LOST EPISODE: ANSWER SONGS (UNRELEASED 2020)

This is a re-edited version of an episode I had finished and ready to go when the RIAA brought the smackdown in August 2020. 

An answer song is a song made in response to a previous song, normally by another artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s. Answer songs were also extremely popular in country music in the 1950s and 1960s, most often as female responses to an original hit by a male artist.

In Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, Jim Curtis says that: "Answer songs rode on the coattails, as it were, of the popularity of the first song, and resembled parodies in that their success depended on a knowledge of the original... Answer songs were usually one-hit flukes by unknown singers whose lack of identity did not detract from the success of the record since only the song, and not the performer, mattered."

HANK WILLIAMS - MY BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE IN IT
HARDROCK GUNTER - MY BUCKET'S BEEN FIXED
ROSEMARY CLOONEY - COME ON-A MY HOUSE
ROBERT Q. LEWIS - WHERES-A YOUR HOUSE
SKEETS MCDONALD - DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES
GOLDIE HILL - I LET THE STARS GET IN MY EYES
NEIL SEDAKA - OH CAROL
CAROLE KING - OH NEIL
JIM REEVES - HE'LL HAVE TO GO
JEANNE BLACK - HE'LL HAVE TO STAY
CHRIS KENNER - I LIKE IT LIKE THAT 
THE BOBBETTES - I DON'T LIKE IT LIKE THAT
ERNIE K. DOE - MOTHER IN LAW
THE BLOSSOMS - SON IN LAW
SAM COOKE - BRING IT ON HOME TO ME
CARLA THOMAS - I'LL BRING IT ON HOME TO YOU
SMILEY LEWIS - I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN'
CAROL FRAN - I QUIT MY KNOCKIN'
ROGER MILLER - DANG ME
RUBY WRIGHT - DERN YA
THE ANGELS - MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK
BOBBY COMSTOCK AND THE COUNTS - YOUR BOYFRIEND'S BACK
DION - RUNAROUND SUE
LINDA LAURIE - STAY AT HOME SUE
BARRY MCGUIRE - EVE OF DESTRUCTION
THE SPOKESMAN - DAWN OF CORRECTION
BETTY WRIGHT - CLEAN UP WOMAN
JIMMY BO HORNE - CLEAN UP MAN
PAUL ANKA - (YOU'RE) HAVING MY BABY
SUNDAY SHARPE - I'M HAVING YOUR BABY
NAPOLEON XIV - THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY
JOSEPHINE XV - I'M HAPPY THEY TOOK YOU AWAY
DANNY AIELLO - PAPA WANTS THE BEST
BULLET - I'M BILLY JEAN