Thursday my scheduled in studio guest will be the infamous Perez Hilton (9:45ish)! He’s in town to promote the show at the Variety Playhouse (he’s in between Ladyhawke, Ida Marie and Semi Precious Weapons).
In honor of his appearance, Radio Free Lunch Thursday will be about fame and songs that mention famous people in general. Love him or hate him, you don’t want to miss this!!
Update: Today’s Playlist
Buddy Holly, Weezer (Mary Tyler Moore)
Man On The Moon, REM (Elvis, Andy Kaufman)
Mr. Jones, Counting Crows (Bob Dylan)
One Week, Barenaked Ladies (Sting, Leanne Rhimes)
Genius Of Love, Tom Tom Club (James Brown, Bootsy Collins, Smokey Robinson)
Jamming Me, Tom Petty (Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Piscipo, Eddie Murphy)
McDonald’s Daily Cheese
Bette Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes
Lullaby, Shawn Mullins (Bob Seger, Sonny and Cher)
Steve McQueen, Sheryl Crow
You Get What You Give, New Radicals (Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, etc)
How about songs that mention a “tool” in their title like “Sledgehammer”.
Hahaha Allise, that’s fantastic.
Let’s see…American Pie drops a lot of celebrity names.
Same goes for songs like The End of the World as We Know It and We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Hmmm….Weezer’s Buddy Holly…
Walking in Memphis (Elvis)
As far as just plain fame there’s Into the Great Wide Open or My Maserati Does 185 or The sort of awful song by, I think Nickleback? Is it Rockstar?
“Hollywood Whore”-Papa Roach
“In Vain”-INXS
“Lullaby”-Shawn Mullins
“Paparazzi”-Lady GaGa”
“Fame”-Bowie
“Elvis Presley and America”-U2
“Galileo”-Indigo Girls
“Man On The Moon”-R.E.M.
“Angel of Harlem”-U2
“In Your Eyes”-Peter Gabriel for Rosanna Arquette
“Candle In the Wind”-Elton for Marilyn Monroe/Princess Di
“Rock and Roll Heaven”-Righteous Brothers
for cheese perhaps:
“Vogue”-Madonna
“King Tut”-Steve Martin
Cheese:
Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus(mentions Jay-Z and Britney)
Kim Carnes: “Bette Davis Eyes”
Michael Damian “Rock On”
Billy Joel “We didn’t start the Fire”
I LOVE that Miley Cyrus song….I sing it as loud as I can when it comes on the radio. : )
Me too!
Great request for Bette Davis Eyes!!!
Mr. Jones, Counting Crows (Picasso)
Me & Mr. Jones, Amy Winehouse (Slick Rick and Sammy Davis Jr.)
Cheese: Halle Berry song or whatever it’s called
Also, Mr. Jones is pretty famous it seems as well, since people are always writing songs about him
New Radicals – Get what you give
I second Counting Crows – Mr Jones (don’t forget Bob Dylan too)
2nd the New Radicals song….love that line at the end “Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson, come around, we’ll kick your asses!”
Yeah, I second Candle in the Wind, Elton John.
Roy Rogers….another great Elton song off Goodbye Yellow Brick Road…..
My Hero…Foo Fighters (about Kurt Cobain)
Bobby McGee…Janis Joplin.
ROCK in the USA…John Cougar
Your idea is bannanas Mara!
“Jackie Wilson Said”- Van Morrison, “Casey Jones”- Grateful Dead, “Hey Jude”- The Beatles (written for Julian Lennon, but changed to Jude since it sounded better)or “The Ballad of John and Yoko” or “Lady Madonna”, “Sweet Caroline”- Neil Diamond (inspired by Caroline Kennedy), “Get it Together”- Beastie Boys (Adrock’s down with the Ione- Ione Skye, his former wife, actress and daughter of singer Donovan)
Cheese..”Robert De Niro’s Waiting”- Bananarama
Steve McQueen – Sheryl Crow
Meg White – Ray Lamontagne
For Cheese – Fame (theme song) of course! Think there maybe a new TV show as well?
In One Week, there’s also Harrison Ford (getting frantic) & Sting (I’m tantric).
Probably too late for this, but what about Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song for the Daily Cheese?
Hi, I’m late here but there is a song called “Friends of Mr. Cario” by Jon and Vangelis. It’s a tribute to old hollywood stars and names a ton of them. There is a really cool slide show someone has created for this song on youtube. It’s really cool -check it out.
Radio Free Lunch Idea: September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. How about songs that have children in the name or words, children singing (like Pat Benetar’s We Belong), or songs with gold in them (gold is the color of Childhood Cancer.) We desperately need more awareness of this devastating attack on our kids.
Marsi