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Yup, I agree.
Guilty of that once!
Me too! Someone told me Accept was still making music.
Songs you thought somebody else sang
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I thought "On The Dark Side" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band was Bruce Springsteen. They were totally ripping off his sound.
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I thought Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale" was Steve Winwood.
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I could definitely see that.
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Guilty!
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Oh, man. I'm pretty sure the whole world thought that at one point. I think I remember hearing The Boss, himself, comment on that sound, saying that he heard it and had to ask someone "is that me?"
Good one!
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wow, great thread! I thought Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again was Mickey Dolenz when I first heard it. First time I heard Badfinger I thought it was Paul McCartney. My wife thought that Men At Work "Who Can It Be Now" was Huey Lewis.
He wrote and produced their song, "Come And Get It".
Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You" sounds a lot like Hall & Oates.
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Definitely can hear Huey!
I feel the same!
I use to think Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" sounded like MJ only to discover it WAS MJ.
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This got me wondering about Mott the Hoople and Bowie singing All the Young Dudes. Apparently Bowie only did background vocals in addition to writing the song. But the lead singer (Ian Hunter) sounds soooh much like him, at least in this song. Robin Mayhew (sound guy), in the comments section, states that the vocals are mimed in this vid. So who knows for sure?
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I thought T-Rex "Bang a Gong" was the Stones.
Whenever i hear the intro to this one i'm thinking AC/DC but once the vocals come in its no, some other Aussie band, fine by me.
dave
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Yes!
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When I first heard Rythym of the Falling Rain by the Cascades I thought it was Rick Nelson. And no, I am not old enough to remember it first run on the radio!
Another Bowie sound alike was Iggy Pop on Fire Girl. Eerie how much they sounded alike.
I have the album Blah Blah Blah but have no recollection whatsoever of that song... anyways produced by Bowie so big influence there. Wasn't Ian Hunter (Mott) also recently mentioned as being mistaken for Bowie on All the Young Dudes another Bowie produced (& written) song. Bowie makes his mark although i don't think anything on Transformer was ever mistaken for Bowie. Any other artists he worked with in the role of producer?
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Dave, I am not up to speed on the collaborations so can't speak to it.
Another David/Iggy cross pollination was China Girl. Pop wrote and recorded it but Bowie had the hit.
Another David/Iggy cross pollination was China Girl. Pop wrote and recorded it but Bowie had the hit.
I have that one too, in that case the versions are quite different animals. Iggy did the Bowie version, Bowie did the Nile Rodgers, ultra pop version. Unique and I like them both.
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Their voices are a bit different but everything else about Ryan Adams' "Answering Bell" screams Van Morrison.
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