What artists have written songs with the same title as a song by a different artist?
Sorrow - Box Car Racer, Bad Religion, Pink Floyd
High Hopes - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Hagar, Pink Floyd
Black Dog - Wolfstone, Led Zeppelin
What else?
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro, Aretha Fraklin, Mariah Carey
Not exactly the same title, but I think it’s unusual and specific enough to be worth mentioning.
Be My Yoko, The Bobs (1983)
Be My Yoko Ono, Barenaked Ladies (1992)
I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono, Dar Williams (2000)
The Power of Love - Huey Louis and the News, Jennifer Rush, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
And, IIRC, for at least one week, they were all in the British charts simultaneously.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has different songs called “Hosanna” in Jesus Christ Sueprstar and in Requiem.
I’d love an intertwining duet of the two.
Creep - Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, TLC Very different songs, same time frame.
New Year’s Day–U2 and Allison Moorer.
Engel, by Rammstein and Das Ich.
Something in this thread reminded me of a song a former band-mate wrote. It was called Mother Mary. I decided to google and see if anyone else had written a song of the same name.
Mother Mary - Far, UFO, Zakk Wylde, Julian Lennon, Eels
There are literally thousands of these- maybe you should specify, as **Robot Arm ** implies, to limit it to odd song titles, such as “It Never Rains in Southern California”, by Albert Hammond and some 90’s R&B group.
Those Were the Days seems to have had lots of versions. I know of the famous Mary Hopkins version, and the totally different song by the same name on Cream’s Wheels of Fire, (about Atlantis - stupid lyrics, great little Clapton solo) but there appear to be a few more - especially the theme song for All in the Family.
Fine. Then I won’t do Dance the Night Away.
Internet’s not big enough anyway.
Life On Mars - David Bowie, Happy Rhodes (though her title is a tip of the hat to Bowie)
Winter - Tori Amos, Happy Rhodes
This topic seems to crop up pretty frequently
Huh. So it does.
It was Pink Floyd that got me to start this thread, and I used them in two of my three examples in the OP. I clicked on your links, and what band came up immediately?
Poster Children also have a song called “Black Dog.”
I didn’t mean to suggest that the thread be constrained only to offbeat examples. No, I’m just strange enough that Be My Yoko, et al., were the only ones that came to mind.
Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground and the Acid House Kings.
Didn’t U2 have a “Hold me Kiss Me Thrill Me” that was different than the Mel Carter version?
“S.O.S.” - ABBA, Rihanna, Dave Edmunds.