The wonderful world of answer songs – I truly hope Dodie Stevens found someone. Some GI guy who died young in Vietnam, and she could live a life in freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XtvnWft8_g&list=RD_XtvnWft8_g&start_radio=1
https://word.undead-network.de/2025/06/14/the-wonderful-world-of-answer-songs-i-truly-hope-dodie-stevens-found-someone-some-gi-guy-who-died-young-in-vietnam-and-she-could-live-a-life-in-freedom/
#AnswerSong #elvis #lonesome #music
The wonderful world of answer songs – Carole King answers to Neil Sedakas „Oh Carol“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LCymr8hhGk&list=RD0LCymr8hhGk&start_radio=1
https://word.undead-network.de/2025/06/14/the-wonderful-world-of-answer-songs-carole-king-answers-to-neil-sedakas-oh-carol/
#AnswerSong #CaroleKing #love #music #NeilSedaka
"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a #bluesStandard written by #MuddyWaters, #MelLondon, and #BoDiddley (with Waters and Diddley being credited under their birth names). First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "#answerSong" to Bo Diddley's "#ImAMan", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and #WillieDixon's "#HoochieCoochieMan". #MannishBoy features a repeating #stoptime figure on one chord throughout the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hfiUa0NHA
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by #JDJayMiller, and recorded by #KittyWells. It was an #answerSong to the #HankThompson hit "#TheWildSideOfLife." First performed by Al Montgomery as "Did God Make #HonkyTonkAngels" on the Feature label which was owned by songwriter J.D. Miller. The song — which blamed unfaithful men for creating unfaithful women — became the first No. 1 #Billboard #countryHit for a solo woman artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKleTa94dC8
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by #JDJayMiller, and recorded by #KittyWells. It was an #answerSong to the #HankThompson hit "#TheWildSideOfLife." First performed by Al Montgomery as "Did God Make #HonkyTonkAngels" on the Feature label which was owned by songwriter J.D. Miller. The song — which blamed unfaithful men for creating unfaithful women — became the first No. 1 #Billboard #countryHit for a solo woman artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKleTa94dC8
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter #CharlieRyan, first released in 1955. It was written as an #answerSong to #ArkieShibley's 1950 hit "#HotRodRace" (US #29). It describes a drive north on#USRoute99 (predecessor to Interstate 5) from #SanPedroLosAngeles, and over the Grapevine which soon becomes a hot rod race that ends with serious consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZu5TwRbYiA
Song concept: “Me and Janis and Them,” about the experience of dating Janis and Kris and Reba and Dolly and Jerry Jeff and Willie and Waylon etc., from the perspective of Bobby McGee #AnswerSong
"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a #bluesStandard written by #MuddyWaters, #MelLondon, and #BoDiddley (with Waters and Diddley being credited under their birth names). First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "#answerSong" to Bo Diddley's "#ImAMan", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and #WillieDixon's "#HoochieCoochieMan". #MannishBoy features a repeating #stoptime figure on one chord throughout the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32YQYJuxyn0
