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    #51
    Forever Young - Bob Dylan
    Forever Young - Rod Stewart.

    Rod would have been better off just covering Bob's song, as Rod's version is a hideous rip off of Bob's, with the lyrics following a very similar theme and path . So much so, that Rod has/had to pay some of the royalties from his version over to Bob.

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      #52
      Years ago I was watching an interview with Paul Gambacinni and Mike Read who were both bewildered by the fact that The Jacksons would record a song called 'Heartbreak Hotel.'

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        #53
        Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View Post
        Forever Young - Bob Dylan
        Forever Young - Rod Stewart.
        Forever Young - Alphaville

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          #54
          Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View Post
          Forever Young - Bob Dylan
          Forever Young - Rod Stewart.

          Rod would have been better off just covering Bob's song, as Rod's version is a hideous rip off of Bob's, with the lyrics following a very similar theme and path . So much so, that Rod has/had to pay some of the royalties from his version over to Bob.
          Rod would not have liked that. He's famously tight with a buck.

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            #55
            Not quite as long, but "Spy in the House of Love" shares similar semi-obscure 1950s origins to BOBD - although Anaïs Nin's novel was "A Spy in the House of Love".

            Steve Winwood's song is about a woman who has had it all her own way but is going to get her comeuppance soon for sure oh yes.

            And Was (not Was)'s version turns it around so the man is the spy pursuing the woman and it gets a bit creepy and stalkerish ("I recorded every movement / And plotted how to seize her / I used a tiny camera / I thought I'd Japanese her")

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              #56
              My Girl by Otis Redding is the same song as the Motown one.

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                #57
                Mention of the execrable Toploader on the 'Mundane' thread reminded me of the existence of:

                Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest / Toploader
                Dancing in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy

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                  #58
                  ABC's The Look Of Love is definitely not the same as the one written by Bacharach and David or the one written by Cahn and Van Heusen...

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                    #59
                    Some Girls - Rolling Stones and Racey, both late 70s

                    Same Stones album has a track called Respectable which I doubt is as good as the Mel and Kim song.

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                      #60
                      The End - Beatles and Doors. One short, one long.

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                        #61
                        And Pearl Jam.

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                          #62
                          Northern Lights - Renaissance
                          Northern Lights - Death Cab For Cutie

                          I'm sure that there'll be others - SFA chose a different spelling for their track.
                          Last edited by Jah Womble; 02-12-2018, 23:22.

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                            #63
                            Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                            My Girl by Otis Redding is the same song as the Motown one.
                            I remembered that afterwards Satchmo but thanks anyway.

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                              #64
                              Article on Public Enemy's versus the Isley's "Fight The Power".

                              https://www.npr.org/2018/12/07/67384..._medium=social

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                                #65
                                Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
                                Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream

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                                  #66
                                  In both of their cases, they didn't really.

                                  Add Happy Birthday by both Stevie Wonder and Altered Images (October 1981) to the list of simultaneous identically-titled hits that I began upthread.

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                                    #67
                                    Forever and Ever - Slik
                                    Forever and Ever - Demis Roussos (same year, oddly)

                                    What Goes On - Beatles
                                    What Goes On - Velvet Underground

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                                      #68
                                      Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post

                                      What Goes On - Beatles
                                      What Goes On - Velvet Underground
                                      Also a Midnight Oil song of the same name.

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