On their 2001 album, Last Night in Town (Ferret Music F27), The Buffalo, New York, group, Everytime I Die, featured the song Here’s Lookin’ at You. The song is about the film industry and not only mentions Jimmy Stewart, but also James Dean and Sinatra in its lyrics. Band members included Jordan Buckley (guitar), Keith…
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Super Furry Animals – Shoot Doris Day
On their 2002 album, Rings Around the World (XL Recordings BXL 026CD), the Super Furry Animals had a song titled Shoot Doris Day. The song has this line, presumably inspired by the film The Man Who Knew Too Much, “Sentimentality pause as Jimmy Stewart ignores her question. The song title, by the way, refers to…
Bloodhound Gang – Magna Cum Nada
Magna Cum Nada was released on the Bloodhound Gang’s 2000 album, Hooray for Boobies (Geffen Records 490 455-2). The song’s lyrics mention Stewart in the line, “Feel like Jimmy Stewart, no one sees my Harvey.” The lyrics also mention Holden Cauldfield (Catcher in the Rye character), Jack Lemmon and Larry Flynt. The members of the…
The Friends of Mr. Cairo – Jon and Vangelis
The Friends of Mr. Cairo is a great song for anyone who loves old movies. The song’s lyrics are inspired and based on three films: the 1946 Jimmy Stewart film, It’s a Wonderful Life; 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet; and the 1924 movie, The Thief of…
Hal Morrissey Gillman
Gillman’s 2013 album, Attachments, featured a song entitled How Can I Be Your James Stewart? Besides Stewart, Gillman also mentions Clarence the Angel from It’s a Wonderful Life, in the song’s lyrics…
Split Infinitives
In 2013, the Split Infinitives released an album titled Minor Endeavors, Endless Progress. The second track on the album was Jimmy Stewart/Telephone. Split Infinitives is actually just one man, Holden Martinson, who played all the instruments and also handled the vocals. He did have help from Brian Adkins in writing this song…
I’m An Ant
In 2008, the artist known as I’m An Ant released an album titled What Have I Done? The fifth song on that album was called Jimmy Stewart. Keith Hopkin played drums on the track. The song mentions Audrey Hepburn, Kathy (Katharine Hepburn) and Cary Grant, as well as Jimmy Stewart…
Christmas is Interesting
This song first appeared on the 2012 CD, One Christmas at a Time, privately issued by the artists, Jonathan Coulter and John Roderick. The song’s lyrics mention Jimmy Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life and several facts from the film…
Pat Gorman – Jimmy Stewart’s Gone
Here’s another song about Jimmy Stewart. Gorman’s Jimmy Stewart’s Gone is from the album Contempt which was issued in 2002 by Hugeness Records. In the lyrics, Gorman compares the death of Jimmy Stewart to his girlfriend’s leaving him…
Sloh knows Jimmy Stewart is a Swell Guy – Do You?
Sloh’s music is best categorized as electronic. Over an instrument base, Sloh has layered some of Stewart’s dialogue from the films, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner and The Philadelphia Story into the song, Jimmy Stewart is a Swell Guy. …
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