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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.
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.
Tommy Tutone did a follow-up song to “Jenny/867-5309” called “Jenny’s Calling.”
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”.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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?
I thought it was the other way around?
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.
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”
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).
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??
It says here “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
Chris De Burgh’s Borderline has Say Goodbye to it All as it’s sequel.
In Devil’s Eye 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.
Glass Onion is a sort of sequel to I Am The Walrus, at least it tells us that The Walrus Was Paul.
Many ABBA fans consider “Dancing Queen” a sequel to their earlier “Nina Pretty Ballerina”
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.
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.