Nope, I don’t get them confused at all. I recognize each one right from the first few notes. I should have been on Name That Tune. 
Dream Weaver, Fly like an Eagle, Time Keeps on Slipping into the Future, and even Billy Thorpe’s Children of the Sun. I can see getting all those mixed up.
But Dream On? No way!
I never saw the title of Dream Weaver in print until I was an adult. I grew up thinking it was Trail Weaver (something about the way he enunciates it), and thinking, “That doesn’t make any sense”.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Dreamweaver performed by Dream Theater.
I can see why you’d easily confuse those two. 
LOL! I’m such a dolt! :smack:
I never did that nor did I confuse “Dream Weaver” with “Dream On”. And yet, for some strange silly reason, my brain keeps wanting to think Gary Wright’s follow-up hit, “My Love is Alive”, is by Peter Frampton. Wright and Frampton don’t sound that much alike do they?
I can see why you’d think that. It’s not exactly Frampton’s style but Mr. Wright’s voice sounds very similar on that song.
Tell me why I think I Can Help is by Ringo Star. I know I’m not the only one.
He did cover it and reportedly it’s part of the Lost Ringo Album. Other than that I can kind of see how their voices, Ringo’s and Swan’s, might (possibly :)) be mistaken for each other.
I always associate Gary Wright and Peter Frampton just because I saw them back-to-back at a big stadium show in 1976. (The other acts on the bill were Gentle Giant and Yes, who were the ones I was there to see.) Of course Gary Wright did “Dream Weaver” and “My Love Is Alive”; Frampton did all his talk-box stuff and had his leg in a cast.
I argued once that “The Boys Are Back In Town” was not performed by Thin Lizzy but most certainly Trooper. I was confusing it with “The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car”. Those songs don’t really sound alike but in my defense they were released in the same year.
It’s deliberate. This is a common tactic in the music industry. They take a song that is well know and liked, like Dream Weaver, and then make an unknown or unpopular band that they want to promote to write a very similar song to trick the public into thinking the latter is the former to increase sales for the unknown or unpopular band.
I Love Dream Weaver.
How about Undercover Angel?
Except Dream On came first, released in 1973, while Dream Weaver was released in 1975. By that time Aerosmith had established themselves. And Gary Wright wasn’t unknown, either. He had been in Spooky Tooth with Mick Jones, who later co-founded Foreigner.
Whenever I mention the song The Boys Are Back In Town, I’m speaking about The Bus Boys.