Transition songs?

Cafe Society
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I don’t know if that is the correct name but I mean when one song transitions into a second so they should really be considered as one. A few examples:
We will rock you/We are the champions - Queen
The Load Out/Stay - Jackson Brown
Feeling that Way/Anytime - Journey
This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to glide - The Kings
the medley on side two of Abbey Road

When you look at them on the CD or iTunes they show as separate songs.

Anyone know what these kinds of songs are called? Also, any other examples?

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Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd

ETA and Speak To Me/Breathe

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[ul][li]Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band / With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles[/li][li]Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / A Day In The Life - The Beatles[/li][li]The Happiest Days Of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd[/ul][/li]
iTunes gives you the option to combine the two into one track.

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Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid.

The Fifth Dimension’s Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.

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Is the Jackson Browne combo 1 8 minute song when performed live?

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Alice Cooper - Second Coming into Ballad of Dwight Frye. There are more but I’ll leave 'em for Faithfool!

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Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fanfare-Fire Poem/ Fire
Pure Prairie League - Falling In and Out of Love With You/Amie

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I’ve only heard the live recording. Thanks for the other ones. I love these kinds of songs. Any others?

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Do you like Broadway Counterpoint? Specifically Meredith Willson. Broadway '57.

“Pick A Little” and “Good Night Ladies”
“Lida Rose” and “Will I Ever Tell You”,
“Seventy-six Trombones” and “Goodnight, My Someone”

The last pair aren’t counterpoint: they are two songs, same melody, different tempo.

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Sirius/Eye in the Sky: Alan Parsons Project

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“Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”– Elton John

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Genesis: Cinema show/Aisle of plenty.

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“Lights/Stay Awhile” - Journey

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Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye.

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Roxy Music - If there is something (in movie: Flashbacks of a Fool)

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I think Midnight Oil (probably other bands, but they came to mind) used to record entire albums like that back in the 1980’s. The breaks were downplayed in favor of a sense of continuation.

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Chicago’s Hard to Say I’m Sorry/Get Away.

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Green Day - Brain Stew/Jaded

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Night Flight to Venus/Rasputin by Boney M.

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No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature by the Guess Who. As to what this type of “transition song” is called, Burton Cummings once told an audience; "“Randy Bachman and I each had written a song, and for some strange reason we decided to transwash the two together”.
Interesting word, transwash. I believe this is the first time I’ve run into it.