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I can’t find the old thread, but I’m pretty sure there was a poster on this very board who thought that “Horse With No Name” was by Neil Young. When told it was by America, they assumed that Young had been the lead singer. They were astonished to finally realize that Neil Young had nothing at all to do with that song.
I am really glad the electric sitar has faded from view.
It sounds very much like Neil Young, voice, music and style, but here’s a hint: Neil always had a much better command of the English language.
Seriously? I could imagine thinking it was CSN without Young or maybe Seals and Crofts, but Neil Young’s voice is nothing like that.
Apparently it’s a pretty common mis-attribution. Wikipedia quotes Dewey Bunnell, the songwriter and actual lead singer: “I know that virtually everyone, on first hearing, assumed it was Neil.”
That’s an easy one for me, Harvey Danger, but I never really thought it sounded like Green Day except for the fact the word “paranoia” is used in both of those band’s popular songs.
I guess it’s similar to how I thought about Stuck in the Middle With You – “Man, that is easily the best singing Dylan has ever done.”
My artist mistake from that era was thinking that Amie was by the Eagles instead of Pure Prairie League.
I thought it was by the Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
I thought “Somebody That I Used to Know” (Gotye) was Peter Gabriel, especially the chorus.
I’d have bet the farm on that it was some kind of cooperation between America and Neil …
color me utterly gobsmacked!!!
Two rather common ones I had were that I thought Terry Stafford’s recording of Suspicion was by Elvis Presley, and that Badfinger’s Come and Get It was by the Beatles.
And when I was seven, I thought (Hey There) Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was by The Rolling Stones .
Back when I was in FM radio, we’d gather around the turntable and play the 33 1/3 RPM version of the Atlanta Rhythm Section’s “Imaginary Lover” at 45, and remark how much it sounded like Stevie Nicks.
Turns out we weren’t alone. And thanks to YouTube, 171,000 people have discovered it.
I remember when I was a tween in the mid 1970s, and our music teacher sped up one of Alice Cooper’s ballads by about 10 or 20 percent, and I told my mother, “Alice Cooper sounded like a woman!” My mother replied, “Isn’t she supposed to?”
Harvey danger… remembered out of nowhere lol I always thought stick in the middle … was steve miller
No surprise. Written and produced by Paul McCartney.
At first I thought “An Old Fashioned Love Song” by Three Dog Night was done by The Partridge Family.
My mother believed for several years that “American Idiot”, by Green Day, was actually a Ramones song called “Aryan Nation”.
I remember laughing my ass off when I discovered this, when we were watching TV once and the Green Day song came on and she told me “They’re covering that Ramones song I was telling you about!”
For a long time, I genuinely thought that “What Is Life” by George Harrison was actually by the Bay City Rollers. And I don’t have the slightest clue why I would think that the song was particularly characteristic of the Bay City Rollers, because I can barely think of any Bay City Rollers songs to begin with. “Saturday Night” is kind of it, and even then, I’m more likely to think about the Ned’s Atomic Dustbin cover.