Songs By the same group/artist that sounds simaler.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Listening to as much old music that I do I've noticed how back in the 60s when 1 song by 1 person or group is released and a follow up by the same people is released, that song would sometimes sound a lot like the other 1. Here's a couple.

Rightous Brothers: You've Lost That Lovn Feeling/Just Once In My Life.

New Christy Minstrels: Green Green/Saturday Night.

It's interesting because the follow ups were or might of not been as sucessful as the other song. I mean how often do you heard Just Once In My Life compared to You've Lost That Lovin Feeling?

[joveski]

howsabout Run through the jungle and Centrefield from john fogerty?? - he even got sued for ripping himself off

[Borderstone]

Too easy here!

Although I love her music (you know who it is! :D ) her songs "DreamLover" and "Heartbreaker" are very similar,the second one is just faster.

Neil Diamond's guilty of it as well. In '69 he had "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" and then in 1986 he did a song called,"Headed For The Future" which despite all it's 80's glitz,sounded like "Brother..."

How about an artist who made two similar LP's?
In 1976,Steve Miller (Band) recorded the LP "Fly Like An Eagle" just over a year later,they/he released "Book Of Dreams".
All the songs pretty interchangable because all of them were recorded in 1976.

Obvious example: Rock N'Me 1st LP & Swingtown 2nd LP,very much the same!

Originally posted by joveski:
howsabout Run through the jungle and Centrefield from john fogerty?? - he even got sued for ripping himself off

Of course you are right, he was sued, but just for the record, the court found in Fogerty's favour.

[Borderstone]

That Fogerty suit (filed by Fantasy Records) was one of the dumbest lawsuits I'd ever heard of!

Suing an artist for copying his own sound?!

I'm surprised the judge didn't fine the record Co. for wasting the courts time and taxpayer's money! :D


In speaking again of same artist-sound alikes,I think the kings & queens of this have to be the artists of Motown in the 1960s.

The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?/Baby Love

The Temptations - Runaway Child,Running Wild/Psychadelic Shack

The Four Tops - Reach Out,I'll Be There/Bernadette

Smokey R. & The Miracles -I Second That Emotion/Tears Of A Clown and! Shop Around/Going to A Go-Go.

Whew! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Too many! :D

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Don't know if I see the connection with the Miracles songs but The 4 Tops songs, definitly. ReachOut,I'll Be There was relased in the fall of 1966 and Burnedette was Early 1967 Come to think of it Standing In the Shadows of Love I think was released in between. Figure they were at least from the same album.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Joni Michell: Help Me/Freeman in Paris.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Jimmey Gilmer & The Fireballs: Sugar Shack/Daisy Pedal Picken.

[Borderstone]

Ah,any long,drawn out song by Meat Loaf? :D

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Percy Sledge.

When a Man Loves a Woman/Take Time To Know Her.

Funny thing I thought Take Time to Know Her was a follow up to the 1st song I mentioned but When a Man Loves a Woman was in 1966 and TTTKH was released 2 years later.

[Borderstone]

On a lkesser known scale,"Your Imagination" and "Posession Obsession" by Hall & Oates. Not "big" hits but very similar.