[net.music] Another example of plagiarism

sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) (07/24/85)

Rich says
>...as Corey Hart's stealing the repeeto-note sequencerism from
>"Sweet Dreams" for use in "Sunglasses at Night"....
>                               Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Now I don't know if you meant to imply that the two sequences
are note-for-note identical, 'cause they aren't.  They do
sound somewhat similar, but for instance (assuming that they're
both in C minor) Sunglasses starts out as

    Eb Eb
         D D
             C C
G G

where Sweet Dreams is more like...

          Eb

    C C          C


        Eb
C C          C


(Boy, we need an ANSI standard for textual music representation...)
You want Identical sequencer lines, you take "Ghostbusters"
and "I Wanna New Drug", then you've got something...

Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Corey Hart fan.

Steve Hayman
University of Waterloo Warriors Band
"One of the Bands in Canada"

dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc) (07/27/85)

     Actually, both "Ghostbusters" and "I Wanna New Drug" seem to be
ripoffs of that esteemed (hack, hack!) artist, Michael Jackson . . .
something in 1979-80 called "Shake Your Body Down to the Ground". 

David Anthony
DataSpan, Inc