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Topic: Did Ed Sheeran ACTUALLY Plagiarize Marvin Gaye? |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 2 May 2023 7:01 pm |
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There must be an awful lot of nod-nod/wink-wink that goes on in the pop songwriting and publishing business. Combine this stylistic signature drum groove with that stylistic signature chord progression and that melodic pattern and…..WHOOOPS! Sorry I accidentally copied a song that was a hit 50 years ago. Please don’t sue me, I’ll give you half my publishing royalties.
Jeez. Some people’s parents… |
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Paul Strojan
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California, USA
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Posted 3 May 2023 8:31 pm
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"I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes/
Concerning a great speckled bird/
I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels/
and went back to the wild side of life."
People have been taking inspiration from each other forever. If the writers of The Wild Side of Life didn't get credit for It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk Angels then I don't see how Ed Sheeran can be seen to plagiarize Let's Get It On. If anything Ed Sheeran is assuming the likeness of Marvin Gaye. |
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Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 4 May 2023 4:45 am
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It's truly age-old, and starts early in our lives. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Baa-Baa-Black Sheep" and the singing alphabet "A-B-C-D-E-F-G" are the same also.
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 4 May 2023 5:59 am
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Right, Don!
Okay, here’s how to ruin a great song for everybody you know. Sing the first two lines of “Twinkle Little Star” or “Alphabet Song” next time you hear “What A Wonderful World”.
PS-the jury says “Nope”. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 4 May 2023 8:16 pm
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| Even with this ruling, I still say that if they did patents the way they have done copyrights, a lot of the technological stuff we take for granted would have never happened, and many of the modern medicines we now have the privilege of using would never have seen the light of day. With a patent, you get 20 years to make hay before an invention becomes public domain. Science and technology has always assumed that new generations would be standing on the shoulders of giants, and that has been well accepted. IMO, not in the music world. Stand on the shoulders of a giant in the music biz with any success and they sue you, even 50-80 years after the fact. But IMO, this ruling is a step in the right direction. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 22 May 2023 9:31 am
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My brain is kinda wired to pick up musical similarities, I do it frequently. Someone recently posted a video of Joshua Ray Walker's "I Get Sexy After Dark", and I just kept hearing "Highway 40 Blues".  |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 23 May 2023 3:15 am
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Fred Treece
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Posted 23 May 2023 12:03 pm
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
| My brain is kinda wired to pick up musical similarities, I do it frequently. Someone recently posted a video of Joshua Ray Walker's "I Get Sexy After Dark", and I just kept hearing "Highway 40 Blues". |
It’s a musician thing, especially play by ear musicians. We hear the 7 or 8 stock chord progressions, the 7 or 8 stock grooves, the dozen or so stock licks.the 7 or 8 “moods”, and the Mary Had A Little Lamb melody notes all the time. So we hear plagiarism all the time, to the point that it’s irrelevant. And when somebody gets a case thrown at them, we should all be like, okay now you’re going to have to sue everybody in pop music. |
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Ricky Newman
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 9 Jun 2023 8:09 am Let's Live For Today
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But at least the Grass Roots credited the Italian composers on the record.
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Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2023 4:36 pm
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| Andy Volk wrote: |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmnGzAKLvg
If this isn't a direct rip off of "Stormy" by the Classics IV, then my ears are broken. |
I think there’s a reason why Santana covered both Stormy (1967) and Spooky (1968). I don’t know if they did them both on the same album, but that would have been hilarious. And at least the Classics Four plagiarized their own chord riff. |
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