Your Songonyms

“Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You”

Aaron Neville:

The O’Kanes:

Coincidentally they both have lines about “rain coming down.”

Also the ineffable Pablo Cruise.

Aw, when I saw the reply to saucywench’s post, I for sure thought it was going to link to Kris Kross’s “Jump”:

There are probably a thousand songs titled, “I Need You.” Here’s one from America:

And my fave from The Wonders:

Punctuation be damned,

Oh Darling/The Beatles
Oh Darling/Supertramp

And the winner is…, or click the spoiler if you’d rather not view it.

Supertramp

We all know Toto’s “Africa”.
Never heard the Hall and Oates one before:

Odd vocals - maybe Oates singing lead? Heh, has he ever? (kinda like the other Pet Shop Boy who sorta just stands and mopes in the background) Kinda pedestrian outing, verging on gunky, but considering the other song, I’ll stick with the pedestrian and gunky. < maybe that’s what they should have called themselves, instead?

And there’s the Who song, (supposedly) penned and sung by Keith Moon, complete with harpsichord and mock-Beatle impressions

Speaking of Hall & Oates…

Death:

Squeeze:

Now those are as different three songs as you will ever hear together.

Well, there’s “Beautiful World” by Devo …

… and the haunting-but-catchy “Beautiful World” from Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone by Utada Hikaru

“Purgatory” is a song shared by Origin…

and Tyler Childers

I’m sure most folks here would nod to Tyler’s fun-lovin country-bluegrass-fiddlin-whathaveyou but this slack-jawed John Longstreth freak will have to go with the former.

“Good Morning Judge”

Buster Poindexter:

10cc:

Gwen Stefani recorded a song called “Danger Zone” for her album Love.Angel.Music.Baby.

… but - I swear I had something for this - paging Doctor Loggins!

Good Morning Judge was Wynonie Harris.

Also, I seem to recall some group called “The Beatles” doing a tune called “I Need You.”

Jeff Lynne had a solo album called Armchair Theater. The only song I liked from it was “Every Little Thing”.

Wasn’t the first song with this title, though…

Louie Innis, actually. I like Buster and the Banshees’ version better than his and Wynonie’s.

There’s also a cover by Phil Gordon but that’s more in a novelty style.

I like the Mary Jane Girls song more than all of those.

I decided to look at my favorite radio station’s recently-played list to see how long it’d take me to find one I recognized. About 90 minutes before then, they played a song from Spoon’s new album titled “On the Radio.”

I thought of Donna Summer’s version immediately:

…but I couldn’t remember if it was by her or Dionne Warwick. After googling that, I was reminded of Regina Spektor’s song that was all over my Pandora account circa 2010:

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Yes, it sounds like John Oates to me, and the album credits on Wikipedia confirm this.

One more famous song with lead vocals by John Oates is their cover of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.”

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And the winner is…

All Night Long by Joe Walsh :grin:

*Bonus - vampires, coffee, and pinball machines

Speaking of radios…

I like Sylvan Esso’s boppy number better. Sure, it’s a sardonic take on the medium but you can snap along to it!

A brief internet search also gives Beyonce, Darius Rucker, Rammenstein and Alkaline Trio as “Radio” title users and I’m sure there’s others.