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I have actually made various videos in the past about tunes that apparently dupe, or at least obtain from, other hit songs that came prior to them. However there are still plenty more examples of these suspicious likenesses in pop songs, so today we'll be looking at 9 more examples of tunes that are based on other songs.
The outro music to this video is my track "The Longest March" which you can hear completely on Spotify:.
SOURCES:.
Interview with Paul McCartney (2007 ):.
Interview with Ray Davies (2014 ):.
Avril Lavinge sued, MTV (2007 ):.
Rod Stewart's autobiography:.
Streissguth, M. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece:.
Interview with David Whitaker (2001 ):.
Will Champ of Coldplay on copyright lawsuits, MusicRadar (2009 ):.
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0:00 Introduction.
0:28 TLC vs. Paul McCartney.
1:29 Michael McDonald vs. Chuck Jackson.
2:25 Avril Lavinge vs. The Rubinoos.
3:32 Do Ya Believe Rod's Sexy?
5:38 Elton John vs. Speedy Gonzales.
6:35 Pianote.
7:33 Johnny Money vs. Gordon Jenkins.
8:38 The Doors vs. The Kinks.
9:36 Bitter Sweet Symphony vs. The Last Time.
11:26 Viva La Vida vs. Joe Satriani, Feline Stevens & some other band that no one's heard of.
14:24 Patreon.
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IF they included a Saxophone Class I’d be ALL OVER this deal 😂
Your pop music repertoire is absolutely incredible ✨
jorge ben jor is one of brazil’s best artists ever. it’s so great seeing him getting his deserved recognition!
simmm! samba esquema novo is in my heart
There’s a Brazilian song that was plagiarized that should be in the following video. It is “Mulheres” by Martinho da Vila, which Adele took it to make “A Million Years Ago.”
This could be a many part series, really.
It already is https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx2eo2tD6KrUTSE_8wp7mAGTPfMV0MBf 😊😊
Here’s a really interesting one:
Beyoncé song “Halo” vs Kelly Clarkson song “Already Gone”
Both were co-written by Ryan Tedder
Songwriters reusing the same melodies/progressions for different songs is a really good video idea actually.
He did a video like this already. Taylor Swift’s chord progressions are mostly the exact same few
@SCP Jack Yeah Stargate was lazy when making Jordin Sparks’ Tattoo and almost reused the beat from Beyonce’s Irreplaceable.
This was fascinating. Of course there’s a whole minor industry of unknown musicians who regularly sue the writers of big hit songs for plagiarism but they’re usually tossed out unless they can prove a connection where the hit songwriter would have been aware of their song. I believe you’ve already covered the suit over Radiohead’s Creep and the Hollies’ The Air That I Breathe (written by Albert Hammond who sang It Never Rains in Southern California). A legal precedent was recently established that made it clear that a chord progression cannot be the subject of a lawsuit in the case of a member of the 60s band Spirit vs Led Zeppelin over Stairway to Heaven.
You could argue that Crescent City Blues and Folsom Prison Blues are also inspired by Leadbelly’s Midnight Special. Music’s not the same, but theme and lyrics are similar.
Well, and unfortunately, back in the 60s and 70s, white artists ripping off lesser known black artists was common and accepted
I really love the opinions that we can have as educated people (including professionals musicians, like you). But unfortunately, it comes down to lawyers, judges, and juries to decide the sad fate of an artist/publisher if they are right or wrong. The interpreters of the law can even invite “special guests” to blind and confuse juries to a specific favour. A great example of this is the Katy Perry lawsuit that was highlighted by Adam Neely. Ratass musicologist from the University of Washington said Katy Perry was wrong.
In many of these examples, the lyrics and melody are not the same -at all – strikingly so in the TLC/McCartney song and many of the others. Some of this stuff is just absolutely ridiculous, we are running out of combinations. The Blurred Lines ruling was absolutely insane.
I agree in some cases, but the waterfalls one was pretty obvious. Still though, personally I don’t think it rises to the level of suing TLC, and I’m glad Paul didn’t go that route
The necessity of acting on copyright to ensure that it can protect uncompensated artists from unfair exploitation is one of the sad results of the generally unfair economics behind the past and present recording industry.
@ghost mall The great irony of Paul being upset about that is that the Beatles lifted the first line of “Something” from a James Taylor song. I know it was written by George, but Paul didn’t object in that instance.
@MrExplosionFace Where does it say Paul was upset? After all he didn’t sue.
Yet another excellent video. When he was Cat Stevens he wrote a song called Morning has broken which was melodically identical to a modern Hymn which,I’m sure,must have been still in copyright. Thanks for all your entertaining and erudite posts.
Thank you! Cat Stevens never claimed to have written Morning Has Broken as far as I know… it was always presented as a cover version of the well-known hymn 😊
@David Bennett Piano Okay,that’s not what I remember. He changed the lyrics. It was a very modern hymn. I sang it as a child(I’m 66). Good on him if he donated the royalties to a church or charity.
My mom always used to say “in the end the western music scale only has eight notes” …. and I replied “yes and the alphabet only has 26 letters!”.
I can’t believe Savage Garden (“I want you” ) did not get sued by the composers of “Life is a Rock (but the radio rolled me)” by Reunion. They are even in the same key.
Every time I hear the similarity between the Coldplay and Satriani songs, my brain immediately goes to the chorus of “Hearts” by Marty Balin, which was a hit way back in 1981.
Right? I was very surprised Hearts never came up during that whole business, it’s the same melody just over a slightly different chord progression.
You really get to the root of a song it’s a great talent.
My great-great-great-great-Grandfather was a musician in Vienna and sued Beethoven for an early Blues song he wrote about paying alimony to one of his ex-wives.
He called it “Owed To Joy”. It was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
😂😂😂
Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 hit “Baker Street” has an unforgettable sax line similar to Steve Marcus’s obscure 1968 song “Half a Heart.”
There was a great example given by songwriter Mac Davis on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast shortly before his (Davis’s) death. He was playing golf one day and was whistling the tune of one of his best known hits, “Oh Lord, It’s Hard to Be Humble.” He picked up the pace and before he knew it he found he was whistling The Mexican Hat Dance – he had used that tune for the song, albeit slowed down, and had never noticed!
A couple of my favorite examples of this:
“My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison, which David covered before. The Chiffons actually released their own version of “My Sweet Lord” afterwards, which I think stands up as a great song on its own.
“Deja Vu” which sampled the bass line from Steely Dan’s “Black Cow” and ended up having the writing credits for “Deja Vu” assigned for Becker and Fagen of Steely Dan.
You could do an entire video just on the songs Deep Purple plagarised. Black Night (Summertime – Ricky Nelson) and Child in Time (Bombay Calling – Beautiful Day) amongst others. Most of us fans accept it as part of their history.
Jorge Ben Jor was recommended to me by Spotify about a year ago, and I’ve been absolutely hooked since. Such a creative, rhythmic guitarist and such a sense of melody. The man deserves waaaaaaay more recognition in North America