Pop song homonyms: same title, different songs

Yup. Its the loneliest number.

The 80s Lionel Ritchie jam and the new Adele single.

“Creep”–Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, TMC. I think they were simultaneous.

“Come On Come On” Mary Chapin Carpenter, “C’mon C’mon” Sheryl Crow, also One Direction

“Africa” Miriam Makeba and Toto

“Baby Driver” Simon & Garfunkel, Kiss

Multiple, dissimilar versions of “Mother Popcorn,” “Cripple Creek” and “Cotton-Eyed Joe”

I think you mean “Creep” by TLC, not TMC. Good song.

For C’mon, C’mon there is also the song by the Von Bondies - great Detroit garage rock and used by Denis Leary for the open credits of his show about firemen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_z1aKfYhOM

Yes, this is an old zombie thread, but what the heck.

On doing a little research, I realized I was confused. It wasn’t Bruce Hornsby…it was Robert Plant. No, I can’t fathom how I confused the two of them, other than to say the late 80s were a long, long time ago.

Mexico - Jefferson Airplane

Mexico - James Taylor

Mexico - Butthole Surfers

Mexico - instrumental standard

Best of My Love - The Emotions, The Eagles

Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Dirty Laundry - Bitter:Sweet
Dirty Laundry - Cayetana

Downtown - Petula Clarke
Downtown - Macklemore

Driving in to work today, I heard Calvin Harris + Disciples’ “How Deep Is Your Love,” not to be confused with songs of the same name by the Bee Gees, The Rapture, or Dru Hill. (There are at least a couple of other songs with the same name, but I’m not familiar with them.)

I also heard Adele’s previously mentioned “Hello.”

Linge Sale - Albert Marcoeur :wink:

Welcome back, old thread! Good to see you again. Since you’re back, I’ll add some more titles.

"Angel" —SUPER popular name. Aerosmith, Anita Baker, Eurythmics, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, Massive Attack, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan … and many more.

"Photograph" —Ringo Starr, Def Leppard, The Verve Pipe, Weezer, Nickelback, Ed Sheeran

"S.O.S." —ABBA, Rihanna, Jonas Brothers, Good Charlotte, Pink Lady …

Yeah that counts.

One two occasions, there have been two songs called “Hold On” in the Top 40 at the same time. The first was in the late 1970s, with Ian Gomm and Triumph. Neither were huge hits, chart-wise, but the latter in particular still gets airplay, albeit in a truncated-for-pop-radio version. In the early 1990s, there was Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On” and another for whom the artist’s name escapes me right now.

For a while there a few years ago, I swore I couldn’t go into a store and NOT hear the WP version. :smack:

Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison and The Motels.

Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote songs called Hosanna for Jesus Christ Superstar and his Requiem mass.

Nick Heyward and the ALW/Jim Steinman’s musical both had songs called Whistle Down the Wind

King’s X and R.E.M. both have songs called “Fall On Me” and (The) “Burning Down”.

“Burning Down” is by R.E.M.; “The Burning Down” is by King’s X.

“Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”

OK, maybe someday

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