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Songs where other artists are imitated (or: The Other Artists Have it!)

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What classic hits are out there where the artist singing attempts to imitate another artist?

Two I know:

The Big Draft - the Four Preps
I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music - Peter, Paul & Mary

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spder turner - stand by me
ovations - having a party
stars on 45
tight fit - back to the 60's
gidea park - seasons of gold--(4 seasons)
5 dics - rock n roll revival
 
radioman148 said:
Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)
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Ah yes....also I think Casey Kasem said that when Stealers Wheel's Gerry Rafferty performed "Stuck in the Middle with You," he was trying to imitate Bob Dylan....but nobody (including me) really noticed....

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cd637299 said:
radioman148 said:
Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)
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Ah yes....also I think Casey Kasem said that when Stealers Wheel's Gerry Rafferty performed "Stuck in the Middle with You," he was trying to imitate Bob Dylan....but nobody (including me) really noticed....

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I didn't either.
 
Elvis Imitators:
ral donner
elvis wade
El Vez
Ronnie McDowell-the best
terry stafford

marylyn Michaels (did barbara Streisand for years)..she was a singer first, then an impressionist.
Dean martin developed his style Imitating his Idol ,Bing Crosby
 
hornet61 said:
Elvis Imitators:
ral donner
elvis wade
El Vez
Ronnie McDowell-the best
terry stafford

marylyn Michaels (did barbara Streisand for years)..she was a singer first, then an impressionist.
Dean martin developed his style Imitating his Idol ,Bing Crosby
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Marylyn Michaels was great.
 
Not sure if the country classic "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" crossed over to the pop charts. David Allan Coe imitates Waylon Jennings, Charlie Pride, and Merle Haggard.
 
This is hardly a classic hit from the '60s or '70s, but for some reason, when I read this thread title, I thought of that old Glenn Miller song by The Modernaires, "Juke Box Saturday Night," with their impersonation of The Ink Spots.

Not as much an imitation song as it is a tribute song, nonetheless, the Commodores borrowed lines from Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson in "Night Shift."
 
firepoint525 said:
"Uptown Girl," Billy Joel very obviously pays tribute to the Four Seasons.

"Lies," Knickerbockers, sounded more like the Beatles than any other group, except for the Beatles themselves.
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When I first heard "Lies" I thought the Knickerbockers were British.
 
radioman148 said:
firepoint525 said:
"Uptown Girl," Billy Joel very obviously pays tribute to the Four Seasons.

"Lies," Knickerbockers, sounded more like the Beatles than any other group, except for the Beatles themselves.
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When I first heard "Lies" I thought the Knickerbockers were British.
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There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united. (They were a Canadian band.) Good one about the K'bockers.

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A whole slew under this category:

1) Everyone that Barry Gibb produced sounded like the BeeGees.

2) Everyone that Jim Steinman produced sounded like his main client, Meat Loaf.

3) Everyone that Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers produced sounded like their own band Chic. (Diana Ross even re-produced her album Upside Down because she thought that she sounded like a guest vocalist on a Chic record.)

4) Everyone that Stock-Aitken-Waterman produced sounded like their main client, Rick Astley.

5) Everyone that Jeff Lynne produced (George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Traveling Wilburys) sounded like ELO.
 
cd637299 said:
There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united. (They were a Canadian band.) Good one about the K'bockers.
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Weren't they on Capitol records, too? I seem to recall that that helped fuel the controversy. It didn't hurt that there was NO photo of the band anywhere to be found on the record!
radioman148 said:
firepoint525 said:
radioman148 said:
Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)
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Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."
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Indeed he did. It's on one of his albums.
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Interesting to note that "Suspicion" (Terry Stafford's version) was at #6 the same week that the Beatles had nailed down the entire top five! Maybe Elvis wasn't dead yet if an Elvis soundalike could sit on the charts right beside the Beatles in 1964! (Who knows, maybe if Elvis' version had been released as a single?)
 
firepoint525 said:
cd637299 said:
There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united. (They were a Canadian band.) Good one about the K'bockers.
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Weren't they on Capitol records, too? I seem to recall that that helped fuel the controversy. It didn't hurt that there was NO photo of the band anywhere to be found on the record!
radioman148 said:
firepoint525 said:
radioman148 said:
Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)
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Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."
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Indeed he did. It's on one of his albums.
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Interesting to note that "Suspicion" (Terry Stafford's version) was at #6 the same week that the Beatles had nailed down the entire top five! Maybe Elvis wasn't dead yet if an Elvis soundalike could sit on the charts right beside the Beatles in 1964! (Who knows, maybe if Elvis' version had been released as a single?)
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That would've been interesting. The Beatles & Elvis dominating the charts at the same time.
 
firepoint525 said:
2) Everyone that Jim Steinman produced sounded like his main client, Meat Loaf.
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Even "Left in the Dark" by Barbra Streisand? :) Back in 1983-84 it's true, I could tell a Steinman record for the most part, even Barbra. Air Supply's "Making Love out of Nothing at All" you could tell....

The presentation, yes, but the voices....well......

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