Mays' nickname stuck and became immortalized forever, most famously in the song "Say Hey (The Willie Mays song)," by the Treniers, which was released in 1954. Mays even participated in the recording.

Yoko’s just come into the picture. [McCartney]’s saying, ‘Hey, Jude–Hey, John.’ I know I’m sounding like one of those fans who reads things into it, but you can hear it as a song to me.

Ray Hildebrand, the singer-songwriter whose duet “ Hey Paula ” with his friend Jill Jackson under the names Paul & Paula became a million-selling No. 1 hit in 1963, died August 18 of dementia ...

McCartney wrote "Hey Jude" at a tumultuous time in his own life as well. The song was written while the band was doing studio sessions for the White Album, according to Rolling Stone, when the ...