You can add Kansas to that list as well.
“Walk on By” by Leroy Van Dyke
vs.
“Walk on By” by Burt Bacharach
And Tom Waits
And Green Day.
“Mother”
Pink Floyd, John Lennon
“Time”
Tom Waits, Pink Floyd
“Home” - add Michael Buble
“All By Myself” - Eric Carmen, Fats Domino, Various recordings of the Irving Berlin song
“Big Time” - Peter Gabriel, Linda Eder, Big and Rich
“Lady” - Kenny Rogers, Styx, Little River Band, Lionel Ritchie, scores of others
“Heartbreak Hotel” - Elvis, Whitney Houston
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, too.
And Herman’s Hermits. It was the title song of their movie, long time ago.
Add: The Police
Add: The Alan Parsons Project
You Beloong to Me
Jo Stafford (See the pyramids along the Nile…)
Patience and Prudence [unless it’s Prudence and Patience] (I know I know you belo-o-o-o-ong to so-o-o-o-ome-body else…)
Carly Simon (Why’d you tell me this? Were you looking for my reaction…)
Also Michael Buble’
“Streets of Baltimore” - one a country song by Harlan Howard & Tompall Glaser (I’m not sure who originally performed it), the other an Irish immigration song by O’Malley’s March.
Didn’t Creed and Natalie Imbruglia both have songs titled “Torn”? If so, that puts them up to at least five matches. Not that I’m saying anything about their originality…
Anway, I came in to post an odd, less-than-perfect match: HIM’s “In the Nightside of Eden” and Therion’s “Nightside of Eden”. That’s close enough to count, isn’t it?
Bobby Bare had a hit with “Streets…”
All or Nothing
Milli Vanilli
O-Town
Alone
Azoic
Lisa Loeb
Always
Erasure
Bon Jovi
Amazing
Aerosmith
Madonna
Angel
Amanda Perez
Jon Secada
Luscious Jackson
Madonna
Sarah McLachlan
Shaggy
Around the World
Aqua
Daft Punk
Bad Boys
Gillette
Inner Circle
Beautiful
Christina Aguilera
Snoop Dogg
Because of You
The Cover Girls
98 Degrees
Been Around the World
Puff Daddy (or whatever it is these days)
Lisa Stansfield
Believe
KUWASHIMA Houko
Elton John
Cher
Best Friends
Aaliyah / Missy Elliot
Tim McGraw
Brandy
Bitch
Republica
Meredith Brooks
Blue
Elastica
Eiffel 65
Leann Rimes
Break Away
Tracey Ullman
Kelly Clarkson
Breathe
Crossbreed
Faith Hill
Prodigy
Butterfly
Crazy Town
Tapping the Vein
Circle
Edie Brickell
Sarah McLachlan
Come Go With Me
Exposé
The Del Vikings
Crazy
Aerosmith
Alana Davis
K-Ci and Jo Jo
Seal
Crying
Aerosmith
AIKAWA Nanase
Dangerous
Roxette
Busta Rhymes
Michael Jackson
Do You Remember
Jill Scott
Phill Collins
Don’t Cry
Guns N Roses
Culture Club
Don’t Stop
Fleetwood Mac
Madonna
Don’t Tell Me
Madonna
Avril LaVigne
Dreams
Gabrielle
The Cranberries
Everybody
Madonna
Backstreet Boys
Everything
Alanis Morissette
Jody Watley
Fancy
Destiny’s Child
Bobbie Gentry
Gone
N Sync
Madonna
Good
Pizzicato Five
Better than Ezra
Heat of the Night
AIKAWA Nanase
Aqua
Heaven
Nu Flavor
Los Lonely Boys
Bryan Adams
Here and Now
Luther Vandross
Letters to Cleo
Hero
Enrique Iglesias
Mariah Carey
Hey Now
Cyndi Lauper
Oasis
Hold On
En Vogue
Sarah McLachlan
Wilson Phillips
Jamie Walters
How
The Cranberries
Lisa Loeb
Human
Elastica
Dionne Farris
I Do
Lisa Loeb
Blaque
I Love You
add Sarah McLachlan
I Miss You
Björk
Aaron Hall
I Need You
Leann Rimes
BVMSP
I Remember You
Denine
Skid Row
I Want You
Madonna
Savage Garden
Thalía
Shana
I Want You Back
Bananarama
N Sync
I Will Remember You
Sarah McLachlan
Amy Grant
I Wish
Carl Thomas
R. Kelly
Skee Lo
If
Destiny’s Child
Janet Jackson
I’ll Be
Foxy Brown
Edwin McCain
I’ll Be There
Escape Club
The Jackson 5
HAYASHIBARA Megumi
I’m Still in Love with You
New Edition
Sean Paul
I’ve Been Thinking About You
Londonbeat
Mariah Carey
Jealousy
AIKAWA Nanase
Natalie Merchant
Lately
Jodeci
Divine
The Letter
Natalie Merchant
Macy Gray
OutKast
Look into my Eyes
Bone Thugs n Harmony
George Lamond
Love
Destiny’s Child
Musiq Soulchild
Love Song
Fleming & John
Madonna
Tesla
Lullaby
Shawn Mullins
Alana Davis
Mary
Sarah McLachlan
Scissor Sisters
Mississippi
Paula Cole
Bob Dylan
Music
Madonna
Erick Sermon
My Baby
Leann Rimes
Lil Romeo
The One
Elton John
Shakira
One More Chance
Notorious BIG
Madonna
One Thing
Finger Eleven
Luscious Jackson
Opposites Attract
Billie Myers
Paula Abdul
Over and Over
Nelly
Madonna
Power of Love
Deee-Lite
Luther Vandross
Céline Dion
Ready or Not
The Fugees
After 7
Release Me
Blaque
Crossbreed
Wilson Phillips
Rhythm of the Night
Debarge
Corona
Runaway
Janet Jackson
Real McCoy
Show Me
The Cover Girls
Jill Scott
Show Me The Way
Rockell
Styx
Slow Motion
Color Me Badd
Juvenile
Smile
Tupac Shakur
Elastica
Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane
Jon B & Babyface
Someday
Mariah Carey
Nickelback
Sugar Ray
Lisa Stansfield
Southside
Lloyd & Ashanti
Moby & Gwen Stefani
Stand By Me
Oasis
Ben King
Stay
Destiny’s Child
Eternal
Lisa Loeb
Shakespeare’s Sister
Stutter
Joe & Mystika
Elastica
Superstar
The Carpenters
Sheryl Crow
Sweet Dreams
The Eurhythmics
La Bouche
Tell Me
Billie Myers
Groove Theory
Temptation
Destiny’s Child
Delerium
Thank You
add Alanis Morissette
That’s The Way It Is
Céline Dion
Jo Dee Messina
LFO
They Don’t Know
Jon B
Tracey Ullman
Together Forever
Lisette Melendez
Science
Rick Astley
Ugly
Bubba Sparxxx
Garrison Starr
What is Love?
En Vogue
Haddaway
Deee-Lite
When I’m Gone
3 Doors Down
Rockell
Witness
Cyndi Lauper
Sarah McLachlan
These are from my oversized collection at home. 4,376 songs – many more of which have the same title than I previously suspected.
“Jacob’s Ladder”
Rush
Bruce Hornsby And The Range (+Huey Lewis and the News)
Jane Siberry
Converge
Julia Fordham
Mark Wills
Chumbawamba
All different versions.
From gospel to country to prog rock…
Add Miami Sound Machine
Add Rolling Stones
Add Asia
Add Reba McIntire
Add Santana
Add Human League
Add The J. Geils Band
Add Blondie
Add Tori Amos
Subtract Reba McEntire. Hers is a version of Bobbie Gentry’s.
[Johnny Carson]
I did not know that!
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“Rain” add The Beatles.
“Holiday”
Green Day
Madonna
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Green Day
Hanoi Rocks
Love Kills
Joe Strummer
The Circle Jerks
Both can be found on the same album: the soundtrack to the Alex Cox film Sid and Nancy. The Strummer “Love Kills” is the end title song; “Love Kills” was the film’s release title in Britain.