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Hi Folks-Blues/Shayne....
First, I totally respect Shayne's songwriting skills, knowledge & experience. Although there have been many covers of hit songs over time, that became hits themselves. (good topic for a thread)...

One good example is YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME a tune written in 1929 sung by Gene Kelly in 1952, (Singing In The Rain movie) was covered by Jewel, 1996 becoming a big hit...

"It was the second single from that album and went on to receive a great deal of recognition. It became a hit and reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and went to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for a single week.
Foolish Games/You Were Meant For Me ranked at #15 on Billboard's All Time Top 100."

Of course Jewel's version was completely different from the original, and there were decades of space between publishing's.
I feel it's the strength of your song that counts....and "who you know!"

The Eagle's ALREADY GONE is monumental in hit status, but as in Jewel's case, one (I would think) would not be composing similar ideas, music, or lyric.

I have a song on www.soundclick.com/coolcatcal titled THINK IT OVER....coincidentally, Shayne's comment regarding publishers tossing a "same titled" song hold some weight; My song was pitched with others to Scotty Turner Buried Treasure Publishing Nashville TN a while back.

http://buddyholly.pagesperso-orange.fr/scottyturner.htm

http://www.serge.org/musicmorsels/meet.htm

I did not know this but Scotty produced one of Buddy Holly's tunes titled THINK IT OVER 1958 , pointing this out in his feedback letter, also mentioning; "Sometimes same titled [i]songs get mixed up and royalties go to the wrong [/i]writer" ...not enough to bother me...yuk, yuk.... and I like my THINK IT OVER melody, lyric & groove better than Buddy's...( will ad a bridge & tweek a couple lyric)...I did a BMI and ASCAP search on several of my titles...a few had up to 18 to 60 same titles...my best songs, fortunately, did not come up with same titles as others.

I feel, one is better off, especially as a unknown songwriter, to come up with fresh unique catchy song titles. But don't give up the ship if you feel your song has hit quality.

Keep writing!

Cal