Songs about hit records.

In Thunder Road Springsteen says..."Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely".....meaning ...Only the Lonely.

 

This is the one I was thinking of, but I never knew it was Brook Benton. It's inexplicably absent from my CD of Brook Benton's hit records.

 

John Stewart - "People out there turning music into gold." After over a decade as a cult figure, he finally turned music into gold with a song about it.

 

'Hit Records' by the Kursaal Flyers

 

Mickey Murray's later version of Brook Benton's 'Hit Record'

 

Bobby Bare - "Sure Hit Songwriting Pen", written by Shel Silverstein. Hilarious!

 

'Sing a Hit Song' by Roman Stewart

 

And One-Body Company (Club Hit), 2006

 

With a T.Rex quote.

 

Runnin' Down a Dream by Tom Petty



"Me and Del were singing little Runaway"

 

Beatles, Stones, Dylan, "Ready Steady Who"...

 

Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down

"I hear she likes to dance round the room to a worn out twelve inch of Marquee Moon"

 

"They said, 'I 'ughta re-record "The Tracks Of my Tears"'"

 

"Pop Star", Cat Stevens

 

Back in the studio to make our latest number one
Take two-hundred-and-seventy-six
You know, this used to be fun

 

So I'm lying here
Just staring at the ceiling tiles
And I'm thinking about, oh what to think about
Just listening and relistening
To Smiley Smile
And I'm wondering if this is some kind of creative drought

Because I'm lying in bed
Just like Brian Wilson did
Well I am Lying in bed
Just like Brian Wilson did

 

Mose Allison - Top Forty

From his 1987 Blue Note album "Ever Since the World Ended".

Truthful and ironic.

"When I make my top forty, big beat, rock'n'roll record
Everything is gonna be just fine
When I make my top forty, big beat, rock'n'roll disc
I'll be the record company's valentine"

 

well, sort of.

 

The Temptations - Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)

Released as a single in late 1971.
The song is a jab at the two former Temptations members David Ruffin (who had been fired in 1968) and Eddie Kendricks (who quit the group in early 1971).

"Superstar, good God
Enjoy your champagne and caviar
And your chauffeur driven fancy car
But remember how you got where you are
Oh ho ho, 'cause the same folks that made you
Mmm-hmm, you better believe they can break you"