# Songs you didn't realize were covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 7, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496 "2020-12-07T18:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/181 "2025-12-12T01:20:06Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Shop Around Captain & Tennille > > I think it was their breakout hit that lead to a tv show. No, that would be “Love Will Keep Us Together”, written by Neil Sedaka. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/182 "2025-12-13T16:54:27Z")
> [@Disinfectus](#): > > No, that would be “Love Will Keep Us Together”, written by Neil Sedaka. And here’s a version from before Captain and Tennille recorded it. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KVssUd_viNY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/KVssUd_viNY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDKVssUd_viNY ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/183 "2025-12-13T21:21:25Z")
Hmmm…I grew up hearing the “stove” version and, while it’s not perfect, it makes a lot more sense than “flame.” When is a flame NOT hot? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/184 "2025-12-13T21:23:19Z")
You have a point there, but “stove” just sounds too mundane and non-poetic, while “flame” doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/185 "2025-12-14T10:17:10Z")
Yeah. I think the point here is that “Flame” may not be the best word in the world, but arguably “Stove” is the worst. Here’s the test: can I think of something worse? How about “Pie”? > Love is like a pie, burns you when it’s hot Nope, still not worse (YMMV). Therefore I conclude that the very great Boudleaux painted himself into a corner that he couldn’t get out of. Annoying. To say the least. j ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/186 "2025-12-14T13:36:08Z")
“Love is like an iron, it burns you when it’s hot.” OK…I give up. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/187 "2025-12-14T13:38:56Z")
“Love is like a flame. It burns, goddam that’s hot!” ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/188 "2025-12-14T15:22:12Z")
Best yet! ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/189 "2025-12-14T20:22:54Z")
“Love is like a flame. It burns because it’s hot.” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/190 "2026-01-07T03:13:35Z")
I loved this song from the first time I heard it. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/191 "2026-01-07T03:14:25Z")
[Dancing in the Moonlight (Original Recording) - King Harvest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo&list=RDg5JqPxmYhlo&start_radio=1) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/192 "2026-01-07T03:17:22Z")
I didn’t realize it was a cover. Here is the original. [1st RECORDING OF: Dancing In The Moonlight - Boffalongo (1970)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5OlqrhS-e8&list=RDj5OlqrhS-e8&start_radio=1) ’ ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/193 "2026-01-07T03:19:36Z")
Sorry for all the posts. I was trying to get the songs to show up. It has always worked for me in the past. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/194 "2026-01-07T03:58:22Z")
Garth Brooks had a huge hit with _Shameless_. Written by Billy Joel and released on his 1989 album “Storm Front.” Billy Joel had a top hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. Shameless wasn’t released as a single. Garth heard it a few years later and recognized a potential hit. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/195 "2026-01-07T04:25:03Z")
Listening to the radio near the end of a drive home, I hear some generic Beatles-like music that sounded vaguely familiar – but then they get to the chorus and I realize it’s “Stop Your Sobbing,” which I knew as an early\* Pretenders song. I ask my smart device who sings it: [it’s the Kinks](https://youtu.be/T8VMjjmSXUY), sounding nothing like I’d ever heard by them before. \*actually their first single, but I didn’t know that then ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/196 "2026-01-07T13:17:52Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I didn’t realize it was a cover. Here is the original. If I’m reading everything correctly, of the two brothers that wrote, and originally recorded, the song, one was a member of King Harvest before they recorded it and one was a member after they recorded it. (Combing quotes from a few different wiki pages) > “ **Dancing in the Moonlight** ” is a song written by Sherman Kelly, originally recorded in 1970 by Kelly’s band Boffalongo > Sherman Kelly’s brother [Wells Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Kelly) introduced the song to the [Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris)-based band [King Harvest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Harvest) in which he was drummer > Wells Kelly convinced the group to revisit “Dancing in the Moonlight”, but he left Paris before the song was recorded > “Dancing in the Moonlight” composer Sherman Kelly, who had not participated in King Harvest’s recording of the single, also officially joined the band for the first time for this tour. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/197 "2026-01-07T13:35:28Z")
> [@How to insert a link to Youtube video, with preview image shown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-insert-a-link-to-youtube-video-with-preview-image-shown/1002471): > > I want to make a humorous comment, and make it easy for readers to understand the reference by linking to a youtube video. But most people won’t want to actually watch the video, and I don’t want to waste people’s time. To make my point, all I want to show in my post is the opening image of the video , the same image that appears on youtube before you click to watch the video. In the past, I remember that when I posted a link to a video, the image appears in my post. But this time, Discourse … ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/198 "2026-01-07T13:37:19Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > “Stop Your Sobbing,” which I knew as an early\* Pretenders song. Yup — you are likely aware the the bands’ respective leaders were an all-but-married couple for about a decade. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/199 "2026-01-07T20:53:28Z")
Which is interesting because I bet a heck of a lot of people think Toploader’s version from c.2000 was the first time it was done. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496/200 "2026-01-08T00:08:54Z")
This link has the same info. [Dancing in the Moonlight - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Moonlight) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-realize-were-covers/927496.md?page=11)