Carly Simon sang about vanity

Doris played Calamity

Alice Cooper came on the scene

Make up black, blue and green

Like a male witch he sang and roused

The kids to believe that school was out

No more this and no more that

He had them believe it and that was a fact

 

Rebellion resulted in the USA and 

Pink Floyd were all over the place

There goes another brick in the wall

Their song with Alice's said it all

Music to the ears of any child

especially those who liked running wild

So what's in a name?

 

Then of course was Tiny Tim

with long black hair, beard, tall and slim.

A man who sang his songs in falsetto

And related to those in the musical ghetto

But what's in a name?

 

Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck 

Lulu, Dusty Springfield, and the kitchen sink

The Beatles were really the bosses,

but even they had to cut their losses,

when announcing for the final time,

“we've split, it’s the end of the line”

But what's in a name?

 

Mr Micawber and Oliver Twist

Samuel Pepys, Brahms and Liszt

Martin Luther and George W Bush

We always seem to be in a rush

To study the profile of people of fame

But who gives a monkeys

and what's in a name?