Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Unconscious plaigarism? Message-ID: <754@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 19:00:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.754 Posted: Mon Oct 22 19:00:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 02:15:46 EDT Distribution: net Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 37 Opening up a brand-new can of worms here..... I've noticed that a few recent (~5 years) songs sort of incorporate commercial jingles into them. Let me cite the examples I know of: "Fool In The Rain" -- Led Zepplin The six-note pattern (E,F,G,A,A,G) sounds like "When you say Bud-weiser (you've said it all)", from one of Anheuser-Busch ads. "Illegal Alien" -- Genesis Parts sound to me like "No-body demands more from a Datsun, than Datsun". "Rockin' The Paradise" -- Styx "What 'cha doin' tonight (have you heard that the world's gone crazy)": The first phrase of that (F,F,F,D,F,G) calls to mind an old McDonalds commercial (the one that had the chorus "You deserve a break today.."). Don't tell Barry [Manilow] about this, though. :-) "Twilight" -- E L O The horn notes (G,C,E,F) are similar to an old Hartford Insurance commercial. (I'm just indicating the piano notes; ASCII doesn't allow for duration.) I guess we're not the only ones who watch too much television. If you know of any other examples of "unconscious plaigarism", mail to me or post to the Net. (I hope this doesn't blossom into another debate on stealing ideas, just like the one started when the lyrics to "Eat It" were posted.) -- From under the smogberry trees.... Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY "The web of life connects each of us to the other..."