# Different Song, Same Title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547 "2007-05-18T03:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/21 "2007-05-18T20:15:34Z")
_Waterloo_, by **ABBA** and **Stonewall Jackson**. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/22 "2007-05-18T20:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=xnylder] “Angel” Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith, Madonna, and Sarah MacLachlan [/QUOTE] Also Eurythmics and Erasure. (According to my iPod) Susan ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/23 "2007-05-18T20:41:40Z")
I was going to start a similar thread but, but was going to take the angle of ‘two totally different, oddly titled songs’. My example would be “It Never Rains in Southern Calfornia”- you wouldn’t expect two different songs to have that title, but the one by Albert Hammond, and another by a recent soul act whose name escapes me at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/24 "2007-05-18T20:44:07Z")
Ironically enough, **One** : Metallica Three Dog Night Madonna U2 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/25 "2007-05-18T20:44:15Z")
“ **Fire** ” the Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Jimi Hendrix; the Pointer Sisters ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/26 "2007-05-18T20:50:53Z")
“Ship of Fools” - Grateful Dead, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, World Party ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/27 "2007-05-18T21:51:22Z")
[QUOTE=xnylder] … For example, two of my favorite songs happen to be named “Send Me An Angel”, but one is by the Scorpions and the other by the Pet Shop Boys. Other than both vaguely fitting under the pop category, they really don’t resemble one another at all. [/QUOTE] The Pet shop boys apparently did cover this song but it was first done by the band [Real Life](http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/reallife.htm) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/28 "2007-05-18T21:57:08Z")
**Don’t Stop** by Fleetwood Mac, and by the Rolling Stones. Same title, two completely different songs. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/29 "2007-05-18T22:00:30Z")
“Joy to the World” is both a Three Dog Night hit, and a popular Christmas carol. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/30 "2007-05-18T22:25:45Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Octet, actually. Yes also had a song titled “Hold On” on 90125 Nonet: Herman’s Hermits also recorded a “Hold On.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/31 "2007-05-18T22:33:42Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] “ **Fire** ” the Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Jimi Hendrix; the Pointer Sisters [/QUOTE] …and Bruce Springsteen. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/32 "2007-05-18T22:37:23Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > “Candy Man” Roy Orbison and Sammy Davis Jr. Also Rev. Gary Davis. > [@Biffy](#): > > Hold Me Tight by the Beatles and noted ex-Beatle Paul McCartney Also non-Beatle Johnny Nash. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/33 "2007-05-18T22:42:47Z")
[QUOTE=xnylder] Wow! I never imagined there were so many…It seems the most popular titles are: Quartets: “Butterfly” by Crazy Town, Mariah Carey, Delta Goodrem, and Smile.dk “I Need You” The Beatles, The Kinks, America, and Paul Carrack “Someday” Glass Tiger, Mariah Carey, Sugar Ray, and Nickelback “Heaven” Talking Heads, Bryan Adams, Warrant, and Los Lonely Boys “Crazy” Patsy Cline, Seal, Aerosmith, and the Barenaked Ladies [/QUOTE] Two additional “Crazys”: **Gnarls Barkley** and **Pylon** (later covered by **R.E.M.** ). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/34 "2007-05-18T22:45:03Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] …and Bruce Springsteen. [/QUOTE] That’s the same song as the Pointer Sisters one. Broooce wrote it, of course. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/35 "2007-05-19T00:34:01Z")
The ones on my hard drive: **Accelerator** Jagged Little Pill and Primal Scream **Again And Again** Taproot and Umbrellas **Alive** Kenny Wayne Shepherd and P.O.D. **Amnesia** Toad the Wet Sprocket and Virgil **Animals** Gravenhurst and Nickelback **Anymore** Proximity Grey and Alec Bach **Anything** by Styrofoam and Third Eye Blind **Anyway** Dynamite Hack and Sodium **Apologies** 2 Girls Later and Dropping Daylight **Awake** Onesidezero and The Information **Barrel of a Gun** Depeche Mode and Guster **Beautiful** Avion, Flickerstick, Joydrop, Marvelous 3 and Social Code **Beautiful Disaster** 311 and The Gufs **Bittersweet** Etwine, Plumb, R.E.M. **Breakdown** Breaking Benjamin, Tantric and Instruction **Breathe** Greenwheel, Jeremy Camp, Michelle Branch, Moist and Seven Channels **Can’t Let Go** Landon Pigg and Lucinda Williams **Crazy** C60, Gnarls Barkley and Seal **Down** 311, Socialburn, Stone Temple Pilot and Thomas Reed **Drowning** Adema, Crazytown and Jack Johnson **Everything** Alanis Morissette, Fefe Dobson, Pillar and Xiren **Girlfriend** Matthew Sweet and Tigerbaby **Head** Mark Lanegan Band and Tinstar **Home** Clinic, Staind and Three Days Grace **Invincible** Eric Metronome (Pat Benatar cover, ftr) and Okay Go **Let Go** A New Revolution, Barlowgirl, Frou Frou and Red **Little Things** Bush, Good Charlotte and Lamb **Monsters** Matchbook Romance and Sons and Daughters **On My Own** 2 Hour Parking and Granian **Out of Control** Hoobastank, John Reuben and She Wants Revenge **Pain** Jimmy Eat World, Pushing Zero and Three Days Grace **Perfect** Burn Season, Crashpalace, Flyleaf, The Shawn Fussell Band and The Smashing Pumpkins **Pitiful** Blindside and Failure **Porcelain** Better Than Ezra and Moby (both beautiful songs) **Pretty** Kidney Thieves and Korn **Run** Cloud Ten, Collective Soul, Kutless and Snow Patrol **Save Me** Amiee Man, Shinedown and Unwritten Law **Shimmer** Fuel and Throwing Muses **Silhouette** Poster Children and Supervillian **Someday** Flipsyde, Sugar Ray and Zebrahead **Stars** Epic Hero and Switchfoot **The Catch** Forget Cassettes and N. Lannon **The End** David & The Citizens and Roadrunner United **Time Bomb** Agents Of Good Roots and Rancid **Vocano** Damien Rice and Up The Empire **Wake Up** Citizen A, Holmes and Joe Hedges **Without You** Black Lab and Lenny Kravitz ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/36 "2007-05-19T04:49:36Z")
“Rock and Roll” The Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin “Run, Run, Run” The Who, The Velvet Underground, The Gestures and The Third Rail “Mother” John Lennon and Danzig “Venus” Frankie Avalon and The Shocking Blue/Banarama “Surrender” Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick and U2 “Hurt” Elvis Presley and Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash “Guitar Man” Elvis Presley and Bread “The End” The Doors and The Beatles “It’s Only Love” The Beatles and Bryan Adams & Tina Turner “Tell Me Why” The Beatles and Neil Young “Walk On” Neil Young and U2 “Tonight’s the Night” The Shirelles and Neil Young “Words” The Monkees, The Bee Gees and Missing Persons “Words of Love” Buddy Holly and The Mamas and the Papas “Wish You Were Here” Eddie Fisher and Pink Floyd “Time” Pink Floyd and The Alan Parsons Project “Blue Monday” Fats Domino and New Order “Stay with Me” Lorraine Ellison and The Faces “On the Road Again” Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson “I Wanna Be Your Lover” Bob Dylan and Prince “Forever Young” Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart “One More Night” Bob Dylan and Phil Collins “License to Kill” Bob Dylan and Gladys Knight “Show Me” Joe Tex and The Pretenders “Walk Like a Man” The Four Seasons and Bruce Springsteen “Tunnel of Love” Dire Straits and Bruce Springsteen “The Promised Land” Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen “Two Hearts” Bruce Springsteen and Phil Collins “Reason to Believe” Tim Hardin/Rod Stewart and Bruce Springteen “I’m On Fire” Dwight Twilley and Bruce Springsteen “Chains of Love” The Drifters and Erasure “In the Mood” Glen Miller and Robert Plant “Scorpio” Dennis Coffey and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five “Leader of the Pack” The Shangri-Las and UTFO “What Is Love” Howard Jones and Haddaway “The Look of Love” Dusty Springfield and ABC “S.O.S.” ABBA, Good Charlotte and Rhianna “Rescue Me” Fontella Bass and Madonna ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/37 "2007-05-19T05:41:27Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] …and Bruce Springsteen. [/QUOTE] One more “Fire”: **U2** ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/38 "2007-05-19T11:07:44Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] Nonet: Herman’s Hermits also recorded a “Hold On.” [/QUOTE] Decet {?}: Deep Purple did one too. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-song-same-title/404547/39 "2007-05-19T12:56:45Z")
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