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3.29pm
8 November 2012
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Prompted by this thread at the Steve Hoffman Music Forums, The Examiner posted an article called Did the the Beatles sample Dave Brubeck?
The “Kathy’s Waltz” sample at 1:01 is pretty convincing.
Can you think of others? The first one that jumps at me is the bassline in “I Saw Her Standing There ,” taken from Chuck Berry’s “I’m Talking About You,” but I can’t think of melodic similarities offhand.
parlance
3.54pm
16 August 2012
Offline Look at “Come Together “. That one bit John so hard he ended up having to make a terrible ’50s covers album to make up for it.
E is for 'Ergent'.
8.27pm
14 October 2012
Offline My favourite is the opening lines of Do You Want To Know A Secret being borrowed from the Disney film of Snow White
"I don't think we were actually swimming, as it were, with shirts on, 'cos we always wear overcoats when we're swimming,"-
George Harrison, Australia, June 1964
11.23pm
8 November 2012
Offline I didn’t realized that John’s Merry Xmas (War Is Over) referenced an old English song. When I was kid, I’d wondered how the Jamaican tourism industry got away with using that tune.
parlance
4.23pm
21 November 2012
Offline I never realised they borrowed that much. Although I think some of those things are really far-fetched.
7.37pm
Reviewers
14 April 2010
Offline There must be dozens of examples – this is nothing new. The Beatles, to a man, admitted many times that they nicked ideas from everybody they ever heard and liked. The key for them was to not just steal the ideas, but to make them better.
The earliest example that comes to mind is the Roy Orbison style originally used for ‘Please Please Me ‘.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
7.53pm
8 November 2012
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21 November 2012
Offline Zig said
There must be dozens of examples – this is nothing new. The Beatles, to a man, admitted many times that they nicked ideas from everybody they ever heard and liked. The key for them was to not just steal the ideas, but to make them better.The earliest example that comes to mind is the Roy Orbison style originally used for ‘Please Please Me ‘.
In Holland we have a saying which basically says it’s better to steal ideas and make them better than to come up with ideas yourself that are s**t.
If I literally translate it it’s ”Better well stolen than badly invented”. I think that applies here.
2.59pm
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14 April 2010
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To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
12.48pm
13 August 2013
Offline Maybe because most of us are grown after that era?At least I am..
I Always wonder, what if I grow up on 60’s and listen to the Beatles,
would I be as fanatical as New Kid on The Block Fan of the 80’s kid?
or maybe One Direction Fan of 10’s Kid?
Because , without lessen the importance of them,
what they did is pretty much similar, covering popular songs, genius songwriting , although not as far as The Beatles did,
but the Beatles was pioneering what Industry standard leading artist now.
The Beatles Summed in 10 Seconds -> http://y2u.be/oTlxatsUdpI
3.44pm
14 December 2009
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Ridiculous Examiner article there, in my opinion. Sure, the Beatles stole little riffs and melodies and phrases that were already out there (“Drive My Car ” guitar part from Otis Redding, “life goes on, brah” from Jimmy Scott) but they surely didn’t “sample” those artists. Melodic and verbal quotations and imitations are not the same as taking actual physical recordings of the artists in question! Plus there was no such thing as literal digital sampling technology when the band were active, of course.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
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