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EdisonLite
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PopArchivist wrote:
| If you listen Regina on Baby Love in 1986 sounds exactly like Madonna did on her songs of that time period. You can easily mistake it as a Madonna hit! |
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Yes, Regina and at least 11 other female singers in the '80s!
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Paul Haney wrote:
Conversely, "One Bad Apple" by The
Osmonds could've easily been mistaken for the Jackson 5.
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Actually, it was mistaken for the J5...by none
other than Berry Gordy! Rumor has it he was driving
around and heard OBA on the radio, and when he got to
the office demanded to know how a new J5 song got
released without his knowledge.
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Here's another one I thought of--Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" was a dead ringer for Neil Diamond.
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Gary
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How about Garth Brooks crossing over to the CHR chart in
1994 with Hard Luck Woman - when I first heard this I
said , I think they mislabeled the cd, this is Rod
Stewart!
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jono wrote:
[QUOTE=Paul Haney]
I personally remember lots of talk at the time that
"It's A Heartache" by
Bonnie Tyler sounded a lot like Rod Stewart
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To me, so did Kim Carnes. She and Bonnie Tyler had the
female Rod Stewart voice. 1975, same year as Jackie
Blue discussed, Sky High sounded like a girl. Getting
my hopes that high, i was surprised that it was a guy.
Yeah, Beverly Bremers (the earlier DON'T SAY.. sounded
like Donny Osmond, who DID start out like the Jackson
Five.). ANd also, now, (5;/;14/21), it was one thing
for Terry Jacks to jave a male/female name, but he
SOUNDED like a girl (though his band,the Poppy Family,
DID have a girl-his wife, Susan.)
Edited by Steve Carras on 14 May 2021 at 2:24pm
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You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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Steve Carras
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sriv94 wrote:
Here's another one I thought of--Andy
Kim's "Rock Me Gently" was a dead ringer for Neil
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Sure sounded like that to me,too.
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You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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Paul Haney
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This morning I listened to "Who Do You Think You Are" by
Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods. My first thought was that it
sounds a lot like Todd Rundgren.
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The Box Tops "Soul Deep" : a dead ringer for The Grass Roots, or vice versa...
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Joshua Kadison's "Beautiful In My Eyes" is often mistaken for an Elton John song. And Dan Hartman admits that "I Can Dream About You" was an attempt to sound just like Hall & Oates.
And given her voice and the song's subject matter, Carole Pope was often mistaken for being male in the 1981 Canadian hit "High School Confidential":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwom4D3i4g
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sriv94
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A lot of Jim Croce in Keith Carradine’s “I’m Easy” too.
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Julian Lennon sounds a lot like his father on Valotte and
he sounds like David Bowie on Now You're In Heaven.
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Redeye - Games (1971) Sounds like Crosby, Stills & Nash.
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Indy500 wrote:
| Redeye - Games (1971) Sounds like Crosby, Stills & Nash. |
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And not a hit, but Firefall's "Sweet and Sour" might be my favorite CSN song, and they're not anywhere near it.
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vanmeter wrote:
And not a hit, but Firefall's "Sweet
and Sour" might be my favorite CSN song, and they're
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Yes! but the cut before it on the album 'Elan'
("Strange Way") was published by Stephen Stills Music so
Stills' presence is closer than we think...
"Sweet And Sour" is a great song by the way.
Andy
Edited by AndrewChouffi on 29 April 2021 at 8:00am
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I was expecting an entire album's worth of "Wham Bam" when promo copies of the self-titled Silver album on Arista arrived at the distributor I was working for in 1976. Was I in for a surprise when I popped it on the turntable for an audition!
"All I Wanna Do" and "Trust In Somebody" were the two best songs that Poco never recorded. The two groups actually did have something in common: album covers designed by the late Phil Hartmann.
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Yah Shure wrote:
I was expecting an entire album's worth of "Wham Bam" when promo copies of the self-titled Silver album on Arista arrived at the distributor I was working for in 1976. Was I in for a surprise when I popped it on the turntable for an audition!
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I, too, was hoping the Silver album would have more songs that sounded like "Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang" and was sad that wasn't the case. I really do like the aforementioned "All I Wanna Do" and also the ballad "Memory". All 3 of these songs were the only 3 not written by the band but picked by the record company president Clive Davis. All the rest of the songs on the album were written by the band members. Which told me I really didn't like the band - just the songs that Clive chose for them. :) I mean, without those 3 songs, I really didn't like Silver at all. Maybe I shouldn't admit this in public but I think "Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang" was my #1 song of 1976!
And speaking of that song, there was a certain type of poppy sound in records that I liked from 1972 (the year I started listening) to 1976. And I really felt that "Wham Bam..." was literally the last hit song that fell into that style. After that, there were still many great uptempo pop songs but none that were like my favorites from 1972-1976. I can't really put into words what that "sound" was, but I just never heard that sound again afterwards.
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I share some of the music thoughts expressed above by
EdisonLite. I feel similar about his description of "Whan
Bam Shang a Lang" I would probably add Pilot and "It's
Magic" and Jig Saw with "Sky High". Plus "Bad Time' by
Grand Funk. If I think of any more I will find a thread
title and start a new separate thread.
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I agree with all 3 of the songs that C J Brown mentions - all would fit in that style I was mentioning.
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Just joining this thread:
I also thought the lead singer of "Hot Child In The
City" was a woman as I did the singer of "Jackie Blue".
I thought the singer Garnett Mimms of "Cry Baby" was a
woman.
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