# Wait a second--those are the same song! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685 "2014-07-09T02:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/41 "2014-07-11T03:21:39Z")
The chorus of “[Lonely no More](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7spBU4Yv8fE)” by Rob Thomas (fast forward to 0:43) sounds like the chorus of “[Me and my Broken Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJfJgyHYwU)” by Rixton. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/42 "2014-07-11T03:25:06Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Which in turn is cribbed from the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me.” And “'Till the End of the Day.” ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/43 "2014-07-11T04:11:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Just a link so folks can compare. And watch: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPseJvXVVfo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPseJvXVVfo) > > A local loud rock station had a promo that said, “We don’t play Faith Hill, but we’d do her, too.” Totally shallow, misogynistic, and dismissive of her considerable singing talent, but day-am! Tim, what did you do to mess THAT up? He messed it up by marrying her? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/44 "2014-07-11T04:38:47Z")
Beyonce’s “Halo” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone” use the same background track. The producer (the guy from One Republic I believe) sold them both the same track. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/45 "2014-07-11T09:56:46Z")
I’m wondering how this thread went from “the same song that sounds different” to “different songs that sound the same”. Because we’ve had dozens of the latter but not any of the former that I remember. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/46 "2014-07-11T22:11:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m wondering how this thread went from “the same song that sounds different” to “different songs that sound the same”. Because we’ve had dozens of the latter but not any of the former that I remember. Oh. In that case [Brain Damage by the Austin Lounge Lizards](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q75qJ3vCmBw). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/47 "2014-07-12T00:08:08Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The Blues is an entire genre of essentially the same song. Paging [Calhoun Tubbs!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KCc5Vt-K4) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/48 "2014-07-12T00:39:54Z")
I first heard this tune performed by Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PXNpAFENIA) I didn’t know at the time it was a cover of a very old, very slow, kinda lame Yardbirds tune. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ONVXNH7D4Qw/hqdefault.jpg "The Yardbirds - Still I'm Sad") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVXNH7D4Qw) ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/49 "2014-07-13T10:38:00Z")
My favorite folk tune recorded in the early 60’s with a charming nonsense chorus and tragic antiwar lyrics was “Gone the Rainbow.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKzg5fqSqg Flash forward nearly 50 years, and there on TV are the Celtic Women singing the same song but that nonsense lyric “Shule, shule, shule-a-roo Shule-a-rak-shak, shule-a-ba-ba-coo When I saw my Sally Babby Beal Come bibble in the boo shy Lorey” was actually “Siuil, siuil, siul a run, / Siuil go sochair agus siuil go ciuin /,etc…” Gaelic that was ancient before I first heard it. Gave me chills. www.metrolyrics.com/siuil-a-run-walk-my-love-lyrics-celtic ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/50 "2014-07-13T14:51:49Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m wondering how this thread went from “the same song that sounds different” to “different songs that sound the same”. Because we’ve had dozens of the latter but not any of the former that I remember. In my case it’s because I didn’t read carefully enough. Oops, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/51 "2014-07-13T17:01:26Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m wondering how this thread went from “the same song that sounds different” to “different songs that sound the same”. Because we’ve had dozens of the latter but not any of the former that I remember. > [@Quimby](#): > > In my case it’s because I didn’t read carefully enough. Oops, sorry. I made the same mistake. Charlie Parker and other jazz pioneers took the chord progressions of familiar old songs and created new bebop songs over them. (One such example is “Donna Lee”, which was based on “Back Home in Indiana”.) There were instances where the process wasn’t completed, and the result was a version of the old song that was still listed under the original title, but pretty much unrecognizable (which is what the OP was asking for.) One example: [“Embraceable You”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQfX4j6Mi0) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/52 "2014-07-15T02:52:02Z")
It took me a while to realize that Limp Bizkit’s “Take a Look Around,” from the _Mission Impossible 2_ soundtrack, uses the familiar melody from the old TV show _Mission Impossible._ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/53 "2014-07-15T06:49:27Z")
I’d always liked Steeleye Span’s “The Weaver and the Factory Maid,” and I’d always liked the Cheiftains’ second album. One of the Chieftains songs vaguely echoed some song or other, and finally I realized it was the Steeleye Span song. Turns out they’re the same folk song (the title of the Chieftains version is just different enough that it wasn’t obvious to me.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/54 "2014-07-15T07:16:24Z")
One evening, in a pause in conversation, in the background we heard Tori Amos singing “_… With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us …_” It was quite startling, because it was well into the song before we realized what we were hearing. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/55 "2014-07-15T21:03:43Z")
This is a slight deviation from the OP criteria, but: I always kind of wonder why so few people seem to talk about the fact that the theme Fred Armisen wrote for \*Late Night with Seth Meyers \*is, essentially, Deutschland Uber Alles. (The only online mention I’ve been able to find is a Google Groups discussion at [Redirecting to Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tvornottv/iWNdEUicShQ) excerpt: > [@](#): > > The guitar part of the opening theme has the first 6 notes as Deutschland Uber Alles (the German National Anthem) which when used as a hymn tune is called Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/56 "2014-07-15T22:33:32Z")
An early rock song (1960), and one of the tracks from the first Miriam Makeba album, released a few months earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99wc8LGDpw ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/57 "2014-07-16T01:01:38Z")
How about Neil Sedaka’s two versions of “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/58 "2014-07-16T01:31:49Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > How about Neil Sedaka’s two versions of “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”? That reminds me of Eric Clapton’s/Derek and the Dominos’ two versions of “Layla.” It took me years to realize they were the same song. ---
**Author:** ![Scary\_Solstice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Scary\_Solstice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scary_Solstice)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685/59 "2014-07-16T13:49:48Z")
I’d listened to Bruce Springsteen’s Live in Dublin dozens of times. Likewise Nebraska the album. I discovered, to my vague amusement, that there was a song called Atlantic City on both. Months later I realized, to my immense embarrassment, that it was the same song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-a-second-those-are-the-same-song/692685.md?page=2)