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Title: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on September 16, 2019, 08:49:30 AM
Recently, seen in youtube results song that, when clicking it, played different song. I figured it's Rosie/ Originals - instead, it's Bay City Rollers singing the *other* "Angel Baby": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c4xQ_Au-3co

What made I think it's cover? Due to fact that this band sang many 60s songs, including DWB & BMB. Figured it's the next in line.

Curious to read people's similar puzzlings. At least, mere list will do.


Title: Re: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: JK on September 16, 2019, 01:21:47 PM
Oooff! I had one of those recently but I can't remember what it was--I wish I'd written it down. :smokin

Maybe it'll come to me, in which case I'll post it.  Another cool and creative topic there, RR. ;)


Title: Re: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on October 17, 2019, 08:26:20 PM
"Reba" by Flanneling Trishas  "Reba" by Braidy Luncheons


Title: Re: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: JK on October 18, 2019, 02:42:23 AM
"Reba" by Flanneling Trishas  "Reba" by Braidy Luncheons

I think I heard the Flanneling Trishas song blasting out of a seedy bar while I was in St. Petersburg. I could be wrong.


Title: Re: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: JK on October 24, 2019, 06:19:49 AM
On a more serious note, I see Gary Numan is named in Kingsley Abbott's book Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century (on p. 158) as one of the many artists to have covered "God Only Knows".

False. I hadn't heard his track at the time so I feel this example fits the topic of this thread. The penultimate track on Gary's 1985 album The Fury, his "GOK" is a completely different song, one he wrote himself. (As far as I know, the only song written and first recorded by others that Numan ever performed was "On Broadway".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MitpT5HONrE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fury_(album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fury_(album))


Title: Re: Identically titled songs you figured would be covers
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on November 04, 2019, 09:51:36 PM
Townes Van Zandt "At My Window". Amusingly, Zandt doesn't sing BBs here (despite it being suitable to him choice) but, good song >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf_JgXX7oTQ