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Tempting to say "incorrect" song titles, but obviously the artists had their reasons.

I'll start it off with two. You get the idea...

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 = Everybody Must Get Stoned (or Stone You)
Theme from Mahogany = Do You Know Where You're Goin' To

Baba O'Reilly = Teenage Wasteland

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THose are the actual titles, most people just associate the song with the chorus.

Escape = Pina Colada - Rupert Holmes. The name eventually got changed to Escape (The Pina Colada Song) through the record company.

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Lon - That was the first song that came to mind for me too. The first time I tried to find that song for patrons it was a nightmare. I never knew the real title was "Escape".

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I have several:

"Art is Calling for Me", also known as "I Want to Be a Prima Donna" or also simply "Prima Donna Song" (Hey, a triple name)

"Quando m'en vo", also known as Musette's Waltz from "La Boheme"

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" which uses the same melody as "The Alphabet Song" (really)--- Not really if this is what the topic is after.

There are others, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment

Yeh, the original poster was listing songs that have a "wrong" title, and what the title "should" be


Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 = Everybody Must Get Stoned (or Stone You)
Theme from Mahogany = Do You Know Where You're Goin' To
Dream Baby (Roy Orbison) = Sweet Dream, Baby

The Roof Is On Fire - "Fire, Water, Burn"
What's Going On - "What's Up?"
To The Left - "Irreplaceable"

The first is what I'll see on the slip. The second is what I need to pull up because it's the actual song title.

If a women asks for "What's Going On" I usually assume she's not doing Marvin Gaye.

Usually.

There's one big one but I just can't think of it right now. It will come to me tonight when I bring up the lists.

What's even worse are song titles that are exactly the same as other
song titles but not by the same artist if the requester does not put either
the disc number or artist you could really be confused.

Such as

Again - Alice In Chains
Again - Janet Jackson
Again - Lenny Kravitz
Again - Mel Torme

All the same title but not the same song.

There are many more.

Lone Wolf

Oooh... great thread... here's all the ones i know.

Lay a whisper - It must have been love
Microwave oven song - Money for nothing
Titanic song - My heart will go on
Summer loving - Summer Nights
Oceans Apert - Right here waiting
Simply the best - The Best
I love you baby - Can't take my eyes off of you
500 miles - I'm gonna be (500 miles)

Please Share My Umbrella - "Bus Stop" (The Hollies)

The first is what I'll see on the slip. The second is what I need to pull up because it's the actual song title.
(thanks for clarifying, Bill)

How about....

Feeling Groovy - "The 59th Street Bridge Song"
Show Me the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar - "The Alabama Song"
Starry Starry Night - "Vincent"
You Piss Me Off, You ****ing Jerk - "The Rodeo Song"
The Day Paradise Put Up a Parking Lot - "Big Yellow Taxi"
Put the Lime in the Coconut - "Coconut"
Go Ask Alice .... or.... Ask Alice - "White Rabbit"

I'm sure you know this, but the actual lyric is, "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot."

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Actually I didn't.... I've never sung the song, and that's what it sounded like to me... but that's another topic thread.
Thanks for the correction.

All The Girls Love Alice is sometimes called Tender Young Alice

now your messing with a son of a beosh ( hair of the dog ) is the first that comes to mind for me. not that i get many requests for it. i am tempted some times .

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I have heard several of the songs mentioned in this thread called by the 'wrong' names.
A couple of others I've seen confuse people are
-The Four Tops-Cant Help Myself(usually referred to as Sugar Pie Honey Bunch or similar).
-Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing (heard it asked for as I Believe In Miricals)
And then there's Jame's Brown-Mans Mans Mans Mans World...how many men's world IS it, anyway? That's a song that I called by the 'wrong' name.

[font=Verdana] At last Friday’s gig, a girl comes up to me, her friend is home from Iraq and she wants to sing and dedicate a song to him. Keep in mind I had a lot of lookups on this night and was feeling kind of rushed. Anyway, she wants to sing, “Proud To Be An American”, okay, cue up the next singer and start looking in the book, it’s not there, darn. Cue up the next singer, maybe it’s “I’m Proud To Be An American” back to the book, nope not there, Then I start singing the song in my head and the light flashes……Oh! God Bless The USA Yes, I felt kind of stupid, but like I said with all the lookups, plus feedback problem, I was rushed. I had one guy, don’t know whether he had a problem with reading, or had left his glasses at home, but had to look up every song for him. He was one of just a few good singers, so I didn’t complain. [/font]

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Here are a couple of interesting titles, don't know what singers might call them...

Funk #49 (The James Gang) written by J. Walsh et. al

Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

Paranoid, anyone who has asked to sing this has named it by name.

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That's an interesting thread.

I get Summer Lovin' instead of Summer Nights a lot, too!