# Songs that are two songs put together. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101 "2007-08-27T16:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/21 "2007-08-27T17:57:56Z")
I suppose that Happiness is a Warm Gun doesn’t qualify, as it’s _four_ seperate songs stuck together. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/22 "2007-08-27T18:26:40Z")
Tainted Love/Where did our love go? by Soft Cell ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/23 "2007-08-27T18:41:42Z")
_Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen_ by **Santana** (Peter Green / Gabor Szabo) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/24 "2007-08-27T18:42:15Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] There’s also “Brain Damage/Eclipse” by Pink Floyd, which is really a single song. [/QUOTE] As well as Time/Home ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/25 "2007-08-27T18:45:57Z")
I think that Paul Simon’s\* Homeless\* is made up of two seperate songs. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/26 "2007-08-27T18:50:43Z")
Village People : _San Francisco / Hollywood_ ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/27 "2007-08-27T18:50:58Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] “Foreplay/Long Time”, Boston. “Band on the Run” is a single song that sounds like several songs in sequence. [/QUOTE] If **pravnick** can include BOTR, the _Proud Mary_ most definitely has the _feel_ of two different songs. ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/28 "2007-08-27T18:52:25Z")
On “Alive Behind the Green Door,” Flogging Molly has a song “De-(That’s All Right)-Lilah”, a combination of Tom Jones and Elvis Presley tunes. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/29 "2007-08-27T19:03:22Z")
Sloan’s “Suppose They Close the Door” off Navy Blues transitions back and forth between two entirely different songs. ---
**Author:** ![MTRG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/30 "2007-08-27T19:03:37Z")
Grateful Dead did it all the time with a bunch of songs. The set that comes to mind is China Cat----\>I Know You Rider ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/31 "2007-08-27T19:04:48Z")
“Width Of A Circle” by David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/32 "2007-08-27T19:23:01Z")
My Chemical Romance – _Welcome to the Black Parade_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/33 "2007-08-27T19:27:15Z")
“Paradise By The DashBoard Light” by Meat Loaf. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/34 "2007-08-27T19:32:47Z")
“Dead and Gone” by Gypsy has two distinct melodies. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/35 "2007-08-27T19:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=MTRG] Grateful Dead did it all the time with a bunch of songs. The set that comes to mind is China Cat----\>I Know You Rider [/QUOTE] They also did **Scarlet Begonias** and **Fire On the Mountain** as a song suite quite often. Not to mention **Not Fade Away / Going Down the Road Feeling Bad** that actually made it onto the Skullfuck Lp. Jefferson Airplane had “Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon.” CSN had “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” which was an amalgamation of two partial songs. And for something completely different, Patti Smith did a cover version of Van Morrison’s "Gloria’ that is intertwined with wholly original lyrics & music (“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine…”) as well as “Horses”, a long song-suite that incorperates music & lyrics from the mid-60s proto-punk hit “Land of 1000 Dances” (don’t remember who did it originally.) ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/36 "2007-08-27T19:51:28Z")
“You Set the Scene” by Love is two songs combined into one. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/37 "2007-08-27T20:09:20Z")
How about “Fingertips”, by They Might Be Giants? Twenty-one separate songs in about four and a half minutes, listed under a single title. I’ve heard that “Frankenstein” by Edgar Winter Group got its name because it was bits of several unfinished songs, sewn together. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/38 "2007-08-28T00:05:57Z")
_Abacab_ by Genesis got its name because when it was being written they had A, B and C parts, and the name of the song is the order in which the segments were eventually assembled. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/39 "2007-08-28T00:19:29Z")
“A Quick One While He’s Away” by the Who is a suite of several songs. “Scarborogh Fair/Cantacle” by Simon and Garfunkel are two songs, and they end up being sung simultanously. Irving Berlin’s “An Old Fashoned Wedding” from **Annie Get Your Gun** does the same thing; Berlin was known to mix tunes in counterpoint. Procul Harum had “In Held 'Twas in I” – named after the first words of the five songs that make it up. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101/40 "2007-08-28T00:24:33Z")
And there’s Harry Neilson’s version of **You Can’t Do That** , which contains at least a dozen (and some sources say over 20) Beatles songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-two-songs-put-together/417101.md?page=3)