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Originally Posted by RM
Plagiarism ?
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i knew you'd know how to spell it properly....when in doubt we canucks just throw in random vowels, especially "u"s
i remember watching Partridge family episode at a young age...it was called This is MY Song and also the title of a very mellow, smooth, early Gord track (pretty clever, eh? i am keeping this Lightfoot-related, you see
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there were thin walls at the Partridge homestead and Keith's late night noodling came through them and into Danny's mind as he was sleeping...the next morn Danny basically "writes" that same tune...subliminal robbery
"When the Partridges' resident composer Keith (
David Cassidy) suffers a creative dry spell, younger brother Danny (
Danny Bonaduce) offers to write a few songs of his own. Unfortunately, Danny's tunes have a very familiar ring, leading Keith to accuse his brother of plagiarism. It turns out, however, that Danny is having a "George Harrison" moment, subliminally soaking up other people's compositions while he's supposed to be asleep!"
i've thought of that episode at times over the past four decades, agh
...something i did a fair bit of while supporting (in various ways) a few indy vocalists, was listening to countless demo tapes of songs as potential recording candidates...it was startling as to how many songs sounded the same and also similar to a few i was working on...as you say, even though unintentional and hard to trace their true "originals", very deflating when trying to be somewhat unique....some of the more successful folks i've known are the ones who dont worry about these things and just surge forward, good advice actually