# 'What do you mean she doesn't sing that...?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645 "2016-03-30T16:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/21 "2016-03-31T08:03:12Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > I swore back then that Joe Jackson’s “Is she really going out with him” was Rick Springfield. Still sounds like it to me. And that line - “is she really going out with him?” - appears in the Rick Springfield song “What Kind of Fool Am I?” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/22 "2016-03-31T08:20:41Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I remember the Quarterflash song as “Harden my Heart.” When it was new, the local AOR station made sure to always introduce the song, saying it was Quarterflash and not Pat Benatar. Well, I’ll be hornswoggled! I heard that song again just today, and thought it was Pat Benatar. Wow. I wonder if my local radio credited it to her anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/23 "2016-03-31T11:41:43Z")
[Never Met a Girl Like You Before](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qcd3i2X80&list=RDP8qcd3i2X80#t=25) is by Edwyn Collins not David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/24 "2016-03-31T12:01:21Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > [Never Met a Girl Like You Before](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qcd3i2X80&list=RDP8qcd3i2X80#t=25) is by Edwyn Collins not David Bowie. Oh wow, I never noticed that before. I can totally picture a video of him performing it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/25 "2016-03-31T13:06:07Z")
It took me years to realize that Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” wasn’t a Tom Petty song. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/26 "2016-03-31T13:09:57Z")
The proverbial “Horse with No Name” – America, not Neil Young. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/27 "2016-03-31T13:41:15Z")
I would have sworn that “Do You Believe in Love” by Huey Lewis was ELO, but what happened to Jeff Lynne’s voice? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/28 "2016-03-31T13:53:46Z")
It’s still hard for me to believe that the singer on [“Little Green Bag”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw) isn’t Steve Winwood but some Dutchman named Johannes Bouwens. I just listened to it again and that’s gotta be Winwood. And it was only recently, almost fifty years after the fact, that I learned that “I got blisters on my fingers” was growled out by Ringo and not John. It sounds like pure Lennon to me. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/29 "2016-03-31T15:18:35Z")
Genesis’ first big hit “Follow You Follow Me” - I thought it was a new song by Cat Stevens. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/30 "2016-03-31T19:36:18Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > The proverbial “Horse with No Name” – America, not Neil Young. Yeah, I thought that was Neil Young at first, too. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/31 "2016-03-31T20:14:58Z")
A lot of people besides myself that [West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs) was performed by Al Stewart. Of course, that’s a song from '85 and Al Stewart was most famous in the 70’s, so none of you whippersnappers are going to know what I’m referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/32 "2016-03-31T20:53:36Z")
I heard [Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCIrPJ6SBl4) on the radio a couple of times and assumed it was a Bonnie Tyler song. This was long before Shazam or even the internet where I could check for lyrics, and singing as much as I could remember for Tyler fans (“I had a dream ‘bout a boy in a castle and he’s dancing like a cat on the stairs’ … ‘cat on the stairs’ you gotta know this!”) got blank stares. It’s in fact from a movie (_Streets of Fire_) and doesn’t even have a credited singer. It only appears on the movie’s soundtrack. I still like the song. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/33 "2016-03-31T21:12:51Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I would have sworn that “Do You Believe in Love” by Huey Lewis was ELO, but what happened to Jeff Lynne’s voice? It’s possible that the similarity in opening lyrics between that song, and ELO’s “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”, didn’t help: > [@Huey Lewis and the News](#): > > I was walking down a one-way street > Just a-looking for someone to meet > [@Electric Light Orchestra](#): > > I was searchin’ on a one-way street > I was hopin’ for a chance to meet ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/34 "2016-03-31T23:40:36Z")
Hey, **kenobi** , good catch, Jedi; I had forgotten about that, so after some research I discovered that not only are you right, but the back up vocals are almost identical, too! Is this some Stephen King, “Gunslinger,” alternate universe dealie? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/35 "2016-04-01T13:43:49Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > And it was only recently, almost fifty years after the fact, that I learned that “I got blisters on my fingers” was growled out by Ringo and not John. It sounds like pure Lennon to me. Ha! I always thought it was Lennon faking Ringo’s accent. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scarecrow\_s\_Brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Scarecrow\_s\_Brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarecrow_s_Brain)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/36 "2016-04-01T17:25:55Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I heard [Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCIrPJ6SBl4) on the radio a couple of times and assumed it was a Bonnie Tyler song. This was long before Shazam or even the internet where I could check for lyrics, and singing as much as I could remember for Tyler fans (“I had a dream ‘bout a boy in a castle and he’s dancing like a cat on the stairs’ … ‘cat on the stairs’ you gotta know this!”) got blank stares. > It’s in fact from a movie (_Streets of Fire_) and doesn’t even have a credited singer. It only appears on the movie’s soundtrack. > I still like the song. That’s a Jim Steinman song. In addition to writing for Meat Loaf, Steinman wrote and produced Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. TIWIMTBY features one of Steinman’s go-to vocalists, Rory Dodd, who did the “Turnaround” parts on “Total Eclipse”. sb ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/37 "2016-04-01T17:37:12Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I would have sworn that “Do You Believe in Love” by Huey Lewis was ELO, but what happened to Jeff Lynne’s voice? Along the same line, for far too long I thought ["Mama Let Him Play"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQQL1cJ07Q)was by Huey Lewis & the News rather than Jerry Doucette. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/38 "2016-04-01T18:46:31Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > A lot of people besides myself that [West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs) was performed by Al Stewart. Of course, that’s a song from '85 and Al Stewart was most famous in the 70’s, so none of you whippersnappers are going to know what I’m referring to. That’s another one that fooled me for some time. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/39 "2016-04-01T19:17:57Z")
So “The Heart of Rock n Roll” ISN’T by Bruce Springsteen??? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645/40 "2016-04-04T20:20:15Z")
I thought [Lunatic Fringe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw) was by Fleetwood Mac, not a band called Red Rider. Now that I know Lindsey Buckingham’s voice better, I can easily tell it isn’t. But I think it’s just the tempo and tone of the song that remind me of Fleetwood Mac. And when I was a teen, I thought [Walk of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ) was by Bruce Springsteen. Now I can easily tell that isn’t Springsteen, but seems like his sort of song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-mean-she-doesnt-sing-that/750645.md?page=3)