# Song Titles Before And After **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 22, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178 "2020-11-22T06:03:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/1 "2020-11-22T06:03:36Z")
Make up new song titles by joining two or more existing ones: "You Can’t Always Get What You Give: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones and “You Get What You Give” by The New Radicals “Time Of The Season Of The Witch”: “Time of the Season” by The Zombies and “Season of the Witch” by Donovan ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/2 "2020-11-22T11:32:24Z")
_You’re All I Only Want For Christmas Is You_ - _You’re All I Want For Christmas_ - Andy Williams _I Only Want You For Christmas_ - George Strait _All I Want For Christmas Is You_ - Mariah Carey _Mellow Yellow Submarine_ - _Mellow Yellow_ - Donovan _Yellow Submarine_ - The Beatles “We all live in a yellow submarine (quite rightly)” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/3 "2020-11-22T13:55:43Z")
Sympathy for the Devil Went Down to Georgia ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/4 "2020-11-23T01:23:25Z")
Feel Like Makin’ Love out of Nothing at All _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/5 "2020-11-23T01:35:39Z")
_Heaven And Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be_ (The Who And AC/DC) _Just Like Heaven Is A Place On Earth_ (The Cure and Belinda Carlisle) _Marquee Moon Shadow_ (Television and Cat Stevens) (I could play this all night…) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/6 "2020-11-23T01:48:10Z")
_Always The Sun Is Shining_ (The Stranglers and Bob Marley) _Walking On The Moon Dance_ (The Police and Van Morrison) _Life On Mars, The Bringer Of War_ (David Bowie and Gustav Holst) ---
**Author:** ![Honoria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Honoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honoria)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/7 "2020-11-23T02:12:09Z")
_You Are My Sunshine On My Shoulders_ _You Are My Sunshine_ - Johnny Cash _Sunshine on My Shoulders_ - John Denver ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/8 "2020-11-23T05:30:21Z")
_School Days of Wine and Roses_ _School Days_ - Chuck Berry _Days of Wine and Roses_ - Henry Mancini, from the movie of the same name _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/9 "2020-11-23T12:57:39Z")
_Do You Know If Where You’re Going To Is San Jose_? _Do You Know Where You’re Going To?_ - Diana Ross (Theme from Mahogany) _Do You Know The Way To San Jose?_ - Dionne Warwick ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/10 "2020-11-23T13:15:13Z")
The Thing (Phil Harris) Behind the Green Door (Jim Lowe) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/11 "2020-11-23T17:11:00Z")
_Wayfaring Stranger in the Night in White Satin Doll_ _Wayfaring Stranger_ - traditional _Stranger in the Night_ - Frank Sinatra _Nights in White Satin_ - Moody Blues _Satin Doll_ - Duke Ellington ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/12 "2020-11-23T18:03:16Z")
_Henry The VIII, I Am The Walrus_ _Henry The VIII, I Am_ - Herman’s Hermits _I Am The Walrus_ - The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/13 "2020-11-23T21:27:09Z")
_Walk On By The Time I Get To Phoenix_ (Dionne Warwick (and others) and Glen Campbell (and others)) _Son Of A Preacher Man In The Mirror_ (Dusty Springfield and Michael Jackson) _Twentieth Century Schizoid Man On The Moon_ (King Crimson and R.E.M.) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/14 "2020-11-23T21:29:08Z")
_Singin In The Kentucky Rain_ Gene Kelly/Elvis ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/15 "2020-11-23T21:58:56Z")
_Golden Brown Eyed Handsome Man_ ( The Stranglers and Chuck Berry) _School Days_ (A contraction of a Supertramp and a Kinks song, and also a standalone Chuck Berry song) _It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry Me A River_ (Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker (and others)) _Subterranean Home Sick Blues With A Feeling_ (Bob Dylan and Little Walter) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/16 "2020-11-23T22:01:17Z")
_1999 Luftballons_ Prince/Nena ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/17 "2020-11-23T23:02:11Z")
_Just You Wait and See That Girl Is Mine_ (My Fair Lady/The Real Group/The Righteous Brothers/Michael Jackson) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/18 "2020-11-24T05:33:36Z")
You Can’t Always Get What You Wanted Dead or Alive The Rolling Stones/Bon Jovi ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/19 "2020-11-24T07:47:35Z")
_Leader of the Band on the Run_ _Leader of the Band_ - Dan Fogelberg _Band on the Run_ - Paul McCartney and Wings _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178/20 "2020-11-24T12:10:38Z")
_All I Need Is the Girl That Got Away in a Manger_ Gypsy/Ralph DiLudovico/Joan Baez [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-before-and-after/926178.md?page=2)