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Songs With Songs

ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
edited April 2008 in Strut Central
What are some songs that have songs written about them?

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  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    "the boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'"

    the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    Sort of like how "they're" singing bye, bye miss american pie in the song "american pie"
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I'm a gonna come up with some.

    Right now I'm thinking Prince, "I turned on the radio, it was Joni Mitchell..." I think it goes like that, then maybe he references help me I'm Falling In Love Again, if not, Turn Me On, I'm A Radio is a Joni Mitchell line.

    A lot of songs that mention radio and the radio dj, but that's amother thread.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Another Old Lang Syn by Dan Folgelberg
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I think James Brown is constantly referencing other James Brown songs. (I think I will always refer to James Brown in the present tense.) So he will shout Cold Sweat, Or I Feel Good, or Sex Machine in the middle of another song. Sorry I don't have any examples off the top.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Sam Cooke - Were Having A Party -
    So Mister, Mister DJ
    Keep those records playing
    I'm having such a good time
    Dancing with my baby...

    Play that song called Soul Twist
    Play the one called I Know
    Don't forget the Mashed Potatoes
    No other songs will do

    King Curtis, Barbra Lynn and Dee Dee Sharp?

    Which brings up all the 60s dance songs that reference all the 60s dances which are also song titles.

    Night Shift, or does that go in the song within a song thread?
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    Orange Juice "Rip it Up and Start Again"

    'and my favourite song's entitled 'Boredom''

    i.e. the Buzzcocks song 'Boredom' and then they play the two-note guitar solo from the Boredom track

    that's a double whammy right there
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    The Beatles - Glass Onion

    I told you about strawberry fields
    You know the place where nothing is real

    I told you about the walrus and me-man
    You know that we're as close as can be-man
    Well here's another clue for you all
    The walrus was Paul.

    Standing on the cast iron shore-yeah
    Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet-yeah

    I told you about the fool on the hill
    I tell you man he living there still
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    The Beatles - Glass Onion

    I told you about strawberry fields
    You know the place where nothing is real

    I told you about the walrus and me-man
    You know that we're as close as can be-man
    Well here's another clue for you all
    The walrus was Paul.

    Standing on the cast iron shore-yeah
    Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet-yeah

    I told you about the fool on the hill
    I tell you man he living there still

    Good one.
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