# Songs with sequels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660 "2005-08-26T01:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/1 "2005-08-26T01:25:16Z")
How did we go so long without one of these threads? I was listening to Queen’s **We Will Rock You** on my radio a while ago, which was afterwards followed by **We Are the Champions**. It hit me that We Will Rock you is the only song I can think of that has a sequel. Can anyone think of any others? the only rule I will lay down in this thread is that instrumental songs listed in chronological order don’t count. So no, I don’t really consider “sounds of the rainforest 2” to be a sequel. There needs to be a distinct relationship between two songs. I’d prefer if the relationship is in the lyrics, but I suppose I could settle for a song that was created with the sole purpose of being played after the first…man, I hope that makes sense ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/2 "2005-08-26T01:28:45Z")
Taxi driver by Harry Chapin had a sequel called I think Sequel Here we go: [http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.steward/taxi.htm](http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.steward/taxi.htm) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/3 "2005-08-26T01:31:34Z")
Motown had in some order 2 hits: **My Guy** followed by **My Girl**. No links on this one ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/4 "2005-08-26T01:31:57Z")
Are you asking for songs that always follow each other on the radio as a twosome, or that actually are meant to wrap up stories told from the first one in the lyrics? If the former, I can list quite a bunch: Heartbreaker / Livin Lovin’ Maid, This Beat Goes On / Switchin’ To Glide, No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature, China / Rider, etc. If tha latter, I can’t think of a single one. In fact, I never made the connection until just now that We Are The Champions is a “sequel” to We Will Rock You. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/5 "2005-08-26T01:32:53Z")
Cab Calloway: _Minnie the Moocher_ _Kickin’ the Gong Around_ _Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day_ ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/6 "2005-08-26T01:33:57Z")
Marty Robbins’ trilogy – El Paso, Feleena and El Paso City. R. Kelly’s recent operatic six part “In the Closet”, complete with chapters. Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went down To Georgia and it’s sequel Devil Went Back To Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/7 "2005-08-26T01:34:10Z")
Sequential songs player together like your example could be. In the 70’s at night for 2fers. I would often here Battle of Evermore with Stairway to Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/8 "2005-08-26T01:34:50Z")
Wasn’t ‘Reunited’ a sequel to ‘United’? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/9 "2005-08-26T01:36:57Z")
Well, come to think of it, since it was clearly designed as one long, maybe not R. Kelly’s “Closet.” His successful collaborations with Ron Isley with the continuing Mr. Bigg saga probably counts: “Down Low,” Contagious," “Busted”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/10 "2005-08-26T01:44:47Z")
LaVern Baker: “Jim Dandy”/“Jim Dandy Got Married” Buddy Holly: “Peggy Sue”/“Peggy Sue Got Married” Hank Ballard & The Midnighters: “Work with Me Annie”/“Annie Had a Baby” David Bowie: “Space Oddity”/“Ashes to Ashes” ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/11 "2005-08-26T01:46:30Z")
Chubby Checker’s The Twist and Let’s Twist Again. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/12 "2005-08-26T02:09:56Z")
Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want to)” followed by “Judy’s Turn to Cry” I think there was a singing duo that followed up something like “First Date” with “First Quarrel” You could argue that John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy” is a sequel to “How Do You Sleep?” (well I don’t know if you could argue it, but I’ve heard that connection). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/13 "2005-08-26T02:11:59Z")
The Snoopy songs! I have no idea who sang them. All I know is Snoopy is in 'em. ---
**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 26, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/14 "2005-08-26T02:13:17Z")
What you describe in the OP is a segue, not a sequel. There are hundreds of them, dating back to classical music (e.g., the second and third movements of the Beethovan Violin Concerto). Others: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding – Elton John Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friend – Beatles (Actually, this is a sequel, too – the first song mentions “Billy Shears,” the second one is supposedly a song Shears is singing). Abbey Road Medley – Beatles A Quick One While He’s Away – The Who (a collection of songs telling a story, all sequeing into each other). Brain Damage/Eclipse – Pink Floyd For sequels, there’s Work with me Annie/Annie had a Baby – Hank Ballard and the Moonlighters It’s My Party/Judy’s Turn to Cry – Leslie Gore Johnny B. Goode/Bye Bye Johnny – Chuck Berry ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/15 "2005-08-26T02:14:04Z")
C. W. McCall’s “Convoy,” followed by “'Round the World With the Rubber Duck.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/16 "2005-08-26T02:23:01Z")
Phil Elvrum, who made a few incredible records under the name **The Microphones** and now makes incredible records under the name **Mount Eerie** has always employed “sequel” motifs in his songs, going with straight “pt. 2’s” and so on. In some cases, he’ll just write an entirely new song, new lyrics, new melody using the same chord progression or even the same instrumental (“Moon Sequel,” “The Blow pt. 2,” “Where it’s hotter pt. 3”), and sometimes it’s just a spiritual or thematic sequel to a previous song (“The Glow pt. 2”). He even named his third album “The Glow pt. 2,” and inferring that this meant that the previous record “It was hot, we stayed in the water” was really “The Glow pt. 1.” ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/17 "2005-08-26T02:26:30Z")
“I’m Losing You” by John Lennon and “I’m Moving On” by Yoko Ono should count, I think. It’s an odd, “He said, she said” thing, but it works really well, and they merge together seamlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/18 "2005-08-26T02:28:39Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > The Snoopy songs! > > I have no idea who sang them. All I know is Snoopy is in 'em. The Royal Guardsmen. Snoopy and the Red Baron/Snoopy’s Christmas. Then of course, there’s the Gary Puckett trilogy: Young Girl/This Girl Is a Woman Now/Woman, Woman which may not be sequels as much as taking an idea and beating it into the gound. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/19 "2005-08-26T02:29:19Z")
The Vines’ “Amnesia” followed by Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage”. Marylin Manson’s “Rock is Dead” followed by Pink Floyd’s “The Show Must Go On”. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/20 "2005-08-26T02:30:35Z")
**The Monster Mash** was the sequel to **The Transylvanian Twist**. What? Oh OK, a _real_ one. “Mashed Potatoes” followed by “Gravy.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660.md?page=2)