Songs which directly cite other songs by title

So what I'm looking for here are songs that mention other songs by title and - the key here - as a record.

Examples:

ELO-"Shangri-La": "Faded like the Beatles on 'Hey Jude'"
Al Stewart - "Modern Times": "Chasing skinny blue jean girls while the band played 'Hold Me Tight'"

What I'm NOT looking for:

* Phrases or words in lyrics that are song titles but are not referring to a song itself

This even includes songs like "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" where Dylan name-drops about 8-10 Springsteen titles but only to describe people or places; he isn't actually citing the songs as records.

Another close-but-not-quite call is "Sweet Home Alabama" - although Skynyrd directly references Neil Young's "Southern Man" they don't name it as a record even though shortly thereafter there's the line "a Southern man don't need him around anyhow".

Think of it this way - in this case if you were transcribing the lyrics you wouldn't capitalize the title but if it were a direct cite of the song itself you would. That's the essential dividing line I'm getting at here.

 

One of the classic examples: Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back"/Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black'

 

Dusty Springfield - Nothing has been proved - references Please please me

Pet Shop Boys - I want to wake up - references Tainted Love and Love is strange

 

Johnny Rivers-Summer Rain (And the jukebox kept on playin'
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

 

Warren Zevon: "Play It All Night Long" ("Sweet Home Alabama")

Golden Earring: "Radar Love" (Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong")

 

In his live performances of "Listening to Levon", Marc Cohn references "Rag Mama Rag" by name.

 

"On the Radio" (2006) - Regina Spektor

References the Guns N' Roses song "November Rain" by name:

"And on the radio
You hear 'November Rain'
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain
You listen to it twice
'Cause the DJ is asleep
On the radio"

 

Mae Moore’s “Bohemia” (1992):
And listen to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.”

Bohemia by Mae Moore

 

"Reminisce (Pt. 2)" by Dexy's Midnight Runners talks about "Wedding Bell Blues", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Lola" and "I'll Say Forever My Love" (and includes a refrain of the latter).

 

Kevin Ayers, "Song For Insane Times"

"We talk all night and we're all turned on
Everybody heard him singing his song
Telling us there was work to be done
And we all sung the chorus
Of "I Am The Walrus""

 

"Dogs" by Sun Kil Moon references the song of the same name by Pink Floyd.

I gave her Pink Floyd "Animals", when we were in sixth grade
And it was on her turntable when I met her on Sunday
Her mom was gone, we were listening to "Dogs"

Gets a bit NSFW after that.

 

Thought of another hard case - "Glass Onion". Although Lennon references other Beatles songs he isn't citing them as records although the line "I told you 'bout the fool on the hill" comes very close. It seems though he's talking about the fool himself, not the song, thanks to the following line "I tell you man he's living there still".

 

Mashed Potato Time by Dee Dee Sharp mentions 3 songs you can dance the mashed potato to:
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Please Mr. Postman
Dear Lady Twist

 

Elliott Smith, "Waltz #2 (XO)".

'First the mic, then a half cigarette
Singing "Cathy's Clown"'

 

Elvis' recording of "Raised On Rock" in the second verse mentions several:
"Listening to the music that my idols made
I knew every single record the DJ's played
Honky Tonk , Hound Dog, Johnny B. Goode
Chain Gang, Love Is Strange, Knock On Wood"

 

Tom Petty: "Runnin' Down a Dream"

Del Shannon's "Runaway" doesn't appear in quotes in the lyrics I'm seeing, and some don't even capitalize it, but I'd say it's still valid.

 

Elvis Costello mentions "My Favorite Things" ("by Julie Andrews, and not by John Coltrane") in "This is Hell." (Kind of hard on Julie if you ask me.)

 

Pavement: "Unseen Picket of the Power Fence"

It names five tracks from R.E.M.'s Reckoning and references a sixth...

Flashback to 1983
Chronic Town was their first EP
Later on came Reckoning
Finster's art, and titles to match
South Central Rain, Don't Go Back to Rockville
Harbourcoat, Pretty Persuasion
You were born to be a camera
Time After Time was my least favorite song
Time After Time was my least favorite song

 

Crooked Fingers (with Neko Case)- "Your Control"

"You came on so easy singing 'Gentle On My Mind'"

 

"The Boom Boom Bap" by Scritti Politti is all about Green's love of hip hop, and names almost every song on the first Run-D.M.C. album.

 

Costello again, this time "The Great Unknown"

Though the VIPs sang "Wooden Heart", the band played "Hearts of Oak"

Also references "Danny Boy" and "Delilah", but not explicitly as song titles.

 

Jeff Lynne-Let It Run, 1984
'Cause I'm already gone -Eagles

 

Bad Company: "Shooting Star" (Beatles "Love Me Do")

 

Low hanging fruit this one:

Kid Rock - All Summer Long

Sipping whiskey out the bottle
Not thinking ′bout tomorrow
Singing "Sweet Home Alabama" all summer long

 

I think this counts, from Prince's "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker":

She said: "Sound like a real man to me
Mind if I turn on the radio?"
"Oh, my favorite song," she said
And it was Joni singing: "Help me, I think I'm falling"​