Why are there so many songs featuring the girl's name "Annie"? (and let's list them)

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What's so great about "Annie" that she features in so many song lyrics?

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kid Creole wasn't her daddy.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

she's a little orphan?

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

That annoying, shrieking orphan girl singing about how the sun will come up tomorrow.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just posting here so that if this gets moved to ILM, i can be on ILM without actually visiting ILM.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

small victories etc.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kid Creole might have bn her daddy, he was just trying to deny it. No DNA tests back then.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Then there's the Guillemots: Annie, Annie let's not wait.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

and now i'm listening to Annie Get Yr Gun

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

This might really be an ILM thread, but to be honest that place scares me a bit.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Caroline is another (fairly) inexplicably popular name

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

John Denver! Yoooo fill up my sensesssssss....

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

... in songs, I mean

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

by Squeeze btw

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh Caroline" by Matching Mole

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

maybe we should have a board called I Like Music (But Don't Get Psychotic About It Lol) for stuff like this

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it's the fact that Annie rhymes with so many other things, canny, Danny, fanny, nanny, timpani.....

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Off the top of my head...

Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline
Lou Reed, Caroline Says (I AND II)
Harry Nilsson, Caroline
Status Quo, Caroline
Beach Boys, Caroline No

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, rhymability = good answer

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

also, good word

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Write me a song lyric with all those words in it, PLEASE!

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

"Caroline" by the Fortunes

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot tranny.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Caroline's a lovely name BUT MORE ANNIE PLZ

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

and Manny

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's just a knee jerk reaction (DYS I IS BRANZ)

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Annie, oh Annie
She gave Duran Duran E
They went out and bought some timpani
For Annie

Annie, oh Annie
She had a crush on Danny
Although he was a tranny
Poor Annie

Annie, oh Annie
Applied to be a nanny
She thought childcare uncanny
Did Annie

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliant.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

"annie way that you want me"

― estela, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

This is a song with a message,
I want you to heeeeed my warning.

Wanna tell you all a story, about this chick I know.
They call her Amphetamine Annie, and she's always shovelin' snow.
I sat her down and told her, I told her crystal clear
I don't mind you gettin' high but there's one thing you should fear
Your mind might think it's flyin' baby on those little pills
But you ought to know it's dyin', 'cos... speed kills!

But Annie kept on speedin', her health was gettin' poor
She saw things in the window, she heard things at the door
Her mouth was like a grindin' mill, her lips where cracked and sore
Her skin was turnin' yellow, I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flyin' on those litte pills
She didn't know it was going down fast, 'cos... speed kills!

Yaaaa, speed can kill you too baby, yaa

Well I sat her down and told her, I told her one more time
The whole wide human race has taken far too much methedrine
She said "I don't care what a limey says, I got to get it on
I'm not hip to the scene of the man who comes from across the pond."
She wouldn't heed my warning, Lord she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's here in the graveyard, and she's awfully dead.

Ya, speed gonna kill you!
Anybody.
Speed will get you!
Speed from over the pond.
There ain't no hope baby...
Yaa, aah hah.
Spoon a Spoon a Spoon.... huah...

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Elastica had a song called Annie, amirite?

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

What's that landfill a-blockin' up my doorway?
Why it's piles of unsold CDs by Annie From Norway!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.web-helper.net/PDMusic/101BestSongs/AnnieLaurie.gif

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Who could possibly forget 'Hot Cock Annie' by the Frogs?

― NickB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

I nicknamed my first car "Annie Laurie"

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Annie - The Communards
Annie-Mae - Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker and no doubt thousands more gnarled old bluesmen

Also name of my lovely big sis hence classique.

What sort of car CJ? I have always named cars.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Weight by The Band.

― Uptoeleven, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

I always sing, "Take a load off, Fanny."

Elastica's "Annie" sort of rules.

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I used to sing "TAke a load off FRanny" when my friend Francis played it in his car. It was one of his favourite songs and he hated me for doing it. So I did it more.

I am a bastard.

― Uptoeleven, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

every time i try to remember Elastica's Annie, i can only sing the name Annie to Alison by teh_pixies ;_; woe is me

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that song, "The Weight"

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

CJ's first reponse to her own question is near the top of list, perhaps in competition with

"Polk Salad Annie" - Tony Joe White, Elvis Presley

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that song, "The Weight"

WAHT???

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Becoming - Nine Inch Nails.

― chap, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that song, "The Weight"

WAHT???

I like The Band, I just think that song is shit

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

annie: one can play guitar

― ken c, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

shaggy: oh carolina

― ken c, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Faith No More does "Anne's Song."

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal"

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Stooges, Ann
MC5, Sister Anne

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Lyres - Help You Ann
Beach Boys - Anna Lee The Faith Healer
Kinks - Spotty Grotty Anna

But none of these are ANNIE!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Annie: Chewing gum

― ken c, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Rudy Ray Moore - Hurricane Annie
John Denver - Annie's Song
Vanessa Carlton - Annie
Ben Folds Five - Annie Waits
Emilie Simon - Annie
Chet Atkins - Rag Time Annie
Downchild Blues Band - Annie's Got A Sister
Bobby Blue Band - Annie May's Cafe
The Radio Department - Annie Laurie

― Uptoeleven, Monday, 27 August 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

there is a song by petra called "for annie" in which they implore the titular character not to commit suicide. it is a ~~moving~~ song.

― smash your phonograph in half, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Annie, oh Annie
she's a little mannie
she looks like a tranny
Or Burhan Rabbani
the old Afghani
oh annie
you smell uncanny
go wash your fanny
scrub every nook and cranny

― Heave Ho, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, what happened? Is ILM trying to fornicate with ILE?

― dell, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

heart - dreamboat annie

― Zeno, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

Guess that Danny's Song doesn't count. Bummer.

― MsLaura, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

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