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Post by jdelachjr2002 on May 12, 2014 7:51:42 GMT -5
New Kids on the Block probably hold the record for this, since in their Top 10 song, "Tonight", they name their first four Top 10 hits. In the first verse. Remember when we said GIRL, PLEASE DON'T GO (Please Don't Go Girl) And how I'D (I'll) BE LOVING YOU FOREVER Taught you 'bout HANGIN' TOUGH As long as you got THE RIGHT STUFF
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Post by woolebull on May 12, 2014 11:32:40 GMT -5
New Kids on the Block probably hold the record for this, since in their Top 10 song, "Tonight", they name their first four Top 10 hits. In the first verse. Remember when we said GIRL, PLEASE DON'T GO (Please Don't Go Girl) And how I'D (I'll) BE LOVING YOU FOREVER Taught you 'bout HANGIN' TOUGH As long as you got THE RIGHT STUFF Thanks for taking us through that, "Step By Step"! There is a word missing here or there, but that's a pretty solid lineup of self promotion right there.
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Post by johnnywest on May 12, 2014 20:31:02 GMT -5
Usher sings "Yeah" in his song "More."
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Post by mstgator on May 16, 2014 22:05:53 GMT -5
New Kids on the Block probably hold the record for this, since in their Top 10 song, "Tonight", they name their first four Top 10 hits. In the first verse. Remember when we said GIRL, PLEASE DON'T GO (Please Don't Go Girl) And how I'D (I'll) BE LOVING YOU FOREVER Taught you 'bout HANGIN' TOUGH As long as you got THE RIGHT STUFF Followed by "DIDN'T WE girl" (which certainly refers to "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)").
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 19, 2014 14:35:41 GMT -5
Ed Sheeran mentions "We Found Love" in "Sing."
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 8, 2015 17:36:48 GMT -5
I'm The One by Roberta Flack just missed the top 40. In it she mentions her prior hit Making Love.
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Post by frente on Mar 8, 2015 19:15:21 GMT -5
En Vogue's What is love starts with the girls singing their first hit, Hold on.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 8, 2015 19:22:04 GMT -5
Nice pic of the Triplets but I like the pic of them at the R&R chart date site. Because it is a closeup. Listening to the 3/9/91 CT40 right now which is 3 weeks before they debut.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 8, 2015 21:53:17 GMT -5
I'll include a awful current hit as Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin" mentions her even worse debut song "All About That Bass" Prediction these will be her only Top 40 hits & in a year or two she will be forgotten.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 20, 2015 10:35:30 GMT -5
I just heard Rufus Thomas' "The Breakdown" (in the 9/18/71 AT40), which refers to his previous hits "Do the Funky Chicken" and "Do the Push and Pull". He may not have exactly repeated the wording of the titles of the previous hits, but it was obvious he was referencing them.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 12, 2015 17:38:10 GMT -5
Stevie Nicks Edge of 17 mentions her future top 40 Nightbird.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 14, 2016 12:30:33 GMT -5
If we can include sequel songs, there is "The Other Woman" and "Bad Boy" by Ray Parker Jr. Speaking of RPJ, A Woman Needs Love refers to his earlier hit: "by the time poor Jack returned up the hill, somebody else had been loving Jill."
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 14, 2016 18:09:52 GMT -5
Not necessarily related, but in "Yesterday Once More", Carpenters have "Sing" in a few places like: -Waitin' for my favorite songs when they played I'd sing along -It was songs of love that I would sing to then In "We're All Alone", Rita Coolidge mentions: And "you" can be with me ("You" being her later #25 hit) (as well as few other places like in "All Time High") I'm sure there are plenty other one-word more generic song titles elsewhere; they might come around to me in time. Janet Jackson and Bread had "If". Michael Jackson had "Bad" and "Jam". Annie Lennox had "Why". The Bee Gees, U2, Metallica, and Three Dog Night had "One". Heart had "Never". Just to name a few.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 14, 2016 22:56:20 GMT -5
Samantha Fox's "I Wanna Have Some Fun" mentions "Naughty Girls Need Love Too".
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Post by giannirubino on Jan 15, 2016 20:27:38 GMT -5
I have to double check in case someone already posted this obvious bit: Madonna's "Deeper & Deeper" stole lyrically from "Vogue."
At the end of D&D she sings: You got to just let your body move to the music, you got to just let your body go with the flow.
That's a bit of a morph, but it's quite referential to the chorus of Vogue: C'mon, vogue, let your body move to the music, hey, hey, hey c'mon, vogue, let your body go with the flow, you know you can do it.
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