Name a professional athlete who has their name in a song title.
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Athlete - Rick Monday - Los Angeles Dodgers.
Song - Monday, Monday - The Mamas and the Papas
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Athlete - Bob Paradise - Pittsburgh Penguins (70's)
Song - Take Me Down to the Paradise City - Guns and Roses
Athlete - Babe Ruth
Song - I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher
True story about the Baby Ruth candy bar. The CEO of the Mars company knew little about baseball, but he knew a lot about competing with Milton Hershey's company. His high ranking employers were listening to a ball game and he said what's all the excitement about. They told him Babe Ruth was up. After a little discussion, the CEO knew his next candy bar to compete with Hershey was going to be called the Baby Ruth. He didn't even ask Ruth for his permission. It became the hottest candy bar on the market. Babe Ruth sued the CEO for using his name, and the CEO counter sued Ruth and won in court claiming that it was named after a Presidents grand daughter who was sick, even though he knew full well he named it after the Babe.
@Goldenage, That is very interesting, I love the Baby Ruth candy bars, and I've always wondered if it had any ties to Babe Ruth.
There is an American basketball player from the 70s from the Chicago Bulls who probably has at least a thousand songs with his last name in it.
Michael Jordan - Be Like Mike- Gatorade Kids
Ned Yost - Ned Yost Got a Baseball Brain
"Love is in the Air"
Song written about basketball player Kevin Love when dunking a basketball.
Not in title but
Simon & Garfunkel
"where have you gone Joe DiMaggio"........
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
Athlete - Billie Jean King
Song - Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Athlete- Ken Brett, given name Kenneth.
Song- Whats the frequency Kenneth
Artist- REM
As the story goes, Dan Rather was beaten up by a couple men who kept asking him,
"Whats the frequency, Kenneth?" Shortly afterwards REM wrote a song about the incident.
That is the story I heard also. I had that album, I love REM! My favorite REM songs are "Losing My Religion" and "This one goes out to the one I love."
I've noticed musical artists like to write about Bette Davis' body parts.
Bette Davis eyes - Kim Carnes
I don't know how you came to get those Bette Davis knees - Dire Straits
And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style- Bob Dylan
Athlete- Julio Franco
Song- Me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
Artist- Paul Simon
As the story goes, Paul Simon was recounting stories of his youth when he used to hang
out with his pal Julio Franco. When it was pointed out that in Simons' youth Franco wasn't
even born yet, Simon responded hey I'm talking about a different Julio Franco, you think
there's only one Julio Franco in the world!
Joe Montana
Song, "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix
Billy Martin
Song, "Billy Don't Be A Hero" by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods.
Paul Hornung
Song, "Tall Paul" by Annette Funicello
Fernando Valenzuela
Song, "Fernando" by ABBA
Venus Williams
Song, "Venus" by Shocking Blue
Mickey Mantle
Song, "Mickey" by Toni Basil
Mickey Cochrane
Song, "Mickey" by Toni Basil
Sam McDowell
Song, "Sam's Town" by The Killers
Bad, bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Leroy Brown - Olympic medal winner track and field
Spelling is different...............
Alonzo Mourning - professional basketball
Touch me in the Morning - Diana Ross
World be Free - Philadelphia 76ers
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lefty Grove - Best lefthander pitcher of all time
China Grove - Doobie Brothers
Earl Campbell
“Goodbye Earl,” Dixie Chicks
Eddie Shack
Love Shack -B 52s
Love this one !
I just heard it the other day on the radio and it popped in my head. 😂
Some funny chit in this thread.
I'm not even sure why i find it funny...but i do. 🤣
Vida Blue - A's & Giants
Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good golly miss molly
Billy Sunday - National league outfielder and biggest American evangelist before Billy Graham.
Sunday, bloody Sunday - U2
Pete Rose - Reds, Phillies.
I never promised you a Rose garden. - Lyn Anderson
Larry Bird
Bird is the Word - Pee Wee Herman or Peter Griffin
Also, Indiana has a New State Bird was an actual song his senior year at Indiana State.
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David Robinson - Dream Team
Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
That's a stretch Goldenage.......Dandy Sandy! See below.
Howie Long
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Sandy Koufax
Song, "Jim Dandy To the Rescue" by Laverne Baker.
Magic Johnson
Magic Man - Heart
Jack Nicklaus
Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
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Free bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Space Odyssey- David Bowie.
Clearly Bowie was prophesizing about Tom Brady in the lyrics.
"Ground control to Major Tom.
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on."
"You've really made the grade,
and the papers want to know whose shirt you wear."
American Pie - Don McLean
Pie Traynor
"I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away"
Big John - Jimmy Dean
Big John Mayberry.
Through the dust and the smoke of this man-made hell
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
Grabbed the saggin' timber and gave out with a groan
And like a giant oak tree, just stood there alone, Big John
@Goldenage, Great stuff, I hadn't heard that in a while! 🖒
Bad moon rising - CCR
Warren Moon