Songs that mention other songs

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Noel Coward's Nina references Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine:

She refused to Begin The Beguine when they requested it

And she made an embarrassing scene if anyone suggested it

For she detested it

Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" -- "me and Del were singin' little Runaway"

Madonna's Music mentions the Beatles' Yesterday

[quote]Don't think of yesterday and I don't look at the clock I like to boogie-woogie, uh, uh

We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's

R2 "Under the Sea" from THE LITTLE MERMAID also references "Begin the Beguine."

♪ Under the sea, under the sea

When the sardine begin the beguine

It's music to me ♫

Do You Love Me

The Beatles - "Glass Onion"

mentions "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill", and "Fixing a Hole"

Would "Let's Twist Again" count? I feel like we could fill this thread with songs about dances that were named after songs.

Eminem's Stan mentions Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," although he bumbles the meaning behind it.

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R8 I remember when I was 10 years old in 1990 browsing through my parents old albums from the '60s and '70s. As I was looking at a Beatles one, the song "Lady Madonna" caught my eye. I turned to my mom and asked, "How old is Madonna?" She laughed and explained that they were referring to Mary, mother of Jesus. I still didn't get it until many years later.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama scornfully names Neil Young's Southern Man.

"American Pie" has several song references.

I don't know her, but WE BELONG TOGETHER references a Bobby Womack song

ONJ's "The Rumour" (written by Elton john & Bernie Taupin) mentions "Georgia on my Mind."

George Harrison's tribute song for John Lennon, "All Those Years Ago", mentions both "All You Need is Love" and "Imagine".

More Beatles you say? Ok! "Savoy Truffle" mentions "Obla-Di, Obla-Da"

Also, Prince references "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell in the song "Ballad of Dorothy Parker"

Dancefloor, Tracey Thorn

And speaking of Joni Mitchell, her "In France They Kiss On Main Street" mentions both "Do You Want to Dance?" by Bobby Freeman and "Bye Bye Love" by the Everly Brothers.

Nicki Minaj Chun Li

I mean I been Storm, X-Men been formed He keep on dialing Nicki, like the Prince song

And not that ii is a song, but I always find it fascinating Prince got Purple Rain from America’s Ventura Highway.

Jimmy Eat World - The Authority Song

In Joni Mitchell's Chinese Cafe, she mentions the lyrics to Carole King's Will You Love Me Tomorrow:

Down at the Chinese Cafe

We'd be dreaming on our dimes

We'd be playing "You give your love, so sweetly"

One more time

.....and the jukebox kept on playing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain.

"On the Radio" by Regina Spektor: "On the radio you hear 'November Rain'/That solo's awful long, but it's a good refrain/You listen to it twice, 'cause the DJ is asleep..."

"Wednesday" by Tori Amos: "I start humming 'When Doves Cry'..."

"All the King's Horses" by Ana Silvera: "How we'd wander the city and kiss in the lanes/And dance by the lamplight to 'Lili Marleen'..."

George Harrison - "When We Was Fab"

Mentions "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (The Miracles) and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan)

Famous pedophile Jonathan King’s “He’s So Fine”(with a My Sweet Lord arrangement) has his back-up vocalists sing the names of a few of George Harrison’s compositions.

Take me home tonight

I don't wanna let you go 'til you see the light

Take me home tonight

Listen, honey, just like Ronnie sang

Be my little baby.

Train, "Hey, Soul Sister":

I believe in you, like a virgin you're Madonna

And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind

T. Rex's "Get It On (Bang A Gong). References Chuck Berry's song "Little Queenie" in the fadeout, when Bolan says (quoting from that song) "And meanwhile, I'm still thinking".

Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You", plays the riff from the Beatles' "I Feel Fine" after the lyric has the A&R man telling them they sound like John, Paul, and George.

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" mentions the song "Rock Around The Clock".

Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" mentions "Sweet Home Alabama".

Golden Earring's "Radar Love" mentions Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong".

Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet", about Elvis, mentions "Love Me Tender".

But Don McLean's "American Pie" probably takes the prize, since it namechecks so many performers and songs, starting with the Monotones' "Book of Love".

"Mama's Opry" by Iris DeMent.

^ Iris's chorus is a pastiche from her mother's favorite gospel songs - a very well written use of songs by others.

Kitty Wells's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" mentions - and refutes - "The Wild Side of Life" by Hank Thompson. And she does it from the perspective of a woman.

Candi Staton’s disco song “Victim” references her other (bigger) song: I told you Young Hearts Run Free, when I didn’t listen to myself...

"Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)", which climbed the pop charts again in 1987 after being featured in Dirty Dancing, includes the lyric

I can Mashed Potato I can do The Twist Oh now, tell me, Baby Do ya like it like this?

70's cult prog-folk outfit Barclay James Harvest once released a song called "Titles", the lyrics of which consisted almost exclusively of Beatles song titles.

The Long and Winding Road, All You Need is Love, Lady Madonna, Let it Be, Something, Yesterday, Across the Universe, One After 909, I've Got a Feeling, For You Blue, I Feel Fine.

It also includes a musical motif from A Day in the Life, which isn't mentioned in the lyrics.