# Songs with sequels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248 "2007-08-03T05:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/1 "2007-08-03T05:17:05Z")
I really didn’t know these existed until I recently listened closely enough while shuffling among artists on my iPod and made the mental links. _Judy’s Turn to Cry_ is a sequel to _It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry if I Want To)_ --both by Leslie Gore _Bye Bye Johnnie_ is a sequel to _Johnny B. Goode_ – both by Chuck Berry Can you name some others? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/2 "2007-08-03T05:23:01Z")
Jimmy Dean: _Big John’s Cajun Queen_ ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/3 "2007-08-03T05:25:38Z")
Tommy and Gina, the central characters of Bon Jovi’s _Livin’ on a Prayer_, were referenced briefly in their later song _It’s My Life_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/4 "2007-08-03T05:28:28Z")
**Major Tom** _Space oddity_ - David Bowie _Ashes To Ashes_ - David Bowie _Major Tom_ - Peter Schilling _Mrs. Major Tom_ - K.I.A. _Hallo, Spaceboy_ (Remix) - Pet Shop Boys ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/5 "2007-08-03T05:29:52Z")
Jeez, you folks are up late. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/6 "2007-08-03T05:30:37Z")
It’s ten-thirty here. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/7 "2007-08-03T05:36:17Z")
There was a sequel to Harry Chapin’s _Taxi_. It was called _Sequel_. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/8 "2007-08-03T06:23:55Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] There was a sequel to Harry Chapin’s _Taxi_. It was called _Sequel_. [/QUOTE] You’re good, **Johnny**. My dad was in the music business and I absorbed a lot just from being around him. And I knew that Harry Chapin did in fact do a sequel to _Taxi_, but for the life of me I could _not_ remember the title. I am suitably impressed and I thank you for getting that “worm” outta my mind. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/9 "2007-08-03T07:12:17Z")
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Etta James (W/ Harvey Fuqua) had a back and forth thing going in the 50’s. The Midnighters recorded “Work with me Annie” and Etta answered with “Dance with me Henry (The Wallflower)” the Midnighters then recorded “Henry’s Got Flat Feet.” They also recorded “Annie had a Baby” not clearly a response, but definitely a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/10 "2007-08-03T08:16:58Z")
There was a sequel to “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” called “The Devil Comes Back To Georgia.” It featured Johnny Cash and Travis Tritt on vocals and Charlie Daniels on fiddle. Daniels also recorded a loose sequel to “Uneasy Rider” called “Uneasy Rider '88.” In it, the protagonist and friend make an ill-fated visit to a gay bar. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/11 "2007-08-03T08:20:43Z")
R. Kelly’s horrid Trapped in the Closet has 12 chapters. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Your\_username\_can\_not\_be\_short](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Your\_username\_can\_not\_be\_short](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_username_can_not_be_short)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/12 "2007-08-03T09:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] **Major Tom** _Space oddity_ - David Bowie _Ashes To Ashes_ - David Bowie _Major Tom_ - Peter Schilling _Mrs. Major Tom_ - K.I.A. _Hallo, Spaceboy_ (Remix) - Pet Shop Boys [/QUOTE] Thanks so much for reminding me of Peter Schilling. Just been watching some of his vids on youtube ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/13 "2007-08-03T09:24:17Z")
Marty Robbins followed his hit [El Paso](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/robbins-marty/el-paso-11889.html), a first person ballad about a cowboy with a doomed love “for the Mexican maiden” in “Rose’s Cantina”, with a sequel, [El Paso City](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/marty-robbins-el-paso-city-lyrics.html), in which the narrator is in a plane contemplating whether he is the reincarnation of the man from El Paso. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/14 "2007-08-03T12:05:37Z")
**Snoopy’s Christmas** as a sequel to **Snoopy vs. the Red Baron**. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/15 "2007-08-03T12:13:36Z")
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue / Peggy Sue Got Married ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/16 "2007-08-03T12:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Jimmy Dean: _Big John’s Cajun Queen_ [/QUOTE] There was also _Little Bitty Big John._ Buddy Holly did _Peggy Sue Got Married_ as a sequel to _Peggy Sue._ e.t.a. - what **Peter Morris** said. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/17 "2007-08-03T12:31:29Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue / Peggy Sue Got Married [/QUOTE] Similarly: LaVern Baker - Jim Dandy/Jim Dandy Got Married ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/18 "2007-08-03T12:43:37Z")
The Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II by Metallica ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/19 "2007-08-03T12:43:52Z")
Danny Aiello, the father in Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” video, recorded a reply song called “Papa Wants the Best For You.” ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/20 "2007-08-03T12:59:02Z")
“Leslie Anne Levine” is a sequel to “We Both Go Down Together” (both by the Decemberists), according to the band. “Leslie Anne Levine” was written (or at least recorded) first, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=2)