That’s news to me. Learn something new everyday on the SDMB.
I originally thought “One Toke Over the Line” by Brewer & Shipley was by the Grateful Dead (or perhaps a Bobby Weir solo song).
“Mirror in the Bathroom” by the EasyBeats - used to think that was UB40.
Just remembered this one!
Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You” starts out sounding exactly like a Paula Cole song. Every time I hear it I have this moment of ear-perking because of that until about 2 seconds into the song.
The very first time I heard Kim Carnes singing “Bette Davis Eyes,” I mistook her for Rod Stewart.
And here I thought it was by the Engli…ohhh wait. Almost :smack: here.
I was a junior in high school when Bonnie TYler’s “It’s a Heartache” came out, and I can assure the OP, it’s no joke: I must’ve heard it 30 or 40 times before I realized it wasn’t Rod Stewart.
In the early 70s, I liked a lot of Billy Preston’s synthesizer instrumentals. When I first heard the Commodores’ “Machine Gun,” it sounded just like the kind of thing Billy Preston was doing (“Outa Space,” “Space Race,” et al.), and I was sure it was Billy for months.
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My bad.
For years I thought What’s up was by Cher. It’s Four Non Blondes. Coulda swore it was Cher.
Yeah, it’s Paul by himself playing all the instruments. As I recall, he made that song as a demo for Badfinger, told them if they played it exactly like that (which they did) it would be a hit (which it was).
At one point in my life, I’d have sworn that *Laughter in the Rain * was sung by a woman instead of Neil Sedaka. And I really hated that song, no matter who was singing it…
I can’t make that connection myself. Perhaps it’s because when that song came out I was already familiar with Neil Finn from his days with Split Enz, so I never had to try and guess who it was. But Billy Joel? C’mon. There’s a pretty strong Kiwi accent there.
“Ramblin’ Man” by the Allman Brothers (I always thought it was by The Eagles)
For a long time I tried to find out who did the song Modern Love. The only person I could think of was Billy Joel. But later found out it was David Bowie.
I also love The Break up Song and thought it was done by Bryan Adams but was puzzled because I owned all his albums upto Waking up the Neighbors and couldn’t find it. Then, it was played on a radio station and I found out it was done by the Greg Kihn Band.
Oops, and ignore my seamingly random use of bold and italics :smack:
Kind of on that subject- a couple of songs that Bowie produced and/or wrote for other artists could be mistaken for Bowie songs, imo. He was a *great * producer for Lou, Iggy, Mott the Hoople, et. al but he left a very distinctive stamp on the songs he was involved with. Like, maybe, too distinctive (?) I’m thinking of "All the Young Dudes, " the chorus. . . hell, even Ian Hunter’s phrasing on the *verses * is Bowie-ish.
I loves teh Bowie.
In that vein, the songs Bob Dylan wrote for others have a very distinct Dylan stamp on them as well. In fact, on a couple written for, say, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, it sounds like he made a demo tape for them and they ended up singing it just like Bob!
Cher should hope for a voice like that.
For a long time I thought I’m Not In Love by 10CC was Paul McCartney.
I thought, for many, many years, that Copacabana was a “Weird Al” Yankovic song… :smack:
When I was younger, I also thought that Crazy Little Thing Called Love was done by Elvis in his later years, and not by Queen…
Seconded. Freddy was definitely channeling Pelvis on that song.
Yeah, I thought the same thing until I got in a fight with my boss about it. He said it was America, and he is one of those people who always has to be right, so I didn’t believe him until I googled it. I’d been hearing that song since birth and I would have swore on anything it was Neil Young.
Uh, it was? I guess you learn something new every day… :smack: