Unexpected, unlikely or bizarre musical quotes

In case the title cuts off, it's "Unexpected, unlikely or bizarre musical quotes".

What I'm talking about here is when a melody from one song is "quoted" in another song - for example, Sugarloaf's use of the "I Feel Fine" riff in "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You".  (This is distinct from sampling, in which the original recording is lifted "as is" instead of being re-played by actual human musicians.)

At my work recently, they had an '80s station on the Sirius XM music feed, and I was surprised to learn that "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred (a song I never paid much attention to when it was current) quotes the melody of Jimi Hendrix's "Third Stone From the Sun".

From my own music collection, "Let Me Shut That For You" by OverKill quotes "There's a Kind Of Hush (All Over the World)" by Herman's Hermits!

Any other such quotes that have made you say WTF?

On Charles Mingus' version of "C-Jam Blues" from Mingus at Carnegie Hall, John Faddis, the trumpeter, plays a tiny bit of Bizet's "Habanera" on his solo - works really well and also is quite unexpected.
Also, I find a strange similarity between the chorus from the movie Black Dynamite and the theme of Gong's tune "Dynamite," but it might be just a coincidence.
I'm sure I know many more of these, but these two just came to my mind right away.



Edited by ALotOfBottle - March 22 2017 at 09:42

zappaholic wrote: At my work recently, they had an '80s station on the Sirius XM music feed, and I was surprised to learn that "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred (a song I never paid much attention to when it was current) quotes the melody of Jimi Hendrix's "Third Stone From the Sun"

There's a song on the Armageddon album called Silver Tightrope. The mid-section is a beautifully slow rendition of Satie's Gymnopedies done on guitar and bowed-bass. It's the highlight of the album for me !!

This kind if thing is very common in jazz. Dexter Gordon, for an example, was one for humourous musical quotations in his solos - e.g. there's a rendition of Three O'Clock In The Morning on one of his Blue Note LPs where he quotes the melody of Take Me Out To The Ball Game.

Pretty far from the shores of prog, though.

Edited by Mascodagama - March 25 2017 at 14:52