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Short Fat Fannie
Larry Williams


I was slippin and slidin with a long tall Sally
Peekin' and a hidin',duck back in the alley
Don't wanna rip it up,don't wanna dance with Annie
(Long Tall Sally and Rip It Up by Little Richard, Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard &the Midnighters)
I've got a brand new lover name is Short Fat Fannie

One day while I was visit'n at HeartBreak Hotel
(Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley)
Thats where I met Fannie and she sure looked swell
I told her that I loved her and I'd never leave
She put her arms around me, gave me fever
(Fever by Peggy Lee)

She's my tutti frutti,I love the child so
(Tutti Frutti by Little Richard)
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
(Hound Dog by Elvis Presley)
Whenever I'm around her I'm on my p's and q's
She might step on my blue suede shoes
(Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley)

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
At the club I was dancin with Mary Lou
(Mary Lou by Ronnie Hawkins)
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue
(Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker)

Short Fat Fannie she's my hearts desire
Short Fat Fannie sets my soul on fire
On Monday we were married on Blueberry Hill
(Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino)
Now we're so happy and I love her still

Splish Splash
Bobby Darin

There was Lollipop with-a Peggy Sue
(My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small, Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly and the Crickets)
Good Golly, Miss Molly was-a even there, too!
Good Golly, Miss Molly by Little Richard)

Barbara Ann
The Beach Boys

Tried Mary Lou
(Mary Lou by Ronnie Hawkins)
Tried Peggy Sue
(Buddy Holly and the Crickets)
Tried Betty Lou
(Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes by Bobby Freeman)

Also thanks to ScottN on the browser info. I use Netscape but wasn't aware of how to do it in IE.

Yes, thanks ScottN. Your info was very helpful.

No sweat, d00dZ! Just your friendly neighborhood 1337 h4xx0R at your service!

This is one of those little known bands (however Benn and I know them well) ... the band is The Refreshments and the song that refers to one of THEIR OWN songs is from their album titled The Bottle & Fresh Horses. The song on that album is Fonder and Blonder. The specific lyrics are:
Cars break down and people break down
And other things break down too.
This lyric was exactly duplicated from their earlier album/song titled Down Together.

Hey, Derf, suggestion:

Why not create sub-folders for topics with more than one board? NitCent is divided up like this; lemme show ya what I mean:

these, of course, being 'folders' like you have on your computer
NC Tree:

Music
--Music
---Music Catch-Basin
----Name Songs Containing...
-----each board

Basically, the same way TV shows/seasons/episodes are done on here.

Please? It would be soo much easier to read through this board.

I'll go through the Music board topics and come up with a structure that will be better than the way it is laid out now. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sure--thanks a million!

I think I disqualified the Rutles before because just about every one of their songs refers to a Beatles song, but I remembered their "Unfinished Words" refers to their own "Cheese and Onions."

John Lennon's "Going Down On Love" contains the line "Somebody please, please help", a reference to his Beatles composition "Help!" On "The White Album", George's "Savoy Truffles" mentions "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".

The Who's "5:15" has the line "Quiet stormwaters/My generation." "My generation" is sung with the same stutter as in the Who song of the same name.

n.p. - The Ultimate Collection - The Who

You were telling me alll 'bout that CD, Benn. I saw it at Barnes & Noble, and grabbed it!

Good to see a fellow Who fan.

This "Ultimate Collection" is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for a few years back - I ended up buying the boxed set instead.

In the Police's "O My God" a lyric from "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is sung as the song fades out.

One of my favourite songs-about-other-songs is Ricky Nelson's Garden Party (lyrics from the official website):

I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same

CHORUS
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself

People came from miles around, everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus, there was magic in the air
'n' over in the corner, much to my surprise
Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise

CHORUS

lott-in-dah-dah-dah, lot-in-dah-dah-dah

Played them all the old songs, thought that's why they came
No one heard the music, we didn't look the same
I said hello to "Mary Lou", she belongs to me
When I sang a song about a honky-tonk, it was time to leave

CHORUS

lot-dah-dah-dah (lot-dah-dah-dah)
lot-in-dah-dah-dah

Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode
Playing guitar like a-ringin' a bell and lookin' like he should
If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck

CHORUS

lot-dah-dah-dah (lot-dah-dah-dah)
lot-in-dah-dah-dah

'n' it's all right now, learned my lesson well
You see, ya can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

The Who's boxed set, Maximum R&B 30 Years of the Who is a good set. The only problem way too many tracks are remixed. The worst of it is that "The Relay" is a remixed version. That means that unless you can find Hooligans on CD. (I've seen one out of the two discs used of it at a Wherehouse Music, so it does exist somewhere out there.) As a matter of fact, I'd prefer that "The Relay" was on The Ultimate Collection instead of "Call Me Lightning".

According to an interview I've read with Roger Daltrey, The Who are going into the studio this fall to begin work on a new album. I've got my fingers crossed.

n.p. - St. Cecilia, The Elektra Recordings - Stalk-Forrest Group.

Genesis' rock opera The Lamb Lies Down . . . ends with them singing the chorus to the Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock And Roll".

"It's My Life", Bon Jovi. References "My Way", Frank Sinatra.

My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

"Take Me Home Tonight (Be My Little Baby)", Eddie Money with Ronnie Spector. Refs Spector's earlier song "Be My Baby."

Take me home tonight
Listen honey
Just like Ronnie sang
Be my little baby.

It seems that every album Pink Floyd did since The Wall makes some sort of reference to it.

And "Dirty Deeds," AC/DC, says "TNT...":p

The BoDeans' "You Don't Get Much" contains the line "'Tears of a Clown'/Hey that's me." A reference, of course, to the Smokey Robinson and the Miracles classic.

"Amish Paradise", 'Weird Al' Yankovic. References "1999", Prince.

And if I finish all of my chores
and you finish thine,
then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699.

Rosalind Chao is of Chinese descent, by the way.

Oh I don't believe this. I had two windows open and posted the above message in entirely the wrong thread! Very very sorry everyone!

I'm surprised no one mentioned this one yet:

"Extra Ordinary" by Better Than Ezra

Just like that old AC/DC song,
c'mon, baby, shake me all night long.

and

Just like that Barenekid Ladies song,
I'm hot like wasabe when I'm next to your body.

A friend of mine pointed this one out to me: Warren Zevon's "Play It All Night Long" - ('Sweet Home Alabama'/Play that dead band's song." A bit macabre, admittedly.

Lou Reed's "Teach the Gifted Children" quotes Al Green's "Take Me to the River". ("Take me to the river/Push me in the water.")

Meanwhile Blondie's Parallel Lines album has a song called "Fade Away and Radiate". On their next album, Eat to the Beat, they had their hit song "Dreaming". On it you can hear Debbie Harry sing, "Staring at the nightlife/I'll fade away/Radiate. Maybe a coincidence, though.

Right.

n.p. - Between Thought and expression - Lou Reed

Bob Dylan's "Sara" references "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"

Kinks' "Paranoia" references Lola

and Steppenwolf does "Berry Rides Again" that notes many of Chuck's tunes.

George Harrison's "When We Was Fab" contains "It's all over now, baby blue" (Dylan tune).

Can't remember if this was ever mentioned, but in The Traveling Wilburys' "End of the Line", Tom Petty sings, "Maybe somewhere down the road a ways/When somebody plays/"Purple Haze'."

n.p. - Shade Tree Blues - Billy Lee Riley

Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet" contains the lines, "He's underneath the window/She's singing, 'Hey la, my boyfriend's back'." Guess what Chiffons song that refers to?

Suprised no one's mentioned this, unless of course they did, but Yes' "Seen All Good People" contains the chorus of Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance."

Not only that, but towards the end of David Bowie's "Young Americans" there's a cheeky reference to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life". (Not absolutely a precise homage, but still...)

The Who's The Punk and the Godfather has the line

I'm the punk with the stutter
M-M-My Generation

The intro to The The's Armageddon Days has the same drum beat and similar opening to Sweet's Ballroom Blitz. "Are you ready", etc.

Rush's The Spirit of Radio refers to Simon & Garfunkel's Sound of Silence

For the words of the prophets were written on the studio wall,
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen

Cheech and Chong's last hurrah was a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born In the U.S.A." called "Born In East L.A." The song ends with the names of various L.A. streets being called out. After each street, you hear a group of people shout, "We love it!" That's, of course, a reference to Randy Newman's classic, "I Love L.A."

But "Born In East L.A." contains another song reference: At one point in the song, Cheech sings, "Now I know what it's like to be born to run." "Born to Run" was Bruce Springsteen's break out hit.

np - Ride the Lightning - Metallica

Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages" starts with a tribute to Neil Young's "Out of the Blue".

"It's better to burn out than to fade away".

Gunte Glieben Glauben Globen!

"Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier" - Manic Street Preachers: several derogatory references to The King, including:
American Trilogy in Lancashire pottery
Is so f***ing funny, don't you know

I've never noticed this before. I'm listening to the Who's Quadrophenis. On disc 2 is a song called "Sea and Sand". At the end of the song, you can hear Roger Daltrey sing "I'm the Face if you want it." That line is from a song called "I'm the Face" which the Who recorded as the High Numbers.

Back In the USSR by The Beatles makes indirect references to The Beach Boys' California Girls (Well those Ukraine girls really knock me out....) and to Georgia On My Mind (Moscow girls make me scream and shout that Georgia's always on my mind...}

Can't remember: did anyone mention the mentionof "Lucy in the Sky" in Pink Floyd's "Let There Be More Light"?

np - If Your're Feeling Sinister Belle And Sebastian

I don't know if this one has been mentioned yet or not. But in listening to Molly Hatchet's No Guts...No Glory CD, I noticed this line from the song, "Fall of the Peacemakers": "A voice from the past/Cries give peace a chance." The song is, of course, a tribute to John Lennon.

"It's all one song." - Neil Young

I'm amazed nobody mentioned the obvious.
"I hope Neil Young will remember, / A Southern Man don't need him around anyhow." It's from Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Well, if you'll check the very first post, on the very first board of this subject ("Songs That Refer to Other Songs"), you'll find that goog did mention it.

"It's all one song." - Neil Young

"Wild Frontier" - Gary Moore

Now we're riding on a sea of rage
The victims you have seen
You'll never hear them sing again
The Forty Shades Of Green

What, none of us got this one before?

"Sweet Soul Music" - Otis Redding

Spotlight on Sam and Dave, y'all!
Oh, don't they look boss, y'all!
Singing "Hold on I'm coming".
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah!

Spotlight on Wilson Picket now!
That wicked, wicked Pickett now.
Singing "Mustang Sally".

OK, this one doesn't really count, since it's not actually on the recorded version of the song, but when the Eels performed "Flyswatter" on letterman, E quoted lyrics from "Light My Fire" ("Girl, we couldn't get much higher") and "Let's Spend the Night Together" ("Let's Spend Some Time Together"); both of which were enshrined in infamy thanks to Mr. Ed Sullivan.

(and yes, I know that the real lyrics aren't "time", but you know what I mean)

Ozzy Osbourne's "Gets Me Through" refers to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man".

I`m not the kind of person
You think I am
I'm not the antichrist or
The iron man

It also pokes at those who insist that heavy metal is the work of the devil.

Another self-referential one:

"Catch the Rainbow" - Rainbow
is referenced in Dio's "Evil Eyes":
Do you ever think about
The way I caught the rainbow

(Of course, the word "Rainbow" was a trademark of Dio's lyrics.)

I'm not sure if this is a legitimate reference, but Michael Ashton's Gene Loves Jezebel (is there a legal reason why Ashton can't just call it "Gene Loves Jezebel"?) has a song called, "Loving You Is the Best Revenge". One of the lines in the song (repeated several times) is "I 'don't fear the reaper.'" I wonder if that's a reference to the classic Blue Oyster Cult song?

np - Triple X Sampler for August and September 1999 releases - various artists

"It's all the one song." - Neil Young

Right be fore the first verse of Yes' cover of The Beatles' "Every Little Thing", Steve Howe sneeks in the riff to "Day Tripper"

np - Kick Out The Jams - MC 5

This doesn't exactly refer to another song, but it is self-referential. In Van Hagar's, er Van Halen's "Sucker In a 3 Piece", there's the line, "How about a 9 on a 10 scale." Nine on a Ten Scale is the name of one of Sammy Hagar's solo albums.

np - Janis - Janis Joplin

"It's all one song." - Neil Young

>>Yes' "Seen All Good People" contains the chorus of
Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance." >>>

Actually, the piece it's part of is "Your Move," which is performed and broadcast on the radio as a prelude to "Seen All Good People." The latter song needs the help, as it's kind of a duff bit with nothing really going for it...

Not sure it's been mentioned, and not sure if it counts, but "Serve the Servants," the leadoff track from Nirvana's "In Utero" record, starts with the line "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old," which refers to their hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Sammy Hagar: On "Three Lock Box" (or is it Standing Hampton?) There's a song called "The Room," and the first line of the next song on the album ("Rise of the Animal") is "I just came out from the room."

np: "Pennyroyal Tea," Nirvana

The Who's "You'd Better You Bet" doesn't refer explicitly to a song, but does refer to T-Rex.

The Smithereens' album, 11 contains the song, "Maria Elena", a tune about Buddy Holly's "widowed bride". One of the lines in the song is "I'll remember 'True Love Ways'", which, of course, was one of Buddy Holly's hits.

np - Penitentionary Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson

"You can call me, 'Dr. Music.'" - Blue Öyster Cult

In Pink's "Gone to California", the phrase "Philadelphia Freedom" appears. Why do I keep thinking of Elton John when I hear that phrase?

still playing - Penitentiary Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson (Mea culpa, I misspelled the album's title in my previous post. Oops!)

"You can call me, 'Dr. Music.'" - Blue Öyster Cult

Benn: The Smithereens' album, 11 contains the song, "Maria Elena", a tune about Buddy Holly's "widowed bride".

There is also a Gene Pitney hit tune titled "Maria Elena" made in the '60's depicting a man about to go to war and saying goodbye to the love of his life. Perhaps there might be a common message here, eh?

"Maria Elena" is a song that pretty much details the love Buddy Holly felt for his wife, reminding her of the good times they had. (What Pat DiNizio knows about it, I'm not quite sure.) I'm not certain there's much of a connection or common message between the two cuts. I guess in a way there is.

Anyway, in looking over the lyrics for this post, I find I slightly misquoted the Smithereens song. The line in question is "I believe in true love ways." I still think it's a clear reference to the Buddy Holly tune, though.

np - Smoke, Chrome & BBQ - ZZ Top (This box set is KICK ASS! This is the second time I've played it since getting it. Soon, I'll play it yet again. I have got to get the rest of the ZZ Top catalog!)

"You can call me, 'Dr. Music.'" - Blue Öyster Cult

Bowie's Young Americans has a background vocal that goes "I read the news today oh boy". However, it's not on any official lyrics site that I could find.

Well, as the first to post here in more than a year I was just downloading and listening to many songs from the New Christy Minstrels (the Aussie folk group known for the original version of "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing", which was used for some world famous American soda pop whose name escapes me at the moment ;)), and one song of theirs, "Saturday Night" very briefly mentions another song of theirs, "Green, Green", towards the end fade out.

Of course, it's not very uncommon for singers or groups to reference their own songs, anyway.

The Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock and Roll", as a line that refers to "Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams)

Darn. Just realized my July 02, 2004 is the same reference as Sven's " By All You Need Is Sven on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 05:34 pm".

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Now if I could only remember which other song this song refers to.

Barclay James Harvest had a song called "Titles", whose lyrics consist entirely of the titles of Beatles songs cobbled together.

Does "Hotel California" refer to Frampton's "Show Me the Way"/

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way

"Love On Your Side" by the Thompson Twins refers to another one of their songs, "In The Name Of Love".

The synth sample plays the bassline of the other song. Just listen, you'll see what I mean.

Chicago's "South California Purples", from Chicago Transit Authority, has a riff that's from "I Am the Walrus".

Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" refers to "Book of Love"

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quote:

By Benn on Thursday, November 22, 2001 - 7:43 am:

"While Lenin/Lennon read a book of Marx" (Groucho?)

By ScottN on Thursday, November 22, 2001 - 10:30 am:

Sorry, Benn, it's V.I. Lenin and Karl Marx.

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Going back over this thread....

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By Benn on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 12:15 am:

Phil Ochs wrote a song called "Bound For Glory" that mentions Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land". I believe the song is about Guthrie. (Mental note: Get Woody Guthrie disc out to play.)

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In the 80s the Thompson Twins has a hit with "In The Name Of Love", and later on they referenced it in another song "Love On Your Side". The lyric went "you play all my favorite records" and then the main riff from In The Name Of Love is played via synthesizer.

I recently bought the two albums they did after leaving their longtime record label they had throughout the 80s. They're called "Big Trash" and "Queer" and they were really a departure from the sound they had done up to then. They are both out of print so I used ebay to get them.

Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" has a line in the chorus, "Singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' all summer long".

Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" mentions Roy Orbison's "For the Lonely".

Golden Earring's "Radar Love" mentions Brenda Lee's "Coming on Strong"

The bad thing is, I've always thought the lyric was "Brandon Lee's coming on strong." Which always made me wonder how they knew about Bruce's son way back then?

Queen's Bicycle Race refers to Fat Bottomed Girls. Both songs were released on the same album, Jazz.

Actually, both were a double A-side single as I recall.

You are correct Kevin!

And technically it was mentioned before, albeit on the previous page, before a second page was opened.

In fact, it's probably the only pair of songs in which each song references the other.

Ah. I missed it on the previous page. Oh well.

The Police's "Every Breath You Take" appears to be a tribute to Led Zepplin's "D'yer Mak'er".

"Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh"

ELO's "Sweet Talking Woman" appears to refer to "Telephone Line"

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quote:

I was waiting for the operator on the line

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Would that be a direct nod though? I'm not so sure....

And of course, the obvious reference, The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" starts with "Le Marseilles".

The intro to ELO's "Fire on High" has a small background segment of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus".

.38 Special's "Hold On Loosely" refers to Bad Company's "Good Lovin' Gone Bad"

You see it all around you
Good lovin' gone bad