People (Real)

Mentions of real people, living and dead.

Central theme

• Absolutely Bill's Mood - Bill Krauss, the original "Third Giant"
• Announcement A - Donovan Leitch
• Au Contraire - David Bowie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jodie Foster, J. S. Bach, Mahatma Gandhi
• Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
• Born To Run And Fail - Al Gore (and Joe Lieberman), John McCain (and Sarah Palin), Michael Dukakis, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson
• Brooklyn - Marty Markowitz
• Budnitz #1 - Judy Budnitz
• Dashiki Lover - A whole bunch of interesting people
• The Darlings Of Lumberland
• The Day - Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs
• Demarais Parker
• DeWitt Clinton
• Don't Worry Kyoko - Yoko Ono's daughter
• The Edison Museum
• Fat Danny Aykroyd
• Flansy Stays In The Picture - A. J. Schnack
• Irving Plaza - Washington Irving
• James K. Polk
• John Lee Supertaster
• Julie's Tune - Julie Kantner of The Turtlenecks
• Kendra McCormick
• Koenigstein - Walter Koenigstein
• Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby
• Lincoln, Washington, And That Jefferson Guy
• Lord Snowdon
• Marty Beller Mask - Marty Beller, Whitney Houston
• Meet James Ensor
• The Mesopotamians - Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, Gilgamesh
• Mona Lisa
• Mr. Hughes Says - Based on a line from Motto by Langston Hughes - monopuff.org
• Oprah
• Peggy Guggenheim
• People Died Today
• Robert Lowell
• Rosa Parks, C'est Moi
• Scott Bower
• She Thinks She's Edith Head - Edith Head (imdb.com) - won 8 Oscars (34 nominations) for costume design. Helen Gurley Brown - author (Sex and the Single Girl) long time editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and cut one of the worst spoken word albums ever.
• Somebody Stole My Hairstyle - Trent Lott and Pierre Salinger
• Tesla - Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain
• Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6 - Thank Yous - pretty much everyone listed
• Tippecanoe And Tyler Too
• Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous
• Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead At 75
• Town To Town - Tom Vu
• Vestibule - Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Specter
• Walt Whitman
• What Bothers The Spaceman? - Bill "Spaceman" Lee was an eccentric pitcher for the Red Sox and Expos during the '70s and early '80's. Dock Ellis pitched for a variety of teams during the late '60's and '70s. Probably most famous for claiming he pitched his 1970 no-hitter for the Pirates on LSD.
• Why Must I Be Sad? - Alice Cooper
• Wicked Little Critta - Bobby Orr and John Havlicek were Hall of Fame players for the Boston Bruins and Celtics respectively in the late '60's and '70's.
• XTC Vs. Adam Ant

Briefly mentioned

• 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye - Tim Conway
• '85 Radio Special Thank You - Tina Turner
• Ask Me Another - Ophira Eisenberg, Jonathan Coulton, Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich
• Celebration - Banksy, Hieronymus Bosch
• Cells - Dwight David Eisenhower
• Critic Intro - Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle
• Cut The Strings - Isaac Newton
• Damn Good Times - David Lee Roth
• Dan Vs. Cog - Rodney Brooks, Robert Krulwich
• Darling, The Dose - Yushchenko, Rasputin, Socrates
• Definition Of Good - Captain Beefheart
• Disappointing Show - Joseph Stalin
• Dunkin Of Course Of Course - Judge Judy, Dr. Ruth
• Exploding Invitation - Jackie Collins
• Goatee - Richard Thompson, Howie Mandel
• Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - Peter Tork
• Hell Hotel - Sebastian Cabot
• Hidden Track - "My name is Pat Dillett and I am a record producer."
• Hide Away Folk Family - Leslie-Anne Down
• It Was A Very Good Year - Margaret Thatcher and Joey Heatherton
• King Weed - David Jablonski, Robert Krulwich, Ted Koppel
• Kiss Me, Son Of God - Jesus
• Lazy - Charles Dickens, Omar Khayyam, John D. Rockefeller
• Marshie - Milton Berle
• McCafferty's Bib - Bob Hope
• Money For Dope - Edna Ferber, Julian Cope
• "Monongahela" - Johnny Banana, the alcoholic, gun-toting owner of The Electric Banana
• My Evil Twin - Nostradamus
• New York City - Bob Dylan
• No One Knows My Plan - Plato is "the Greek guy" who "made the allegory of the people in the cave"
• Rest Awhile - Ruy López
• Seven In The Morning - John Richards
• She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - Stevie Wonder
  • and various drummers:
    • Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown Band)
    • Gene Krupa
    • Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
    • "that angry guy from Grand Funk Railroad": likely referring to Don Brewer
    • Buddy Rich
• Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - Lou Ferrigno, Patti Hearst, Charles Manson, Ronald Reagan
• The Communists Have The Music - Ayn Rand, Friedrich Engels
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - John Glenn
• They Got Lost - Julie Kramer (Boston radio host)
• They Might Be Giants (Song) - Dr. Benjamin Spock
• Thinking Machine - Ansel Adams
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way - Geronimo
• Through Being Cool - [Pablo] Picasso
• Trucker's Coffee - Ken Kesey
• Violin - George Washington
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Kurtis Blow
• The World's Address - Albert Einstein, Copernicus
• Yellow Submarine - Kurt Hoffman
• You Don't Like Me - "Shadow puppets, Woody Harrelson, reading in the bath"
• Your Own Worst Enemy - Sonny Geraci

Honorable Mention

• Your Racist Friend - Inspired by, and in part about, an actual person the band encountered.

See also

• People (Imaginary)
• Presidents
• References To Other Songs Or Musicians