# Songs separated at birth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130 "2009-03-20T05:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/41 "2009-03-25T05:08:10Z")
Ripping off the Bo Diddley riff is practically a musical industry tradition. Diddley did it himself with Mona, Pretty Thing and many others Among those that base the whole song on it, or offer a tribute to it are Willie & the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis I Want Candy - The Strangeloves Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly Who Do You Love - notably Quicksilver Messenger Service, which rang the changes through an extended jam on their Happy Trails album with sections called, When You Love, Where You Love, How You Love and Which do You Love and added a version of Diddley’s Mona to boot Hey Little Girl - Dee Clark Billy Bones and the White Bird - Elton John Faith - George Michael Goose Getting Down - Goose Creek Symphony Rocky Road - The Dead Reckoners Iko Iko - Dr. John Even rodeo’s top country star Chris LeDoux paid homage in his Little Long-Haired Outaw And the Allman Brothers were known to quote it in their jams ---
**Author:** ![mrpayday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrpayday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrpayday)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/42 "2009-03-25T06:04:18Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “All Day and All of the Night” by the Kinks and “Hello, I Love You” by the Doors. “All Day and All of the Night” and the Sex Pistols’ “Submission” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/43 "2009-03-25T12:47:16Z")
Thematically, Elton John’s “Rocket Man” and Harry Nilsson’s “Spaceman” and John’s “I Think I Want to Kill Myself” and Nilsson’s, “I’d Rather Be Dead.” Both of Elton’s songs were on _Honkey Chateau_ and both of Nilsson’s were on _Son of Schmillson_. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/44 "2009-03-25T13:41:18Z")
Hearing or singing “We’ll Meet Again” always sends me straight into Pink Floyd’s “Vera Lynn.” ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/45 "2009-03-25T14:07:14Z")
Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry be Happy / 4 Non Blondes - What’s up? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W\_HE8Q\_1WD4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HE8Q_1WD4) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/46 "2009-03-25T14:13:26Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Why Don’t You Get a Job by the Offspring almost invariably turns into Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel in my brain. Funny. It turns into “Ob-La-Di” by the Beatles for me. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/47 "2009-03-25T19:59:19Z")
Deep Purple’s “Painter” and Santana’s “Jingo.” I once did a mashup of the two in the 1970s, mixing from two turntables onto tape. May have to tackle that again with sophisticated tools. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/48 "2009-03-25T20:02:06Z")
I once did a tape mashup of Floyd’s Money with Zeppelin’s How Many More Times – very similar bassline. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/49 "2009-03-25T20:10:25Z")
Iggy Pop’s _Lust for Life_ and \*You Can’t Hurry Love \*sound just the same to me. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/50 "2009-03-25T20:13:55Z")
Ooh, remembered one: Bolero and Uptown Girl. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/51 "2009-03-25T20:53:34Z")
Same tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and The Alphabet Song I also used to have a habit of making lyrics fit alternate tunes. So: Amazing Grace = Puff, the Magic Dragon = America the Beautiful = The Billboard Song. Sorry , I’ve got a toddler. Oh, how I miss grown-up music! ! ! ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/52 "2009-03-26T02:22:10Z")
Daughtry’s “It’s Not Over” and Fuel’s “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)”. When one comes on the radio, it takes a few seconds for me to figure out which it is. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/53 "2009-03-29T21:48:22Z")
[“Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_I'm_Gonna_Leave_You) (written in the 1950’s by Anne Bredon as a folk song, covered by Joan Baez, and then again, presumably with an entirely different spin, by **Led Zeppelin** in 1969), and **Chicago** ’s “25 or 6 to 4,” which came out in 1970. Chicago used Led Zep’s machine-gun guitar/bass descending motif (“dum-dum-dum-dum-dum! [beat] dum-dum-dum-dum-dum! [beat]…”) but overlaid the whole thing with a soaring melody carried by their horn section and added snare drum licks to fill the interstitial beats: (“dum-dum-dum-dum-dum! [snare lick] dum-dum-dum-dum-dum! [snare lick]…”). Or as the Wiki article dryly notes: “One year after the album \*Led Zeppelin \*was released in 1969, Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4” came out as a single, and sounds similar to the progression used in the Led Zeppelin version.[5]” ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130/54 "2009-03-29T21:59:34Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > “All By Myself” by Eric Carmen and “I Can’t Live” by Harry Nilson. Back in the '70s, I was surprised to learn that those two were not both by the same artist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-separated-at-birth/490130.md?page=2)