Answer Songs
We welcome you to the Round the World University of the Air. For your tuition-free intellectual stimulation, the musical matter we will be elucidating this hour is what is referred to as the Answer Song - a song written and recorded in answer to a previous song.
We have developed an answer song taxonomy and today’s lecture will offer glimpses into 8 different fascinating examples, in each case the original song, followed by an answer song which was developed later in response. So strap on your specially developed listening hats as we pour in knowledge related to this important matter.
1 - R. M. Blues - Roy Milton and his Solid Senders - 1946
2 - Answer to R.M. Blues - Effie Smith with Jimmie Grissom and the Blenders – 1947
3 - Moonlight and Skies - Jimmie Rodgers - 1936
4 - Answer to Moonlight and Skies - Jack Guthrie and his Oklahomans – 1948
5 - Don't Sit under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me - Art Jarrett and his Orchestra - 1942
6 - I'm Still Sitting Under the Apple Tree - Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra with the Moon Maids – 1947
7 - Yes! We Have No Bananas - Harry Blake - 1923
8 – I’ve Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues - Belle Baker – 1923
9 - Misery Farm - Al Bowlly with Fred Elizalde and his Anglo American Band - 1929
10 - Jollity Farm - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra – 1929
11 - Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly - 1933
12 - Wake Up, Irene - Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys – 1954
13 - Sixty Minute Man - Billy Ward and his Dominoes - 1951
14 - Can't Do Sixty No More - Billy Ward and his Dominoes – 1955
15 - I'm Afraid to Come Home in The Dark - Billy Murray - 1907
16 - I Used to Be Afraid to Come Home in the Dark - Billy Murray – 1909
17 - Rainbow at Midnight - Ernest Tubb - 1946
18 - Answer to Rainbow at Midnight - Ernest Tubb – 1947
19. The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G. Robinson – Suspense – 1946 (Radio Drama)
20. The Songwriter – The Phil Harris/ Alice Faye Show – 1950 (Radio Comedy)
21. Nobody's Darling - Billy Folger and the Barn Dance Boys – Date Unknown
22. Woman's Answer to Nobody's Darling - Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers – 1935
