Women's Names

It's nightime in the Big City
Foghorns bellow in the gloom along the wharf
A crying woman in a nightgown can't flag down a cab.
"Tonight we're gonna talk about a subject close to my heart, women's names. That which we call are nearest and dearest, those who we love and want to love. Let me quote William Shakespeare to ya: 'What's in a name that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet' .”

The Singers and Songs

The Other People and Players

  • John Mellencamp
  • The McGee Brothers
  • Carla Thomas
  • Nancy Sinatra
  • Jimmy Van Heusen
  • Phil Silvers
  • Tony Allen
  • Collie Kipper
  • Georgia Amanda Mercer
  • Ashley and Abernathy
  • Bo Chapman and the Mississippi Sheiks
  • Isaac
  • Abraham
  • Leslie Valentine
  • Zell Sanders
  • James Cotton
  • Louis Jordan
  • Dave Berry
  • Jerry Allison
  • Rick Hall
  • Billy Shile
  • Spooner Oldham
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    “Fender-Bender Poet”
  • Carl Sandburg
  • The Everly Brothers
  • Tammy Wynette
    “You know, it’s funny, I got an email recently from a listener, and they said they’d been listening to a lot of Tammy Wynette, and they thought that she sounded a lot like Little Richard. Well I thought they were crazy, but hearin that song I got an idea what they were talking about!”
  • Big Joe Turner
  • Dan Penn
  • The Beatles
  • The Rolling Stones
    "Of course they took Irma's song "Time is on My Side" and had a little hit with THAT!" In reference to "Time is on My Side": "I've always been partial to Irma's version."
  • Johnny Mercer

The Other Songs and Albums

The Guests

The Books and Poems

The Movies and TV Shows

The Places

Record Labels

Women's Name Alphabet

  • Abigail
  • Beth
  • Carly
  • Diane
  • Eve
  • Francine
  • Gloria
  • Hillary
  • Isabelle
  • Julie
  • Katherine
  • Laura
  • Melissa
  • Natalie
  • Olivia
  • Penelope
  • Quincy
  • Rachel
  • Stacy
  • Tracy
  • Ursula
  • Vivian
  • Wendy
  • Xenia
  • Yvonne
  • Zelda

Women's Names

  • Peg
  • Meg
  • Margaret
  • Pearl
  • Maria
  • Masake
  • Luchia
  • Emma
  • Eloise
  • Lois
  • Louisa
  • Louella
  • Louisiana
  • Lulu
  • Lola
  • Lolita
  • Annetta
  • Oprah
    “Her name backwards is Harpo”
  • Sarah
  • Amanda

Jump Rope Songs

  • “Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”

Spelling Songs


“And with that we take our leave. We'll see ya next week on theme time radio hour, themes, dreams and schemes and things of that nature.”