Musical Allusions 6 by AlexanderD

"I Gotta Believe" is the final stage track of the 1996 Playstation rhythm game "PaRappa the Rapper". The background samples what Four Seasons song that reentered the Billboard Hot 100 three years prior?

Think back to "Musical Allusions 4" for a moment, where there was a question about Reunion's "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)". That song itself alluded to "Celebrate" from 1969 and "Baby I Need Your Loving" from 1964. Name EITHER act that performed those songs.

"The Big O", the series about negotiator Roger Smith and his giant robot, had two theme songs. The first, "Big O!" sounds like "Flash Gordon" by Queen. The second sounds like the Barry Gray theme to what 1970 Gerry Anderson non-Supermarionation series?

"People all over the world", an extrapolation of a 1972 O'Jays hook, can be heard in later recordings of a 1974 MFSB hit written by Gamble & Huff, which would serve as the theme music to what series that was syndicated from 1971 to its final first-run episode in 2006?

Depending on what version of the song you listen to, Blackstreet & Mya's "Take Me There" will feature one of two backing tracks. One comes from a Jackson 5ive standard. The other comes from a Nickelodeon animated series whose movie version featured the song. Name EITHER the Jackson 5ive song or the Nick series.

Dee Snider admitted that what Christmas carol influenced his magnum opus, Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It"?

Take a little bit of Chopin's Funeral March, add a soupcon of Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" from "The Planets", and you more or less have John Williams' famous march from what space opera series?

"O Verona" from "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" lifts substantially from "O Fortuna!" from "Carmina Burana". Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, & Marius de Vries did the knockoff, but who composed the music for the original in the 1930s?

Will Smith tried to capture the lightning in a bottle - both musically and theatrically - with "Wild Wild West", and failed both times. The title track of the soundtrack samples both Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" and a similarly titled song by what early hip-hop pioneer, known as much for his beef with LL Cool J as for tracks like "How Ya Like Me Now"?

"Find Your Grail" from "Spamalot" is essentially a topical re-imagining of what John Denver staple that mentions a state in its chorus?

Kent Jones' 2016 single "Don't Mind" borrows the chorus of 1994's "Practice What You Preach", seen as the comeback single for what iconic 1970s singer (it was his first #1 on the Billboard R&B charts in almost 20 years)?

An Elvis standard, an Elvis sub-standard, a song associated with the US Military Academy, and a song Ted Mosby sang with Will Shortz on "How I Met Your Mother" all have the EXACT SAME MELODY as what Civil War tome about a maiden written by George R. Poulton & WW Fosdick that sounds like directions on how to take medicine?