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Post by Hervard on Sept 8, 2019 7:13:39 GMT -5
Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but I always thought "The Politics Of Dancing" by Re-Flex sounded like Duran Duran. Not totally surprising--DD had a few imitators at the time. That said, I find it ironic that Duran Duran had a hit called "The Reflex" just weeks after "Politics Of Dancing" charted. |
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Post by Hervard on Sept 8, 2019 7:15:04 GMT -5
Well, we will miss out on this track by one week , but Paul Anka and Peter Cetera's 1983 duet "Hold Me Til' The Morning Comes" sounds a little bit like KC- I & JoJo's #1 hit from 1998 titled "All My Life." Not if we hear next week's "B" show, we won't. |
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Post by at40nut on Sept 21, 2020 10:08:28 GMT -5
I recently heard a lost hit from 1970-Mashmakhan's "As The Years Go By". It kind of reminds me of Fastball's 1998 hit "The Way".
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Post by Hervard on Sept 21, 2020 13:36:19 GMT -5
Eagles: Long Run> Trying To Live My Life Without You Not sure how I missed this post, as later on that same year that it was posted, I was at work, which, at the time, was right next to a music shop. I was right next to the wall we shared with the store, so I could hear the music playing and I thought the first song that I heard was the Bob Seger song. It turned out to be "The Long Run". The bass line, which I could hear the best, of both songs are almost identical. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 25, 2020 8:49:31 GMT -5
It recently occurred to me that most of the songs by the group Firefall sound like America.
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Post by at40nut on Sept 29, 2020 7:00:39 GMT -5
I've always thought that "Joanne" by Michael Nesmith & The First National Band was the song that CSN&Y didn't record. I thought that Michael Nesmith kind of sounded like Stephen Stills.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 29, 2020 7:11:01 GMT -5
I recently listened to Take A Little Rhythm by Ali Thomson (from 1980) and many people commented on YouTube how the song sounds like a Paul McCartney one.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 2, 2020 20:18:31 GMT -5
Call To Your Heart: Giuffria> almost any Journey song
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 10, 2020 8:16:10 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 10/7/1978: "5-7-0-5" by City Boy also sounds like a hard rocking Electric Light Orchestra song.
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Post by at40nut on Oct 10, 2020 9:55:47 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 10/7/1978: "5-7-0-5" by City Boy also sounds like a hard rocking Electric Light Orchestra song. Kind of reminds me of the band Sweet who had a Top 40 hit earlier that same year with "Love Is Like Oxygen". |
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Post by at40nut on Oct 20, 2020 8:39:12 GMT -5
Corey Hart's "In Your Soul" sounds like Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise".
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Post by Hervard on Oct 20, 2020 9:41:07 GMT -5
Call To Your Heart: Giuffria> almost any Journey song They do sound a lot like Journey, but they reminded me most of Triumph. |
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Post by burcjm on Oct 20, 2020 16:00:05 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 10/7/1978: "5-7-0-5" by City Boy also sounds like a hard rocking Electric Light Orchestra song. Kind of reminds me of the band Sweet who had a Top 40 hit earlier that same year with "Love Is Like Oxygen". Funny thing here is I thought Sweet's song "Fox On The Run" sounded like ELO. |
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Post by matt on Oct 20, 2020 17:05:48 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 10/7/1978: "5-7-0-5" by City Boy also sounds like a hard rocking Electric Light Orchestra song. Kind of reminds me of the band Sweet who had a Top 40 hit earlier that same year with "Love Is Like Oxygen". The City Boy-Sweet comparison fits much better -- 5-7-0-5 could easily have thought to have been Sweet at the time. |
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Post by matt on Oct 20, 2020 17:09:55 GMT -5
There was Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" which many, including YT, thought could pass for a lost Elvis Presley track, and Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away", which more-than-vaguely resembled Doobie Brothers' "What A Fool Believes". One more that comes to my mind is "Crush" by Jennifer Paige, which reminded me of some of Mariah Carey's material. You mention Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away" sounding like "What a Fool Believes". Well Michael McDonald sings backup on "Steal Away". It might not be a concidence. Jumping way back to the beginning of this thread and a post from 7-1/2 years ago...I don't believe this is true--Michael McDonald sang backup on a number of top 40 hits at the time, but "Steal Away" wasn't one of them. The backing vocalist on "Steal Away" sounded a lot like McDonald, but it isn't him. And the song does have a strong Doobie Brothers sound from their last few albums. From the song's Wikipedia page: "The song was released by Dupree in 1980. It immediately charted in the top 20, becoming a big hit during the summer of 1980 and became the driving force on his debut album. John D'Agostino of the Los Angeles Times described the song as "a blatant, wimpy rip-off of the Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins' composition "What a Fool Believes". The Washington Post noted similarities in both Dupree's vocal style and backing keyboards to What a Fool Believes mentioning that McDonald's publishers sought legal action though McDonald himself did not accuse Dupree of stealing his song." |
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