I also amuse myself wondering if someone dare Laura Nyro [RIP] to write a song about someone named “Bill,” and she went at it head-on. Paul Simon wrote So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright on a challenge from Art Garfunkel. He (who majored in architecture at Columbia before quitting for music) asked Simon "why don't you write a song about an architect?"
Laura Nyro's version of
Wedding Bell Blues was a big hit in Southern California in December, 1966, getting regular airplay on KRLA, KFWB and Boss Radio 93 KHJ, my station of choice. However, it apparently didn't make it over the Cajon Pass into the rest of the country.