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

[BobH07]

The Barry Williams Show:  Peter Gabriel

[BobH07]

Second Hand News:  Fleetwood Mac

KT - If this is a duplicate, I apologize but I couldn't find it

[BobH07]

I Saw It On TV:  John Fogerty

[BobH07]

Want Ads:  Honey Cone

[BeatleloverKT]

Sweet talkin' woman  ELO

"I was waitin' for the Operator on the line"

[BobH07]

Six O'clock News:  John Prine

[MaVolta]

Year of the Cat  -  Al Stewart

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

[Raynyky]

New York State of Mind-BillyJoel

The New York Times, the Daily News

[BeatleloverKT]

Ballad of John and Yoko (hoping not a repeat)

Fab 4️⃣

"The men from the press

Said we wish you success

It's good to have the both of you back"

[Raynyky]

I'm The Slime-Frank Zappa

[BeatleloverKT]

The Word  Fab 4️⃣

"Every where I go I hear it said

In the good and bad books that I have read"

[MaVolta]

The Sun Always Shines on TV  -  a-ha

[Raynyky]

Mexican Radio-Wall of Voodoo 

[BeatleloverKT]

Tonight by Motley Crue

"My hearts like an open book

For the whole world to read"......

[MaVolta]

Legend in Your Own Time - Carly Simon

Then you turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
Think kind of sadly to yourself
This isn't exactly what you had planned.

[BeatleloverKT]

Raise your glass   Pink

"I love when it's all too much

Five am turn the radio up"......

[Raynyky]

Wake Up Little Susie-Everly Brothers

[BeatleloverKT]

Sign o' the times by Prince ( a depressing yet appropriate song for the times)

"Hurricane Annie ripped the inside of a church

and killed everyone inside

You turn on the telly and every other story is 

tellin' you somebody died".....

[LouLit01]

Far Away Eyes

The Rolling Stones

I was listening to Gospel music on the colored radio station

White Punks on Dope

The Tubes

We're white punks on dope

Mom and dad moved to Hollywood

[BeatleloverKT]

So what by Pink

"The waiter just took my table

And gave it to Jessica Simpson

I guess I'll sit with tomboy

At least he'll know how to hit

What if this songs on the radio

Then somebody's gonna die"......

[MaVolta]

Heartache Tonight - Eagles

This night is gonna last forever. Last all, last all summer long
Some time before the sun comes up the radio is gonna play that song
There's gonna be a heartache tonight, a heartache tonight I know

[BeatleloverKT]

Five years by Bowie

"I heard telephones,opera house,favorite melodies

I saw boys,toys,electric irons and TV's

My brain hurt like a warehouse

It had no room to spare"......

[MaVolta]

Kite - U2

The last of the rockstars
When hip-hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea

[LouLit01]

Late in the Evening

Paul Simon

And I remember there was a radio

Coming from the room next door

[LouLit01]

Just went through the entire category and it must be in there but I can't find it. 

American Pie

Don Mclean 

And February made me shiver

With every paper I delivered

Did you write the Book of Love

And do you have faith in God above?

While Lenin read a book on Marx

[Raynyky]

Paradise By The Dashboard Light-Meatloaf 

Baby don't you hear my heart
You got it drowning out the radio

[BeatleloverKT]

On your radio by Joe Jackson

[1968Hoya46]

Against The Wind: Bob Seger (There in the darkness with the radio playing low).

[BeatleloverKT]

Shooting star by Bad Company

"Johnny was a schoolboy

When he heard his first Beatles song

'Love me do' I think it was

And from then it didn't take him long"....

"Johnny made a record

Went straight up to number one

Suddenly everyone loved

To hear him sing the song"......

[nyadrn]

On the Radio. Donna Summers