Re: People mentioning themselves in songs

[Lelia Ellen Raley <leliar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Lukas Ljungdahl wrote:
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> How about Bo Diddley? I don't know how many songs he has mentioned himself in... we have, for example,
> Bo Diddley, Hey Bo Diddley, Story Of Bo Diddley, right? And I've only heard a small part of what he's
> recorded.

The late lamented Charles Brown enjoyed referring frequently to himself in
the third person in song, also.

And there are the songs in which the groups introduce themselves, i.e.,
"Hi!  We're Reparata - and the Delrons!  And we're here to talk about -
boys!"

Lola



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