Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Friday August 22, 2008 at 01:00 PM |
Hey Indabans, let me know what you think of this new feature I'd like to start running on the site. The idea is to find two songs that sound, for all intents and purposes, the same. For our venture into the world of iffy copyright practices, let's have a look at two of the most famous early rock n' roll acts: The Beach Boys and Chuck Berry.
First up is Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen," which hit the airwaves in 1958.
Now, let's have a listen to the Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA."
Pretty much the same song, right? How funny that two classic tunes got by using the same chords and melodies and nobody noticed! Well, that's not entirely true: the Beach Boys' gave Berry a songwriting credit on "Surfin' USA."
If you know of any funny sound-a-likes, let me know at Streeter@IndabaMusic.com.
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Saturday August 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM
I'm a fan of both artists. The props to Chuck is cool. We could all learn a lesson from that.
:)
Sunday August 24, 2008 at 01:55 AM
I'm sure Berry got credits and Royalties. Think that would have been missed by the record companies? No way! Actually, did he get royalties? That would be intersting to find out.
By the way Streeter, there was a Vanilla Ice song called "Ice Ice Baby" Awe, never mind :) Vanilla Ice said he didnt\'t copy Bowie so I guess that's that then huh? :)
Sunday August 24, 2008 at 03:50 AM
pretty cool concept. the further back you go, the more you can hear people just plain ripping other people off. but the newer music, you can hear it too.
The first example that comes to my mind is "candy girl", New Edition's first single. They wanted to go for the "Jackson 5" sound and look, so they ripped off "ABC".
Monday August 25, 2008 at 02:12 AM
I'm Blue by Eiffel 65
Rhianna - Disturbia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymRzLEhMGUg
Both remind me of
Breaking Up is Hard To Do - by Neil Sedaka
in my opinion. But pop rock songs follow a formula 1 5 7 but its kinda funny.
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