Topic Playlist (Part 3)

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)
  6. Your Song - Elton John

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)
  6. Your Song - Elton John
  7. Love, This Is My Song - Petula Clark

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)
  6. Your Song - Elton John
  7. Love, This Is My Song - Petula Clark
  8. The Song That Never Ends - Shari Lewis

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)
  6. Your Song - Elton John
  7. Love, This Is My Song - Petula Clark
  8. The Song That Never Ends - Shari Lewis
  9. Rock and Roll All NIght - KISS

Songs about Songs

  1. Just A Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  2. Only a Northern Song - The Beatles
  3. Sing a Song - The Carpenters
  4. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
  5. The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Eric Idle)
  6. Your Song - Elton John
  7. Love, This Is My Song - Petula Clark
  8. The Song That Never Ends - Shari Lewis
  9. Rock and Roll All NIght - KISS
  10. An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night

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Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra

“My Shangri-La has gone away, fading like the Beatles on Hey Jude

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers

“And the jukebox kept on playin’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

-“BB”-

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money

“Be my baby”, sung by a still striking fifty-something Ronnie Spector

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring

"Radio plays that forgotten song / Brenda Lee, “Coming on Strong

Also, housekeeping.

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores

Calls out Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On?” and two Jackie Wilson songs - “Baby Workout” and “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”.

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison

“Jackie Wilson said it was “Reet-Petite” Kind of love you got knock me off my feet Let it all hang out Oh, let it all hang out”

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
  7. Rock and Roll Heaven - the Righteous Brothers

Too many to list all, but among them are “Dock of the Bay,” by Otis Redding; “Piece of my Heart,” by Janis Joplin; and “Light My Fire,” by the Doors, in the song’s first iteration.

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
  7. Rock and Roll Heaven - the Righteous Brothers
  8. Only Wanna Be with You - Hootie and the Blowfish

It quotes extensively from “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan, and mentions “Tangled Up in Blue”.

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
  7. Rock and Roll Heaven - the Righteous Brothers
  8. Only Wanna Be with You - Hootie and the Blowfish
  9. Glass Onion - the Beatles

I told you about the fool on the hill.

It’s by the same artist.

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
  7. Rock and Roll Heaven - the Righteous Brothers
  8. Only Wanna Be with You - Hootie and the Blowfish
  9. Frank Sinatra - Cake

“While Frank Sinatra sings ‘Stormy Weather’”

Songs Which Reference Songs by Other Artists

  1. Shangri-La - Electric Light Orchestra
  2. Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
  3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
  4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
  5. Nightshift - The Commodores
  6. Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
  7. Rock and Roll Heaven - the Righteous Brothers
  8. Only Wanna Be with You - Hootie and the Blowfish
  9. Frank Sinatra - Cake
  10. Soul Twist - Sam Cooke

Play that song called “Soul Twist”
Play that one called “I Know”
Don’t forget the “Mashed Potatoes”
No other songs will do

Songs with Ghosts

  1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway

Now through the Tower of London large as life
The ghost of Anne Boleyn walks we declare…

Songs with Ghosts

  1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
  2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare

Songs with Ghosts

  1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
  2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
  3. Haunted - The Pogues