A friend of mine was criticizing Steve Miller for stealing "Gangster of Love" from Johnny Guitar Watson. I really don't know either musician's catalogue, so I did some research. I know Steve Miller's hit from the mid 1970s, but it turns out that on his much earlier "Sailor" LP Steve Miller also covered a different song that was also called "Gangster of Love" by Watson.
So, what other examples are there of different songs that have the same title?
One I thought of is "Heartbreaker." Pat Benatar and Led Zeppelin and Free all have a song by that name, albeit completely different tunes. The Stones have a song called "Do Do Do Do Do (Heartbreaker)" also.
Any other examples?
The End - Doors / Beatles
Van Morrison/Allman Brothers "Crazy Love"
Traveling Wilburys/Allman Brothers "End of the Line"
ship of fools-grateful dead/Robert plant
dark star- grateful dead/CSN
little wing- Hendrix/neil young
[Edited on 1/3/2019 by hedges]
"Heartbreaker" -- Zep/Stones/Pat Benatar
Fire on the Mountain- Grateful Dead, Marshall Tucker Band
"Fire" - Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Brown, U2, Bruce Springsteen
"Somebody to Love" - Jefferson Airplane, Queen
"Let the Good Times Roll" a bunch, with differences in title, but "Let the Good Times Roll" main line - Sam Cooke, Hendrix (Come On, by Earl King), BB King, Cars
"Round and Round" - Neil Young Crazy Horse, Ratt, Aerosmith
"Stand Back" - Allman Brothers, Stevie Nicks
"Rock and Roll" - Zep, Velvet Underground, Johnny Winter . . . and a thousand others with added words in title.
Turn to stone - Joe Walsh & E.L.O.
Dreams - ABB/ Fleetwood Mac
Oh Atlanta - Little Feat, Bad Co
"Sweet Virginia" -- Rolling Stones, Dickey Betts
"Rave On" -- Buddy Holly, Dickey Betts
I can't believe Neil Young wrote his own song called "Little Wing"!!
Virginia. MTB, MKB
Trouble- Little Feat, Ray Lamontagne
Shelter- TTB, Ray L
My Love- Paul, Lionel Ritchie
Highway Song- Tuna, JT
Highway Song- Tuna, JT
Blackfoot too.
Dreams - ABB/ Fleetwood Mac
Eyes of the World - GD/Fleetwood Mac - Hey Fleetwood Mac, get your own song titles!
sail away-neil young/allman bros
straight from the heart-little feat/allman bros
"Love Song" - Tesla, The Cure, Sara Bareilles, Rihanna
Dreams - The Allman Brothers Band/Molly Hatchet
No, it's not a cover. The Molly Hatchet song is such an abomination it should be considered a different song altogether. 
sail away-neil young/allman bros
straight from the heart-little feat/allman bros
Bryan Adams also had a mid 1980s single call Straight Straight From The Heart
Fly Like An Eagle, Miller/Tucker
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin / The Boswell Sisters
Dreams - The Allman Brothers Band/Molly Hatchet
No, it's not a cover. The Molly Hatchet song is such an abomination it should be considered a different song altogether.
I've always enjoyed the Molly Hatchet version. A few years ago it was pointed out to me that the Hatchet version is a cover of Buddy Miles's arrangement of the song (he also covered Midnight Rider):
I dig all three versions.
not an exact match but close:
streamline man-michael hedges
streamline woman- mule
"Heartbreaker" -- Zep/Stones/Pat Benatar
another song with this title was done by North Carolina rock band Nantucket in late 1970s on their debut album
Till the Morning Comes- Grateful Dead/Neil Young
Paranoid- Grand Funk Railroad/Black Sabbath
Heartbreaker- Grand Funk Railroad/ Zeppelin
Ship of Fools- Bob Seger/The Doors
Let It Grow- Eric Clapton/Grateful Dead
[Edited on 1/5/2019 by BarrySmith]
Ramblin' Man by Hank Williams/ABB
You Belong to Me by Carly Simon /Jo Stafford
If You Don't Like Hank Williams You Can Kiss My Ass.
David Allen Coe/Frank Sinatra
Okay just kidding.
"Holiday" - Shaun Cassidy, Madonna, Green Day.
I can't believe I pulled that one out of me arse!
"Holiday" - Shaun Cassidy, Madonna, Green Day.
I can't believe I pulled that one out of me arse!
also nazareth and the bee gees
Holiday" - Shaun Cassidy, Madonna, Green Day.
I can't believe I pulled that one out of me arse!
I hope for your sake that you dug that up on the web, that it wasn't in your actual memory.
The Kinks had a "Holiday" also.
[Edited on 1/5/2019 by BrerRabbit]
Van Morrison/Allman Brothers "Crazy Love"
And Poco
Eyes of the World - GD/Fleetwood Mac - Hey Fleetwood Mac, get your own song titles!
Eyes of the World - Rainbow
