Conspicuously similar follow-ups to hit singles that became hits in their own right, but are now mostly forgotten because people only remember the first hit

Everyone remembers "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex, but did you remember their next hit was "Old Pop in an Oak", which is practically the same tune?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuJZzuHDf8

Fatboy Slim followed "Rockafeller Skank" with "Gangster Trippin":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9NwzOPHpE0

Ice MC followed "Think About the Way" with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dpA83LvmM

Their choruses even rhyme! "Think about the way, it's a rainy day..."

After they moved it, Reel 2 Real & Mad Stuntman then wanted to know if you could feel it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LBRGbpS_Bw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArOHb1dN6U

It'd be nice if you mention to what tune it's a follow-up... ("Unbelievable", right?)

unbelievable

Oops I Did It Again was pretty similar to Baby One More Time and I think its title deliberately acknowledges this.

Entire career of Modern Romance to thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKy9ulkIPgo

^^^ that's the follow-up to Kung-Fu Fighting, if anyone was wondering

I don't think it's that forgotten, but many of my friends are surprised to learn about the existence of "Together Forever" by Rick Astley. I think it's the better song!

Oops I Did It Again was pretty similar to Baby One More Time and I think its title deliberately acknowledges this.

Oops was the more famous song, wasn't it?

I was surprised to hear that Thomas Dolby had a pretty sizeable hit with "Hyperactive!" - he's kind of the definition of a one-hit wonder

Wot was the deal with Bros' 'Too Much' and 'Madly In Love' having the same vocal line at the end of the choruses? This is important

Oops was the more famous song, wasn't it?

no?

Oops was the more famous song, wasn't it?

Strangest comment I've ever read on ilx.

how about "Gonna Make You Sweat" -> "Here We Go (Let's Rock and Roll)"

great thread

Robin S - love for love

Hanson - Where's The Love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5obmgq6u0

Any song by Aqua that wasn't Barbie Girl.

Ten years from now:
PSY- Gentleman

I heard "Doctor Jones" at a bar mitzvah! Teenagers still dig it!

anyway. Maybe my memory of Britney Spears is not good but "Oops" was the one I seemed to hear referenced all the time. Also a lot catchier (imo)

Lou Bega got so much action he couldn't even remember the girls names after awhile...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYbm0_Xem0

Well maybe just "Lollipop Candyman" then.

Is "Hey You" remembered outside of Canada?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMNCqhRNOM

Did not know that Aquarium actually released 7 singles. "Roses are Red", "My Oh My", "Barbie Girl", "Candyman", "Doctor Jones", "Turn Back Time", and "Good Morning Sunshine", surprisingly NOT "Calling You" which is one of the most stupidly catchy songs ever written.

Whether or not "Oops!" was a bigger hit, I don't think people have forgotten it and only remember "Hit Me", so it doesn't fit the spirit of this thread. Other examples are OTM though... Like that Hanson song, I remember it now, but I'd totally forgotten about it before this thread! And it has pretty much the same chords as "Mmmbop", doesn't it?

Oh man, I remember five of those singles, frogbs. Would probably also recall the two other ones if I heard them. Denmark in the nineties was a bad time and place to grow up in.

The videos were all good though! I have heard a few of the Aqua "sound-alike" bands, it seems like most of them either didn't really get Aqua's sense of humor or didn't have a very good grasp of English. In particular I remember "Tarzan and Jane" which is a good example of "bad-catchy" (as opposed to Aqua who I generally like). I can't imagine how much garbage must've been flying around Denmark at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhNlE4DYO8

Hit #7 on Billboard as the follow-up to "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"

Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song

xpost - practically all the songs on that particular album (Boots) are about aggressively dumping some deadbeat guy, including gender-switched versions of the Beatles "Run For Your Life" and Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". The CD reissue spoiled it with three songs that didn't have this theme.

He's got a girl in paris, he's got a girl in rome, he's even got a girl in the vatican dome -- that made my night

The sequel to Hoots Mon - not a carbon copy but the vocal bit is a real give away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqh0tUtyQw

Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song

― ablaeser, Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty much the apotheosis of this phenomenon.

Every Everclear song I've heard

Poker Face

Follow-up to "Expressway to Your Heart." Not a huge hit (made it to #33).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vNbOntxgxU

"The Wedding Is Over" Roy C

practically all the songs on that particular album (Boots) are about aggressively dumping some deadbeat guy, including gender-switched versions of the Beatles "Run For Your Life" and Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". The CD reissue spoiled it with three songs that didn't have this theme.

Yeah. But "How Does That Grab You Darlin'" is not on Boots, it's on the follow-up album, How Does That Grab You?

Also, it's a fine example in that its arrangement is clearly made to resemble "These Boots".

Do people still remember "Original Prankster" by The Offspring?

Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song

This is the Four Tops song I hear the most often.

also lol "Poker Face"? if only people had forgotten that song

Weird, I can count the times I've heard it on the radio on one hand. Way dwarfed by "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)."

xp

Is there a thread for the related topic of "Follow-ups to hit singles that became hits in their own right, but are now mostly forgotten because they were middling ballads?" (Ie: Tiffany's Could've Been)

it may be early for this but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

Someone remind me what the follow-up to I'm Too Sexy was called

Deeply Dippy?

lol my second guess was going to be "Don't Talk, Just Kiss" and apparently I know more about Right Said Fred singles than I thought

That's the one! You're putting that graduate diploma in Richard Fairbrass studies to good use

the opposite of this is Ace Of Base -
first hit "All That She Wants" was a global smash and a UK #1
very similar sounding follow-up "The Sign" was also a hit, but reached #2 in the UK

in the U.S. the chart positions are reversed and "The Sign" was much bigger - continued Jock Jams level stadium ubiquity.
many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

further proof that Americans are weird :)

America was a weird follow-up to the UK, and now nobody remembers America.

many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

I don't think this is true; I've never seen anyone be perplexed by or forget the existence of "All That She Wants" or "Don't Turn Around"

"Don't Talk Just Kiss" is probably one of the most ridiculous songs of all time.

Wasn't exactly the followup up single (it was one full album later), but I think "I Knew I Loved You" was a deliberate attempt to copy "Truly Madly Deeply" and though they both hit #1 in the US I haven't heard "I Knew I Loved You" or heard anybody talk about it for like 10 years.

The Tamperer featuring Maya's 'If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better'

Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over" ---> "Something So Strong"

Edwin Starr followed up "War" with "Stop the War Now," which reached US Pop #26.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_3IlIHYzxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHYCP9a0W8

many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

All That She Wants was big in America. What does sports have to do with anything?

they play songs at baseball games - they play "The Sign" all the time - they never play "All That She Wants"

oh huh -- from how I remember it "I Knew I Loved You" practically engulfed every other single the band did

Everyone remembers "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex

At first blush I thought "Hey You" was outkast's follow up to ... ah, nevermind. I'll get me hat & coat...

Listening to "Dance the King-Fu" right now. It's more gloriously dire than I could ever have imagined.

even with Jock Jams ubiquity factored out I guess the Ace Of Base thing can also be explained by the sales/airplay comparison - according to Billboard "The Sign" is the #60 biggest U.S. hit of all time! who knew? (and for the decade of the nineties the two songs rank at #11 for The Sign and #70 for All That She Wants, though the latter was apparently one of the biggest #2 hits ever)

still I was initially surprised talking with Americans who only associated the band with The Sign… learning of the sports exposure helped make more sense of that. anyway, Dan you're hanging out with the rarified Kiss Me (x3) as best Cure album and Leela best companion cognoscenti !

I was under the impression that most people in North America remembered both "The Sign" and "All That She Wants" about equally. It's songs like "Don't Turn Around" that have been more forgotten.

All three of those songs were totally ubiquitous in the mid-90s

Milli Vanilli followed the #2 hit "Girl You Know It's True" with the extremely similar "Baby Don't Forget My Number" which went to #1. It seems completely forgotten now, I don't think I've ever heard it since the late 80's, but everybody knows the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyzGDPwmYU

I think the rain is to blame for that

Of Monsters And Men's follow-up to "Little Talks" sounded exactly like it to an almost infuriating degree

Here's a good example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlv672jqbtE

^ What was that a follow-up to?

Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC"/"The Love You Save." More or less. Pretty common in the '60s, just not able to think of any right now.

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, "Ju Ju Hand":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41TX4AS1Bn4

I'd never heard this song until two minutes ago. I just had this incredible premonition that it would sound a lot like "Wooly Bully."

I've got a Sam best of cd on Rhino--24 Tracks!--and there's at least a further 2-4 trips to the "Wooly Bully" well on that set (not counting "Ju Ju Hand").

This was the follow-up to "Lil' Red Riding Hood", which at least gave him and his producers something new to retread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pep_on0GTKE

Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC"/"The Love You Save."

None of these are forgotten though.

The Milli Vanilli one is an excellent example. I didn't remember that follow-up at all.

Yeah, didn't read the thread title carefully enough--the Jackson 5 don't belong.

It's interesting just to talk about similar sounding follow-up hits regardless of whether they're remembered, though. I used to think Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's hits were very similar, but I don't know anymore. They sound fairly distinct to me now.

In a way, I'm not crazy about the idea that those three Jackson Five hits are super similar. I think, "Well, it's a genre." But the first two are in the same key and there are other similarities.

yeah things like that and "You Really Got Me"/"All Day And All Of The Night" seem out of the purview of this thread just because both songs are pretty successful and revered

I'm not willing to listen to it and check but I remember thinking ''Ends'' by Everlast was essentially the same song as ''What It's Like,'' with added spacey noises. Hard to really tell the difference between ''trying to rewrite the same song'' and ''act just has limited range of abilities.''

I love both songs, but Future's "Turn On The Lights" and "Neva End" were not only released back-to-back as singles but were both originally recorded in the same night. the latter was remixed with Kelly Rowland for the single, though, so that differentiated them a little bit.

Milli Vanilli followed the #2 hit "Girl You Know It's True" with the extremely similar "Baby Don't Forget My Number" which went to #1. It seems completely forgotten now, I don't think I've ever heard it since the late 80's, but everybody knows the first one.

Is that the case? Milli Vanilli is the "don't forget my number / love is stronger than thunder" band to me, and I can't even remember how "Girl You Know It's True" goes.
OK, last.fm play stats seem to support this theory, with "Baby Don't Forget My Number" only their 4th-most-listened to track! Weird.

Every Everclear song I've heard

― brimstead, Friday, November 22, 2013 12:05 AM (2 days ago)

This is otm

"Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" is truly the forgotten Milli Vanilli chart-topper, but "True" and "Rain" have definitely remained more famous than "Baby"

What was that a follow-up to?
Vengaboys- We Like To Party

"We Like to Party" came out after "Up & Down"

Ahh, then Wikipedia lied to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvujgcbaCF8

"Hot Rod Hearts," #15 follow up to Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpk4-_ENCVw

Somewhat similar, clearly consolidating on success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWLqxUgKGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqKdZ3JZ2k

I'm sure Europeans at least remember that Haddaway had a second big hit, besides "What Is Love", with "Life". But how many of you remember he followed it with a third hit, "Rock My Heart"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdnVwqXXWU

Oops was the more famous song, wasn't it?

Strangest comment I've ever read on ilx.

ahah indeed. still is !

Would venture that the comments about Aqua and Right Said Fred are also strange.

Dire Straits, "Lady Writer". Practically a rewrite of "Sultans of Swing".

really? at this point i have basically no idea at all how 'don't talk, just kiss' went xp

Dire Straits, "Lady Writer"

Was this a hit? I've never heard of it.

it got to 28 in the netherlands tom, ffs keep up man

thanks to broken links and no descriptions, i can't tell if he's mentioned upthread, but...

chubby checker basically made his name doing this. in fact, there's surely other early rock n rollers who tried to milk the same dance tune for all it was worth before the next craze took over. like, bill haley's follow up to "rock around the clock" was "let's keep that clock a-rockin'" which was followed a little later by "the clock-a-doodle-doo rock"

Nillson - Everybody's Talkin' / I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City

xps Don't Talk Just Kiss is not a great single in the cold light of 2019, but it really doesn't sound anything like I'm Too Sexy.

Scottish singer Aneka followed her UK No.1 single 'Japanese Boy' in 1981 with a song called 'Little Lady' that featured the same Japanese look and high-pitched vocals.

It didn't get anywhere, but fitted in perfectly on the kitschy German Musikladen TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_ge4GzHKo

just listen to the first line in this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5WSqWJ4obg

there was also this song which wasn't a single but I wish he had the balls to release it as one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQQN2COazQQ

I've always considered "Get Off of My Cloud" a far inferior version of its immediate predecessor single "Satisfaction". It did hit #1 in its own right but appears to be far down in the canon of Stones singles and I never seem to hear it on classic rock stations or whatever.

The Staples Singers "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)," versus "I'll Take You There."

But how many of you remember he followed it with a third hit, "Rock My Heart"?

In the UK that was actually his fourth hit after the heart-rending ballad 'I Miss You' released a week before Christmas. Sad!

(xp) Always preferred "I'll Take You There" tbh.

I can never remember how "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" differ from each other until I hear them back to back.

^Me neither, and I actually thought of that pair when I saw this thread title (but wasn't totally sure which came first!)

Tommy James: "I Think We're Alone Now" followed up by "Mirage", which is next-level in that the latter was built from playing the chords of the former backwards.

It’s funny that when you do this with the best song ever you still end up with a top ten song of all time.

Talking about Shannon following up
“Let The Music Play” with “Give Me Tonight”, of course.

(although I don’t think GMT is completely forgotten)

Petula Clark's "I Know a Place" may not meet all the criteria, but the lyrics are so similar, thematically, to those of its (almost more certainly better known) predecessor, "Downtown", that I doubt I could reliably identify which lines are from which.

I literally thought 'Only the Lonely' and 'Suddenly Last Summer' were the same song for years and had created some kind of Brundlefly mashup of the two in my head.

oh "I'll Take You There" blows its followup out of the water, no question there

Mmmmmmm....

Saw a recent interview with Francis Rossi where he talked about how he tried to make the second Status Quo single a bit but not a lot like the first (hit) single. Then he heard it on the radio when it came out, and went oops.

I do remember hearing it on the radio (a long while after) and yeah.

"Black veils of melancholy"

Good title, but.

Ten years from now:
PSY- Gentleman

― MarkoP, Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:56 AM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

just six years, but marko otm

Maggie May...You Wear It Well

... yes.

Sly & the Family Stone, "Dance to the Music" ---> "M'Lady"

... not forgotten though ... I hope.

It's not a follow up but I happened to notice the other day that "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" by Lee Dorsey is a crafty re-write of "Working in a Coal Mine".

“You Wear It Well” will always be remembered by those of us who watched TV in the late ‘80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxaCO65Bdk

It's not a follow up but I happened to notice the other day that "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" by Lee Dorsey is a crafty re-write of "Working in a Coal Mine".

That's probably the most obvious one, but Toussaint and Sehorn recycled licks from "Coalmine" in several other Dorsey sides ("My Old Car" among others).

Motorhead's "Motorhead" (taken from Hammersmith and a hit in 1981) sounds a lot like its immediate predecessor "Ace of Spades", but that's cheating because Motorhead had a very distinctive musical vision. Along similar lines I find it hard to tell apart Creedence Clearwater Revival's run of hit singles, but again I'm sure there are lots of blues-rock and punk-rock bands that had a run of near-identical songs simply because that was their style.

Eiffel 65 tried to follow up "I'm Blue" by spinning off the little blue chap in the video into a separate pop career as Zorotl, supposedly because they had access to the CGI model and why not. The song wasn't a hit and it's pretty dreadful but as with the rest of the band's records it sounds as if they had a set of samples loaded into their Akai and a bunch of sequences in Cubase that they tweaked a little bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdj0uuMxaeg

I bet you a million pounds if you went through Eiffel 65's hard drive all the songs would be called new(1).all and new(2).all etc. The Zorotl project is also notable for having a really old website that was launched in 2000 and still exists:
https://zorotl.com/

They tried to flesh out the character's backstory, but the world wasn't interested. The continued existence of the website implies that success is just around the corner, and perhaps one day the world will fall in love again with late-1990s novelty dance-pop.

The discussion up the page about Aqua made me feel old, because I enjoyed their music on the same level as Carly Rae Jepsen, e.g. it was incredibly professional dance-pop. Nowadays people only remember "Barbie Girl". It's as if people my age - people - are ashamed of their past. Sadly they never really transitioned from novelty band into actual bona-fide band-band, unlike e.g. The Cardigans, who started off as part of the lounge-pop scene but became an actual proper band.

There was an Aqua clone called Toy-Box whose first single was about Tarzan and Jane. I note that their seventh single was called "www.girl", but it was 2001, at which point the internet wasn't as novel as it had been in 1998 or so. While I'm writing this paragraph it strikes me that Ace of Base is a negative example, in that "The Sign" has largely overshadowed "All That She Wants", or at least it gets played on the radio more often, albeit not very often.

I remember that Phats and Small's follow-up to "Turn Around" sounded like a variation of that song with different vocals, but the next single after that was pretty good and is now totally forgotten as is Phats and Small. The Prodigy's "Breathe" has a similar production style to "Firestarter" but when people think about the band they generally picture Keith Flint in the video for "Firestarter". In fact The Prodigy's initial run of singles, e.g. "Charly" to "Wind it Up", sound a lot like each other.

Ace of Base might actually be an example, because their next single after "All That She Wants" wasn't "The Sign" but "Happy Nation", which sounds more like "ATSW" than "The Sign" does ("The Sign" wasn't originally even on their debut album, it was recorded after it came out and was added to its later printings), and which rarely gets played these days.

hah, I remember Toy-Box...I had a friend who was really into that kind of stuff. its weird to come across a band that makes Aqua look subtle and sophisticated, but there it was. I mean Aqua at least had the double-entendre thing down right, Toy-Box was just really suggestive music for kids

Eiffel 65 was Gabry Ponte, a prolific producer of at least a dozen hits in Italy that all sounded roughly the same, and spawned loads of others imitating that sound (like Dragostea Din Tei).

LMFAO: Party Rock Anthem and Sexy And You Know It.

Rather than "Sorry for Party Rocking"?

Motorhead's "Motorhead" (taken from Hammersmith and a hit in 1981) sounds a lot like its immediate predecessor "Ace of Spades", but that's cheating because Motorhead had a very distinctive musical vision.

The song "Motorhead" predates the band Motörhead; Lemmy wrote it for Hawkwind. It was the B-side of "Kings of Speed," from the Warrior on the Edge of Time album. Hearing the original, with sax and violin, is pretty wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwWrGhVNvI

Another Eurodance example: E-Rotic followed their first hit "Max Don't Have Sex with Your Ex" with "Fred Come to Bed", a song that was extremely similar right down to the title/chorus rhyming a guy's name with a sex word. Their third single, "Sex on the Phone", was somewhat different (though obviously still sex-related, as that was their gimmick), and probably nowadays people only remember "Max" and maybe "SotP", but not "Fred".

How Soon Is Now.....Shoplifters of the World Unite

Tone Loc -Funky cold Medina after wild thing.

Apparently there was a follow-up to Gangnam Style that went to #5 in the US and may as well not exist as far as the popular consciousness goes.

Lieutenant Pigeon, "Desperate Dan", #17, Dec. 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJHNtkEnmY

Chicory Tip, "What's Your Name", #13, May 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeA1T71cR4U

... couple of tracks for any Earl Brutus fans out there.

Apparently there was a follow-up to Gangnam Style that went to #5 in the US and may as well not exist as far as the popular consciousness goes.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:20 AM (eight minutes ago)

also, something something juggalos

Ten years from now:
PSY- Gentleman

― MarkoP, Friday, November 22, 2013 3:56 AM (five years ago)

just six years, but marko otm

― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:51 AM (three weeks ago)

Pretty sure that almost everybody under 30 still remembers Gentleman.

29-year-old here who remembers that it exists, but couldn't sing a note if my life depended on it

We can say "Gentle-Men!" but that's about it.

not a Fela Kuti cover I take it

How Soon Is Now.....Shoplifters of the World Unite

this is stretching the definition of follow-up a bit, there were 6 singles in between these 2

Tone Loc -Funky cold Medina after wild thing.

I would think Funky Cold Medina is the more well known of these 2? I may think wrong of course

It was in the UK, but I think he's more known as the "Wild Thing" dude.

I think the same the way as the Colonel tbh

"Forget About You" by the Motors was the conspicuously similar follow-up to "Airport" and doesn't get much airplay these days, although I actually prefer it to the earlier hit.

Conspicuously similar to the theme from "Grandstand" iirc

Always loved "Airport" tbh.

It was a classic of the little-explored "pub synth" micro-genre.

Oh, for some reason I was humming that "I Believe" song by EMF, and thinking that it's not that song that goes "You're Unbelievable"

Animotion’s “I, Engineer” isn’t quite “Obsession” but mostly duplicates it (without anything as catchy as that synth riff).

oh damn I just remembered how "Tarzan and Jane" went and now I want to kill myself

Hey monkey! Get funky!

Oh, for some reason I was humming that "I Believe" song by EMF, and thinking that it's not that song that goes "You're Unbelievable"

look up what their final single was when they split up

I had a roommate who used to play World of Warcraft and listen to garbage Europop & Nightcore all day. like the same 5 songs over and over. "Tarzan and Jane" has permanently scarred me. if you're gonna go that route at least put on something respectable like Scooter!!! all I can think now is I AM JANE AND I LOVE TO RIDE AN ELEPHANT

WHY DO YOU KEEP IG NOR ING ME

Sometimes I think you're me, frogbs. I also had a roommate who would play Eurodance trash all the time: E-Rotic, Toybox, etc. At first, we'd laugh together about how dumb it was, but after the joke wore on me, he'd still be playing the shit out of it. He's an awesome dude and one of my best friends to this day but I think he's still very into that music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gg5LOd_Zus

It's not a follow up but I happened to notice the other day that "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" by Lee Dorsey is a crafty re-write of "Working in a Coal Mine".
That's probably the most obvious one, but Toussaint and Sehorn recycled licks from "Coalmine" in several other Dorsey sides ("My Old Car" among others).

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, November 4, 2019 12:34 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"sneaking sally thru the alley" comes to mind

Does anyone remember “Daisy Petal Pickin’” by Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs? Bcuz apparently that was a hit, although I’ve never heard it in the wild.

Nope.

Lee Dorsey example(s) seems good, never noticed before.

Back when Aqua was hitting with Barbie Girl this satire comedian made a sketch where they talked about how they really wanted to prove that they were more than a 'Barbie-band'. Cut to five years later and their next hit is 'Slime, I'm a can of slime, play with me, I'm a can of slime'. And now they really want to prove they are more than just that 'slime-band'. Five years later. 'Tetherbaaaaalllll! Teeeeeetherbaaaalllll!'

In the real world it only took Aqua three years to follow up the album Aquarium and the hit Barbie Girl, with the album Aquarius and the hit Cartoon Heroes...

I don't think there was ever any risk that they would develop into The Cardigans, their sound was too thin, and the split between the artists and the eye candy was too stark. René Dif was a punchline almost immediately.

Yeah, but "Turn back time"

YMCA / In The Navy...?

Israelites / It Mek...?

I'm pretty sure "In the Navy" isn't forgotten, it's probably the best known Village People single after "Y.M.C.A.".

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Mr. Raffles

Tuomas otm.

"Prove Your Love" by Taylor Dayne was very similar to "Tell it to my Heart". Both singles peaked at number 7 on Billboard, but I think most people only remember the first hit. She did have other hits that I think are still played, like "Love Will Lead You Back" from her second album.

“Crossroads”/“1st Of Da Month”

“I Wish”/“Top Of The Stairs”

"René Dif was a punchline almost immediately."

Wikipedia's image of him is very orange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dif#/media/File:Ren%C3%A9DifGade.JPG

With the result that if I Google him, the internet believes that he looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/gB94mJ0.jpg

Many years from now I will wonder why there was a screen grab of Rene Dif on my hard drive.

"Pure Shores"/"Black Coffee"

“Black Coffee” is hardly forgotten (and I might love it even more than “Pure Shores” these days).

COME PICK MY ROSES

forgotten by the general public I mean

I know it's beloved around these parts

“Crossroads”/“1st Of Da Month”
― Siegbran, Monday, November 11, 2019 8:09 AM

'tha crossroads' was the follow-up in this case. and it was stupid popular by comparison to 'first of tha month.'

also i thought 'top of the stairs' was the better song, but i was a teenage cornball. still am, afaict.

Baccara's "Sorry I'm A Lady", essentially a rewrite of "Yes Sir I Can Boogie", was top 10 in the UK and #1 across half of Europe and seems largely forgotten nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MgX84NR7x0

"Freed From Desire"/"Let A Boy Cry"
"Gypsy Woman"/"Makin' Happy"
"9 PM (Til I Come)"/"Summer"

Benny Benassi's three follow up hits to "Satisfaction" were suspiciously similar, but mostly forgotten: "Able To Love", "No Matter What You Do" and "Love Is Gonna Save Us".

Robert Palmer - "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (after "Addicted to Love")

I didn't actually know that Nightcrawlers had a follow-up hit to "Push the Feeling On"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P06Xa80nd8g

Apparently they asked Marc Kinchen to produce this one right from the start after his remix of the previous one became so popular.

Yep, that's a similareeee

Back when Aqua was hitting with Barbie Girl this satire comedian made a sketch where they talked about how they really wanted to prove that they were more than a 'Barbie-band'. Cut to five years later and their next hit is 'Slime, I'm a can of slime, play with me, I'm a can of slime'. And now they really want to prove they are more than just that 'slime-band'. Five years later. 'Tetherbaaaaalllll! Teeeeeetherbaaaalllll!'

In the real world it only took Aqua three years to follow up the album Aquarium and the hit Barbie Girl, with the album Aquarius and the hit Cartoon Heroes...

I don't think there was ever any risk that they would develop into The Cardigans, their sound was too thin, and the split between the artists and the eye candy was too stark. René Dif was a punchline almost immediately.

― Frederik B, Sunday, November 10, 2019 6:47 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is this the same Aqua who had two further UK number one hits with two very different singles, both excellent in their own way? The Aqua who anyone but the most blinkered rockist could tell were playing with the form of pop music and having fun with it? That Aqua?

Apparently they asked Marc Kinchen to produce this one right from the start after his remix of the previous one became so popular.

― Tuomas

Back when Aqua was hitting with Barbie Girl this satire comedian made a sketch where they talked about how they really wanted to prove that they were more than a 'Barbie-band'. Cut to five years later and their next hit is 'Slime, I'm a can of slime, play with me, I'm a can of slime'. And now they really want to prove they are more than just that 'slime-band'. Five years later. 'Tetherbaaaaalllll! Teeeeeetherbaaaalllll!'

In the real world it only took Aqua three years to follow up the album Aquarium and the hit Barbie Girl, with the album Aquarius and the hit Cartoon Heroes...

I don't think there was ever any risk that they would develop into The Cardigans, their sound was too thin, and the split between the artists and the eye candy was too stark. René Dif was a punchline almost immediately.

― Frederik B, Sunday, November 10, 2019 6:47 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is this the same Aqua who had two further UK number one hits with two very different singles, both excellent in their own way? The Aqua who anyone but the most blinkered rockist could tell were playing with the form of pop music and having fun with it? That Aqua?

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), 3. syyskuuta 2020 12:46 bookmarkflaglink

I think they only had one hit in the US, with "Barbie Girl"? So maybe this sketch was from there?

Ann Peebles "I Can't Stand the Rain"..."Do I Need You"

It's not a follow up but I happened to notice the other day that "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" by Lee Dorsey is a crafty re-write of "Working in a Coal Mine".
That's probably the most obvious one, but Toussaint and Sehorn recycled licks from "Coalmine" in several other Dorsey sides ("My Old Car" among others).

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, November 4, 2019 12:34 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"sneaking sally thru the alley" comes to mind

― budo jeru, Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:31 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

And "Bad Luck" by Betty Harris (which I just heard for the first time last night).

...and on a related tip, I always wondered why Toussaint & Sehorn didn't try recycle "Ride Your Pony" with Lee Dorsey the same way they did "Coal Mine"... except they did, on the rarely anthologized flop "Vista, Vista" in '67.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-GPrBin0LI

"panini" by lil nas x absolutely fits this bill

Edwyn Collins, "Girl Like You" > "Keep on Burning"

Panini is forgettable but doesn't sound much like Old Town Road.

Singles that sound exactly the same as the one previous...

true, i missed the conspicuously similar part

You take out the Funkadelic reference in the chorus and Gerardo's 'We Want the Funk' is basically 'Rico Suave'.

I'm now listening to more Lee Dorsey (always a good thing), and "Go-Go Girl" is kind of a "Ride Your Pony"/"Working In The Coalmine" hybrid.

lol, only just realized that Chubby Checker hasn't been invoked once itt. He pretty much made a career out of this.

He is mentioned in the other thread

I mean I don't think song titles like "Let's Twist Again" are exactly conspicuous like people aren't going "hmmm I wonder if this is similar to his first hit, The Twist"

that's exactly what conspicuous means!

Oh, I just thought of one. Went to #23 on the R&B charts in '73, a year after "Why Can't We Live Together"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_lCi9DQJ4
Timmy Thomas - People are changing (1973)

wouldn't conspicuous mean you're trying to get away with something?