# Tribute songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677 "2006-11-16T14:18:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677/41 "2006-11-17T16:33:44Z")

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[QUOTE=BubbaDog]  
Maybe I should have read the OP a little closer and actually found a tribute to a **musician**! :smack:  
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> [@Me](#):
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> So I started trying to think of other songs that were written as tributes to other fallen musicians ( **or to anyone who had died, for that matter** ).

Nope, you’re good. 🙂

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677/42 "2006-11-17T17:53:27Z")

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Oh, well then, “Biko” by Peter Gabriel.

Joan Baez - “The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti”

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**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677/43 "2006-11-17T18:20:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Asimovian]  
Nope, you’re good. 🙂  
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Maybe I should have read the OP a little closer andthen _not_ lambasted myself in my previous post! :smack:

😃

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**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677/44 "2006-11-17T18:33:27Z")

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This one is somewhat fuzzy but in the song **Woke up this Morning** (The Sopranos theme song) by **A3** ([Lyrics](http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/46276/A3/Woke_Up_This_Morning)) the prologue refers to the song’s central character reflecting on his mortality and his love for the music of Charles Mingus, J.R. Monterose, Jackie Mclean, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-songs/380677/45 "2006-11-17T18:36:20Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally Posted by Me  
> So I started trying to think of other songs that were written as tributes to other fallen musicians (or to anyone who had died, for that matter).
> 
> Nope, you’re good.

Well in that case:  
_People Who Died_ Jim Carroll Band 🙂

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