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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 25, 2013 15:58:27 GMT -5
I thought I'd start this thread for fun.
What songs that were on AT40 mentioned other song titles (Hot 100) in the lyrics?
Here are some examples:
"Hold Me Now" by Thompson Twins mentions "New Song", a song by Howard Jones. Incidentally, "Hold Me Now" and "New Song" were played back-to-back on AT40 and both debuted on February 25, 1984.
"Thanks For My Child" by Cheryl "Pepsii" Reilly from around Christmas 1988 featured "Papa was a Rolling Stone", a Temptations hit, in the lyrics, if I recall.
"Solid" by Ashford & Simpson mentioned the title of a future Buster Poindexter chart hit "Hot Hot Hot" (the word "Hot" was mentioned so many times in a row intermittently, if I recall).
Any other examples anyone can think of?
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 25, 2013 16:29:59 GMT -5
The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" (featured on the first AT40 shows in 1970) mentions "Eve of Destruction", a former #1 (1965) by Barry McGuire; also, "The Beat Goes On", a former top 10 (1967) for Sonny & Cher.  |
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Post by kchkwong on Jan 25, 2013 20:36:32 GMT -5
With song titles like "You", "If", "Somebody", "Why", "I Love You", etc, I believe almost all songs (if not all, except instrumentals) mention other song titles in lyrics.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 26, 2013 20:30:18 GMT -5
In "Make Me Lose Control", Eric Carmen mentions the song "Stand By Me".
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Post by saltrek on Jan 27, 2013 19:38:07 GMT -5
Yes he does (great song, btw) and he also mentions "Uptown", "Be My Baby", and "Back In My Arms Again".
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Post by woolebull on Jan 27, 2013 20:37:01 GMT -5
It's not an AT 40 song, but it was a top 10 hit on CT 40...in "Do The Bartman" Bart Simpson references "Bad" by Michael Jackson" and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 27, 2013 20:45:49 GMT -5
In "Funky Cold Medina", Tone Loc says "like Mick Jagger said I can't get no satisfaction".
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jan 27, 2013 23:17:36 GMT -5
Stevie Wonder's "That Girl" debuting on the 1/30/82 show contains the line "her emotional rescue love that you leave torn apart."
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Post by woolebull on Jan 28, 2013 0:04:46 GMT -5
The Beastie Boys mentioned "Ooh Child" in "Intergalactic".
Marc Cohn, "Put on his blue suede shoes and boarded a plane" in "Walking In Memphis".
LFO mentions New Edition's "Candy Girl" in "Summer Girls".
Rick Springfield drops, "Born To Run" in "Bruce".
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Post by vto66 on Jan 28, 2013 0:17:04 GMT -5
Freddie Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" mentions "I'll Be There."
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Post by woolebull on Jan 28, 2013 0:38:09 GMT -5
Probably the record holder of Top 40 song titles in a song goes to Dickie Goodman. In "Mr. Jaws" you had "Dynomite" - Bazuka "Please, Mr. Please" - Olivia Newton-John "How Sweet It Is" - James Taylor "Why Can't We Be Friends" - War "Get Down Tonight" - KC and the Sunshine Band "The Hustle" - Van McCoy "One Of These Nights" - The Eagles "Jive Talkin" - Bee Gees And in "Energy Crisis '74" you had: Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) by Helen Reddy Smokin' In the Boys Room by Brownsville Station Living for the City by Stevie Wonder Helen Wheels by Paul McCartney and Wings Mind Games by John Lennon The Joker by Steve Miller Band Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren Top of the World by The Carpenters At least, I think those were all the titles...I might have missed one or two |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 28, 2013 14:51:45 GMT -5
LFO mentions New Edition's "Candy Girl" in "Summer Girls" And also Kenny Loggins' "Footloose". |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 31, 2013 7:17:41 GMT -5
Also, Billy Joel's "Only The Good Die Young", a then-controversial song peaking at #24 in 1977, mentions a current song title by Ke$ha called "Die Young".
"Night Fever" by The Bee Gees mentioned the title of a song by the Canadian band The Stampeders called "Sweet City Woman". It also mentioned a title of a song by Air Supply called "Here I Am", plus David Naughton's "Makin' It" and Creed's "Higher". I was very surprised to learn that The Stampeders had a top ten hit in the U.S.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 1, 2013 18:07:08 GMT -5
"Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leppard mentions at the very beginning of the version heard on AT40, "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith (original 70s version or 1986 remake with Run DMC):
"Step Aside, Walk This Way..."
It also mentions "Peaches" by Presidents of the United States of America, which was heard on CT40 sometime between Christmas 1995 and early 1996:
"You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine"
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Also, Kool & The Gang's "Stone Love" from 1987 and Mis-Teeq's "Scandalous" from Ryan Seacrest era 2004 both mention "Solid" by Ashford & Simpson:
From "Stone Love":
"Stone Love... solid as a rock"
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Post by jmack19 on Feb 3, 2013 2:08:03 GMT -5
Some of the songs referred to in lyrics in Reunion - Life Is a Rock:
Take It Easy
Loco-Motion
Satisfaction
Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop
CC Rider
Good Vibrations
Help Me Rhonda
Surfer Girl
Sugar, Sugar
Yummy Yummy Yummy
Some of the songs referred to in lyrics in Def Leppard - Rocket:
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Rocket Man
Bennie and the Jets
Jet
Johnny B. Goode
Space Oddity
Killer Queen
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