# Pop Song Sequels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642 "2004-07-30T20:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/1 "2004-07-30T20:53:51Z")
Ran across a link to this site of [Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/onehit.html). You know, that’s not much of a list. Let’s come up with some of our own! And while we’re at it, list the artist for the pop-culture impaired. Here’s a few to get started: She Had A Ticket To Ride (But It’s Expired) – Beatles Mornings in Rumpled No-Longer-White Satin – Moody Blues Now That I’ve Painted Everything Black I’ve Changed My Mind – R. Stones Oops, I Remember Who You Are Now – The Who American Woman II (I’ve Got A Restraining Order) – Guess Who I Want To Get Away From The Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young I’ve Been Back To The Desert On An ATV – America ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/2 "2004-07-30T21:42:08Z")
Hmmm. [Movie Merger Madness](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267400) gets up to 6 pages and thousands of views and this one just kinda drops like a stone with all of 3 views. I have _got_ to learn to come up with better thread titles! Let’s see if I can do a little CPR on this thread … Here’s a whole set of sequels from Jimi Hendrix: Crosstown Traffic II (Still Stuck) Crosstown Traffic III (Will This Traffic Ever Clear Up?) Crosstown Traffic IV (That’s It I’m Walking) How about a _prequel_ from the Beatles? White Submarine ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/3 "2004-07-30T22:45:01Z")
How’s about doing real ones while we’re at it? _It’s My Party_ followed by _Judy’s Turn to Cry_ - Lesley Gore ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/4 "2004-07-30T22:52:06Z")
_Accck-Blah_- Sequel to _Mmm-Bop_ (Hanson) Sorry, couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/5 "2004-07-30T23:02:18Z")
_Android That Got Psychological Treatment And Is Better Now_ - Radiohead _No Longer Smells Like Teen Spirit After Dry-Cleaning_ - Nirvana _Time Ran Out, But Luckily We Got An Extension_ - Muse _Found My Religion, It Was Behind The Couch_ - R.E.M ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/6 "2004-07-31T01:21:41Z")
To me it seems actual sequels in Pop Music are a rare breed. Going WAY back remember **Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I Love Her”**? (Tommy enters a stock car race ($1,000 prize) in an attempt to win money so he can buy Laura a wedding ring. Well, you can guess what happens). Shortly thereafter, \*\*Marilyn Micahels \*\* (playing the role of Laura), sang \*\*“Tell Tommy I Miss Him”. \*\* (Same melody _and_ the same guy singing the bass part ‘boom-boom-boom-boom’). Also going WAY back, remember **Diane Renee** (sp?) singing “ **Blue Navy Blue** ”? She followed this with a marginally successful song “Weekend Pass” or something like that - not too sure. Heck it never got the airplay that \*\*“Tell Tommy I Miss Him” \*\* did. \*\*Harry Chapin \*\* who had a hit with **“Taxi”** (1972) followed this ten years later with a song appropriately titled **“Sequel”**. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/7 "2004-07-31T01:24:04Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Also going WAY back, remember **Diane Renee** (sp?) singing “ **Blue Navy Blue** ”? She followed this with a marginally successful song “Weekend Pass” or something like that - not too sure. Heck it never got the airplay that \*\*“Tell Tommy I Miss Him” \*\* did. Could it be titled “Kiss Me, Sailor”? (BTW, the last name is Renay.) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/8 "2004-07-31T01:25:44Z")
Okay I’ll invent one. Sequel to Bobby Fuller Four’s (or the Clash for you younger folks) “ **I Fought The Law** ” **"Parole Board Hearing"** ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/9 "2004-07-31T01:29:44Z")
**Governor Quinn** - Good job in researching ! Just to add to that, here is the \*official \* Diane Renay website !!! [http://www.dianerenay.com/](http://www.dianerenay.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/10 "2004-07-31T01:32:59Z")
_Okay, Baby, You’ve Hit Me Enough Times_: Britney’s follow-up to _Baby, One More Time_ _This Place Isn’t as Great as the Name Suggests_: Guns ‘n’ Roses’s sequel to _Paradise City_ _Alright, I Was Being Too Optimistic_: marching-band successor to _Stars and Stripes Forever_ _The World Ended (And Now I’m Bored)_: R.E.M. song in the vein of _It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)_ ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/11 "2004-07-31T01:32:59Z")
Oh, it wasn’t research- Music Choice for a while seemed to be playing that song over and over on their Oldies channel, and, after a while, I memorized it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/12 "2004-07-31T01:49:34Z")
_Not Much Happening Here Now_ – Buffalo Springfield _Salvaging the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_ and the sequel to that, _Fighting Over the Salvage Rights to the Edmund Fitzgerald_ – Gordan Lightfoot _Hey, Twenty_ – Steely Dan _Peg II (It Came Back To You, So Now What?)_ – Steely Dan _Stepping Back In_ – Joe Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/13 "2004-07-31T01:58:46Z")
_Did It Again_- Steely Dan _XM (Even Less Static Than Before)_- Steely Dan _Land of 1001 Dances_- Various Artists ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/14 "2004-07-31T02:06:14Z")
_The South Did It Again, But Not Very Well_ - Charlie Daniels admits he didn’t think of everything in _The South’s Gonna Do It Again_ _Coach, I’m Sitting Out Until I Get a Contract Extension_ - John Fogerty follows up _Put Me In, Coach_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/15 "2004-07-31T02:07:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > _Coach, I’m Sitting Out Until I Get a Contract Extension_ - John Fogerty follows up _Put Me In, Coach_ Or _Center Field_, or whatever the name of that dumb song is. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/16 "2004-07-31T02:16:24Z")
_Have You Still Not Seen The Rain_-CCR _Stop Doing That To Me_- The Captain and Tenielle _You Don’t Have Me, Babe_- Sonny and Cher ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/17 "2004-07-31T03:09:14Z")
“Hey, so we had cost over-runs !!!” Sequel to “We Built This City” by Jefferson Starship ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/18 "2004-07-31T03:36:28Z")
Excellent thread, my man! Lemme give it a shot: 1. _And the band went to the bar and had a few drinks_ - Eric Bogle, follow up to… well, you know 2. _Rough Sodomy_ - Michael Jackson, following up Smooth Criminal. Now, wait a second! This isn’t a pick on Michael himself, there’s enough of that out there. In fact, why don’t we make the artist not the original, but the cover artists, Alien Ant Farm. There you go. 3. _Dead Petals_, by Nirvana. The follow-up to their hit, _In Bloom_. 4. _Knockin’ and A-Poundin’ On Heavens Door_ - Bob Dylan. 5. _Communist CheckBook_ - The sister song of Rage Against The Machine’s _Guerilla Radio_. 6. _Too Hung Ova To Remember A Damn Fing_ - which is, obviously, the sequel to any number of party songs. Dig it. Okay, okay, don’t be too hard on me. It’s late here and my mind is not the fertile bed of knowledge that it once was. Later, gators. -S&S ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/19 "2004-07-31T06:41:27Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > _Not Much Happening Here Now_ – Buffalo Springfield You’re probably thinking of _Not Worth Much_. People often misremember the title to this song thinking of the lyics of the refrain instead. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642/20 "2004-07-31T15:31:13Z")
_A-L-I-M-O-N-Y_ as the follow-up to _D-I-V-O-R-C-E_. (Actually, _D-I-V-O-R-C-E_ was a pretty good sequel to _Stand By Your Man_. 😃 ) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-sequels/257642.md?page=2)