It been a couple years since I tuned in. As I recall he (or whomever was hosting in his place) had guests that someone with only a casual interest in 60/ 70s rock and roll wouldn’t be familiar.
Sorry I can’t recollect more
Thanks for that.
To be fair, most Santana songs sound like they’re done by someone else, until you get to the guitar solo.
Oops, a typo! I meant that the KISS song was a remake of the original ARGENT version.
I don’t think I’d heard the NY Groove song until it was used in ( the outstanding) Fall of the House of Usher. I thought it was an old Queen song that I’d somehow missed. Ace doesn’t sound like Freddie Mercury but overall it has a very Queenlike vibe.
I agree with most of the entries so far. One that I usually mention is The Ballad of Jenny Ledge, which I was “positive” was Steely Dan ( it’s Toy Matinee) until it became easy to find out online.
I don’t remember that Kiss song either, and they were big in mine and my sister’s young years and beyond. She had a KISS belt buckle. I think she was in sixth grade. She had The Destroyer album. I think she got the album and belt buckle for her birthday. I think I took a picture of her with both. I saw them a couple of years later in Tucson, floor seats, festival seating, real close…The Love Gun Tour.
Covered by Ace Frehley, not Kiss. They each did their own solo album in 78 and Ace’s was the only decent one.
I should have noticed Ace’s picture is the only one on the album and his name is in the right top corner.
“New York Groove” was also the only tune from any of those solo albums that charted.
Let’s just say the label shipped more than anyone could possibly have wanted, even if they had been good records.
I wouldn’t say it was a great album, but to my younger self, it was solid and I listened to it quite a bit. Would I listen to it today? Well, I just ran through it in Spotify in about 4 minutes and it brought back lots of memories. I’ll do the same in a few years…maybe. Music is my nostalgic vice. 
I just asked Hubster who did that song above, “Lies.” He, with no hesitation said, “The Knickerbokers.” Damn, you can’t trip him up on 60’s 70’s music.
As a child in the late '70s, I thought “Sultans of Swing” was an Eric Clapton song (it’s Dire Straits, of course).
And…until this moment, I was sure “Winning” was Steve Winwood. It’s so early '80s Winwood! Wow.
For the longest time I thought “GTO” was a Beach Boys song. Nope, it was recorded by a band called Ronnie and the Daytonas, an apparent one hit wonder.
In my defense they were clearly imitating the Beach Boys’ style.
OTOH, when I first heard “Games People Play” (which was very late, only a few years ago on an oldies station. I knew a later reggae cover by a band whose name escapes me, but not the original version), I thought it was a lost classic by Van Morrison that had escaped my knowledge. No, it was a Joe South song.
ETA: the reggae version was by Inner Circle.
I thought that back then, too. His voice is very Clapton-like.
Up until recently, I thought It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz was Smokey Robinson or someone like that.
I thought “Won’t Back Down” was Dylan.
Not Hannah Montana? Where has she been lately?
I’ve won a lot of beers in bars in asking, “Who sings this song?” when Flagpole Sitta comes on. Give ya a hint, it’s not Green Day.
Tom Petty’s voice was the perfect cross between Dylan’s and Roger McGuinn’s, his idols. Though I read in an essay by Petty the other day that the Heartbreakers were meant to be a cross between the Byrds and the Stones, though he sounded nothing like Jagger.
I’ve actually got their CD, but I still drew a blank when trying to think of the band’s name, and had to use Google to jog my memory.
But I knew it wasn’t Green Day.
Bad Hund, what you gonna do when they come for you?