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

[firepoint525]

Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers, "Do You Remember?" and "Golden Years of Rock and Roll" both paid tribute to, and impersonated, many of the stars of the '50s and early '60s.  On the first Stars on Long Play (Stars on 45) album.

[firepoint525]

Fortunes-Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again sounds like the Four Seasons to me.

To me, that one had a country sound.  But I remember receiving a call from a listener who thought that "Denise" by Randy and the Rainbows sounded like the Four Seasons to her.  Since I knew that it was Randy and the Rainbows, the Four Seasons soundalike angle never occurred to me.

[Fieldtech1]

Sugarloaf - Dont Call Us We'll Call You has a Beatles 'I Feel Fine' riff in it.

[Les Stock]

Sugarloaf - Dont Call Us We'll Call You has a Beatles 'I Feel Fine' riff in it.

Mentioned on another board on this site: DCUWCY also has a riff from Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."

[KeithE4]

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

Including the Beatles.  When I first heard Free As A Bird, I actually thought it was ELO, not a 1977 John Lennon demo with the other Beatles adding to it years later.

[KeithE4]

How about Tiny Tim's "impersonation" (and I use the term loosely) of Sonny & Cher in his remake of I Got You Babe in 1968, from his first album God Bless Tiny Tim.  He sang the "Sonny" part in his natural voice and the "Cher" part in his "Tiny Tim" falsetto.  DeepOldies.com plays this "classic" rather often.  "Bizarre" is the best way to describe it if you haven't had the pleasure of hearing it. 

[CTListener]

Joe Diffie had a country hit in the '90s called "Bigger Than the Beatles," which ended with a most Beatle-esque "yeah-yeah-yeah-YEEEEEAAAAHHHH" repeated in the fade-out.
Also in country, David Allan Coe imitated Merle Haggard for a couple of lines in "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" and the Statler Brothers dropped a brief impression of Bill Anderson into their name-dropping hit of the late '70s, "How to Be a Country Star," and George Jones did the same to Conway Twitty in "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes."

[borderblaster]

Would I dare mention the Rutles?

[firepoint525]

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

Including the Beatles.  When I first heard Free As A Bird, I actually thought it was ELO, not a 1977 John Lennon demo with the other Beatles adding to it years later.

You have George Harrison to thank for that.  He was the one who lobbied for Jeff Lynne to produce the Anthology singles.  I can't help but think that George Martin would have been a better choice, as Lynne tended to "Spectorize" anything that he could get his hands on!  At any rate, you can still hear the original demo of "Free As a Bird" on youtube, if it is still there.

Joe Diffie had a country hit in the '90s called "Bigger Than the Beatles," which ended with a most Beatle-esque "yeah-yeah-yeah-YEEEEEAAAAHHHH" repeated in the fade-out.

The video of that one is pretty cool too, with "fake Beatles" doing those "yeah yeah yeah"s.

Would I dare mention the Rutles?

Or Beatlemania, or 1964 the Tribute, or Rain, or the Wannabeatles?  The Wannabeatles are actually a Beatles cover band.  The rest that I mentioned are tribute bands.

[borderblaster]

An act called The American Beetles toured South America in the 60s. Check them out on YouTube