Musical Quotations in the endless chorus fadeout

Cafe Society
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You know what I mean. The song goes into its endless fadeout repeat of the chorus, and somebody sneaks in a line or a melody from some other song.

Examples I can think of:

[ul]
[li]Good Morning (The Beatles) - the opening riff from In the Mood, and Greensleeves.[/li][li]Tubthumping (Chumbawumba) - Trumpet Voluntary[/li][li]We Go Together (*Grease *Soundtrack) - Who Put the Bomp? and Witch Doctor[/li][li]Love Is the Seventh Wave (Sting) - Every Breath You Take, with alternate lyrics (“Every cake you bake / every leg you break”)[/li][/ul]

Got any others?

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You mean “All You Need Is Love” …

3

I KNEW I’d get that one wrong, damn it. Don’t have my Beatles CDs here at work dadblameit! :smack:

Well, there goes any hope of my sounding authoritative.

4

Yet another one from “All You Need Is Love” . . . as the song fades out, someone (Paul?) spontaneously starts singing “She Loves You.”

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That was John singing “She Loves You.” He’d been doing it before the final recording, too.

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Doesn’t Sting bury a line from an old song in every new album?

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Pretty much every single Police song ends with the repetitive fadeout. I don’t think Sting learned how to end a song any other way until he was well into his solo career. I didn’t really notice that until I got the Police box set (Message In a Box), at which point it became painfully obvious.

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Robert Plant did this on a couple of his solo tracks. On the endings of Tall Cool One and Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night he breaks into Black Dog lyrics to the tune of the new song.

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Dire Straits’s “Money for Nothing” uses the music from “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” with the lyrics “I Want My MTV.”

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I could’ve sworn there was a snipped of a song from Tommy at the end of one of the songs on Who’s Next (or vice versa) but I can’t find it. Something akin to having some of the “right behind you I see the millions” appear in “Song is Over” - ?? Could be an auditory hallucination I guess.

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Indigo Girls strum Ode to Joy toward the end of “Cedar Tree”.

The Beatles used Frere Jacques within Paperback Writer. [Speaking of whom, did they really say “Baby you’re a rich fag Jew” at the end of “Baby You’re a Rich Man”, like Rock Lists said they did? In reference to their manager?]

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At the end of the Captain and Tenille’s Love Will Keep Us Together Toni Tennille breaks up the da-da-da-da’s with the line “Sedaka is back!”

Neil Sedaka, the composer, of course. Legendary pop writer and singer.

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It is indeed “Song Is Over,” but the quote is not from Tommy–it’s from “Pure and Easy,” a song that was left off Who’s Next, appearing instead on Pete Townshend’s first solo album, Who Came First.

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You’re probably thinking of a quote from the song “Pure and Easy” which was written about the same time as the “Who’s Next” sessions but didn’t show up on LP until the “Odd and Sods” album.

Here’s a YouTube Link where you can hear it.

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Missed it by five minutes … :smack:

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Does Carly Simon’s segue into the “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” at the end of “It’s Coming Around Again” count?

Pink Floyd’s “Time” (DSOTM) does a brief reprise of “Breathe” before going into the Great Orgasm in the Sky, but I’m not sure that’s a legitimate example either…