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

[firepoint525]

Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)

Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."

[EZway2go]

This is hardly a classic hit from the '60s or '70s, but for some reason, when I read this thread title, I thought of that old Glenn Miller song by The Modernaires, "Juke Box Saturday Night," with their impersonation of The Ink Spots.

Not as much an imitation song as it is a tribute song, nonetheless, the Commodores borrowed lines from Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson in "Night Shift."

[radioman148]

"Uptown Girl," Billy Joel very obviously pays tribute to the Four Seasons.

"Lies," Knickerbockers, sounded more like the Beatles than any other group, except for the Beatles themselves.

When I first heard "Lies" I thought the Knickerbockers were British.

[radioman148]

Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)

Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."

Indeed he did. It's on one of his albums.

[cd637299]

"Uptown Girl," Billy Joel very obviously pays tribute to the Four Seasons.

"Lies," Knickerbockers, sounded more like the Beatles than any other group, except for the Beatles themselves.

When I first heard "Lies" I thought the Knickerbockers were British.

There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united.  (They were a Canadian band.)  Good one about the K'bockers.

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[firepoint525]

A whole slew under this category:

1) Everyone that Barry Gibb produced sounded like the BeeGees.

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

3) Everyone that Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers produced sounded like their own band Chic.  (Diana Ross even re-produced her album Upside Down because she thought that she sounded like a guest vocalist on a Chic record.)

4) Everyone that Stock-Aitken-Waterman produced sounded like their main client, Rick Astley.

5) Everyone that Jeff Lynne produced (George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Traveling Wilburys) sounded like ELO.

[firepoint525]

There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united.  (They were a Canadian band.)  Good one about the K'bockers.

Weren't they on Capitol records, too?  I seem to recall that that helped fuel the controversy.  It didn't hurt that there was NO photo of the band anywhere to be found on the record!

Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)

Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."

Indeed he did. It's on one of his albums.

Interesting to note that "Suspicion" (Terry Stafford's version) was at #6 the same week that the Beatles had nailed down the entire top five!  Maybe Elvis wasn't dead yet if an Elvis soundalike could sit on the charts right beside the Beatles in 1964!  (Who knows, maybe if Elvis' version had been released as a single?)

[radioman148]

There was also the 1977 controversy that the band Klaatu was really the Beatles re-united.  (They were a Canadian band.)  Good one about the K'bockers.

Weren't they on Capitol records, too?  I seem to recall that that helped fuel the controversy.  It didn't hurt that there was NO photo of the band anywhere to be found on the record!

Suspicion--Terry Stafford (imitating Elvis)

Elvis himself also sang "Suspicion."

Indeed he did. It's on one of his albums.

Interesting to note that "Suspicion" (Terry Stafford's version) was at #6 the same week that the Beatles had nailed down the entire top five!  Maybe Elvis wasn't dead yet if an Elvis soundalike could sit on the charts right beside the Beatles in 1964!  (Who knows, maybe if Elvis' version had been released as a single?)

That would've been interesting. The Beatles & Elvis dominating the charts at the same time.

[cd637299]

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......

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[SuperRadioFan]

I always thought Lenny Kravitz was doing his best Smoky Robinson vocals on "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over".  Don't know if it was intentional.