Songs About People Named Betty

If your name happens to be Betty, this post is for you. If you just like the name Betty, this post is for you. If you just stumbled upon this post and have no idea what you're doing here, have no fear: this post is for you as well. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Taylor Swift  ~  "Betty"

2)  Ram Jam  ~  "Black Betty"

3)  Kim Carnes  ~  "Bette Davis Eyes"  (Betty...Bette...what's the difference?)

4)  Chuck Berry  ~  "Betty Jean"

5)  Pam Tillis  ~  "Betty's Got A Bass Boat"

6)  Al Jarreau  ~  "Betty Bebop's Song"

7)  Pink Martini  ~  "Bitty Boppy Betty"

8)  Bobby Vee  ~  "A Letter From Betty"

9)  Tiffany  ~  "Betty"

10)  Neil Sedaka  ~  "Betty Grable"

11)  Brooke Fraser  ~  "Betty"

12)  Gene Pitney  ~  "Little Betty Falling Star"

13)  Jamila Woods  ~  "Betty"

14)  John Prine  ~  "Iron Ore Betty"

15)  Chuck Willis  ~  "Betty An' Dupree"

16)  Cowboy Junkies  ~  "Betty Lonely"

17)  Split Enz  ~  "Betty"

18)  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  ~  "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight"

19)  Sawyer Brown  ~  "Betty's Bein' Bad"

20)  Derry Weaver & Eddie Cochran  ~  "Itty Bitty Betty"

21)  The Dandy Warhols  ~  "Grunge Betty"

22)  Lorrie Morgan  ~  "Charlie And Betty"

23)  Hunters & Collectors  ~  "Betty's Worry, Or The Slab"

24)  Ini Kamoze  ~  "Betty Brown's Mother"

25)  Bobby Darin  ~  "Pretty Betty"

Popular Songs Of 1989, Vol. 1

You *know* you've been waiting for these! There were so many good and/or Popular Songs of 1989 that I had no choice but to make this series a five-parter. Which, if we're honest, isn't a bad thing at all. In fact, it's pretty rad! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Paula Abdul  ~  “Straight Up”

2)  Chicago  ~  “Look Away”

3)  Boy Meets Girl  ~  “Waiting For A Star To Fall”

4)  Janet Jackson  ~  “Miss You Much”

5)  Bad English  ~  “When I See You Smile”

6)  New Kids On The Block  ~  “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)”

7)  Bette Midler  ~  “Wind Beneath My Wings”

8)  Bobby Brown  ~  “On Our Own”

9)  Boys Club  ~  “I Remember Holding You”

10)  Exposé  ~  “What You Don’t Know”

11)  Clint Black  ~  “A Better Man”

12)  Deon Estus  ~  “Heaven Help Me”

13)  Tiffany  ~  “All This Time”

14)  Tone Loc  ~  “Funky Cold Medina”

15)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Patience”

16)  Highway 101  ~  “Honky Tonk Heart”

17)  Mötley Crüe  ~  “Kickstart My Heart” 

18)  The Cure  ~  “Fascination Street”

19)  Samantha Fox  ~  “I Wanna Have Some Fun”

20)  The Jeff Healey Band  ~  “Angel Eyes”

21)  Madonna  ~  “Cherish”

22)  Duran Duran  ~  “I Don’t Want Your Love”

23)  Richard Marx  ~  “Right Here Waiting”

24)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “Lost In Your Eyes”

25)  Warrant  ~  “Heaven”

Songs About Feelings, Vol. 1

"Feelings." Everybody's got 'em. Some people write songs about them. Actually, a lot of people do. Here's part one of two. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Irene Cara  ~  “Flashdance (What A Feeling)”

2)  Justin Bieber  ~  “Catching Feelings”

3)  Alison Krauss  ~  “I’ve Got That Old Feeling”

4)  Babyface  ~  “And Our Feelings”

5)  Carly Rae Jepsen  ~  “Cut To The Feeling”

6)  Tom Jones  ~  “Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings”

7)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Finer Feelings”

8)  Blue Swede  ~  “Hooked On A Feeling”

9)  Tinashe  ~  “This Feeling”

10)  Justin Timberlake  ~  “Can’t Stop The Feeling!”

11)  Dagny  ~  “That Feeling When”

12)  Boston  ~  “More Than A Feeling”

13)  Tiffany  ~  “Feelings Of Forever”

14)  Maze ft. Frankie Beverly  ~  “Happy Feelin’s”

15)  Patty Loveless ft. John Denver  ~  “Feelings Of Love”

16)  Man Overboard  ~  “How To Hide Your Feelings”

17)  BB Diamond  ~  “Feeling”

18)  Feeder  ~  “Just The Way I’m Feeling”

19)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  “I Gotta Feeling”

20)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “No Hard Feelings”

21)  Best Coast  ~  “Feeling Ok”

22)  Uriah Heep  ~  “Feelings”

23)  Kellie Pickler  ~  “Feeling Tonight”

24)  Avicii ft. Conrad Sewell  ~  “Taste The Feeling”  (R.I.P. Avicii. This guy could make a catchy song about anything, up to and including Coca-Cola.)

25)  Josephina  ~  “Feelings”

All The “Feels”, Vol. 4

After this last set of "Feels", you'll feel like there's nothing left to feel! That's how I feel, and I felt these "Feels" as I was compiling the posts. I saved some really good ones for the last post. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Daughtry  ~  “Feels Like Tonight”

2)  Edens Edge  ~  “Feels So Real”

3)  Tony! Toni! Toné!  ~  “Feels Good”

4)  Chantal Chamandy ft. Chico Castillo  ~  “Feels Like Love”

5)  Oasis  ~  “Who Feels Love?”

6)  Kesha  ~  “Feels Like Rain”

7)  Alabama  ~  “Feels So Right”

8)  Slow Moving Millie  ~  “Feels Like Heaven”  (This is a cover of the previously posted Fiction Factory song, but is lovely enough in its own right to merit inclusion here.)

9)  Jakubi  ~  “Feels Like Yesterday”

10)  Anna Ternheim  ~  “Feels Like Sand”

11)  Weezer  ~  “Feels Like Summer”

12)  Rebecca Lynn Howard  ~  “What Dying Feels Like”

13)  Starbuck  ~  “Moonlight Feels Right”

14)  Tiffany  ~  “Feels Like Love”

15)  The Technicolors  ~  “Feels Like Trouble”

16)  Priests  ~  “Nothing Feels Natural”

17)  Sandro Cavazza  ~  “What It Feels Like”

18)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “The Boy Feels Strange”  (Fair warning: The crowd noise in this one – particularly at the beginning and end – is nearly deafening.)

19)  Deryl Dodd  ~  “Feels Like Home”

20)  Maria Meadows  ~  “Feels Like Winter”

21)  River Matthews  ~  “Feels Like Morning”

22)  Reigan  ~  “Feels Like Heaven”

23)  The Neville Brothers  ~  “It Feels Like Rain”

24)  Twin Kennedy  ~  “Feels Like Freedom”

25)  FFH  ~  “What It Feels Like”