And of course, the Stones song is a cover, just not of ZZ Top.
One that always used to get me when I heard it on the radio was George Harrison’s “What Is Life”. When I heard that opening guitar riff, I always thought it was a Bachman Turner Overdrive song, until he started singing.
Pilot’s Magic (recently revived in Commercial Land as "oh oh oh Ozempic!) sounds like ELO.
I think Western civilization peaked with the British Invasion, so I’m always up for seeing some of those bands, even fifty years past their prime. Caught a set by the Buckinghams, who were laughing about people thinking they were secretly a British band (Gerry & The Pacemakers? Or the Kinks? Or just neighbors of theirs?).
They were telling how when they played [one of those lip-sync shows… maybe Hullabaloo?] the TV producers wanted them to wear British flags. They said “Lookie here, guv’nor, we’re just five nobs… FROM CHICAGO!”
Producers said, okay, wear your own outfits. But then look at how they dressed the set…
Union Jack, Union Jack, sort of half a Union Jack, sort of the other half… nothing but weirdly proportioned Union Jacks!
“Walk on the Ocean” by Toad the Wet Sprocket sounds so much like a Billy Joel song that Howard Stern played it for Joel to get his reaction. Turns out Billy had never heard it.
Myself, I thought for years that it was a Pink Floyd song, or perhaps a David Gilmour solo track.
How to win a free beer in a bar. Play this song and bet the person that they can’t name the band. When they say Green Day say, “Nope, Harvey Danger.” and order your beer.
That’s so funny… I actually thought Magic was done by ELO. Ignorance fought.
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band are apparently not Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Hmm. I have to part ways with Mr. Stern on this one. I don’t hear any resemblance to Billy Joel at all in “Walk on the Ocean”.
Yeah, that long slide guitar section in the middle sounds like something Gilmour would play.
Wayne Hancock - Best to be Alone not only sounds like Hank Williams, but it sounds just like Lost Highway.
And, in a tiny zombie nitpick, I’ll mention that I Dig Rock and Roll was not Peter, Paul and Mary’s biggest hit. It trails Leaving On Jet Plane, Puff, and Blowing In the Wind.
(Except in Australia.)
You would owe me a beer. 
Ah, remember when a song would come out and you heard it many times before you heard a DJ reveal the singer’s name? We sure thought this was Neil Diamond singing.
I don’t know who the lead singer of Shocking Blue reminded me of—I couldn’t tell if the singer was male or female from the voice.
A relative thought “Give Me All Your Love Tonight” by Whitesnake was originally a Led Zeppelin song.
Almost a year. I knew it was in my head, somewhere. Doesn’t this sound like nu wave I Am the Walrus, or maybe Strawberry Fields Forever?
I was convinced Old County Song by Jake Bugg must be cover of Woody Guthrie or some old folk artist, but its not:
I can kind of see that. Especially the lyrics.
Sure though that Springsteen had a new song out when I first heard “On the Dark Side”.
OK, I was wondering if I was the only one. There’s a good number here I don’t hear much of a resemblance between, but the Billy Joel - Toad the Wet Sprocket one really had my head scratching.