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Post by jk on Feb 16, 2020 11:17:19 GMT
It was in fact The Dells' 1969 version of "Love Is Blue (I Can Sing A Rainbow)" that gave me the idea of a thread not for medleys as such but for combinations of just two songs originally sung by others. There are a few around. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dells
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Post by bellbottoms on Feb 16, 2020 13:56:40 GMT
I may have posted this in another thread a little while back but it deserves to be here - my favourite example of a two-for-one song. This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide by the Kings, from their 1980 album The Kings Are Here. So much fun.
"Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point of view" - love that lyric.
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Post by bellbottoms on Feb 16, 2020 14:22:08 GMT
...and I totally misread the point of this thread. I’d delete my contribution but I can’t on the grounds that it’s awesome and I love it. Sorry!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 16, 2020 14:23:06 GMT
The Beatles - Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
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Post by kds on Feb 16, 2020 22:29:25 GMT
Speaking of The Beatles would A Day in the Life count, since its a combination of separate song ideas from John and Paul?
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Post by jk on Feb 16, 2020 23:17:54 GMT
Speaking of The Beatles would A Day in the Life count, since its a combination of separate song ideas from John and Paul? Who am I to disagree?
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 16, 2020 23:37:03 GMT
How about when half the song is a new original and the other half is a cover? Okkervil River has (at least) two such songs.
"John Allyn Smith Sails," one of two songs about poet John Berryman released by bands with Minnesota ties (but not Minnesota bands) within a year of one another. Strange coincidence, there! The second half of this 2007 song goes into "Sloop John B."
"Famous Tracheotomies," from the band's 2018 album, is about exactly what it says it is. It ends as "Waterloo Sunset."
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Post by bellbottoms on Feb 17, 2020 1:37:47 GMT
How about this one?
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Post by jk on Feb 17, 2020 11:15:07 GMT
Yep. Nice one, bb. This was the next example that came immediately to mind when organizing this topic. When I first heard "Jenny Take A Ride" by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels in 1965, I just knew I had to have that 45! It combines the blues standard "See See Rider" with Little Richard's "Jenny, Jenny". I see Mitch later released (on his own) a medley of Lloyd Price's "Personality" and Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" but it hardly dented the charts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ryder
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 17, 2020 14:18:41 GMT
This one might not qualify if you consider the segments "snippets" (Dixie, The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, All My Trials) but...An American Trilogy by Elvis Presley! Thank you, thank you very much.
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Post by jk on Feb 18, 2020 10:16:56 GMT
This one might not qualify if you consider the segments "snippets" (Dixie, The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, All My Trials) but...An American Trilogy by Elvis Presley! Thank you, thank you very much.
I'm afraid I have to be strict here and say no, this doesn't qualify! The snippets are fine--it's just that there are three of them! Still, I suppose at the end of the day, threads are to be strayed from. Otherwise we could never utter those magic words, "Back to topic"! The Trashmen's preposterous "Surfin' Bird" brings together two songs--"The Bird's The Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"--by The Rivingtons, who incidentally can also be heard whooping and clapping on Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser".
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Post by jk on Feb 19, 2020 22:36:44 GMT
"Apache Dropout", The Edgar Broughton Band's inspired combination of The Shadows' "Apache" and Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie", even managed to sneak up to #33 in the UK charts in 1970. I remember it well... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Broughton_Band
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Post by jk on Feb 20, 2020 21:25:37 GMT
This is my last example for the time being. More are bound to come to light in the fullness of time. The 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" is a pairing of two songs from the musical Hair: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius/Let_the_Sunshine_In
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Post by jk on Mar 14, 2020 21:48:46 GMT
I cheated and went to Wikipedia for this one. Fact is, there can't be that many more. This is rather cool: Amii Stewart and Johnny Bristol do a mashup avant la lettre of The Temps' "My Girl" and Mary Wells' "My Guy" and take it to #63 in the US in 1980:
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Post by jk on Mar 26, 2020 22:53:40 GMT
Here's one I discovered today. The Pet Shop Boys do Frankie Valli and U2:
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