Editing Answer song (section)

===1960s===
* "Tell Tommy I Miss Him" (1960) by [[Marilyn Michaels]] is a response to "[[Tell Laura I Love Her]]" (1960), recorded separately by both [[Ray Peterson]] and [[Ricky Valance]]. Versions of this answer song were also released by [[Skeeter Davis]] and [[Laura Lee (singer-songwriter)|Laura Lee]].
* "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" by [[Damita Jo DeBlanc|Damita Jo]] (1960) answers [[The Drifters]]' "[[Save the Last Dance for Me]]", sung by [[Ben E. King]] (also 1960).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Damita%20Jo.html|title=Damita Jo Page|website=Soulwalking.co.uk|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref>  Another Damita Jo track, "I'll Be There" (1961), was in response to King's solo hit "[[Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)|Stand by Me]]" (1960).
* "[[He'll Have to Stay]]" (1960) was [[Jeanne Black]]'s response to [[Jim Reeves]]' "[[He'll Have to Go]]" (1959), and was answered in turn by Johnny Scoggins' "I'm Gonna Stay" (also 1960).
* "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" (1960) was [[Skeeter Davis]]' response to [[Hank Locklin]]'s "[[Please Help Me, I'm Falling]]", as was [[Betty Madigan]]'s "I'm Glad That You're Falling" (1960).
* "There's Nothing on My Mind" (1960) was [[The Teen Queens]]' response to [[Bobby Marchan]]'s "[[There's Something on Your Mind]]" (also 1960).
* "Yes, I'm Lonesome Tonight" (1960) was [[Dodie Stevens]]'s response to [[Elvis Presley]]'s "[[Are You Lonesome Tonight?]]" (also 1960).
* "I Really Want You to Know" (1961) was [[Skeeter Davis]]' response to [[Eddy Arnold]]'s "[[I Really Don't Want To Know]]".
* "Come on Back, Jack" (1961) written by [[Mort Shuman]] and [[Leon Carr]] and recorded by [[Nina Simone]], and "Well, I Told You" (also 1961), recorded by [[The Chantels]], are both different responses to "[[Hit the Road, Jack]]", written by [[Percy Mayfield]] and recorded by [[Ray Charles]].
* "Stay-at-Home Sue" by [[Linda Laurie]] and "I'm No Run Around" (both 1961) by Ginger Davis and the Snaps were responses to [[Dion DiMucci|Dion]]'s "[[Runaround Sue]]" (also 1961).
* "Hey Memphis" (1961) was [[LaVern Baker]]'s response to [[Elvis Presley]]'s "[[Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)|Little Sister]]" (also 1961).
* "Don'cha Shop Around" by Laurie Davis and "Don't Let Him Shop Around" by [[Debbie Dean (singer)|Debbie Dean]] (both 1961) were responses to [[The Miracles]]' "[[Shop Around]]" (1960). Both songs were written by [[Berry Gordy]] and [[Smokey Robinson]].
* "[[My Big John]]" (1961) was [[Dottie West]]'s response to [[Jimmy Dean]]'s "[[Big Bad John]]" (also 1961).
* "My Long Black Veil" (1961) was [[Marijohn Wilkin]]'s response to [[Lefty Frizzell]]'s "[[Long Black Veil]]" (1959).
* "Return of the Teenage Queen" (1961) was country singer Tommy Tucker's response to [[Johnny Cash]]'s "[[Ballad of a Teenage Queen]]" (1958).
* "Don't Wanna Be Another Good Luck Charm" (1962) was Jo's (of Judy and Jo) response to [[Elvis Presley]]'s "[[Good Luck Charm]]" (also 1962).
* "(I'm the Girl from) Wolverton Mountain" (1962) was [[Jo Ann Campbell]]'s response to [[Claude King]]'s "[[Wolverton Mountain]]" (also 1962).
*The Pearlettes' "Duchess of Earl" (1962) was a response to [[Gene Chandler]]'s "[[Duke of Earl]]" (1961).
* "[[Judy's Turn to Cry]]" (1963) was [[Lesley Gore]]'s response to her own song "[[It's My Party (Lesley Gore song)|It's My Party]]" (also 1963). Both of these songs appear in her debut album ''[[I'll Cry If I Want To]]''.
* "Blackhead Chinaman" (1963) was [[Prince Buster]]'s response to [[Derrick Morgan]]'s "Housewives Choice" (1961). Specifically, Buster claimed that Morgan and producer [[Leslie Kong]] stole hooks that Buster had created. Morgan responded with "Blazing Fire" and "No Raise, No Praise". The musical feud reportedly engulfed Jamaican culture to a level where the government ordered the two to appear in public together to calm the frenzied nation.
* "It Hurts to Be Sixteen" (1963) was [[Andrea Carroll]]'s response to [[Neil Sedaka]]'s "[[Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen]]" (1962). Sedaka wrote the melody to both songs (each with a different lyricist; his brother-in-law Ronnie Grossman wrote the lyrics to "It Hurts to Be Sixteen" while Sedaka's songwriting partner [[Howard Greenfield]] wrote "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen").
* "Hello Melvin (This Is Mama)" (1963) was [[Sandra Gould]]'s answer to "[[Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)]]" (also 1963), a novelty song by [[Allan Sherman]].
*[[The Beach Boys]]' "[[Don't Worry Baby]]" (1964) from ''Shut Down Volume 2'' was said to be an answer to [[the Ronettes]] song "[[Be My Baby]]" (1963).
*The Beach Boys' "[[The Girl from New York City]]" (1965) from ''[[Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]]'' was a response to [[The Ad Libs|The Ad Libs']] "[[The Boy from New York City]]" (1964).
* "[[Queen of the House]]" (1965) was [[Jody Miller]]'s response to [[Roger Miller]]'s "[[King of the Road (song)|King of the Road]]" (1964).
* "[[That's My Life (My Love and My Home)]]" (1965) by [[Alfred Lennon]], [[John Lennon]]'s father, was a response to his son's song "[[In My Life]]" (also 1965), recorded by [[the Beatles]].
* "Hurry, Mr. Peters" (1965) by [[Lorene Mann]] and [[Justin Tubb]] was a response to [[Roy Drusky]] and [[Priscilla Mitchell]]'s "[[Yes, Mr. Peters]]".<ref name="whitburn drusky">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|pages=255–256|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref>
* "Slip-In Mules (No High Heel Sneakers) " (1964) was [[Sugar Pie DeSanto]]'s answer to "[[High Heel Sneakers]]" (also 1964), by [[Tommy Tucker (singer)|Tommy Tucker]].
*Wendy Hill's "Gary, Please Don't Sell My Diamond Ring" (1965) to [[Gary Lewis & the Playboys]]' "[[This Diamond Ring]]". (1965)
* "Dawn of Correction" by [[The Spokesmen]] is in response to "[[Eve of Destruction (song)|Eve of Destruction]]" by [[Barry McGuire]] (both 1965).
* "[[Morgan the Pirate (song)|Morgan the Pirate]]" (1966) by [[Richard Fariña]] was believed by Fariña's producer [[Maynard Solomon]], journalist [[Robert Christgau]], and others to be a response to [[Bob Dylan]]'s scathing "[[Positively 4th Street]]" (1965), of which Fariña may have been (or at any rate believed himself to be) the target.
* "[[4th Time Around]]" (1966) by Bob Dylan is seen as a response to "[[Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)]]" (1965) by the Beatles.
* "Evil Off My Mind" (1966) by [[Burl Ives]] was a response to [[Jan Howard]]'s song "[[Evil on Your Mind]]" (1966).
* "When a Woman Loves a Man" (1966) by [[Ketty Lester]] was a response to "[[When a Man Loves a Woman (song)|When a Man Loves a Woman]]" (also 1966) by [[Percy Sledge]].
*French [[Johnny Hallyday]]'s 1966 ''Cheveux longs et idées courtes'' is a riposte to a direct, personal mockery in a verse of [[Antoine (musician)|Antoine]]'s ''Élucubrations'' of the same year; both were hit songs. (See [[Antoine (musician)#Rivalry with Johnny Hallyday|Antoine's rivalry with Johnny Hallyday]]).
* "I'm Happy They Took You Away, Ha-Haaa!" (1966) is Josephine XIV's response in the form of Napoleon's wife to [[Napoleon XIV]]'s "[[They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!]]" (1966). Another answer song is "They Took You Away, I'm Glad, I'm Glad", also written by Jerry Samuels.
* "[[Your Good Thing (Is About to End)]]" (1966), written by [[Isaac Hayes]] and [[David Porter (musician)|David Porter]], was originally recorded by [[Mable John]], and served as a response to "[[You'll Lose a Good Thing]]" (1962) by [[Barbara Lynn]].
* [[Jay Lee Webb]]'s 1967 song, "I Come Home A-Drinkin' (To a Worn-Out Wife Like You)", was written as an "answer song" to his older sister [[Loretta Lynn]]'s No. 1 1967 country hit "[[Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)|Don't Come Home A Drinkin{{' }} (With Lovin' on Your Mind)]]".
* "[[List of Basement Tapes songs (1975)#"Clothes Line Saga"|Clothes Line Saga]]" (1967) by Bob Dylan and the Band is seen as a response to "[[Ode to Billie Joe]]" (1967) by Bobbie Gentry.
*"Yes, I Am Experienced" (1967) by Eric Burdon and the Animals, was an answer to [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "[[Are You Experienced? (song)|Are You Experienced?]]" (1967).
* "[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]" (1968) by [[The Beatles]] was a response to "[[Back in the U.S.A.]]" by [[Chuck Berry]] (1959) and "[[California Girls]]" by [[The Beach Boys]] (1965).
* "Billy, I've Got to Go to Town" (1969) by Geraldine Stevens was a response to "[[Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town]]" by [[Johnny Darrell]] (1967).
* "More on Ode to Billie Joe" (1969) by Rodd Rogers (aka [[Rodd Keith]]), Terri Peters (aka [[Teri Thornton]]), and the MSR Singers was a response to 1967's blockbuster "[[Ode to Billie Joe]]" by [[Bobbie Gentry]].
*Joni Mitchell's "[[The Circle Game (song)|The Circle Game]]" (1970) is an answer to Neil Young's "[[Sugar Mountain (song)|Sugar Mountain]]" (1964).