Interesting. I first heard this trick in the Godspell vaudeville-style song “All for the Best.”
Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is three songs and a spoken interlude. You start with the “barely 17 and barely dressed” part, then the baseball, then “Stop right there!”, then “Praying for the End of Time”.
And I’m not even sure how many songs Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is.
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go by Soft Cell is one song, but maybe the split name means it doesn’t count.
I came to mention Band on the Run, but was ninja’ed, so I had to think of something else!
What about Simon & Garfunkel’s “Scarborough Fair”/“Canticle”? The “The Side of a Hill” bits could just be there to harmonize with and expand on “Scarborough Fair,” but the effect seems to be of two folk songs going on at once.
It’s not quite what the OP had in mind, but the best mashup of two songs into one fabulous version is “I Heard It Round And Round The Grapevine”.
And also their obscure album track, I think it’s called “Makes Me Wonder”? I heard it once at sleep-away camp dance.
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I can’t believe no one has mentioned “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.” I’ve heard that it was originally two different songs.
Rolling Stones - “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”
I immediately thought of both those examples when I saw the thread title.
Yeah it is. And he did it again on the Venus and Mars album.“Listen to what the man Said” beomes “Treat her Gently” which is 2 songs with “Lonely old People”.
More than 24 hours and no one’s mentionedMacArthur Park? An overwrought ballad about a lost love that swings inexplicably into a 1960’s Swinging London discotheque go-go dance song.
It is two songs at once. Side of the Hill was an earlier song by Paul Simon which, IIRC, he tweaked a bit to make Canticle, while *Scarborough Fair *is a traditional folk song.
Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer.”
The Vals de Astráin, AKA Riau-riau is one of the best-known songs linked to Sanfermines. It switches from waltz to jota and back several times; most people think it’s actually two songs which for some reason get played chained.
Neither am I, but I do know that Genesis’ “Supper’s Ready” has seven distinct movements packed into 23 minutes: everything from gentle acoustic guitars to progressive synthesizers to hard rock. One movement is even in 9/8 time.
Green Day’s Jesus of Suburbia has 5 distinct movements:
I. “Jesus of Suburbia”
II. “City of the Damned”
III. “I Don’t Care”
IV. “Dearly Beloved”
V. “Tales of Another Broken Home”
Grand Funk Railroad’s I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home
I’d call that two songs, since Where Did Our Love Go? had already been a hit for The Supremes in the ‘60s. The J Geils Band did a great cover of it in the ‘70s, too. I like all three versions.