Are there any songs you've heard on radio, etc. for years and years without knowing who they were (or being mistaken)?

I JUST found out that "Every Kinda People" is by Robert Palmer. I always thought that was a Boz Scaggs tune. Maybe "Lowdown" is actually a Paul Young song, or somesuch.

Also weird about "Every Kinda People" is it was written by the same guy who wrote Free's "All Right Now."

i think my biggest shocker was finding out that "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" was by kenny rogers.

pretty much every song by The Guess Who

unrest - "make out club"

i used to hear this at a club residency and thought it was a christmas song. i still have no idea how i heard that.

get it?

I still don't know who's singing "COME ON AND TAKE A FREE RIDE, FREE RIDE".

C'mon mang. Edgar Winter Group (with Dan Hartman on lead vocals).

nothing comes to mind, but i want to create a parody thread:

songs seen but not heard

I didn't know for a long time that 'Be My Lover' was Alice Cooper.

You mean "I Can Dream About You" Dan Hartman???

And even though "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" is credited to Elvin Bishop, lead vocals were provided courtesy of Mickey "Starship" Thomas. Yes, the guy who sang "We Built This City" and "Sara."

AND, Grover Washington. Jr.'s "Just TEH Two of Us" was sung by Bill Withers.

Don't act like you don't know...

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Yeah, I was just showin' off.

There used to be an "In Concert" show that our local PBS station used to run Saturday at 11:30-ish, after Doctor Who...one episode had some new wavish band the name of which I never caught that performed a great song called "Murder In New York". I've never been able to track down this song, nor the name of the band. This would have aired circa 1984, figure the concert was taped in the early 80's.

i'm still trying to find out the act that sang "b-a-b-b-y, b-b-l-u-e"

The Swans?

Badfinger I do believe.

Too much time spent with Spade.

Leon Russell

I don't know any "Murder In New York City" but Demics "(I Wanna Go To) New York City" is great.

Song by same name by Badfinger though.

I just double checked.

Rusell's goes bayyyyyyyyyyyyy be blooooooooooooooooooooooo

yeah the song i'm referring to sounds like an early 60s, white doo wop tune. which is what is googled and finally found out the group was called the Echoes and they only had that one hit.


also, there are a lot of songs i thought were originals but turned out to be Daniel Johnston covers. the most recent discovery was "tell me now" which i thought was a cub original until i saw the DJ documentary,

Songs heard but not sucked...

Gottdammmm I love that song.
Not even the little factoid above can diminish my love for this song.

Good topic, by the way.