Per youtube: “The first song was written by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein in 1964, and was recorded by Little Anthony, and the second is a 1967 single written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and recorded by Frankie Valli. The Lettermen combined the two”
…which more or less quotes Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence.” (very similar lyric, and reasonably similar melody, in the quite-phrase).
Whoa…meta!
The Pogues musically quote the Beach Boys’ “You Still Believe in Me” in one of the tracks on Hell’s Ditch - I can’t recall which.
From the same album, in “Rain Street,” they also lyrically quote Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?”.
These are great, guys! I’ve never heard of most of them!
Of course, “Bittersweet Symphony” tho. Duh!
Who would recognize that anyway?. It bears no relation to the tune. It’s just lawsuits, and no interest to me. Makes me want to reevaluate the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra though. Someones getting ripped off and it’s not Mick and Keith, again.
The Who sampled themselves on Quadrophenia, placing a snippet of “The Kids are Alright” at the end of “Is It In My Head?”. There are also a number of self-quotes (or re-uses of material) in Who songs… for example, the last line of “The Song Is Over” is the first line of “Pure and Easy”, and there’s an instrumental section in “Rael” that reappears in Tommy. And “Glow Girl” ends with “It’s a girl, Mrs. Walker, it’s a girl”. (I also contend that the “Tommy” leitmotif is derived from the instrumental part at the end of “My Generation”.)
Carry On by CSNY ends with a verse from Questions, the Buffalo Springfield number.
Be-Bop Deluxe sampled themselves on the title cut of Modern Music… the track starts with the sound of someone flipping a radio dial, and snippets of a couple of earlier Be-Bop Deluxe songs, including “Axe Victim”, appear.
Don’t forget the “My-my-my-my-my g-g-g-generation” refrain in “The Punk Meets the Godfather.”
Sugar Loaf plays the guitar riff from The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” on their hit “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You”.
In Broken Arrow by Buffalo Springfield they have the drummer dewey martin singing a frat rock version of Mr Soul, from the same LP I think.
In Elton John’s version of “Pinball Wizard” He includes a quick line from The Who’s "I Can’t Explain.
Later, when The Who covered Elton’s “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting”
they included parts from “Take Me To The Pilot”
Neil Young’s “Long May You Run” quotes the Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No” (vocal harmonies and all).
Good one. I don’t know the real story, but to me it sounds like a young Neil already wise behind his years, questioning and critiquing the vapid distractions of pop stardom.
I thought this wasn’t so much a quote; rather, Stephen Stills had a half-finished song composed as BF was breaking up, and finished the song a year or two later for CSN.
(Rather like Jimmy Page had a few half-composed numbers as the Yardbirds disintegrated, which he finished for Led Zeppelin soon thereafter. BTW, this happened around the same time as the Buffalo Springfield – CSN transition. The Yardbirds and BF inevitably bring to mind the same adjective: seminal.)
The second riff is actually “Satisfaction”
He also sampled Fleetwood Mac’s “Second Hand News” for “Wasting Time”
Not technically samples but:
Metallica spoofed “Run To The Hills” at the end of their cover of The Misfit’s “Last Caress/Green Hell.”
Sammy Hagar opens “Good Enough” with an impression of the Big Bopper’s “Hello Baby”
Van Halen’s cover version of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone” is closer to the guitar riff from “Tired of Waiting for You” rather than the original riff.
It’s not a musical quotation, not the chords or notes.
Questions was a whole Springfield song. He used the verses of it in Carry On. How is that not a quote?
Now you made me go back and listen to it. You’re right… but I could swear I’ve heard a version where they did use the tune.
While it might be the worst video ever made…Scatterbrain’s Down With The Ship (Slight Return) contains too many to count from Metallica to Woody Woodpecker.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Cover of Enter Sandman contains a verse from Barry Manilow’s “Can’t Smile Without You”
Faith No More - We Care A Lot live versions have some of New Kids’ Hanging Tough