Same Name Most Differnt Songs

Subject: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:12 PM

It seems like there are more than a few distinct songs called "Banks of Newfoundland" different lyrics, different tunes. I wonder what song holds the title for most distinct incarnations?

Whack fall the day
Nick

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: pdq
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:19 PM

Songs called "Changes" go back about 100 years. Many of them, mostly quite different from each other.

Also, lots of songs called "Cocaine".

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:34 PM

I know two different songs titled "Diamond Joe".

Three, if you count Willie P. Bennett's variant.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 02:39 AM

The White Hare, traditional.

The White Hare, Seth Lakeman.

eric

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:46 AM

Let The Good Times Roll.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 06:02 AM

As I walked out

Come All Ye

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Jim I
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 12:24 PM

Erin go Bragh (Irish rebel song by Peadar Kearney

Erin go Bragh (Scots broadside; as sung e.g. by Dick Gaughan.)

Cuckoo's Nest ("Some like a girl etc" heard on "Morris On")

Cuckoo's Nest ("And it's hey the cuck and ho the cuck
And hey the cuckoo's nest")

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Midchuck
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 01:22 PM

Dixie's Land, the old original.

Dixieland by Steve Earle.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 02:04 PM

God Save the Queen, by the Sex Pistols, and the other one.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,cardboard fishcake
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:44 PM

The Power of Love by..

Huey Lewis & The News
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Jennifer Rush
The Everley Brothers
Dee- lite
Luther Vandross
Judy & Mary
Ashley Cleveland
Sailor Moon

All different Songs!!!!!!
( I knew about the first three in this list, but googling provided the other results!)

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 11:12 PM

Cardboard Fish, nice list and you take the cake! However I was thinking more along the lines of Folk/Trad, after all consider the site.
So far I think Banks is still in the lead!
Whack Fall The Day
Nick

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:33 PM

"Those Were the Days" (Gene Raskin, recorded by The Limeliters in 1963 and popularized by Mary Hopkin in 1968 as produced by Paul McCartney (changing a couple bits from minor to major)).

"Those Were the Days" - recorded by Cream

"Those Were the Days" - theme song from All in the Family as recorded by Carroll O'Conner and Jean Stapleton in character as The Bunkers.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:50 PM

Snuffy wins, I think; and by a very wide margin. One of the useful hints given to aspiring folk song collectors in the early years of the 20th century was, if in doubt, ask your singer if they know that one that starts "as I walked out" (or "as I roved out"); pretty much guaranteed to get results, but no knowing what it would turn out to be.

"Come all ye" was almost as good.

Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: pdq
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 05:17 PM

Jerry Jeff Walker did another song called "Those Were The Days", written by Keith Sykes.

The Lost Gonzo Band did a "Those Were The Days", another completely different song.