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Post by johnnywest on Feb 16, 2022 16:27:45 GMT -5
I like Eamon who hit with "I Don't Want You Back" in 2004 sounds just like Justin Timberlake.
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 16, 2022 17:45:50 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. Well, such an unabashed ELO fan like myself, Robert John "Mutt" Lange who wrote "Do You Believe in Love" for Huey Lewis and the News in 1982 to sound like ELO's "Sweet Talkin' Woman" from 1978 produced it. While longtime Electric Light Orchestra conductor/arranger from 1974-1980 & 1983 Louis Clark also 1981's Hooked on Classics, then later ELO Part II/The Orchestra did the string arrangements.
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 16, 2022 18:26:53 GMT -5
That's exactly what I thought, too. One other one that comes to my mind is Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line", which I could have sworn was by The Beatles the first time I heard it all those many years ago. Even all these years later, it still sounds to me as if it could have passed for a track from one of their later albums such as "The Beatles White Album" or "Let it Be." Also, Robert John's "Sad Eyes" sounds, to me, a lot like a Bee Gees ballad from around the late 70s. I always thought that about with Andy Kims "Rock Me Gently". I always thought it was Neil Diamond who did that. My Mom who was a big Neil Diamond fan told me the exact same thing not too long ago!
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 16, 2022 18:47:36 GMT -5
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." Casey Kasem did say "Sounds a bit like The Doobie Brothers' hit from awhile ago called What a Fool Believes doesn't it?" while he did Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away" outro at #23 on 5/10/1980 when the former was an AT40 Archive earlier after #33 and before Hour 1 ends!
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 16, 2022 19:02:55 GMT -5
"The Guitar Man" by Bread in 1972 & "Mr. Bojangles" by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1971, Casey Kasem even said so when he did his outro for the former! "At times it sounds a little bit like Mr. Bojangles doesn't it? That was Bread and The Guitar Man at #17 on American Top 40." from August 19th, 1972
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Post by LC on Feb 19, 2022 23:16:22 GMT -5
Marilyn Martin's "Night Moves" sounds like a forgotten Pat Benatar track.
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Post by chrislc on Jun 15, 2022 1:18:01 GMT -5
The beginning of That Old Song by Raydio sounds suspiciously like the beginning of Believe It Or Not. It’s especially suspicious considering the artist. On the other hand, he did do the Thriller video before MJ. Two giants of originality!
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 25, 2022 8:11:12 GMT -5
For AT40: The 70's 6/24/1978: "Dance Across The Floor" by Jimmy Bo Horne sounds like a knockoff of a KC and the Sunshine Band song.
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Post by LC on Jun 25, 2022 10:51:44 GMT -5
For AT40: The 70's 6/24/1978: "Dance Across The Floor" by Jimmy Bo Horne sounds like a knockoff of a KC and the Sunshine Band song. Well, it was written & produced by KC....
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Post by at40nut on Jun 25, 2022 11:36:47 GMT -5
For a brief moment the other day, I got Roberta Flack's 1982 hit "Makin' Love" confused with The Rolling Stones' "Fool To Cry" from 1976. It must be the keyboards!!!!
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Post by chrislc on Jun 25, 2022 18:24:53 GMT -5
For a brief moment the other day, I got Roberta Flack's 1982 hit "Makin' Love" confused with The Rolling Stones' "Fool To Cry" from 1976. It must be the keyboards!!!! Speaking of unlike artists, the beginning of Sophisticated Lady by Natalie Cole was clearly inspired by Fame by David Bowie. I think the beginnings of the Flack and Stones songs also resemble the beginning of Rock And Roll Lullaby.
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Post by at40nut on Jul 3, 2022 18:50:43 GMT -5
Dwight Twilley's 1984 hit "Girls" kind of sounds like "Yummy,Yummy,Yummy" by The Ohio Express from 1968.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 4, 2022 5:50:14 GMT -5
at40nut ... do you mean because it is the same chord (almost) DT is playing a G7 when he sings 'Girls' and then Tom Petty sings a little something, while the beginning of the chorus by TOE is playing G (then F, then G.) Tom Petty's last note is a D right above middle C, and the 'Yummy' word (the 'Yummies?') is also the same D. I am asking, not telling. Some people seem to be quite conscious of keys. I remember some friends being impressed when radio stations played Like A Virgin and I Want To Know What Love Is back to back, since they are both in Gb. In 1983 a DJ at Hotfudd's WDRC told me that he had worked for a prior station where all songs (on cartridges?) were labeled with the key (including key changes) and they strove to keep back to back songs in the same key, or only go up slightly (half or whole step.) I don't know which station that was, though, probably in the 1970s.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 4, 2022 6:02:12 GMT -5
Now I'm remembering an AC station that I heard in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in Spring-Summer 1980 (not WDRC, not Magic 104, but the one around 92 or 93) that would sometimes play three in the key of C back to back: C&T's Love On A Shoestring, JLB's The Seduction and BM's The Rose. It happened more than once. It was NOT automated, to my understanding.
I remember hearing ONE time only, ABBA's Money Money Money, going in to DB's You Light Up My Life. MMM ends on an a minor, DB's starts on an a minor. This was on a pop station with a weak signal, not sure where it was on the dial or geographically.
The things I think of at 7 in the morning on a holiday.
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Post by Hervard on Jul 4, 2022 7:20:07 GMT -5
When I first heard "Would I Lie To You" by Charles & Eddie, I thought it was a new song by Simply Red (whom themselves had an album out around that time, though I believe they were done releasing singles from it when "Would I Lie To You" came out).
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