• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

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

cd637299 said:
firepoint525 said:
2) Everyone that Jim Steinman produced sounded like his main client, Meat Loaf.
Click to expand...
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......
Click to expand...
Even "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" by Celine Dion.

I believe you know what I meant.
 
^ Kinda...! :)

It was said somewhere that Bill Cosby's novelty tune "Yes Yes Yes" was Cosby trying to do a Barry White....I never thought that...You can judge for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgOVt3MXXA

As to Steinman, there was also Barry Manilow's "Read 'em and Weep", which spent more weeks at #1 on the AC charts than any of his other stuff, but you never hear it at all now. Also, I cannot remember where, but somebody posted something like they'd LOL at the thought of Air Supply "making all the stadiums rock"!

cd
 
cd637299 said:
As to Steinman, there was also Barry Manilow's "Read 'em and Weep", which spent more weeks at #1 on the AC charts than any of his other stuff, but you never hear it at all now. Also, I cannot remember where, but somebody posted something like they'd LOL at the thought of Air Supply "making all the stadiums rock"!
Click to expand...
I remember "Read 'em and Weep," but I was not aware that that was a Steinman production. I may need to go back and listen to that one again.

But from the very first time I heard "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," I knew that that HAD to be a Steinman production!

In a similar vein, nearly everything produced by Phil Spector had that "wall of sound" feel to it.
 
Tony Orlando (as the studio group "Wind") imitated Frankie Valli at the end of their only hit "Make Believe"

Billy Griffin was almost spot-on when he replaced Smokey Robinson in The Miracles
 
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
TheFonz said:
The Class Chubby Checker
Click to expand...
and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..
Click to expand...

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.
Click to expand...

Unfortunatly, Hank's version was released in 1959 as a "B" side of a R&B song. I'm sure mainstream radio didn't pick up on it because of Hank's reputation with all of those "Annie" songs back in the '50s. Hank finally got his due in the Pop market in the '60s with "Finger Poppin' Time" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go".
 
TheFonz said:
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
TheFonz said:
The Class Chubby Checker
Click to expand...
and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..
Click to expand...

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.
Click to expand...

Unfortunatly, Hank's version was released in 1959 as a "B" side of a R&B song. I'm sure mainstream radio didn't pick up on it because of Hank's reputation with all of those "Annie" songs back in the '50s. Hank finally got his due in the Pop market in the '60s with "Finger Poppin' Time" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go".
Click to expand...

Yeah Ballard did have a lot of records during the R&B era that were "questionable" taste at that time.
 
radioman148 said:
TheFonz said:
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
TheFonz said:
The Class Chubby Checker
Click to expand...
and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..
Click to expand...

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.
Click to expand...

Unfortunatly, Hank's version was released in 1959 as a "B" side of a R&B song. I'm sure mainstream radio didn't pick up on it because of Hank's reputation with all of those "Annie" songs back in the '50s. Hank finally got his due in the Pop market in the '60s with "Finger Poppin' Time" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go".
Click to expand...

Yeah Ballard did have a lot of records during the R&B era that were "questionable" taste at that time.
Click to expand...
"Work with me Annie"
"Annie had a baby"...see what happens when you work too hard...
 
Close to You by The Carpenters
Light My Fire by The Doors
Fat Boys Twist
I think were alone Now by Tiffany
Angel Baby
Proud Mary by CCR
Barbara Ann by The Beach Boys (original by The Regents)
Anna go to him (featured on a Married with Children episode) Arthur Alexander, Beatles
I only have eyes for you by Art Garfunkel
Baby I love you by The Sherells
Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder
Locomotion-Kylie Minogue
Having fun in the California Sun
Summertime Blues
Pretty Woman Roy Orbinson
MacArthur Park by Donna Summer
Hooked on A Feeling
If you Can Read My Mind- Barbara Streisand
I can see clearly now
Baker Street- Garry Rafferty
Ebony Eyes- Smoky Robinson, Rick James
Summertime Paradise-Stevie Wonder, Gangsta's Paradise-Coolio
Heard it Through the Grapevine- Marvin Gaye, CCR, Zapp and Roger
 
Oh Have you heard?

THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!!!!
BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S THE WORD, BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD. :eek: :eek: ::) ::) ::) ::)
 
willdav713 said:
Close to You by The Carpenters
Light My Fire by The Doors
Fat Boys Twist
I think were alone Now by Tiffany
Angel Baby
Proud Mary by CCR
Barbara Ann by The Beach Boys (original by The Regents)
Anna go to him (featured on a Married with Children episode) Arthur Alexander, Beatles
I only have eyes for you by Art Garfunkel
Baby I love you by The Sherells
Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder
Locomotion-Kylie Minogue
Having fun in the California Sun
Summertime Blues
Pretty Woman Roy Orbinson
MacArthur Park by Donna Summer
Hooked on A Feeling
If you Can Read My Mind- Barbara Streisand
I can see clearly now
Baker Street- Garry Rafferty
Ebony Eyes- Smoky Robinson, Rick James
Summertime Paradise-Stevie Wonder, Gangsta's Paradise-Coolio
Heard it Through the Grapevine- Marvin Gaye, CCR, Zapp and Roger
This is dedicated to the one I love, Sherrells, Mama and the Papas
Click to expand...
 
^ As the OP, I was not referring to remakes---just songs where the artist (intentionally or unintentionally) sounds suspiciously like another artist.

cd
 
On AT40-70s (11/72) I heard a song Austin Roberts-Somethings Wrong With Me. This must be where Barry Manilow got the hook for "I Write The Songs' a few years later. I'm surprised there wasn't a lawsuit.

Also from that same countdown some of the vocals on Osmonds-Crazy Horses sound just like Metallica to me. I never expected to say those two acts soundalike! But they do on this song.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom