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Subject: '80s double names

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/26/04 at 06:44 p.m.

In the '80s there was a trend of pop groups going under names with two of the same words.  Here are some:

Bands that are two of the same word:
Duran Duran
Tin Tin
Tirez Tirez
Talk Talk
The The
Rema-Rema
Liquid Liquid
Mister Mister

Three of the same word:
Wet Wet Wet
Blah Blah Blah

Bands that have two of the same word:
David & David
Bow Wow Wow
Tom Tom Club

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: Bobby on 02/26/04 at 07:52 p.m.

Womack and Womack
Soul II Soul

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: atari2600boy on 02/26/04 at 08:12 p.m.

sigue sigue sputnik  8)

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: whitewolf on 02/26/04 at 08:15 p.m.

LISA LISA AND THE CULT JAM

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: DJ avadoria on 02/26/04 at 08:50 p.m.

Was Not Was

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: eightiesfan on 02/27/04 at 09:58 a.m.

There's also at least one 80's song title like that:

Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/27/04 at 10:10 a.m.

The Go-Gos (Does that count? Prolly not.)

The Alarm originally called themselves Alarm Alarm.

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: bj26 on 02/27/04 at 01:27 p.m.

Its a real group, check it out if you don't believe me,  ;D
Humpe Humpe - 1985

Subject: Re: '80s double names

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/27/04 at 06:31 p.m.


Quoting:
Its a real group, check it out if you don't believe me,  ;D
Humpe Humpe - 1985
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How do you pronounce that?
Don't forget, Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow.  She was born in Burma as Myant Myant Aye.  Why would she forsake a name like that going into show biz?
Off-topic, but a NH native can't help thinking, when it comes to double names, of a woman named Dudley Dudley.  She was in the state legislature in the '70s, and remains active in NH Democratic politics.  Not sure what the story is, I think her given name was the unenviable "Dudley," and then she got hitched to a man named Dudley.  Here in Amherst, we had a select board member named Dolly Jolly, wife of local businessman Jerry Jolly.  Not double, but doubly funny.
The literary world gives us
Jerome K. Jerome and William Carlos Williams.  An artsy progressive rock group is now going under the latter's name.
The Muslim patronymic frequently churns out double names, such as Ali Ali, or JFK assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.  That's who I thought of when I first heard of Duran Duran!