to the right with you
you mean that songs not by who we think
it fine welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 songs people think are by
someone else it’s good to be ready for
this list we’ll be looking at songs that
were recorded by an artist but for
whatever reason have become associated
with another artist usually from a
similar musical genre even though that
artist had nothing to do with the song
to begin with
[Music]
that means it won’t include songs where
a backup singer is thought of as the
main artists such as Michael Jackson in
rock well somebody’s watching me
[Music]
also if this Miss credited artist worked
on the song or covered it afterwards
like Mott the hoople’s all the young
dudes it won’t be on this list either
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number ten don’t read me this way Thelma
Houston not Donna Summer
see this disco hit is actually a cover
of the 1975 song by Harold Melvin and
the blue notes but Elmo Houston’s
version became much much more popular
baby don’t leave me unfortunately
because of the similar vocal style
people believe the song was actually
performed by Donna Summer
[Music]
while both artists were disco icon and
both peaked in popularity in the late
1970s Donna Summer was much more
recognizable so it was natural for
people to assume a Motown hit with
vocals like this had been sung and
released by her leading to further
confusion was the fact that summers
music was popular in the homosexual
community and Houston’s don’t leave me
this way became an unofficial anthem for
the AIDS epidemic in gay communities in
America
[Music]
number nine bitch Meredith Brooks not
Alanis Morisette and so good to me I
know I can change if you weren’t around
at this time we can give you a pass for
this one the similarities are stark and
they were meant to be record-producer
Gaza acts intentionally wanted to
emulate Alanis Morissette with its alt
rock sound and provocative lyrics
[Music]
this backfired though as Morissette’s
popularity causes a similar-sounding hit
to be associated with her and not
Meredith Brooks the relatively unknown
star could not get through interviews
without having to be asked about her
more well-known counterpart what further
added to the mix ups was the fact that
Morissette would later include a song
entitled it’s a bitch to grow up as a
digital bonus track for her seventh
album in 2008 that it’s a bitch
[Music]
thankfully Brooks learn to take the
misattribution and stride by getting
over it and even finding humor in the
situation
[Applause]
[Music]
number eight creep Stone Temple Pilots
not nirvana makes a long stay this is
one song that we can probably blame
early file-sharing sites for getting
wrong true creep is a grunge song very
much in the style of Nirvana and was
popular around the same time as it
[Music]
ah
[Music]
but because multiple users incorrectly
labelled the song on file-sharing sites
creep had a lot of people thinking it
was called half the man I used to be and
that it would buy nirvana
I used to be the vocals of late FTP lead
singer Scott Weiland on the chorus do
resemble the late Cobain the Nirvana
frontman was said to have noticed
similarities between them as well so it
sounds like no one can be totally blamed
for this error
yeah
number seven teenage dirtbag wheatus not
Weezer Weezer and wait us are two bands
with similar names similar vocal styles
similar musical genres but because one
of them was and is being significantly
more popular than the other then we have
a recipe for disaster the song called
teenage dirtbag came out in 2000 right
around the time when Weezer reunited and
it’s teenage pop rock feel along with
strikingly similar by name had people
miss crediting the single left and right
[Music]
[Applause]
Ouiser added to the confusion by
eventually covering the song live in
2011
number six I swear all-4-one not boys to
men we get it
R&B groups can sound pretty similar
especially those that were big in the
1990s all for one’s version of what was
originally a country track became an R&B
hit as well winning a Grammy in 1995 and
topping the Billboard Hot 100 for 11
weeks and because of the group’s
recognition and songs popularity at the
time people in the 90s for the most part
knew who sang the song nowadays with all
for one not being as recognized anymore
when people think of early 90s R&B they
more often than not think boys to men as
well as the song and naturally linked
them together but we shouldn’t feel too
bad for the smooth quartet as all-4-one
are still making music and just released
an album in 2015 we flair
[Applause]
number five a horse with no name America
not Neil Young first part of the journey
I was cookin oh this soft rock tune is
still being attributed to Neil Young
over 40 years after its initial release
and yet it was the first single by a
band called America and dropped just
slightly ahead of Young’s popular
harvest album the mix-up came from how
strikingly similar the vocals were to
that of young this fact wasn’t lost on
American singer and songwriter Dewey
Bunnell who stated I know that virtually
everyone on first hearing assumed it was
Neil I never fully shied away from the
fact that I was inspired by him and see
up in the desert on a horse with no name
of the rain while the band faced
criticism from young fan America got the
last laugh as a horse with no name
replaced young hearts of gold for the
top spot on the American pop charts in
the early 1970s been in my mind it’s
such a fine line keeps me searching for
[Music]
number four the warrior scandal not Pat
Benatar the eighties led to tons of
confusion when trying to differentiate
between Bergen a new wave and sin pop
bands with female rockers of the period
often grouped together as well the most
famous example of this is the warrior
which was recorded by pop rock group
scandal a band fronted by Patti Smith
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
however the tune keeps persistently
being attributed to a more popular
female rocker of the time known as Pat
Benatar the tracks vocals have been said
to be reminiscent of Benatar’s love is a
battlefield as is the song’s theme but
these similarities are probably because
both the warrior and Pat hits were
co-written by songwriter Holly Knight
considering the 80s hair style sported
by both singers in the respective music
videos though maybe those who got and
still get these two mixed up could get a
path
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number three stuck in the middle with
you
stealers wheel not Bob Dylan welcome to
you tonight I gotta feel something right
this folk rock song has Bob Dylan
written all over it
in actuality though the influential
singer-songwriter had no active role in
the making of this song stealers wheel
singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty stated
that the song was a parody of Bob Dylan
paranoia so this is probably why it
sounds so much like it
without video accompaniment even the
keenest Dylan fan might mistake the
stealers wheel audio for the famous
folks
[Music]
but what really caught mix-ups was the
disbanding of the group in 1975 after
only being active for only three years
Dylan’s timelessness has made a much
more popular throughout the decades
so we ironically think of him when we
hear a song parroting him stealers wheel
reunited in 2008 but without original
members Rafferty and Joe Egan number two
escaped the Pina Colada song Rupert
Holmes not Jimmy Buffett I was trying to
find Anita we’ve been together since
long though this is a song that can stay
in your head for hours many people have
thought and still think it’s
light-hearted lyrics were sung by Jimmy
Buffett
interestingly enough the vocals actually
don’t sound that much like Buffett but
because of the island escapist nature of
his music and the release of another
soft rock song called Margaritaville
just a couple years prior to Rupert
Holmes as Pina Colada song than the
confusion between the song titles and
the artist is quite understandable and
get well Buffett was the more popular of
the two his name recognition continues
to overpower Holmes’s so even nowadays
google suggestions and result pages are
filled with wrong information about the
artist behind this – before we unveil
the number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number one don’t worry be happy Bobby
McFerrin
not Bob Marley he’s a little song I
wrote you might want to thing is note
for note don’t worry be happy
reggae it must be Bob Marley right wrong
sure both McFerrin and Marley share the
same first name but just because a
reggae song passes into the mainstream
doesn’t mean by default at Marley sank
[Music]
the vocals and a cappella style of this
tune by the American jazz vocalist don’t
even sound remotely close to the
Jamaicans trademark song writing and
singing styles what’s even more
fascinating is that Marley died a full
seven years before the song was released
or even recorded
don’t worry hey happy to give you my
phone number you worried cause you happy
yet on YouTube Marley’s name shows up as
the first suggestion when you type in
don’t worry be happy and the two most
viewed videos attributing the song to
him have more views when combined than
McFerrin actual music video as posted by
EMI music here’s hoping McFerrin isn’t
worrying too much about that and is too
busy being happy instead Milo Johnson
don’t bring everybody
[Applause]
[Music]
don’t worry it will soon pass with a
birthday don’t worry be happy so do you
agree with our list what songs do you
most often think are by someone else
[Music]
four more correctly accredited top ten
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Applause]
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
you mean that songs not by who we think
it fine welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 songs people think are by
someone else it’s good to be ready for
this list we’ll be looking at songs that
were recorded by an artist but for
whatever reason have become associated
with another artist usually from a
similar musical genre even though that
artist had nothing to do with the song
to begin with
[Music]
that means it won’t include songs where
a backup singer is thought of as the
main artists such as Michael Jackson in
rock well somebody’s watching me
[Music]
also if this Miss credited artist worked
on the song or covered it afterwards
like Mott the hoople’s all the young
dudes it won’t be on this list either
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number ten don’t read me this way Thelma
Houston not Donna Summer
see this disco hit is actually a cover
of the 1975 song by Harold Melvin and
the blue notes but Elmo Houston’s
version became much much more popular
baby don’t leave me unfortunately
because of the similar vocal style
people believe the song was actually
performed by Donna Summer
[Music]
while both artists were disco icon and
both peaked in popularity in the late
1970s Donna Summer was much more
recognizable so it was natural for
people to assume a Motown hit with
vocals like this had been sung and
released by her leading to further
confusion was the fact that summers
music was popular in the homosexual
community and Houston’s don’t leave me
this way became an unofficial anthem for
the AIDS epidemic in gay communities in
America
[Music]
number nine bitch Meredith Brooks not
Alanis Morisette and so good to me I
know I can change if you weren’t around
at this time we can give you a pass for
this one the similarities are stark and
they were meant to be record-producer
Gaza acts intentionally wanted to
emulate Alanis Morissette with its alt
rock sound and provocative lyrics
[Music]
this backfired though as Morissette’s
popularity causes a similar-sounding hit
to be associated with her and not
Meredith Brooks the relatively unknown
star could not get through interviews
without having to be asked about her
more well-known counterpart what further
added to the mix ups was the fact that
Morissette would later include a song
entitled it’s a bitch to grow up as a
digital bonus track for her seventh
album in 2008 that it’s a bitch
[Music]
thankfully Brooks learn to take the
misattribution and stride by getting
over it and even finding humor in the
situation
[Applause]
[Music]
number eight creep Stone Temple Pilots
not nirvana makes a long stay this is
one song that we can probably blame
early file-sharing sites for getting
wrong true creep is a grunge song very
much in the style of Nirvana and was
popular around the same time as it
[Music]
ah
[Music]
but because multiple users incorrectly
labelled the song on file-sharing sites
creep had a lot of people thinking it
was called half the man I used to be and
that it would buy nirvana
I used to be the vocals of late FTP lead
singer Scott Weiland on the chorus do
resemble the late Cobain the Nirvana
frontman was said to have noticed
similarities between them as well so it
sounds like no one can be totally blamed
for this error
yeah
number seven teenage dirtbag wheatus not
Weezer Weezer and wait us are two bands
with similar names similar vocal styles
similar musical genres but because one
of them was and is being significantly
more popular than the other then we have
a recipe for disaster the song called
teenage dirtbag came out in 2000 right
around the time when Weezer reunited and
it’s teenage pop rock feel along with
strikingly similar by name had people
miss crediting the single left and right
[Music]
[Applause]
Ouiser added to the confusion by
eventually covering the song live in
2011
number six I swear all-4-one not boys to
men we get it
R&B groups can sound pretty similar
especially those that were big in the
1990s all for one’s version of what was
originally a country track became an R&B
hit as well winning a Grammy in 1995 and
topping the Billboard Hot 100 for 11
weeks and because of the group’s
recognition and songs popularity at the
time people in the 90s for the most part
knew who sang the song nowadays with all
for one not being as recognized anymore
when people think of early 90s R&B they
more often than not think boys to men as
well as the song and naturally linked
them together but we shouldn’t feel too
bad for the smooth quartet as all-4-one
are still making music and just released
an album in 2015 we flair
[Applause]
number five a horse with no name America
not Neil Young first part of the journey
I was cookin oh this soft rock tune is
still being attributed to Neil Young
over 40 years after its initial release
and yet it was the first single by a
band called America and dropped just
slightly ahead of Young’s popular
harvest album the mix-up came from how
strikingly similar the vocals were to
that of young this fact wasn’t lost on
American singer and songwriter Dewey
Bunnell who stated I know that virtually
everyone on first hearing assumed it was
Neil I never fully shied away from the
fact that I was inspired by him and see
up in the desert on a horse with no name
of the rain while the band faced
criticism from young fan America got the
last laugh as a horse with no name
replaced young hearts of gold for the
top spot on the American pop charts in
the early 1970s been in my mind it’s
such a fine line keeps me searching for
[Music]
number four the warrior scandal not Pat
Benatar the eighties led to tons of
confusion when trying to differentiate
between Bergen a new wave and sin pop
bands with female rockers of the period
often grouped together as well the most
famous example of this is the warrior
which was recorded by pop rock group
scandal a band fronted by Patti Smith
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
however the tune keeps persistently
being attributed to a more popular
female rocker of the time known as Pat
Benatar the tracks vocals have been said
to be reminiscent of Benatar’s love is a
battlefield as is the song’s theme but
these similarities are probably because
both the warrior and Pat hits were
co-written by songwriter Holly Knight
considering the 80s hair style sported
by both singers in the respective music
videos though maybe those who got and
still get these two mixed up could get a
path
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number three stuck in the middle with
you
stealers wheel not Bob Dylan welcome to
you tonight I gotta feel something right
this folk rock song has Bob Dylan
written all over it
in actuality though the influential
singer-songwriter had no active role in
the making of this song stealers wheel
singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty stated
that the song was a parody of Bob Dylan
paranoia so this is probably why it
sounds so much like it
without video accompaniment even the
keenest Dylan fan might mistake the
stealers wheel audio for the famous
folks
[Music]
but what really caught mix-ups was the
disbanding of the group in 1975 after
only being active for only three years
Dylan’s timelessness has made a much
more popular throughout the decades
so we ironically think of him when we
hear a song parroting him stealers wheel
reunited in 2008 but without original
members Rafferty and Joe Egan number two
escaped the Pina Colada song Rupert
Holmes not Jimmy Buffett I was trying to
find Anita we’ve been together since
long though this is a song that can stay
in your head for hours many people have
thought and still think it’s
light-hearted lyrics were sung by Jimmy
Buffett
interestingly enough the vocals actually
don’t sound that much like Buffett but
because of the island escapist nature of
his music and the release of another
soft rock song called Margaritaville
just a couple years prior to Rupert
Holmes as Pina Colada song than the
confusion between the song titles and
the artist is quite understandable and
get well Buffett was the more popular of
the two his name recognition continues
to overpower Holmes’s so even nowadays
google suggestions and result pages are
filled with wrong information about the
artist behind this – before we unveil
the number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number one don’t worry be happy Bobby
McFerrin
not Bob Marley he’s a little song I
wrote you might want to thing is note
for note don’t worry be happy
reggae it must be Bob Marley right wrong
sure both McFerrin and Marley share the
same first name but just because a
reggae song passes into the mainstream
doesn’t mean by default at Marley sank
[Music]
the vocals and a cappella style of this
tune by the American jazz vocalist don’t
even sound remotely close to the
Jamaicans trademark song writing and
singing styles what’s even more
fascinating is that Marley died a full
seven years before the song was released
or even recorded
don’t worry hey happy to give you my
phone number you worried cause you happy
yet on YouTube Marley’s name shows up as
the first suggestion when you type in
don’t worry be happy and the two most
viewed videos attributing the song to
him have more views when combined than
McFerrin actual music video as posted by
EMI music here’s hoping McFerrin isn’t
worrying too much about that and is too
busy being happy instead Milo Johnson
don’t bring everybody
[Applause]
[Music]
don’t worry it will soon pass with a
birthday don’t worry be happy so do you
agree with our list what songs do you
most often think are by someone else
[Music]
four more correctly accredited top ten
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Applause]
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
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