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DIFFERENT song, SAME title!

Without You-Nillson (& Mariah Carey)
Without You-Motley Crue

Time After Time-Ozzy Osbourne
Time After Time-Cyndi Lauper

Rock Steady-Bad Company
Rock Steady-Whispers

Untitled-Smashing Pumpkins
Untitled-R. Kelly
 
CTListener said:
firepoint525 said:
"Just As I Am" (hymn)
"Just As I Am," Air Supply
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"Joy to the World" (Christmas carol)
"Joy to the World" -- Three Dog Night
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Already previously covered that one in this thread:
firepoint525 said:
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by both Vince Vance & the Valiants, and Mariah Carey.  It's Christmas time, folks!  :D

"Joy to the World," traditional Christmas hymn, and the #1 hit by Three Dog Night.  Mariah Carey did a medley of both (with the interesting title "Joy to the World/Joy to the World") on her first Christmas album, released back around 1994 or so.
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firepoint525 said:
"Fire," Crazy World of Arthur Brown
"Fire," Ohio Players
"Fire," Pointer Sisters
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I actually covered that earlier in this thread, but I left out Ohio Players and mine included Jimi Hendrix.
 
Missing You-The Rolling Stones
Missing You-John Waite
Missing You-Diana Ross

I believe the last two came out within a year of each other.
 
Never Surrender-Corey Hart
Never Surrender-Triumph


Love Song-The Cure
Love Song-Tesla
 
This is not strictly in keeping with this thread, but how about two versions of the same song charting around the same time by artists with similar names?

Look For A Star, Garry Miles, Liberty reached #16 in 1960
Look For A Star, Garry Mills, Imperial reached #26 in 1960

Whitburn lists both as from the movie "Circus of Horrors", and I think Imperial was a subsidiary of Liberty (their labels even looked similar, although different colors).

Had to be very confusing for the record buyers, not to mention the jobbers, retailers, etc.

I would guess that's the only time THAT happened...
 
"Wild Thing," The Troggs
"Wild Thing," Tone-Loc

"California Girls," Katy Perry
"California Girls," The Beach Boys

And then there's this: Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield submitted two different title songs for the Connie Francis movie Where The Boys Are. What's amazing is that they only had four days to come up with one song, yet they delivered two! They liked one and hated the other, yet the latter is the one that the producer used in the movie! Apparently, that other song has never been heard, released, or anything!
 
radiomonkey2 said:
This is not strictly in keeping with this thread, but how about two versions of the same song charting around the same time by artists with similar names?
Look For A Star, Garry Miles, Liberty reached #16 in 1960
Look For A Star, Garry Mills, Imperial reached #26 in 1960
Whitburn lists both as from the movie "Circus of Horrors", and I think Imperial was a subsidiary of Liberty (their labels even looked similar, although different colors).
Had to be very confusing for the record buyers, not to mention the jobbers, retailers, etc.
I would guess that's the only time THAT happened...
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A friend of mine once had a 45 of "We Can Work it Out" by a group called The Beagles! No joke! This was obviously intended as a Beatles knockoff.
 
firepoint525 said:
radiomonkey2 said:
This is not strictly in keeping with this thread, but how about two versions of the same song charting around the same time by artists with similar names?
Look For A Star, Garry Miles, Liberty reached #16 in 1960
Look For A Star, Garry Mills, Imperial reached #26 in 1960
Whitburn lists both as from the movie "Circus of Horrors", and I think Imperial was a subsidiary of Liberty (their labels even looked similar, although different colors).
Had to be very confusing for the record buyers, not to mention the jobbers, retailers, etc.
I would guess that's the only time THAT happened...
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A friend of mine once had a 45 of "We Can Work it Out" by a group called The Beagles! No joke! This was obviously intended as a Beatles knockoff.
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The was a long-forgotten cartoon TV series called "The Beagles" (see www.toontracker.com --I think there is a clip from it---YouTube might have it too). Indeed an album was put out, and maybe the 45 was from it.

However I'd be shocked if this fictional duet covered anything by the Beatles. What's funny is that "The Beatles" cartoon series ran during the same years!

Update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJB4sel2xA4

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nightfly61 said:
Also the 2 songs w/ same title, different song, performed by the same folk!
Freedom (2 different songs) - Wham!/George Michael
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Close-the 2nd was titled "Freedom 90".
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We touched on this earlier, so I thought that I would address it again: the use of years in the title, supposedly to avoid confusion with an earlier song with the same or similar title.

"Freedom," WHAM!
"Freedom '90," George Michael

Seems to me that the '90 in the second title was unnecessary, even though George was also in WHAM!, because his image had changed so much by 1990 that the distinction between the first and second "Freedom" was really not necessary.

"Don't Stand So Close to Me," The Police
"Don't Stand So Close to Me '86," The Police

The '86 is definitely necessary here, because the second song was a new arrangement of the first. They even included some clips from the first video into the second one. I would, however, say that the re-recording of their older song was an ill-advised idea. They were originally planning to do new arrangements of all their old hits, but decided to stop after doing just this one.

"Send Me an Angel," Real Life
"Send Me an Angel '89," Real Life

The second "Angel" was no more than a remix of the first one, so the '89 was unnecessary. The other re-released hits from the late '80s kept their original titles, even when they were remixed for reissue.
 
CTListener said:
nightfly61 said:
Probably not enough to have a separate thread on, but how about bands/singers with the same name as another band or singer? Only one that comes to mind right now is:
Sweet Sensation (Sad Sweet Dreamer) and
Sweet Sensation Sincerely Yours
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Or artist with same name as someone else's hit:
ABC -- Jackson 5
When Smokey Sings -- ABC
Cars -- Gary Numan
Drive -- Cars
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The group A Taste of Honey (of "Sukiyaki" and "Boogie Oogie Oogie" fame) did indeed name themselves after the song "A Taste of Honey," probably best known in its instrumental form by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
 
cd637299 said:
Also the 2 songs w/ same title, different song, performed by the same folk!
Everybody Knows (2 different songs) - Dave Clark Five
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I remember hearing Casey Kasem tell the story of some band who put out a (second) song having the same title as one of their earlier hits, but being an all-together different song. It didn't get much, if any, airplay, and thus didn't become a hit because djs predictably thought that the second song was just a reissue of the first. Does anyone know if it was the above-referenced example?

Also, interesting to note that one of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Bands included Richard Marx, and that "Should Have Known Better" was one of the songs performed on that tour. Because of Marx's presence on that tour, I am assuming that it was his song that was performed, and not the Beatles'. It was not out of character for Ringo to cover Beatles songs that he was not directly associated with (or that were not typically associated with him) because he had sung "Love Me Do" for VH-1's Storyteller series.
 
I indeed learned of "Everybody Knows" via Casey!

I believe someone sent him a trivia question, like "did any artist ever put out 2 songs w/ same title, but totally different songs?" Casey said something like "we were starting research, figuring it would never happen----but ya know what? It DID!"

The second "Everybody Knows" had a subtitle which I forget right now.

cd
 
"Release Me," Wilson Phillips
"Release Me," Englebert Humperdink

"Promises Promises," Naked Eyes
"Promises Promises," Dionne Warwick

These two examples are interesting, because "Release Me" marked the second straight Wilson Phillips hit to have a "recycled" title ("Hold On" was obviously the first), while the Dionne Warwick "Promises" was a Burt Bacharach/Hal David song. Another Bacharach/David title, "Always Something There to Remind Me," had been covered by Naked Eyes, becoming their first hit, while "Promises" was a Naked Eyes original.
 
Always Something There to Remind Me," had been covered by Naked Eyes, becoming their first hit, while "Promises" was a Naked Eyes original.
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1.ASTTRM was originally done by Sandi Shaw before Dionne Warwick.
2. Naked Eyes hit was "Promises, Promises", not "Promises"...although Eric Clapton had a "Promises".
 
firepoint525 said:
Also, interesting to note that one of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Bands included Richard Marx, and that "Should Have Known Better" was one of the songs performed on that tour. Because of Marx's presence on that tour, I am assuming that it was his song that was performed, and not the Beatles'.
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The Beatles' song was "I Should Have Known Better."
 
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