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* Cobra Starship is really fond of call and response songs between a guy and girl, including:

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* Cobra Starship is really fond of call and response songs between a guy and girl, including:
** "Good Girls Go Bad," between the lead singer and [[GossipGirl Leighton Meester]]
** "New Edition" with the band's keytarist, Victoria Asher, getting in a few lines, leading up to...
** "Disaster Boy," where Victoria Asher is featured as the lead singer, with Gabe Saporta as the responder
**"What Happens on the Dancefloor," an Alexandra Burke song featuring Gabe Saporta
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** You Are Holy (Prince Of Peace) is one of these songs.

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** You "You Are Holy (Prince Of Peace) Peace)" is one of these songs.

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* There are plenty of church hymns that alternate between the men and women. It sounds awesome unless one group can't sing or someone doesn't understand how the song works. Or unless you have an old guy complaining about these 'newfangled' hymns that are over a hundred years old in the middle of it.

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* There are plenty of church hymns that alternate between the men and women. It usually sounds awesome unless one group can't sing or someone doesn't understand how the song works. Or unless you have an old guy complaining about these 'newfangled' hymns that are over a hundred years old in the middle of it.it.
** You Are Holy (Prince Of Peace) is one of these songs.
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* The "Plagues" song from ''Prince Of Egypt'' is a back-and-forth between Moses and Rameses noting the way their relationship has changed, and Moses pleading for the Hebrews to be freed and Rameses refusing. The animation behind the song is a montage of Egypt being devastated by the plagues.

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* The "Plagues" song from ''Prince Of Egypt'' ''ThePrinceOfEgypt'' is a back-and-forth between Moses and Rameses noting the way their relationship has changed, and Moses pleading for the Hebrews to be freed and Rameses refusing. The animation behind the song is a montage of Egypt being devastated by the plagues.
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* {{Blur}}'s song "Parklife" has verses consisting of [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken phrases]] with the singer shouting "Parklife!" after each one. Sometimes it finishes the sentence; sometimes it's just there.

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* {{Blur}}'s Music/{{Blur}}'s song "Parklife" has verses consisting of [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken phrases]] with the singer shouting "Parklife!" after each one. Sometimes it finishes the sentence; sometimes it's just there.
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* The VillainSong "Hellfire" from Disney's TheHunchbackOfNotreDame is a Call And Response Song with a BilingualBonus. While Frollo is insisting that he's not to blame, a chorus sings "Mea Culpa", negating what he says.

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* The VillainSong "Hellfire" from Disney's TheHunchbackOfNotreDame ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' is a Call And Response Song with a BilingualBonus. While Frollo is insisting that he's not to blame, a chorus sings "Mea Culpa", negating what he says.
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* "I'm Wishing" from SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves.

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* "I'm Wishing" from SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves.SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves has an interesting variant. Snow White is singing into a well, and it echos out her voice.
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* In the stage adaptation of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the beginning of "Friend Like Me" uses call and response {{audience participation}}.
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* The UnfortunateImplications-tastic "Baby It's Cold Outside" alternates between a man ("the wolf") trying to convince his date to stay the night and a woman ("the mouse") trying to tell him she can't.

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* The UnfortunateImplications-tastic "Baby It's Cold Outside" (by Frank Loesser) alternates between a man ("the wolf") trying to convince his date to stay the night and a woman ("the mouse") trying to tell him she can't.



* "Make A Miracle" from ''Where's Charley?''.

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* "Make A Miracle" (by Frank Loesser) from ''Where's Charley?''.



* "I'm Goin' North" from the wartime movie musical ''Thank Your Lucky Stars''.

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* "I'm Goin' North" (lyrics by Frank Loesser) from the wartime movie musical ''Thank Your Lucky Stars''.


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* "Tallahassee" (by Frank Loesser) from the movie musical ''Variety Girl''.
* "Happy To Make Your Acquaintance" (by Frank Loesser) from ''TheMostHappyFella''.
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--> "Tell her to make me a cambric shirt"
--> (The side of a hill in the deep forest green)
--> "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme"
--> (Tracing a sparrow on snow crested ground)
--> "Without no seams or needlework"
--> (Blankets and bedclothes, the child of the mountain)
--> "Then she'll be a true love of mine."
--> (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
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* The studio version "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkel is a curious take on call and response. The call (and far older than the duo), Scarborough Fair, is a traditional folk song (UK), and the response, Canticle, overlaps as a modified version of Simon's "The Side of a Hill," a contemporary (circa 1965) anti-war ballad.
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* [[DavidBowie "Magic Dance"]] from the movie ''{{Labyrinth}}''.
-->"You remind me of the babe"
-->"What babe?"
-->"The babe with the power."
-->"What power?"
-->"The power of voodoo."
-->"Who do?"
-->"You do."
-->"Do what?"
-->"Remind me of the babe!"
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* "Sex (I'm A...)" by Berlin features a sung exchange between lead singer Terri Nunn and songwriter John Crawford.
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* "To Binge" by {{Gorillaz}} plays with this: it's not quite a dialogue, but two StarCrossedLovers describing the same situation from different perspectives, often overlapping.
--> "I'm lookin' from a distance and I'm listenin' to the whispers and oh, it ain't the same when you're... falling out of feeling and just rollin' in and caught again-"
--> "I'm caught again in the mystery - You're by my side, but are you still with me? The answer's somewhere deep in it, I'm sorry that you're feeling it but I just have to tell you that I... love you so much these days. [[TearJerker Have to tell you that I love you so much these days, it's true.]]"
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* "I'm Goin' North" from the wartime movie musical ''Thank Your Lucky Stars''.
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* "Zydrate Anatomy" from ''RepoTheGeneticOpera''. Slightly subverted, in that the responses become more dulled as the drugs take effect in the chorus.

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* The Talking Heads song "Slippery People".

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* The Talking Heads TalkingHeads song "Slippery People".People".
** Many Talking Heads songs are like this. For example, both "Once in a Lifetime" and "(Nothing but) Flowers" incorporate call-and-response elements. It is most likely due to the influence they drew from African music.
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* The TalkingHeads song "Slippery People".

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* The TalkingHeads Talking Heads song "Slippery People".
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* INXS's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvbRZWEtd4 "Need You Tonight"]]:
--> "How do you feel?"
--> ''"I'm lonely!"''
--> "What do you think?"
--> ''"Can't think at all!"''
--> "Whatcha gonna do?"
--> ''"Gonna live my life!"''
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* From the {{Bleach}} ImageSong CD featuring Ichigo and Zangetsu, we have "Zan," which features call and response from Ichigo and Zangetsu, then [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Hollow Ichigo]] and Ichigo.
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* "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" by BillyJoel.
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* "Ich Will" ("I Want" for all you non German speakers) by {{Rammstein}} was written because Till Lindemann could not get why audiences are so fond of call and response and audience participation. Ironically it's a call and response song itself.
-->Till: "Can you see me?"
-->Crowd: "We see you!"
-->Till: "Can you hear me?"
-->Crowd: "We hear you!"
-->Till: "Can you feel me?"
-->Crowd: "We feel you!"
-->Till: "I don't understand you."
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* The VillainSong "Hellfire" from Disney's TheHunchbackOfNotreDame is a Call And Response Song with a BilingualBonus. While Frollo is insisting that he's not to blame, a chorus sings "Mea Culpa", negating what he says.
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* TheWho 5:15: "(inside outside) Leave me alone/(inside outside) Nowhere is home/ (inside outside) Where have I been?/ Out of mine brain on the five-fifteen!"
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* Many songs by TheBeatles. One good example is "With a Little Help From My Friends", in which Ringo sings lead and answers questions from John: "What do you see when you turn out the light?"..."I can't tell you, but I know its mine."
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Fairly common in {{Rock Opera}}s and {{Concept Album}}s.

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Generally a sub-trope of [[LetsDuet Let's Duet]], although some are also {{Crowd Song}}s. Fairly common in {{Rock Opera}}s and {{Concept Album}}s.
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--> -- '''{{Megaman}}''' ('''Protoman'''), "[[TheProtomen The Sons Of Fate]]"

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--> -- '''{{Megaman}}''' ('''Protoman'''), '''Game/MegaMan''' ('''Proto Man'''), "[[TheProtomen The Sons Of Fate]]"

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