Editing Answer song (section)

===1970s===
* "Hippie From Olema" (1971) was [[The Youngbloods]]' answer to [[Merle Haggard]]'s country hit, "[[Okie from Muskogee]]" (1969).
* [[Paul McCartney and Wings]]'s "[[Wild Life (Wings album)|Some People Never Know]]" & "Dear Friend" (both 1971), "[[Let Me Roll It]]" & "[[Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five]]" (both 1973), and "[[Silly Love Songs]]" (1976) all answered John Lennon's "[[How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song)|How Do You Sleep?]]" (1971) which was [[John Lennon]]'s response to "[[Too Many People]]" (1971) by ex-[[The Beatles|Beatle]] and Lennon's former collaborator Paul McCartney.<ref name="Playboy1984">{{cite web |author=Playboy Magazine |url=http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1984.pmpb.beatles.html |title=Playboy Interview With Paul and Linda McCartney |publisher=Playboy Press |year=1984 |access-date=23 August 2008}}</ref>
* "[[The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka]]" (1972) was ''[[Hee Haw]]'' host [[Roy Clark]]'s answer to [[Gil Scott-Heron]]'s "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]". "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was, in turn, a response to [[The Last Poets]]' "When the Revolution Comes."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Al Nasir |first=Abdul Malik |date=June 6, 2018 |title=Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the 'grandfather of rap' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/06/jalal-mansur-nuriddin-last-poets-obituary-grandfather-of-rap |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621153934/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/06/jalal-mansur-nuriddin-last-poets-obituary-grandfather-of-rap |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |access-date=June 21, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
* "I'm Mr. Big Stuff" was the 1972 response by [[Jimmy Hicks]] to "[[Mr. Big Stuff]]" by [[Jean Knight]].
*"(Should I) Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree?" was the 1973 response by [[Connie Francis]] to [[Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree|"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree"]] by [[Tony Orlando & Dawn]].
* "[[Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces]]" (1973) was [[Cheech and Chong]]'s parody of the romantic song "Love Jones" (1972) by [[Brighter Side of Darkness]].
* "[[Sweet Home Alabama]]" (1974) was [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s response to [[Neil Young]]'s "[[Southern Man (song)|Southern Man]]" (1970) and "[[Harvest (Neil Young album)|Alabama]]" (1972).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718134604/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/response-songs-and-sequels.html|url-status=dead|title=Music &#124; Yahoo Entertainment|archive-date=July 18, 2012|website=Yahoo.com}}</ref> [[Warren Zevon]] then wrote a response to "Sweet Home Alabama", titled "Play It All Night Long" (1980).
* "From His Woman to You" (1975) sung by [[Barbara Mason]] was the response to "[[Woman to Woman (Shirley Brown song)|Woman to Woman]]" (1974) by [[Shirley Brown]].
* "Rak Off Normie" (1975) by Maureen Elkner was the response to "[[The Newcastle Song]]" (1975) by [[Bob Hudson (singer)|Bob Hudson]].
* "[[(I'm A) Stand By My Woman Man]]" (1976) sung by [[Ronnie Milsap]] was the response to [[Tammy Wynette]]'s "[[Stand By Your Man]]" (1968).
* "[[Two Out of Three Ain't Bad]]" (1977) by [[Meat Loaf]] was the answer song to "[[I Want You, I Need You, I Love You]]" (1956) by [[Elvis Presley]].
* Johnny Thunders' "[[So Alone (album)|London Boys]]" (1978) is a response to the [[Sex Pistols]]' "New York" (1977).