"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
11/09/2016 at 08:52 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
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... is being able to discover that songs have heavily borrowed from others. I’ve noticed this a lot from the slightly more obscure stuff on the ‘50s channel. For my first example, turns out one of my favorite songs, Skeeter Davis’s “The End of the World” is pretty much a slowed-down version of Phil Phillips’s “Sea of Love.”
And, although this one is more well-known, Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” is a pretty obvious ripoff of Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive”
And then.... Chuck Berry recorded the same damn song twice. He just changed the words and the tempo.
Has anyone else noticed anything like this on their own? It’s always really neat.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
11/09/2016 at 09:04 |
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I know of several that aren’t coming to mind, but what did occur to me just now is that the Alan Parsons Project’s
Sirius
is very similar in parts to UFO’s
Love to Love.
There’s also some similarity between the Beatles’
If I Needed Someone
and the Byrds’
I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
11/09/2016 at 09:06 |
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A second remark - The End of the World is a truly stunning song, but I kind of suspect Skeeter Davis was one of those artists that needs a talented producer to really be on target. I heard a live version, and it was just not good at all.
Scott
> Rainbow
01/17/2017 at 06:42 |
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I ’ ve had similar discussions with my brother about songs sounding the same. He ’ s been in a number of medium sized Rock bands, and recently the band he is in currently has been negotiating a potential deal with a record label.
Assuming I can accurately repeat what he told me (music is not at all my thing, so lots of potential to confuse what he told me) a lot of the issues with songs sounding the same is the limitations of chords. Generally a specific type of music is typically characterized by the tempo and by the chords it uses. Basically Going from jazz, to Blues, to Rock you get certain variations on the chords that make the different sounds that are associated with that style. That means there are a limited number of chords if your playing Rock that give you the sounds associated with rock music. This is especially true with the bass section as it tends to establish a basic rhythm to the song, and it much more limited. With all the many musicians and song writers, and millions of songs just in one category it is inevitable that you will get many repeats of the same sounds.
That does not even get into the song writers like Dolly Parton who write and perform a song, and are very open to licensing it
’
s use to many other performers and bands who do their own cover version if her work. Often you don
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t even realize that it
’
s not their original work.