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Songs in which a singer mentions another singer by name

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clandestino

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Following on from the other thread...

Songs in which a singer mentions another singer by name:

Jonathan Jonathan by The Rockingbirds
Me And Robert Forster by The Becketts
Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley

Spotlight on Lou Rawls y'all
Ah don't he look tall y'all
Singin' loves a hurtin' thing now
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Sam and Dave now
Ah don't they look boss y'all
Singin' hold on I'm comin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Wilson Pickett
That wicked picket Pickett
Singin Mustang Sally
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Otis Redding now
Singing fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on James Brown now
He's the king of them all, yeah
He's the king of them all, yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
 
"I think he knew where I was going because he put Ryan Adams on, I think he thinks it makes me weak but it only ever makes me strong"

Laura Marling
New Romantic
 
I was thinking of starting the same thread myself, with yer Rockingbirds song too... :D:cool:

I'm going to attempt to put a foot in both threads with this one I've already posted:

"Sebastian and Zol formed the Spoonful
Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire
In L.A., you know where that's at
And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass"

(The Mamas & Papas, The Lovin' Spoonful, and The Byrds!)
 
Without me

go tit for tat with anybody who's talking this and that shit
Chris Kirkpatrick, you can get your ass kicked
Worse than them little Limp Bizkit bastards
And Moby, you can get stomped by Obie
You 36 year old bald headed fag blow me
You don't know me, you're too old
Let it go its over, nobody listens to techno
Now lets go, just give me the signal
I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults
I've been dope, suspenseful with a pencil
Ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol
But sometimes man it just seems
Everybody only wants to dis-cuss me
So this must mean I'm dis-gusting
But it's just me I'm just obscene
Though I'm not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do Black Music so selfishly
And use it to get myself wealthy
"Hey" there's a concept that works
20 million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It will be so empty without me..
 
The Fall ~ I Am Damo Suzuki

(-It's an obvious one, but my mind's on the cooking at the mo'...:oops::))
 
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
 
Sunspots said:
"Sebastian and Zol formed the Spoonful
Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire
In L.A., you know where that's at
And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass"

(The Mamas & Papas, The Lovin' Spoonful, and The Byrds!)
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That's a cracking example :D
 
I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
Hash bars cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras
Dreaming of Maria Callas
Whoever she is

R.E.M. - E-bow the Letter
 
There is a David Bowie song which mentions/is about Bob Dylan but I can't remeber it's name !

edit

It's called "song for Bob Dylan" apparently
 
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing - Marlene on the wall

Marlene on the wall - Suzanne Vega
 
Tanya Stephens, 'Way Back'

I wanna take you way back to when a girl on a mike’s worth
Wasn’t determined by the length of her skirt
I mean way back to creativity, before MTV before BET
I mean way back before recycling shit, when the props that you got was for Your writing and shit.
Let’s rewind before the hype when you used to be low key
To be a singer you had to actually know key
I mean way back to before people made a job
Of seeing who’s best at impersonating Bob
I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line
To get one good song didn’t cost sixteen ninety nine
To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff
And if it wasn’t good disc jockeys didn’t play stuff
I mean way way, Marvin Gaye way back, and I pray that you will.
 
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs tears run down his face

Levi Stubbs - Billy Bragg
 
"Then someone sat me down last night, and I heard
Caruso sing. He's almost as good as Presley, ..."

The Night I heard Caruso Sing - Everything but the Girl.

(Two for the price of one)
 
ivebeenhigh said:
are we allowed bands?

if so

CSS - Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
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I though Death from Above was a label?


Genius of Love:

I'm in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley
Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.

Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown

Wood Beez (Pray like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti
 
Dirty Martini said:
Tanya Stephens, 'Way Back'

I wanna take you way back to when a girl on a mike’s worth
Wasn’t determined by the length of her skirt
I mean way back to creativity, before MTV before BET
I mean way back before recycling shit, when the props that you got was for Your writing and shit.
Let’s rewind before the hype when you used to be low key
To be a singer you had to actually know key
I mean way back to before people made a job
Of seeing who’s best at impersonating Bob
I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line
To get one good song didn’t cost sixteen ninety nine
To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff
And if it wasn’t good disc jockeys didn’t play stuff
I mean way way, Marvin Gaye way back, and I pray that you will.
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such a gorgeous song
 
must... get... a... life...

"-I hate the guts of Shakin' Stevens
For what he has done
The massacre of 'Blue Christmas'
On him I'd like to land one on..." :D
(Ludd Gang)

"-There's a D.H.S.S.S. Volvo estate
Right outside my door
With a Moody Blues cassette on the dashboard..."
(Room To Live)

"-I'm proud of the way I've avoided prison
If we carry on like this
We're gonna end up like
King Crimson"
(Words Of Expectation)

"-I used to have this thing about Link Wray
I used to play him every Saturday..."
(Neighbourhood Of Infinity)

"-He spits in the sky
It falls in his eye
And then he gets to sitting
Talking to his kitten
Talking about Frankie Lymon"
(No Xmas For John Quays)

"-Say have you ever have a chance to meet
Fat Captain Beefheart imitators with zits?"
(Deer Park)

"-The Kevin Ayers scene
South of France
Plush velvet
Aback! Aback!"
(Eat Y'Self Fitter)

"The Eastern Bloc rocks
To Elton John."
(Just Step S'Ways)

"-A poor mate for Cary Grant
Slaughterer of innocents
Add on 30 years
And you've got Jake Burns
(Joe Strummer)"
(Cary Grant's Wedding)

"-Walked, at shoulder, down the street, ridicule
They couldn't tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule"
(Shoulder Pads #1B)

(-Probably just as easy if you do a HMHB ten! :hmm:;))
 
A phonebox rendezvous, don't whisper a word
Half a million by Monday
Or Roger Waters gets it
My little baby, they cut off his ear
Half a million by Tuesday, then
Don't whisper a word
Shhh

Chumbawamba, Pop Star Kidnap
 
"The punk-ass hook, in the oven I'll cook
Dig the grave for the one who got played
Now he's under, don't make Stevie Wonder why
Cause he'll testify"

Cypress Hill - I Aint Goin Out LikeThat
 
Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along.
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn,
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.:cool:
 
I'm out here a thousand miles from my home,
Walkin' a road other men have gone down.
I'm seein' your world of people and things,
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along.
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn,
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things that I'm a-sayin' an' a-many times more.
I'm a-singin' you the song, but I can't sing enough,
'Cause there's not many men that done the things that you've done.

Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Leadbelly too,
An' to all the good people that traveled with you.
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.

I'm a-leaving' tomorrow, but I could leave today,
Somewhere down the road someday.
The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too.

Bob Dylan, Song for Woody

Edit: blimey, there's a coincidence
 
"Maybe I should take the mike
stand up tall like Michael Stipe
and try to solve the problems of the earth"

Maybe - Wonderstuff
 
Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
Just dont be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion mag shoots
With the aid of 8 dust brothers Beck, Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in!
 
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