Suspiciously Similar Song/Radio
Examples of Suspiciously Similar Songs in Radio include:
- Dead Ringers managed to avoid this trope a surprising amount of the time despite being completely based on impressions and parodies, as most of its regular targets were also BBC productions. They did use Jimmy Harted theme musics for some of their one-off sketches, though, such as when they put one of the BBC's most well-known political interviewers into a superhero story to form The Continuing Adventures of Paxman [dead link].
- American Top 40: A Jimmy Hart version of "Afternoon Delight" (by the Starland Vocal Band) was used from 1977-1978 as a cue, while the ending bar of the show's ending theme from 1979-1984 sounded like Raydio's "Jack & Jill."
- The radio countdown show Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 uses bumpers that are Jimmy Hart versions of country songs. This carried over from when Kingsley hosted American Country Countdown, which uses original-tune bumpers now that Kix Brooks hosts it.
- Mitch Benn's songs on The Now Show are generally to tunes that sound like the songs he's parodying, since the UK doesn't have a "fair use" exception for parodies.
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