"Down Home Town"

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I recently learned about the song "Dixie," which had been lurking on my periphery for a while (by which I mean I was sort of aware of it, but it was only recently that I actually lookt into it), and I instantly remembered Electric Light Orchestra's "Down Home Town."  I just confirmed that it quotes "Dixie," lyrically and musically.

At about 2:42 in the backing vocals, there's the line "Wish I was in the land of Dixie," and then the trumpets play almost all of the tune "Dixie," near the end of which some more lyrics (the overlapping "Look away"s) from "Dixie" appear.  At about 3:30, those backing vocal parts ("Wish I was in the land of Dixie" and the overlapping "Look away"s) appear a second time.

"Ticket to the Moon"

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For some reason, the chorus from "Ticket to the Moon" popped into my head yester-day.  I already had my bass out, so I learned some of the bass part, but there's still a lot of it I'm not sure of yet.  Instead, here are the first eight measures of piano. which I also learned.  This morning, I even notated as much as I played in this recording.  Eventually, I plan on posting the chords, notation, or even tabs for some of these songs, but since I started this project only a year and a half ago, I don't know very much yet (and a lot of the parts I do know are still incomplete).