Conspicuously similar follow-ups to hit singles that became hits in their own right, but are now mostly forgotten because people only remember the first hit

also lol "Poker Face"? if only people had forgotten that song

Weird, I can count the times I've heard it on the radio on one hand. Way dwarfed by "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)."

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Is there a thread for the related topic of "Follow-ups to hit singles that became hits in their own right, but are now mostly forgotten because they were middling ballads?" (Ie: Tiffany's Could've Been)

it may be early for this but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

Someone remind me what the follow-up to I'm Too Sexy was called

Deeply Dippy?

lol my second guess was going to be "Don't Talk, Just Kiss" and apparently I know more about Right Said Fred singles than I thought

That's the one! You're putting that graduate diploma in Richard Fairbrass studies to good use

the opposite of this is Ace Of Base -
first hit "All That She Wants" was a global smash and a UK #1
very similar sounding follow-up "The Sign" was also a hit, but reached #2 in the UK

in the U.S. the chart positions are reversed and "The Sign" was much bigger - continued Jock Jams level stadium ubiquity.
many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

further proof that Americans are weird :)

America was a weird follow-up to the UK, and now nobody remembers America.

many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

I don't think this is true; I've never seen anyone be perplexed by or forget the existence of "All That She Wants" or "Don't Turn Around"

"Don't Talk Just Kiss" is probably one of the most ridiculous songs of all time.

Wasn't exactly the followup up single (it was one full album later), but I think "I Knew I Loved You" was a deliberate attempt to copy "Truly Madly Deeply" and though they both hit #1 in the US I haven't heard "I Knew I Loved You" or heard anybody talk about it for like 10 years.

The Tamperer featuring Maya's 'If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better'

Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over" ---> "Something So Strong"

Edwin Starr followed up "War" with "Stop the War Now," which reached US Pop #26.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_3IlIHYzxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHYCP9a0W8

many Americans, especially sports fans, consider Ace Of Base a one-hit wonder and don't even know "All That She Wants"

All That She Wants was big in America. What does sports have to do with anything?

they play songs at baseball games - they play "The Sign" all the time - they never play "All That She Wants"

oh huh -- from how I remember it "I Knew I Loved You" practically engulfed every other single the band did

Everyone remembers "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex

At first blush I thought "Hey You" was outkast's follow up to ... ah, nevermind. I'll get me hat & coat...

Listening to "Dance the King-Fu" right now. It's more gloriously dire than I could ever have imagined.

even with Jock Jams ubiquity factored out I guess the Ace Of Base thing can also be explained by the sales/airplay comparison - according to Billboard "The Sign" is the #60 biggest U.S. hit of all time! who knew? (and for the decade of the nineties the two songs rank at #11 for The Sign and #70 for All That She Wants, though the latter was apparently one of the biggest #2 hits ever)

still I was initially surprised talking with Americans who only associated the band with The Sign… learning of the sports exposure helped make more sense of that. anyway, Dan you're hanging out with the rarified Kiss Me (x3) as best Cure album and Leela best companion cognoscenti !

I was under the impression that most people in North America remembered both "The Sign" and "All That She Wants" about equally. It's songs like "Don't Turn Around" that have been more forgotten.

All three of those songs were totally ubiquitous in the mid-90s

Milli Vanilli followed the #2 hit "Girl You Know It's True" with the extremely similar "Baby Don't Forget My Number" which went to #1. It seems completely forgotten now, I don't think I've ever heard it since the late 80's, but everybody knows the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyzGDPwmYU

I think the rain is to blame for that

Of Monsters And Men's follow-up to "Little Talks" sounded exactly like it to an almost infuriating degree

Here's a good example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlv672jqbtE

^ What was that a follow-up to?

Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC"/"The Love You Save." More or less. Pretty common in the '60s, just not able to think of any right now.

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, "Ju Ju Hand":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41TX4AS1Bn4

I'd never heard this song until two minutes ago. I just had this incredible premonition that it would sound a lot like "Wooly Bully."

I've got a Sam best of cd on Rhino--24 Tracks!--and there's at least a further 2-4 trips to the "Wooly Bully" well on that set (not counting "Ju Ju Hand").

This was the follow-up to "Lil' Red Riding Hood", which at least gave him and his producers something new to retread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pep_on0GTKE

Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC"/"The Love You Save."

None of these are forgotten though.

The Milli Vanilli one is an excellent example. I didn't remember that follow-up at all.

Yeah, didn't read the thread title carefully enough--the Jackson 5 don't belong.

It's interesting just to talk about similar sounding follow-up hits regardless of whether they're remembered, though. I used to think Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's hits were very similar, but I don't know anymore. They sound fairly distinct to me now.

In a way, I'm not crazy about the idea that those three Jackson Five hits are super similar. I think, "Well, it's a genre." But the first two are in the same key and there are other similarities.

yeah things like that and "You Really Got Me"/"All Day And All Of The Night" seem out of the purview of this thread just because both songs are pretty successful and revered

I'm not willing to listen to it and check but I remember thinking ''Ends'' by Everlast was essentially the same song as ''What It's Like,'' with added spacey noises. Hard to really tell the difference between ''trying to rewrite the same song'' and ''act just has limited range of abilities.''

I love both songs, but Future's "Turn On The Lights" and "Neva End" were not only released back-to-back as singles but were both originally recorded in the same night. the latter was remixed with Kelly Rowland for the single, though, so that differentiated them a little bit.

Milli Vanilli followed the #2 hit "Girl You Know It's True" with the extremely similar "Baby Don't Forget My Number" which went to #1. It seems completely forgotten now, I don't think I've ever heard it since the late 80's, but everybody knows the first one.

Is that the case? Milli Vanilli is the "don't forget my number / love is stronger than thunder" band to me, and I can't even remember how "Girl You Know It's True" goes.
OK, last.fm play stats seem to support this theory, with "Baby Don't Forget My Number" only their 4th-most-listened to track! Weird.

Every Everclear song I've heard

― brimstead, Friday, November 22, 2013 12:05 AM (2 days ago)

This is otm

"Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" is truly the forgotten Milli Vanilli chart-topper, but "True" and "Rain" have definitely remained more famous than "Baby"

What was that a follow-up to?
Vengaboys- We Like To Party

"We Like to Party" came out after "Up & Down"

Ahh, then Wikipedia lied to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvujgcbaCF8

"Hot Rod Hearts," #15 follow up to Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpk4-_ENCVw

Somewhat similar, clearly consolidating on success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWLqxUgKGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqKdZ3JZ2k

I'm sure Europeans at least remember that Haddaway had a second big hit, besides "What Is Love", with "Life". But how many of you remember he followed it with a third hit, "Rock My Heart"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdnVwqXXWU

Oops was the more famous song, wasn't it?

Strangest comment I've ever read on ilx.

ahah indeed. still is !

lol, only just realized that Chubby Checker hasn't been invoked once itt. He pretty much made a career out of this.

He is mentioned in the other thread

I mean I don't think song titles like "Let's Twist Again" are exactly conspicuous like people aren't going "hmmm I wonder if this is similar to his first hit, The Twist"

that's exactly what conspicuous means!

Oh, I just thought of one. Went to #23 on the R&B charts in '73, a year after "Why Can't We Live Together"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_lCi9DQJ4
Timmy Thomas - People are changing (1973)

wouldn't conspicuous mean you're trying to get away with something?