I am enjoying “Annie’s Going To Sing Her Song” by Tom Paxton. Wherein the song Annie sings is called “Take Me Back Again.”
Otherwise, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. Can you think of any others?
Johnny “How Is This Guy Not In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame” Rivers mentions how they kept on playing Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in Summer Rain.
At which point the guitar riff briefly comes in.
“Sad songs (say so much)”. That song indirectly references every sad song. That’s a lot of songs.
Tennessee Waltz
The radio’s playing some forgotten song / Brenda Lee’s “Coming On Strong” – Golden Earring, “Radar Love”
“Killing Me Softly with His Song” about Don McLean’s “Empty Chairs”
The Beatles self-referenced some of their own songs in the lyrics of other songs they wrote. “Glass Onion” contains references to five other Beatles songs:
Strawberry Fields Forever - “I told you about strawberry fields, You know the place where nothing is real”
I am the Walrus - “I told you about the walrus and me, man”
Lady Madonna - “Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet, yeah”
The Fool on the Hill - “I told you about the fool on the hill”
Fixing a Hole - “Fixing a hole in the ocean”
“Savoy Truffle” references “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” (“We all know Ob-la-di-bla-da, but can you show me where you are?”). There are probably other examples that slip my mind.
The John Lennon solo song “How Do You Sleep”, a thinly-veiled attack on Paul McCartney, does the same: “Sgt Pepper’s…” (“So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise”), Let It Be (“Jump when your momma tell you anything”) and, most notoriously, “Yesterday” and the McCartney solo work “Another Day” (“The only thing you done was yesterday/And since you’re gone you’re just another day”).
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE counts, likewise.
Little River Band’s Reminiscing mention’s Cole Porter’s Night and Day.
The most obvious one is Lynrd Skynrd’s Sweet Home Alabama referencing/responding to Neil Young’s Southern Man.
“American Pie” directly references “That’ll Be the Day”, “The Book of Love”, “The Bible Tells Me So”, “A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation)”, “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Helter Skelter”, “Eight Miles High”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, and indirectly references “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” & “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Kid Rock kept it going, in ALL SUMMER LONG.
Tenacious D’s “Tribute”.
Weird Al’s “Achy Breaky Song” is about the song it’s parodying, “Achy Breaky Heart.” Weird Al clearly hated the song.
LIFE IS A ROCK, by Reunion, is all over the place.
Didn’t another singer made a song about Eric Clapton song ‘Tears in heaven’?
American Pie - Lots of songs
“Set 'em up Joe” is about listening to Ernest Tubb’s “Walkin’ the Floor.”
Edie Money, “Take Me Home Tonight” - The Ronettes “Be My Baby” with a cameo by Ronnie Spector
“Another Auld Lang Syne” - the obvious
Crocodile Rock (which I loathe), mentions Rock Around The Clock:
While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock
We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock