# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331)._