# Songs...Wrong Artist...Oops! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695 "2003-04-01T13:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Mook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Mr.Mook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Mook)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/41 "2003-04-04T06:05:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fizgig \* > \*\*Damn’ right it is! \*\* Nah that’s America. You’re thinking of Crazy Horse with No Name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/42 "2003-04-04T08:14:11Z")
On a roadtrip a year ago, the radio stations kept playing “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I Got)” by the Temptations, which at first I thought was “These Eyes” by the Guess Who. The lack of a, uh, “accordian-reed-keyboard-thing-intro” should have thrown me. King Harvest of “Dancin’ in the Moonlight” fame actually has a “Greatest Hits” out under the Razor & Tie label or Rhino; one of the two. FYI, “Dancin’ (Dancing?) in the Moonlight” is also a title by Anne Murray, and one of my favorites by her at that. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/43 "2003-04-04T08:17:30Z")
> [@](#): > > _A sudden brain-fart produced this posting by me:_ > **The lack of a, uh, “accordian-reed-keyboard-thing-intro” should have thrown me.** I meant the Hohner Pianet. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/44 "2003-04-04T08:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tiramisu \* > \*\*Erm … well, I thought _Dancin’ in the Moonlight_ was a Van Morrison song, too. I’m sure I have a lot of other misperceptions about who sings what song but I can’t think of any others right now. > > Anyway, yeah the file-sharing mislabels are annoying. But it’s also hard to find the correct info online. For example, I was trying to find the original performer of Everlasting Love, so I did a lyrics search and it was credited to both U2 and Gloria Estefan, who both covered the song but neither were the original performers and neither wrote the song. I found it interesting that all these lyric sites have a disclaimer about the songs being the property of the songwriter yada, yada, yada but none actually credit the writer. They usually list it as if the performer wrote it, which I am sure then leads to more people being confused. \*\* _Dancing in the Moonlight_ was by King Harvest (#12, 1972). Van Morrison later had a minor hit with a song called _Moondance_ (#92, 1977). The original hit version of _Everlasting Love_ – written by Buzz Carson and Mac Gayden – was by Robert Knight (#13, 1967). The biggest hit version was by Carl Carlton. (#6, 1974) (All chart info is for the U.S. Billboard Hot 100) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/45 "2003-04-04T14:03:34Z")
For the longest time, when I would hear the opening chords of George Harrison’s “What Is Life” on the radio, I would think it was BTO. Of course, as soon as he started singing I would go “oh yeah… duh!” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/46 "2003-04-04T17:32:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > \*\*The original hit version of _Everlasting Love_ – written by Buzz Carson and Mac Gayden – was by Robert Knight (#13, 1967). The biggest hit version was by Carl Carlton. (#6, 1974) \*\* Is Andy Gibb’s “Everlasting Love” not a cover version of Knight’s song, also? My edition of Joel Whitburn’s _Top 40 Hits_ implies that Gibb’s tune is not the same song … but I could have sworn it was. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/47 "2003-04-04T17:38:48Z")
Never mind, **whiteho** – a quick check of [allmusic.com](http://allmusic.com) has revealed that Andy Gibb’s “Everlasting Love” has a different songwriter than the song Knight and Carlton performed. I might be mixing Gibb’s song up with Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet’s cover of the Knight hit. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/48 "2003-04-04T17:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe K \* > \*\*FYI, “Dancin’ (Dancing?) in the Moonlight” is also a title by Anne Murray, and one of my favorites by her at that. \*\* \ That’s [_Shadows In The Moonlight_.](http://www.annemurray.com/pages/disco4.htm) Too many years as a radio disc jockey… \ ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/49 "2003-04-04T20:46:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*\ > > That’s [_Shadows In The Moonlight_.](http://www.annemurray.com/pages/disco4.htm) > > Too many years as a radio disc jockey… > > \ \*\* Yeah it is…Damn. Thanks. 😃 [sub] 'Bound to happen…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/50 "2003-04-04T21:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > The first time I ever heard Badfinger’s “Come and Get It,” it was playing over the opening credits of the movie “The Magic Christian.” Well, since it SOUNDED like the Beatles, and since Ringo Starr was the star of the movie, I assumed for years that it was the Beatles singing it. If it makes you feel any better, Paul McCartney wrote it and produced it. ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/51 "2003-04-05T00:05:44Z")
Another mis-ID’ed song on P2P… I downloaded this song called “She Had Two First Names” off Kazaa. It was tagged as a Weezer song. I like the song alot, but it sounds _nothing_ like Weezer.😕 ---
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/52 "2003-04-05T00:44:31Z")
Okay…now I’m confused. I thought _Dancing in the Moonlight_ was Thin Lizzy. Now y’all mention King Harvest. I never heard of him (or them). Are these two different songs, or is Thin Lizzy a cover? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/53 "2003-04-05T00:51:41Z")
_Dancing In The Moonlight_ [Thin Lizzy.](http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/song.html?song_id=37&display=) [King Harvest](http://users.cis.net/sammy/harvest.htm) Two different songs. King Harvest had the big hit. Can’t remember the exact year, but it was ca. 1972. ---
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695/54 "2003-04-05T01:32:01Z")
Thanks, **Rico**! I’m now (slightly) less confused. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-wrong-artist-oops/165695.md?page=2)