There are also songs called “Stay” by:
Shakespeare’s Sister
Pretty Ricky
Nas
Flyleaf
Gavin De Graw
Goldfinger
Ne-Yo
Armin van Buren & Krezip
Zedd feat Alessia Cara
Derek Vincent Smith
Miley Cyrus
Rihanna feat Mikky Ekko
Also, Yes had one, which made it to #43 on the Rock charts.
Lady - Lionel Richie
Lady - Styx
Also Kenny Rogers and Little River Band, both of which were top 10 hits in the US.
"Don’t Let Me Down" is the title of charting singles by the Beatles, the Farm, Will Young, and Lotta Engberg & Christer Sjögren, plus three further non-charting singles by other groups, plus ten more album tracks by other groups, plus a song that was featured in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It’s also a near-miss with the similarly titled “Don’t Bring Me Down” by ELO.
“Somebody To Love” - Jefferson Airplane and Queen (a contender in the category of best entirely different rock songs with the same title).
There’s been a shitload of songs titled “Someone To Love”, of which the best is by Fountains of Wayne.
And how do we count Jackson Browne’s version, which is sort of a cover of the Maurice Williams song, but not really (the tune is the same, the lyrics quite different)?
Creep - Radiohead
Creep - Stone Temple Pilots
Creep - TLC
The three songs were more or less contemporaneous, between 1992 and 1994
That’s a formidable trio, up there with Think (Aretha; James Brown; Stones) mentioned above.
I had forgotten about the TLC version, but I came to post about the other two. And, they were both Alternative, so being played on the same stations at the same time. The TLC would have been on pop, R&B, and dance stations.
Whenever I go on vacation, I get ready by downloading audiobooks and songs set in the city/country I’m going to. So I’ve ended up with multiple tunes titled “Mexico” (SHF Band is my favorite), a number of "California"s (the winner? John Mayall), and five "Amsterdam"s (Crowded House and Guster do amazing tunes, which aren’t anything alike).
It was not uncommon for Radiohead Creep and STP Creep to be played back to back.
I was surprised the STP version was by far the least commercially successful of these, it seemingly was ALWAYS on the radio.
I had to Youtube the TLC version which is not at all memorable to me compared to some of TLC’s other hits. Wikipedia says it hit #1. Mainly I remember the video with the lustrous satin pajamas.
As a cover
There are 20 "Angel"s listed on my google search. And they don’t even list Fleetwood Mac who had one of the best (a Bob Welch song) I’d venture. And there’s Jimi Hendrix.
Fire on the Mountain…Marshall Tucker and The Grateful Dead
The one I found most confusing because of the similar names:
“Show Me Love” by Robin S. was a top 10 hit in 1993
“Show Me Love” by Robyn was a top 10 hit in 1995.
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd and Tom Petty - first thing that jumped into my head despite no one else mentioning it. Probably because I noticed it in the past and it’s not exactly nearly as common a phrase as the rest.
Also, Breathe - Prodigy and Pink Floyd.
Isn’t it funny what you remember about a song? I immediately thought “Hey, Poco’s ‘Angel’ has that sweet backup vocal swoosh…” (just checked, it’s at 3:10)
And now my brain’s going through its “Backup Vocals” file drawer. JD Souther (SHF Band, see “Fallin’ in Love”), Herb Pedersen’s duets with Emmylou, Clare Torry live with Pink Floyd, John Frusciante (RHCP), Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple and Sabbath), Neil Young and Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield), and of course Roger Taylor on Bohemian Rhapsody.
Sorry, should be a different thread.
Joy Division.
U2 and the Cult. “Breathing” by Kate Bush.
For “Breathe,” the Telepopmusik one is the first that comes to mind, for some reason.
That said, holy cow there’s a lot of song named that. Twenty-one of them notable enough to have their own Wikipedia page.