# Songs You'd Swear Were Sung by Someone Else **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331 "2021-04-19T22:32:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/1 "2021-04-19T22:32:23Z")
Sheryl Crow’s [If It Makes You Happy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyihQtBes1I) popped up on my playlist recently. All through the 90s I was absolutely sure it was sung by Alanis Morissette. Of course, [Rod Stewart was just messing with us.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEfUenvlEo) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/2 "2021-04-19T22:38:11Z")
[I’d swear this thread was started by someone else.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-sound-like-covers-of-another-band-or-group-but-arent/851982) (Last active four days ago.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/3 "2021-04-19T23:53:29Z")
Fair comment. I’ve asked the mods to close this. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/4 "2021-04-20T00:13:34Z")
Thread from 2014: > [@Songs you've misattributed.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youve-misattributed/699381/): > > a.k.a. “For many years I thought the song \_\_\_\_ was performed by \_\_\_!” I’ve heard Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress many times on the radio. Always assumed it was performed by CCR. It was even in the film The Big Lebowski, along with many other CCR songs, dammit! Today I ran across it on youtube, and to my surprise it’s a song by a band called The Hollies. :smack: A couple years ago the song A Horse with No Name was on the radio as we drove to a restaurant. I told my daughter, “I’ve always like … ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/5 "2021-04-20T00:42:11Z")
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331/6 "2021-04-20T00:42:36Z")
Okay, go forth and populate the other one, then. 🙂