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Same Name Most Differnt Songs

12 Jan 07 - 08:12 PM (#1934841)
Subject: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Nick

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


12 Jan 07 - 08:19 PM (#1934849)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: pdq

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

Also, lots of songs called "Cocaine".


12 Jan 07 - 08:34 PM (#1934864)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Cluin

I know two different songs titled "Diamond Joe".

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


13 Jan 07 - 02:39 AM (#1935045)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Dave Hanson

The White Hare, traditional.

The White Hare, Seth Lakeman.

eric


13 Jan 07 - 04:46 AM (#1935087)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: fat B****rd

Let The Good Times Roll.


13 Jan 07 - 06:02 AM (#1935128)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Snuffy

As I walked out

Come All Ye


13 Jan 07 - 12:24 PM (#1935300)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Jim I

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")


13 Jan 07 - 01:22 PM (#1935345)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Midchuck

Dixie's Land, the old original.

Dixieland by Steve Earle.

Peter.


13 Jan 07 - 02:04 PM (#1935383)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST

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


13 Jan 07 - 04:44 PM (#1935542)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,cardboard fishcake

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!)


13 Jan 07 - 11:12 PM (#1935852)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST,Nick

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


14 Jan 07 - 04:33 PM (#1936526)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: GUEST

"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.


14 Jan 07 - 04:50 PM (#1936541)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: Malcolm Douglas

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.


14 Jan 07 - 05:17 PM (#1936564)
Subject: RE: Same Name Most Differnt Songs
From: pdq

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.