrow]

Lawyers in Love (Jackson Browne):

"God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful
They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful
Eating from TV trays, tuned into Happy Days"

[BobH07]

Telegraph Road:  Dire Straits

[BeatleloverKT]

Murder most foul  Dylan. New song

released on 3/27/20. Most of the song

is about JFK’s death but he drops
references to The Beatles, Woodstock,

Scarlet O’Hara, Tommy (Who), Patsy

Cline and many other musical artists.

A most fascinating new song, you

must give a listen 💜

[DarcyFarrow]

Please Ms. Newslady (BIll Danoff)

[BobH07]

Mohammed's Radio:  Warren Zevon

[BobH07]

Radio Ga Ga:  Queen

[MaVolta]

Live Your Life  -  John Kay

I was raised in the ruins, mama, 'till I was thirteen
Every day I heard the radio
Every night I had the same old dream
To sing a song, oh, baby, to watch my name in lights

[1968Hoya46]

Don't Bogart Me  a/k/a Don't Bogart That Joint; Fraternity Of Man; Little Feat (a reference to Humphrey Bogart, a media personality if there ever was one). 

[BeatleloverKT]

They don't know  Tracey Ullman. Cute song from 1983 where she sings about marrying the guy of her dreams "Paul" Fast forward to when she's shopping, pregnant in her slippers with a toddler. Then

to songs end when she's all dolled up again riding in a car being driven by Paul McCartney. I freaked out the first time I saw the video!

[1968Hoya46]

Red Neck Friend: Jackson Browne (Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news).

[BeatleloverKT]

R.O.C.K in the USA  John Mellencamp

"There was Frankie Lymon-Bobby Fuller-Mitch Ryder

(They were rockin')

Jackie Wilson-Shangra-las-Young Rascals

(They were rockin')

Spotlight on Martha Reeves

Let's don't forget James Brown"

[nyadrn]

FM. Steely Dan

Worry the bottle Mama
It's grapefruit wine
Kick off your high heel sneakers
It's party time
The girls don't seem to care what's on
As long as they play till dawn
Nothin' but blues and Elvis
And somebody elses' favorite song

[MaVolta]

Why Didn't Rosemary  -  Deep Purple  

As a matter of interest, tell me if you will
Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?
Lying there waiting, waiting for the kill
Oh man won't do it, but the devil will

Oh, why won't Rosemary ever take the pill?

In reference to the 1968 horror film, Rosemary's Baby.

[BeatleloverKT]

Star  David Bowie

"I could make it all worthwhile

As a rock and roll star

Bevan tried to change the nation

Sonny wants to turn the world"

[BobH07]

Morse Code Of Love:  Capris

[BeatleloverKT]

China Girl  Bowie

"I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando"

[MaVolta]

Should've Been A Cowboy  -  Toby Keith

references to Marshal Dillon, Miss Kitty, Gene, and Roy

[BeatleloverKT]

The note you never wrote  Sir Paul&Wings

"Later on, the story goes

A bottle floated out the sea

After days, when it had found the perfect spot

it opened up

And I read the note that you never wrote to me"