Song Featuring a Funny Name?

June 15, 2010 4:10 PM

What is the song from the 1960s or so with the funny male name in it? I was explaining to some friends the other day that when I was a kid I thought Simon & Garfunkel was one guy, Simon N. Garfunkel - a funny name like that funny man's name in some song from around the same time (sixties or seventies, but it could have been a fifties song). I can't think of the name or the song, though. Anyone?
posted by tamaraster to Media & Arts (22 answers total)

do you remember anything else about the song? any other words? was it sung by a man or a woman?
posted by luvcraft at 4:16 PM on June 15, 2010

Best answer: Duke of Earl?

Johnny B. Goode?

John Jacob Jinglehimmer Smith?

(Hey, I'm trying!)
posted by Some1 at 4:17 PM on June 15, 2010

Songs with men's names in the title.
posted by darkstar at 4:22 PM on June 15, 2010

Zilch by The Monkees?

"Mr. Bob Dobalina"
posted by kables at 4:27 PM on June 15, 2010

Hooty Sapperticker?
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:27 PM on June 15, 2010

Henry the H?

I mean, it could be a million things.
posted by alex_skazat at 4:31 PM on June 15, 2010

Mr. Bojangles?
Lincoln Duncan? (a song by the aforementioned Simon)
posted by jozxyqk at 4:37 PM on June 15, 2010

Engelbert Humperdink?
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 4:39 PM on June 15, 2010

A Boy Named Sue?
posted by MexicanYenta at 4:43 PM on June 15, 2010

Waldo P. Emerson Jones (by the Archies)?
posted by ymendel at 5:05 PM on June 15, 2010

Henry VII? Gilbert O' Sullivan?
posted by pentagoet at 5:15 PM on June 15, 2010

Oops, that Henry VIII, not VII.
posted by pentagoet at 5:15 PM on June 15, 2010

Response by poster: John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith wins. Wow!
posted by tamaraster at 5:29 PM on June 15, 2010

They call me Mellow Yellow. Quite rightly.
posted by valannc at 5:53 PM on June 15, 2010

Damn. I was sure it was Hooty Sapperticker.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:24 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

That's my name too!
posted by Obscure Reference at 6:43 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm pretty sure it's "Schmidt," not "Smith."
posted by crunchland at 7:07 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Yeah, it's John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
posted by ocherdraco at 7:43 PM on June 15, 2010

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
His name is my name, too.
Whenever we go out
The people always shout,
"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!"
ba da da da da da da.

a great campfire song.... dates back to the early 1900's at least...
posted by HuronBob at 7:49 PM on June 15, 2010

call me al by paul simon
posted by parryb at 8:14 PM on June 15, 2010

Richard Corey.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:13 PM on June 15, 2010

Ziggy Stardust
posted by jeffamaphone at 11:06 AM on June 16, 2010