Top 40 songs in which the artists say their own name

[Hervard]

A few examples - in "Love Overboard", Gladys Knight sings "They tell me: Gladys..."

Lee Michaels sings (in "Do You Know What I Mean"), "She said, 'Lee, you haven't loved me...'")

"The Look Of Love" by ABC - Martin Fry: "Martin (or Marty), maybe one day you'll find true love"

In "Before You Walk Out Of My Life" by Monica, I'm not 100 percent sure, but it sounds like she's singing "Before you walk out of Monica's life" (at around the 4:15 mark). The one lyric video that acknowledges that irregularly sung chorus indicates that she's singing "Before you walk out of my life, 'cause of life", which IMO doesn't make any sense - certainly not as much as the way I heard it (which I'm thinking is the right lyric).

Can you think of any others?

[mkarns]

Aretha Franklin - "Angel"
Shirley Brown - "Woman To Woman"
Mary J. Blige - "Family Affair"

[matt]

"Le Freak" says Chic...

[djjoe1960]

A #1 hit from 1965, Back In My Arms Again by the Supremes--Diana Ross mentions the two other singers in the group--Mary and Flo.

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[traxonwax]

I was thinking this exact same thing over the weekend.

- The Fat Boys ft Chubby Checker - The Twist
"Chubby Checker and the Fat Boys, we're doin' The Twist"

- Britney Spears - Gimmie More
"It's Britney B*(&h"

About 25% of the songs on top 40 radio today name themselves or others. So this isn't as unique as it used to be.

Just about anything by DJ Khaled lol

[jmack19]

"Hollywood Swinging"  Kool and The Gang

[pb]

"Ready, Freddie" in Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

Also Harry Chapin's "Taxi" and Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," but those seem to be about characters with the same names, especially the Croce song.

[Jessica]

“Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga



Gaga Ooh La La/Want your bad romance

[jlthorpe]

This is kind of a repeat of the thread below (although this thread is more specifically about an artist mentioning themselves, as opposed to other band members or the band name):

at40fg.proboards.com/thread/3927/hits-name-band-signer-lyric

[seminolefan]

"No, my first name ain't Baby, it's Janet...Miss Jackson if you're nasty."

[freakyflybry]

Jason Derulo's entire career.

[Jessica]

Or Pitbull’s...

[trekkielo]

You "Shine a Little Love" on my life ELO!

[vto66]

David Lee Roth's remake of "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"--...the part Dave's playin'.

[DJ Particle]

This phenomena was rare back in the day, but now you hear it happen on many songs to hit the top 40. I forgot who was asked about it, but apparently the reason why so many artists do it now is because DJs don't announce songs as often as they used to, and the artists still want you to know which songs are theirs.

Looks like the "If you play it, say it" campaign of the 1990s failed.