# 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:** 3
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/41 "2007-08-03T18:14:00Z")
Missed the edit window. The Righteous Brothers recorded a sequel to **Rock And Roll Heaven** in 1992. The lyrics mention Elvis, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Jackie Wilson, Rick Nelson, Dennis Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Cass Elliot, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/42 "2007-08-03T18:19:24Z")
> [@](#): > > “Destroyer” by the Kinks referrenced “Lola” in its lyrics and “Hello I Love You Won’t You Tell Me Your Name” in the guitar work. Not sure if just referencing counts as a sequel. If it were, “Purple People Eater” (which quotes “Short Shorts” in its verses) and the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” (which quotes “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”) would qualify. ---
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/43 "2007-08-03T18:44:40Z")
Tommy Tutone did a follow-up song to “Jenny/867-5309” called “Jenny’s Calling.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/44 "2007-08-03T18:49:37Z")
In the opening lines of “Hot Rod Lincoln”, the singer says he was driving the hopped-up Model A that ended the race between the Ford & Mercury in “Hot Rod Race”. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/45 "2007-08-03T18:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] **Snoopy’s Christmas** as a sequel to **Snoopy vs. the Red Baron**. [/QUOTE] Before that, the Royal Guardsmen also released **Return Of The Red Baron**. Another one of their songs, **It’s Sopwith Camel Time** might be regarded as yet another sequel, but I think that would be stretching it. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/46 "2007-08-03T18:53:37Z")
Would entire album Works qualify? Two that come to mind: **Meatloaf** - Bat out of Hell (1 2 and 3) and it seems that several of the songs are meant as continuations of the prior ones. **Styx** : **Kilroy was here** and \*\*Paradise Theater \*\* were both albums that I considered to be “story” albums - where the songs tied together to form a fuller story. (Paradise Theater was stronger in this aspect than Kilroy was here) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/47 "2007-08-03T19:14:37Z")
Like **Kopek** , I’m confused by exactly what’s a sequel and what’s not. In nearly every musical play, some of the songs trace the love story from boy meets girl to happily ever after. Some others in the same play follow other parts of the plot from cynical con man to honest Harold Hill, or from cutesy sister act/stage mother to rich stripper forcing Mama Rose to let go. Each song chain is a series of sequels, or maybe it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/48 "2007-08-03T19:27:47Z")
_Little Marie_ by Chuck Berry was a sequel to _Memphis_. I’m not really sure if _Back to Memphis_ qualifies as another sequel, or if it’s just another song about the same city. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/49 "2007-08-03T19:40:10Z")
Does _All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)_ by Hank Williams Jr count as a sequel to his _All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight_? ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/50 "2007-08-03T19:52:47Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] Does _All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)_ by Hank Williams Jr count as a sequel to his _All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight_? [/QUOTE] I thought it was the other way around? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/51 "2007-08-03T20:04:44Z")
I stand corrected (well, actually, I’m sitting down); I was going by the fact that I hadn’t heard _All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)_ until years after I’d heard {_All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight_ and assumed that it came out later. But a quick search showed that they were released in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Which I guess means the answer to my question is No. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/52 "2007-08-03T21:25:03Z")
I remember listening to an interview with the Moody Blues and they said “_I Know You’re Out There Somewhere_” is a sequel to “_Your Wildest Dreams_” ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/53 "2007-08-04T00:27:40Z")
Well, other posters have already chimed in on the Pearl Jam and Killers trilogies, but **They Might Be Giants** have a series of songs called _Hotel Detective_ (1986), _She Was A Hotel Detective_ (1994), and _Hotel Detective In The Future_ (2007). ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/54 "2007-08-04T00:54:05Z")
Ack! Ack! I know that Jackson Browne’s From Silver Lake has a sequel on some rare unoffically released album, but I can’t find it. :dubious: Any thoughts, anyone?? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/55 "2007-08-04T06:56:08Z")
It says [here](http://www.scopecreep.com/yahoo/2006/08/26/response-songs-and-sequels/) “Eden is Burning” by John Mellencamp starts with the line, “Diane and Jack went to the movies,” an obvious reference to his classic, “Jack and Diane.” The site touts a CD set “Response Songs and Sequel” Some cool stuff there ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/56 "2007-08-04T17:28:39Z")
Chris De Burgh’s Borderline has Say Goodbye to it All as it’s sequel. In [Devil’s Eye](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/chris_de_burgh/the_devils_eye.html) the Devil says, about the Lord, “He’s still angry and He’s after me since I cheated on the Spanish Train”. This could be seen as a sequel to Spanish Train. Both songs also by Chris De Burgh. ---
**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 4, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/57 "2007-08-04T19:32:42Z")
_Glass Onion_ is a sort of sequel to _I Am The Walrus_, at least it tells us that The Walrus Was Paul. ---
**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 4, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/58 "2007-08-04T19:48:35Z")
Many ABBA fans consider “Dancing Queen” a sequel to their earlier “Nina Pretty Ballerina” ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/59 "2007-08-04T23:34:56Z")
Queensyrche followed up it’s concept album \*\*Operation Mindcrime \*\* with a rather ill-advised sequel. But If you were looking forward to hearing Ronnie James Dio sing a duet with Geoff Tate, then OMII was right up your alley. Iron Maiden also had a series of songs about Charlotte the harlot. Not all of them very good. Don’t Stand So Close To Me 86 wasn’t a sequel, it was just a different way to record the song. ---
**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 4, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/60 "2007-08-04T23:58:15Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Like **Kopek** , I’m confused by exactly what’s a sequel and what’s not. In nearly every musical play, some of the songs trace the love story from boy meets girl to happily ever after. Some others in the same play follow other parts of the plot from cynical con man to honest Harold Hill, or from cutesy sister act/stage mother to rich stripper forcing Mama Rose to let go. Each song chain is a series of sequels, or maybe it isn’t. [/QUOTE] To tell you the truth, I never thought of music from a Broadway play when writing this question. So, let me clarify my intent, and see if that helps. “Sequels”, in my mind, should be considered such only in relation to each other, not to a larger context that a casual listener doesn’t know about. So if they name the same characters or “plot” in their lyrics, and demonstrate some kind of continuity, they are sequels. If they they are merely sung by the same people, and you know they are related only by virtue of what the artist says in an interview, or only because the same two characters in play sing them as their relationship develops, then they are not sequels. Of course YMMV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=4)