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

[1968Hoya46]

If You Could Read My Mind: Gordon Lightfoot (just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well/just like a paperback novel the kind the drugstore sells).

[BeatleloverKT]

Jammin' Me by Tom Petty

"Take back your insurance 

Baby nothins' guaranteed

Take back your acid rain

Let your TV bleed

You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me"......

[MaVolta]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron

[BeatleloverKT]

Heart of rock and roll by Huey Lewis&the News

"When they play their music, ooh that modern music

They like it with a lot of style

But it's still that old back beat rhythm 

That really, really drives 'em wild"......

[1968Hoya46]

Transistor Sister: Freddie Cannon (if a repeat....sorry).

[MaVolta]

Act Naturally - Buck Owens

They're gonna put me in the movies

They're gonna make a big star out of me

We'll make a film about a man who's sad and lonely 

And all I gotta do is act naturally 

[BeatleloverKT]

Caravan by Van Morrison

"Yeah the caravan is on its way

I can hear the merry Gypsies play

Mama mama look at Emma Rose 

She's a-playin' with the radio"......

[DMAFl]

Celluloid Heroes - The Kinks.                  Rock and Roll Heaven - Righteous Bros     

[BeatleloverKT]

Radio Nowhere by Bruce Springsteen 

[1968Hoya46]

Idiot Wind: Dylan (someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press). [obviously subjective, but this is his best, and angriest, song].

[BeatleloverKT]

Sunday papers by Joe Jackson

[MaVolta]

Late Night Radio - David Gray

[BeatleloverKT]

Radio Ga Ga by Queen

[1968Hoya46]

Western Movies: The Olympics

[BeatleloverKT]

Yesterday's papers by the Stones

[1968Hoya46]

Roll Over Beethoven: Chuck Berry (he's gonna write a little letter, mail it to his local DJ, asking him to play a jumpin' little tune).

[BeatleloverKT]

Headlines by John Fogerty

[MaVolta]

Fail Grasp on the Big Picture - Eagles

Good old boys down at the bar
Peanuts and politics
They think they know it all
They don't know much of nothing

Even if one of them was to read the newspaper
Cover to cover
That ain't what's going on
Journalism's dead and gone

[1968Hoya46]

Money For Nothing: Dire Straits (you play the guitar on the MTV: we gotta move these color TV's).

[MaVolta]

Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver

I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me

The radio reminds me of my home far away 

[BeatleloverKT]

Did you see his name by the Kinks

"Did you see his name in the local paper

Stole a tin of beans from a cut-priced grocery store?

The judge said "He must pay"

So, he put him on probation and the

paper gave his name"......

[DMAFl]

This song is so sad.

[1968Hoya46]

Black Diamond Bay: Dylan (Bob's watching Walter Cronkite on TV).

[BeatleloverKT]

Get off of my cloud by the Stones

"The telephone is ringing

I say "Hi it's me, who is there on the line"

A voice says "Hi, hello, how are you"

Well I guess I'm doin' fine".......

[MaVolta]

Bennie and the Jets - Elton John

She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets

[BeatleloverKT]

What's the frequency Kenneth? by REM

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh

I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music,TV,

movies, magazines

Richard said "Withdrawl in disgust is not the same as apathy"

A smile like the cartoon, tooth for tooth

You said the irony was the shackles of youth "......

[MarybethG691589]

Magic Power by Triumph 

[MarybethG691589]

I Love Rock and Roll, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts 

[1968Hoya46]

Sad Movies Make Me Cry: Sue Thompson

[BeatleloverKT]

Radio free Europe by REM

"Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay

Reason: It could polish up the gray

Put that, put that, put that up on your wall

That this isn't country at all"......