And the answer is…

The Internet Archive offers a collection of "answer songs" from the 50s and 60s. I embedded a player below, but going to the Archive itself allows you to select which songs to play.

We've previously posted about "answer songs," but here's the definition again (via wikipedia): "a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist."

It's a genre that, as far as I know, has now entirely disappeared.

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Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 27, 2024
Category: Music

Comments

I don't think it's disappeared. If there isn't one on Taylor S.'s latest ego-outing, I'm sure there have been some responding to her previous effort.

Posted by Richard Bos on 04/27/24 at 11:20 AM

@ Richard Bos... "Taylor S´s latest ego-outing" GOOD ONE !

Posted by F.U.D. in Stockholm on 04/27/24 at 01:02 PM

You forgot what are probably the most famous pair:
Wild Side of Life by Hank Thompson
&
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells

Posted by David Higgs on 04/27/24 at 03:36 PM

There’s also Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles) and Come On Back Jack (Nina Simone).

Posted by ges on 04/28/24 at 06:09 AM

I think the hip-hop genre has lots of answer songs, one performer dissing another, then the dissed one coming up with a diss-track in return.
At least, that is what I have read. I do not really listen to hip-hop, it is not my cup of tea.

Posted by Patrick on 04/29/24 at 07:59 AM

There's a Quebec French version of It's my birthday (and I'll cry if I want to) that's also an answer song. To be fair, the guy in the answer song sounds like a jerk.

Posted by Yudith on 04/30/24 at 08:01 AM

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