It was like. . .like gears grinding to a sad and tragic halt.
What have you people been doing all week? Where are the names?
But Amanda kicked it back into gear with a submission on Wednesday. She wrote:
Amy, got a few more names for you. I realized you said you don't listen to
kids' music and then it hit me! More names! I am in love with Laurie Berkner
and her unbelievable voice. I have to admit, I leave her CDs playing in the
car when there aren't any kids riding with me! She is fantastic! I'm smitten.
Anyway, she's got some male names for you. You ready?Joe
(I see you have Joey, not sure if this counts) [AP!: Afraid it doesn't, as
we've been counting derivatives and their originating names as one]
From Candy Cane JaneFreddie: From Victor Vito
(and there's a second Victor while I'm at it!)
The rest all come from the same song...her
version of "The More We Get Together":
Tobie
Andrew
Owusu (I checked, this is a guy)
So there's another five for you.
Tell you what: I like it. I like it a lot.
I like how Amanda did the research to discover that Owusu is a guy's name. And I like even more--because it's a lesson to the rest of us--how she accessed music she knew she was familiar while supposing that many others are not. That is, she thought through to the "deep cut."
No one here minds that she listens to children's music when there are no children around.
So let's all take a lesson from the "deep cut." It's time to mine the recordings in our posession that might not be too well known and/or that we ourselves don't often listen to.
I did this myself this week. I listened to U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind, a CD with many excellent tracts such that the lesser ones are lesser to me. As I listened to "Peace On Earth," a song I admittedly skip over often, I heard these names:
Sean
Garreth
Products of a deep cut.
This gives us
Andrew
Toby
Vito
Owusu
Garreth
Sean
6 Names. Steady progress. Mostly thanks to Amanda. Our current total now:
- Abie
- Adam
- Al (taken as different from Albert, because it might be short for Alan)
- Albert
- Alex
- Amadeus
- Andy
- Anthony
- Austin
- Ben(nie)
- Bernie
- Bill(y)
- Bob(by)
- Brady
- Branigan
- Brian
- Buddy
- Cadigan
- Cain
- Casper
- Charles(Charlie)
- Chester
- Chris
- Cletus
- Connely
- Daniel
- Davy
- Dean
- Diego
- Donnely
- Dooley
- Duffy
- Duke
- Earl
- Eddie
- Eli
- ElRoy
- Elvis
- Ezekiel
- Felix
- Fernando
- Flanahan
- Flannigan
- Flynn
- Fogarty
- Frank
- Franklin
- Fred
- Gabriel
- Galileo
- Garreth
- Gene
- George
- Gilligan
- Gus
- Hagen
- Harry
- Henry
- Hogarty
- Jack
- Jed
- Jeremiah
- Jeremy
- Jerry
- Jessie
- Jesus
- Jim/James
- Joey
- John(ny)
- Jonas
- Jose
- Juan
- Jude
- Julio
- Kelly
- Kenneth
- Lafferty
- Lanahan
- Lawrence
- Lazarus
- Lee
- Lenny
- Leonard
- Leonid
- Leroy
- Lester
- Levon
- Lloyd
- Louie
- Luka
- Luke
- Madigan
- MaGinn
- Mahone
- Malachy
- Malcolm
- Malone
- Manahan
- Manny
- Marciano
- Marty
- Marvin
- Maurice
- Max
- McGuffy
- McGuinness
- Michael
- Micky
- Milligan
- Monty
- Moses
- Muldowney
- Napoleon
- O'Fagan
- O'Hooley
- O'Houlihan
- O'Kelly
- Ollie (perhaps not always a derivative of Oliver)
- Oliver
- Owusu
- Pablo
- Paul
- Peter
- Pherb
- Phinnas
- Rafferty
- Rasputin
- Rene
- Richard
- Ricky
- Rico
- Robin
- Roland
- Romeo
- Ronnie
- Roy
- Sam
- Sean
- Shanahan
- Silas
- Stan
- Sue
- Thomson
- Tim
- Toby
- Tom(my)
- Tony
- Tuck
- Ulysses
- Victor
- Vincent
- Vito
- Walter
- Wayne
- Whelan
- Willie
- Wyatt
OK. This is OK. Slow and steady finishes the race, folks! Let's harvest some names this week!
5 comments:
Ok Amy,
I don't have the time to listen to all my cds, so I sat and looked throught the ones that printed the words to the songs. Ca Ching Ca Ching...
Robin Hood and William Tell, Ivanhoe and Lancelot - all from Can't Get It Out of My Head, ELO
ELO again with Rockaria! - Beethoven, Wagner, Puccini, and Verdi, names they are known by, may be last names
Tom Petty did not have any names, but while looking at the cd insert I noticed the name of his drummer - Steve Ferrone -- how wild is that.
Joshua Kadison - Beau's Au Night Radio Love Line, Beau would be his name
U2 The Joshua Tree - Bullet The Blue Sky, Jacbob -- Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome...
In God's Country, U2 Joshua Tree --Cain -- ...I stand with the sons of Cain....
U2 again, One Tree Hill,, Jara - ...Jara sang his song a weapon, in the hands of love...
So there you have it, a few more names with the lines they are in to back them up. Ran out of time to keep looking. Will check some more another day.
Love, Mary Jean
Okay I've got a bunch of random names, many from musicals:
1. Jud - "Poor Jud" from Oklahoma
2. Plutarch, Claudius, and Brute (short for Brutus) - "Sobbin' Women" from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
3. Admetus, Augustus, Alonzo, James, Jonathan, Plato - "Naming of Cats" from Cats
4. Abraham - from the kids' Sunday school song "Father Abraham"
5. Nicholas - as in Saint Nicholas from "The Night Before Christmas"
6. Ned - from an old folk song I learned in elementary song called "Foolish Questions" :-)
- Emily L.
Here are two more great Sunday school songs with male names: "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" and "Zaccheus was a wee little man." :-)
Emily L.
Yet another - Shakespeare, from "Make 'Em Laugh" in Singing in the Rain. (Can you use a last name?)
Emily L.
I just can't stop thinking about this now! :-) Crazy what songs are coming to my mind, too - ones I haven't heard in years and years! Here's the latest: Mack the Knife - includes the as yet unnamed names Mack, Louis, and Patrick.
Emily L.
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