“Hey There Delilah,” Plain White T’s (2007) (Delilah DiCrescenzo, American distance runner) “Ice, Ice Baby,” Vanilla Ice (1990) (Vanilla Ice, American rapper) “Jacob’s Ladder,” Huey Lewis and the News (1987) (Jacob, Biblical patriarch third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant) “Rock Me Amadeus,” Falco (1986) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer)
Elmo, Christian saint and martyr patron saint of sailors) Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion),” John Parr (1985) (Saint Erasmus of Formiae, aka St. “Bette Davis Eyes,” Kim Carnes (1981) (Bette Davis, two-time Oscar-winning film actress) “MacArthur Park,” Donna Summer (1978) (General Douglas MacArthur, American general and field marshall of the Philippine Army) “Sir Duke,” Stevie Wonder (1977) (Duke Ellington, American jazz musician) “A Fifth of Beethoven,” Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band (1976) (Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer) “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” Paul and Linda McCartney (1971) (WWII American Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr.) “I’m Henry VIII, I Am,” Herman’s Hermits (1965) (King Henry VIII, British monarch) “Ringo,” Lorne Greene (1964) (Johnny Ringo, Old West gunfighter) “Dominique,” the Singing Nun (1963) (Saint Dominic, Spanish priest and founder of the Dominican Order) Custer,” Larry Verne (1960) (General George Armstrong Custer, Indian War general killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn)
SONIC MOVES LIKE JAGGER DRIVER
“Stagger Lee,” Lloyd Price (1959) (Stagger Lee Shelton, cab driver and pimp convicted of murder) “Tom Dooley,” the Kingston Trio (1958) (Tom Dula, Confederate War soldier who was convicted and hanged for the murder of his fiancée)
With the ascension of “Moves Like Jagger,” by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera, to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, Mick Jagger becomes, by my count, the 18th real-life historical figure whose name is included in the title of a Hot 100 No.
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