okay, this could be a fun one. How many songs can we name that are about music itself?

Here's a couple:
War--They can't take away our music
Stevie Wonder--Sir Duke

"Roll Over Beethoven" - Chuck Berry/The Beatles/Electric Light Orchestra, etc.
"Rock and Roll Music" - Chuck Berry/The Beatles
"I've the Music In Me" - Kiki Dee/Heart
"Long Live Rock" - The Who
"I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
"It's Only Rock and Roll" - The Rolling Stones
"Rockaria!" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Rock and Roll Is King" - Electric Light Orchestra
"A Rock and Roll Fantasy" - The Kinks
"Rock and Roll Fantasy" - Bad Company
"Drift Away" - Dobie Gray ("Gimme the people who freed my soul/I wanna get lost in your rock and roll/And drift away")
"Disco Inferno" - the Trammps
"The Hustle" - Van McCoy
"The Twist" - Hank Ballard/Chubby Checkers
"Dr. Music" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Cities On Flames (With Rock and Roll)" - Blue Oyster Cult
"The Marshall Plan" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Listen to the Music" - The Doobie Brothers
"On the Road Again" - Willie Nelson

(Somebody shut him up! Please!)

"Magic Power" - Triumph

Oh man. That was my High School class' song! I love it.

A few more:

"Killing Me Softly" - Roberta Flack
"Music Man" - Kenny Rogers
"The Guitar Man" - Bread
"Slow Dancin' (Swayin' to the Music)" - Johnny Rivers
"Gold" - John Stewart ("People out there are turnin' music into gold.")
"Superstar" - The Carpenters/Sonic Youth
"W-O-L-D" - Harry Chapin
"Pilot of the Airwaves" - Charlie Dore
"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" - Reunion

Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension
Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash
Sing a Song - Earth, Wind and Fire
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Rock 'n Roll Baby - The Stylistics

On the Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook
(well, this one is close)

... and how about that song titled Video Killed the Radio Star?

Video Killed the Radio Star was done by The Buggles. I have the CD.

"Piano Man" - Billy Joel

"The Entertainer" - Billy Joel

"She Bangs The Drums" - The Stone Roses (???)
"Song For Whoever" - The Beautiful South
"One Last Love Song" - The Beautiful South

and "American Pie" by Don McLean (according to the most popular interpretations, anyway).

Does "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)" by Starship count?

Rock 'n' Roll Heaven(?) by the Righteous Brothers

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by The Andrews Sisters and Bette Midler (well, the boy blows his bugle, by golly! That's gotta account for something.)


Hey, JTod? How about a board for Folk Music? Ya gots your pre-electric Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, the Seekers, The Searchers, Joan Baez, The Christy Minstrel Singers, The Irish Rovers, and many, many more that I can't think of right offhand.

Music- Madonna (Like, DUH!)
We Got the Beat- the Go-Go's
Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay- Danny and the Juniors.
Rock Around the Clock -Bill Haley and the Comets
Rock This Town- the Stray Cats
Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby- BJ Thomas
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody- Jerry Lewis (no, not Jerry Lee, or the marathon man)

"I'm Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band" - Moody Blues
"Rock And Roll Band" - Boston
"Can You Hear The Music" - Rolling Stones
"Rock And Roll" - Led Zeppelin
"Rock And Roll Dream" - Asia
"Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" - AC/DC
"Who's Gonna Sing My Rock And Roll Song" - Looking Glass
"Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo" - Rick Derringer
"Rock And Roll Soul" - Grand Funk Railroad
"Life Is A Long Song", "Minstrel In The Gallery", "Songs From The Wood" - Jethro Tull

And I can't believe no one has said:

"I Love Rock And Roll" - Joan Jett

And did anyone mention "Rock and Roll (part 2)" by Gary Glitter?
(And was there ever a part 1?)
"Rock and Roll Star" - Oasis

How about U Can't Touch This by M.C. Hammer ...

Here's a few I thought of:

"Raised On Radio" - The Ravyns (From the movie Fast Times At Ridgmont High)
"A.M. Radio" - Everclear ("I like pop/I like soul/I like rock/But I never liked disco.")
"Music Man" - Kenny Rogers
"Rubberband Man" - The Spinners
"Dazz" - Brick.
"Get Into Reggae, Cowboy" - The Bellamy Brothers
"Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock" - Funkadelic (I've probably got the title wrong.)
And of course, Wild Cherry's immortal "Play That Funky Music" "white boy."

Oh yeah. "Turn Up the Radio" by Autograph.

The Little River Band's "Reminscing" might count, also. (I just got a copy of their first album today.)

I've always liked the following for tongue-in-cheek bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you lyrics:

radio, radio - elvis costello
radio song - r.e.m.
radio ga-ga - queen
do do do da da da - the police

but for sheer mushiness:

radio - the corrs

hehehehe.

Here's one I've forgotten to mention earlier - "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" by Ozzy Osbourne. Definitely my favorite Ozzy song.

To move it away from rock:
76 TROMBONES (from "The Music Man")
THE SONG IS YOU (by Kern & Hammerstein, from a show called, i think, "Music in the Air")
I HEAR MUSIC (old standard recorded by everyone from Holiday to Como)
MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC
THE MUSIC GOES 'ROUND
BOLERO AT THE SAVOY
I HEAR A SYMPHONY
TENEMENT SYMPHONY
MUSIC, MAESTRO, PLEASE
YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC
I LOVE A PIANO
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART

"Black Water" -- The Doobie Brother

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand

And how could I forget:
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
THE SWEETEST SOUNDS
SHALL WE DANCE?
JITTERBUG WALTZ
LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE
I FEEL A SONG COMING ON
I GOT RHYTHM
WHEREVER THERE'S MUSIC

I'll just keep pitching:
ALL DAY MUSIC
RUSSIAN LULLABY
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (it's that time of year)
SWING, BROTHER, SWING
FASCINATING RHYTHM
SONG OF INDIA

Was listening to Chicago Transit Authority this morning and realized that the first song on the album, Introduction is about music. (obviously)