It’s not sampling if you take the exact same tune for a totally different song (non-parody), is it?
Kitty Wells sings “The tune about the wild side of life” in “It wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”, which references “The Wild Side of Life” by Hank Thompson, which contains the lyric “I didn’t know God made Honky Tonk angels”.
So, both a reference and a pre-reference between them?
Actually, I think country music has a long history of “reply” songs, so that should make it a rich source of songs called out in the OP.
songs on Tommy and Quadrophenia by the Who include lyrics from other songs on the same album. Also their song Good Looking Boy has lyrics from Can’t Help falling in Love and the writers of that song are credited as cowriters of Good Looking Boy.
A couple of verses from Dream Theater’s “Octavarium:”
Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem’s ready
Jack the ripper Owens Wilson Phillips and my supper’s ready
Lucy in the sky with diamond Dave’s not here I come to save the
Day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again
[…]
Flying off the handle be careful with
That axe Eugene gene the dance machine
Messiah light my fire gabba gabba
Hey hey my my generation’s home again
Not sure if this is what the OP is looking for but from wiki:
“Chantilly Lace” inspired an answer song performed by Jayne Mansfield, titled "That Makes It”, hypothetically based on what the girl may have been saying at the other end of the line*
and if you read down, lots of bits were sampled and mentioned.
Alannah Myles references White Lightning, Mama’s Baby, and Love Me Tender in her song Black Velvet. But for those clues, I never would have figured out who or what that song was about.
Bon Jovi recalls the couple from Livin’ on a Prayer in his later recording It’s My Life: This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down
This last one maybe doesn’t quite fit, as it’s less of a clear reference and more of a rejoinder, but I believe Joni Mitchell wrote The Circle Game in response to Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain.
I thought Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire would have a lot. But it only mentions Rock Around the Clock.
One of the few country artists I like is Sawyer Brown. They have a song called Smoking in the Rockies which mentions the Oak Ridge Boys singing Elvira.
As is to be expected, Tom Paxton’s Phil references a couple of Och’s songs:
The paper was shaking
The phone started ringing.
I shook every time I heard it ring.
What was my reaction?
I put the phone down.
That was the only news that was fit to sing.
I remember there but for fortune
There but for fortune you and I would go.
And on a lighter note, there’s Paxton’s * Jesus Christ SRO*
Jesus, you’re the biggest star on Broadway
And what a proper Superstar you look.
A golden oldie, a blast from the past.
It’s great to see you’ve come back at last
And someday I just have to read…the book.
The Commodores’ “Nightshift” namechecks both Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” and Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”:
*Marvin, he was a friend of mine
And he could sing a song
His heart in every line
Marvin sang of the joy and pain
He opened up our minds
And I still can hear him say
Aw talk to me so you can see
What’s going on
…
Jackie (Jackie), hey what’you doing now
It seems like yesterday
When we were working out
Jackie (Jackie, oh) you set
The world on fire
You came and gifted us
Your love it lifted us
Higher and higher*
Wilson’s “Baby Work Out” and Maze’s “Joy and Pain” are also referenced.
“Out On That Road” by Paul Revere and The Raiders name-checks four other songs by the band: Don’t Take It So Hard, Cinderella Sunshine, Hungry and Kicks.
Tom Petty “Running Down a Dream” – me and del singing little runaway – reference to Del Shannon “Runaway”
Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” – Roy Orbison singing for the lonely – reference to Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely”
I notice others did the same.