Two-Word Lyrics: Proper Name Edition

I should queue up some more PNAS posts, but I think I’m going to save a bunch of them for when we’re at Worldcon. And I do have more serious science-related stuff that I’ve marked to talk about, but it’s Friday, and everybody could use a break. So here’s a silly pop-music thing instead.

As with past editions, the following two-word phrases are taken from pop songs, and (I think) uniquely identify a single song. At least, I can only think of one song in my collection for each of them. The twist this time around is the each of the two-word phrases is a person’s name.

If you think you know the song, leave a comment guessing it, and post your own two-word phrase for other people to guess. Here are the names:

  1. Father McKenzie
  2. Beth McKenzie
  3. John Berryman
  4. Ezra Pound
  5. Wilson Pickett
  6. Desmond Dekker
  7. Jean Content
  8. Merle Haggard
  9. Sloppy Sue
  10. Mojo Nixon
  11. Billy Idol
  12. Billy Shears
  13. Rocco Sifretti

Note that while some of these people did songs in which they speak of themselves in the third person, the song I have in mind is by a different artist. There’ are two bands that appear twice (Edit: counting error corrected.), otherwise they’re all by different people.

Good luck!