Songs That Mention Another Musician or Another Musician's Song (song lyrics, funk, Beatles)

[Stroller]

The fist song I thought of was Reunion's "Life is a Rock (but the Radio Rolled me)".

That song was known for trying to figure out all of the names.

[Thursday007]

Tom Petty - Free Fallin' - YouTube
Mentions Elvis

SIDE NOTE: Before it happens these are songs that actually say the name of an artist or song and not songs about other people unless they are mentioned by name.

[Thursday007]

Roll Over Beethoven (FULL SONG) - YouTube

[WhistlerMCMLV]

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, "Beatle Bones & Smokin' Stones"


Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "The Intro and the Outro" (namechecking themselves, Count Basie, Eric Clapton, Liberace, Roy Rogers, and a host of others in and out of music)


Eric Burdon and the Animals, "River Deep, Mountain High" (he namechecks Tina Turner---who cut the song a few years earlier with Phil Spector---and Aretha Franklin)


Arthur Conley, "Sweet Soul Music" (he namechecks just about all the soul heavies of the time, including his mentor Otis Redding . . . )


The Electric Flag, "Wine" (singer Nick Gravenites tossed off a salute to Janis Joplin during the coda)

[Thursday007]

Smoke on the water - YouTube

Mentions Frank Zappa

[artemis agrotera]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication [Official Music Video] - YouTube

mentioning Kurt Cobain
"And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZRULqGkvKk

"A lot of parents like to think I'm a villain
I'm just chillin' like Bob Dylan"

[rogead]

Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven (1956) - YouTube




R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World - YouTube




Billy Bragg - I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night - YouTube

[soupson1]

Rock and Roll Heaven by The Righteous Brothers - YouTube

[artemis agrotera]

Like Dylan In The Movies - Belle & Sebastian - YouTube

[SRK1]

the animals - bo diddley - YouTube