6 Songs People Apparently Think Are by the Wrong Artist

Jamiroquai is the group and Jay Kay is the singer. I learned this today during my search.

 

right all along .. whew (even though I would not be able to identify a Jamiroquai song if I heard one..I know,.. I await Utubeducatin..)

 

Or you got a legit track by an unknown artist (who'd probably - at least that's what people speculated - deliberately mislabeled and shared it themselves to trick people into listening to them), either that or newly created outfakes. Syd Barrett didn't record with Keith Moon & Sun Ra, or record songs about cinnamon toast or Stanley the simpleton. Never did find who did the song posing as Jeff Buckley and Chris Cornell (or manage to refind it after my harddrive died & the p2p software shutdown).

 

Unfortunately, newer generations thought that "Without You" is a Mariah Carey original and "All By Myself" was originally recorded by Celine Dion.

 

For years, I thought Billy Squier's "Lonely is the Night" was Zeppelin.

 

Unlike older generations (or people my age or younger who only pay/paid attention to older songs) who thought/think it's a Nilsson original ;-)

(Me, despite being one of that newer generation when Mariah's version came out, I paid attention to a tv pop quiz playing clips of all three version & that mini feature on watchdog , so knew it was by Badfinger).

 

He had his own:

It's a good song if you can stand the 80's production. I think this was mainly a Mike Campbell song that he probably could've given to Don Henley and had a hit with.

 

Good so I can still safely think that "Come And Get It" is by The Beatles....

 

Living Next Door to Alice - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

 

"Oh Sheila" was a No. 1 hit not for Prince but Ready For The World (and is not about Sheila E).

 

One bad thing about the lack of originality on Mariah Carey's cover version is that it just copied the arrangement of the Nilsson cover version.
At least the Nilsson version sounded fresh when it originally came out in 1972 showcasing his creativity by not copying the original Badfinger arrangement.
Nilsson did not just cover the song. He owned it.

 

Even Neil Young's father got fooled by that one.

 

Celine kicked the hell out of All By Myself!

 

I still prefer the melodramatic Eric Carmen original with his rendition of Rachmaninoff's piano second movement (Adagio sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18 which enhanced further the melodramatic effect of the song in a more positive way.
His self-titled debut album has the unedited version of "All By Myself".

 

I love(d) Mariah, but her remake of "I Still Believe" is really just a karaoke version of Brenda K. Starr's 1988 hit, with a slightly more schmaltzy arrangement (much like her "Without You").

 

Everyone believed Stuck in the Middle With You was by Bob Dylan.

 

That was done on purpose. Their previous record was a cover of In the Summertime.

 

For a while, I thought "Never Knew Love Like This Before" (Stephanie Mills) was Diana Ross's song. Apparently, others often made the same mistake about the earlier Polly Brown hit "Up In A Puff Of Smoke."

 

I like Carmen's version best too. I wasn't complimenting Celine when I said she kicked the hell out of the song!

 

Some people thought Buddy Holly resurrected from the dead when they heard "I Fought The Law" by Bobby Fuller's Four.

"I Fought The Law" was composed by Sonny Curtis, guitarist of the Buddy Holly band the Crickets.

 

It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) by Felice Taylor sounds exactly like Diana Ross & the Supremes.

 

Easy to mistake it for Rod. It sounds exactly like Rod when he recorded his 1978 hit "It's A Heartache."

 

"The Great Commandment" wasn't Depeche Mode.

 

Some people mistaken the Toys "A Lover's Concerto" as another Supremes hit single.
Actually, the Supremes recorded their own cover version of that song.

 

Another good example.
I myself thought that "One Last Memory" by the obscured soul group Impact was a song by the similar sounding but more popular soul group, The Stylistics.