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Will Cowell

 

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Post  Posted 30 Aug 2015 12:44 pm    
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Is it just me, or is the verse structure, chord sequence and melody of "Crying Steel Guitar" almost note for note identical to "Sweet Memories"?

Has anyone else noticed any other "sound-alikes"?
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Norman Evans


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Post  Posted 30 Aug 2015 4:00 pm    
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Very similar.
Other same melody songs:
Search Me O God & Now Is The Hour
Danny Boy & He Looked Beyond My Faults And Saw My Needs
Great Speckled Bird & I Didn't Know God Made Honky Tonk Angels
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Rick Barnhart


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Post  Posted 30 Aug 2015 6:33 pm    
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Then of course, there's the Chiffon's "He's So Fine...vs. George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"

I still add doo-lang, doo-lang, doo-lang when My Sweet Lord comes on the radio 😊
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Rich Upright


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Post  Posted 30 Aug 2015 7:14 pm    
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"O solo mio" and "it's now or never"
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Wally Moyers


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Lubbock, Texas
Post  Posted 30 Aug 2015 8:13 pm    
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Your the reason God made Oklahoma and Rocky Top...
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richard burton


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Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 12:37 am    
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A lot of Chuck Berry songs.

I was watching a CB concert on TV a while back, and when Chuck finished his solo even he couldn't remember what song he was playing Shocked
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Steve Green


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Gulfport, MS, USA
Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 3:08 am    
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The Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes"
Roy Acuff's "Great Speckled Bird"
Hank Thompson's "Wild Side of Life"
Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
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John Ed Kelly

 

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Victoria, Australia
Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 3:21 am    
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''I Get Ideas" and "Adios Muchachos"
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Philip Mitrakos


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The Beach South East Florida
Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 4:54 am    
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Wagon wheel ///people are crazy
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Lane Gray


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Topeka, KS
Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 5:06 am    
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Wagon Wheel sure seems like Willing.
There was an instrumental on a Chet Atkins album which bore such a strong resemblance to one written by Mike Auldridge (sorry, I've forgotten which one), released on one of his earlier solo albums, that Harry Fox (or somebody) diverted the royalties without any intervention on the part of Mike or his publisher.
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 5:42 am    
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"Tulsa Time", guess which one?
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Will Cowell

 

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Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 11:30 am    
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Thanks guys, I guessed there'd be a few. I remember the lawsuit about "My Sweet Lord".

Does anybody agree about the first two tracks though? - Crying Steel Guitar, and Sweet Memories?
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Jim Cohen


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Philadelphia, PA
Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 11:43 am    
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Night Life abd Sportin' Life (Lovin' Spoonful). I still want to know which one of those two came first.
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Asa Brosius

 

Post  Posted 31 Aug 2015 6:15 pm    
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'is anybody going to san antone' and the original scooby-doo theme. not kidding. at least in the verses...
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Dave Hopping


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Aurora, Colorado
Post  Posted 1 Sep 2015 9:26 am    
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"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"/"Ghost Riders In The Sky","Swingin' Doors/"Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down","Have You Ever Seen Who'll Stop The Rain","School Day"/"No Particular Place To Go","Sweet Little Sixteen"/"Surfin' USA(lawsuit there).


Instros: "Bongo Rock"/Wipe Out"

Winking
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Morgan Scoggins

 

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Georgia, USA
Post  Posted 1 Sep 2015 9:57 am    
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"He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 1 Sep 2015 10:23 am    
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Quote:
Have You Ever Seen Who'll Stop The Rain

Dave, Unicorn did a nice version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbsWNoQjFD0
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chris ivey


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california (deceased)
Post  Posted 1 Sep 2015 11:53 pm    
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maybe a form of quantum entanglement?
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John Peay


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Cumming, Georgia USA
Post  Posted 2 Sep 2015 4:58 am    
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chris ivey wrote:
maybe a form of quantum entanglement?


Where is Bill Hankey when we need him!
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