Songs where other artists are imitated (or: The Other Artists Have it!)

[firepoint525]

2) Everyone that Jim Steinman produced sounded like his main client, Meat Loaf.

Even "Left in the Dark" by Barbra Streisand?    Back in 1983-84 it's true, I could tell a Steinman record for the most part, even Barbra.  Air Supply's "Making Love out of Nothing at All" you could tell....
The presentation, yes, but the voices....well......

Even "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" by Celine Dion.

I believe you know what I meant. 

[cd637299]

^ Kinda...! 

It was said somewhere that Bill Cosby's novelty tune "Yes Yes Yes" was Cosby trying to do a Barry White....I never thought that...You can judge for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgOVt3MXXA

As to Steinman, there was also Barry Manilow's "Read 'em and Weep", which spent more weeks at #1 on the AC charts than any of his other stuff, but you never hear it at all now.  Also, I cannot remember where, but somebody posted something like they'd LOL at the thought of Air Supply "making all the stadiums rock"!

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[firepoint525]

As to Steinman, there was also Barry Manilow's "Read 'em and Weep", which spent more weeks at #1 on the AC charts than any of his other stuff, but you never hear it at all now.  Also, I cannot remember where, but somebody posted something like they'd LOL at the thought of Air Supply "making all the stadiums rock"!

I remember "Read 'em and Weep," but I was not aware that that was a Steinman production.  I may need to go back and listen to that one again.

But from the very first time I heard "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," I knew that that HAD to be a Steinman production!

In a similar vein, nearly everything produced by Phil Spector had that "wall of sound" feel to it.

[borderblaster]

Tony Orlando (as the studio group "Wind") imitated Frankie Valli at the end of their only hit "Make Believe"

Billy Griffin was almost spot-on when he replaced Smokey Robinson in The Miracles

[TheFonz]

The Class     Chubby Checker

[radioman148]

More Money For You And Me--Four Preps

[melan8tr]

The Class     Chubby Checker

and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..

[radioman148]

The Class     Chubby Checker

and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.

[TheFonz]

The Class     Chubby Checker

and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.

Unfortunatly, Hank's version was released in 1959 as a "B" side of a R&B song.  I'm sure mainstream radio didn't pick up on it because of Hank's reputation with all of those "Annie" songs back in the '50s.  Hank finally got his due in the Pop market in the '60s with "Finger Poppin' Time" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go".

[radioman148]

The Class     Chubby Checker

and chubby covering Hank Ballard and the midnighters the twist..

Poor Hank Ballard. He made the mistake of being born just a little too early.

Unfortunatly, Hank's version was released in 1959 as a "B" side of a R&B song.  I'm sure mainstream radio didn't pick up on it because of Hank's reputation with all of those "Annie" songs back in the '50s.  Hank finally got his due in the Pop market in the '60s with "Finger Poppin' Time" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go".

Yeah Ballard did have a lot of records during the R&B era that were "questionable" taste at that time.