And that line - “is she really going out with him?” - appears in the Rick Springfield song “What Kind of Fool Am I?”
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.
Never Met a Girl Like You Before is by Edwyn Collins not David Bowie.
Oh wow, I never noticed that before. I can totally picture a video of him performing it.
It took me years to realize that Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” wasn’t a Tom Petty song.
The proverbial “Horse with No Name” – America, not Neil Young.
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 still hard for me to believe that the singer on “Little Green Bag” 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.
Genesis’ first big hit “Follow You Follow Me” - I thought it was a new song by Cat Stevens.
Yeah, I thought that was Neil Young at first, too.
A lot of people besides myself that West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys 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.
I heard Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young 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.
It’s possible that the similarity in opening lyrics between that song, and ELO’s “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”, didn’t help:
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?
Ha! I always thought it was Lennon faking Ringo’s accent. 
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”.
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Along the same line, for far too long I thought "Mama Let Him Play"was by Huey Lewis & the News rather than Jerry Doucette.
That’s another one that fooled me for some time.
So “The Heart of Rock n Roll” ISN’T by Bruce Springsteen???
I thought Lunatic Fringe 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 was by Bruce Springsteen. Now I can easily tell that isn’t Springsteen, but seems like his sort of song.