[78-L] Follow-Up Songs

[Koen Kamphuijs & Gusta Harderwijk]

My fellow radio man Matt the Cat did a whole hour radio show of 
follow-up and answer songs on just one song:  Hank Balllard and his 
Midnighter's Work With Me Annie.  These included their own 
songs  Annie Had A Baby and Annie's Aunt Fannie, Etta James' Dance 
with me Henry (a.k.a. the Wallflower), Danny Taylor's I'm the father 
of Annie's Baby, Linda Hayes' My Name Ain't Annie, the Champions' 
Annie Met Henry, the El Dorados'  Annie's Answer,  the Hollywood 
Flames' Annie Don't Love Me No More, and a cover of the original Work 
With Me Annie by the "Five" Royales.

I'm going to do a theme show on answers and sequel songs myself some 
day, they're ubiquitous.  Other great series for instance is around 
the person of Deacon Jones (originally Louis Jordan, e.g. used in 
Good Rocking Tonight), the question who threw the whiskey in the well 
(Lucky Millinder with Wynonie Harris), the person of Caldonia (also 
originally from Louis Jordan) and even these three connect in Bull 
Moose Jackson's I know whe threw the whiskey in the well.

Koen

The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman: http://www.koenkamphuijs.nl/radio



At 16:38 26-9-2013, you wrote:
>Eddie Calvert tried to follow upp his 1953 hit "Oh Mein Papa" with a
>similar number, the (partially) self-penned "My Son My Son" in 1954.
>A few years Tommie Connor & Johnny Reine  wrote a follow-up to "Lili
>Marlene": "The Wedding Of Lili Marlene". It was a big hit for Anne
>Shelton in the UK and a minor hit for The Andrews Sisters in the US.
>Does anyone know of other such obvious follow-ups, theme-based or
>otherwise connected?
>Kristjan
>
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