I guess you can find nearly every song's influences in another era
By dragon54u
@dragon54u (31633)
United States
May 31, 2009 10:52am CST
I was listening to the 1920's network just now and was reminded so strongly of Country Joe and the Fish's hit in the 60's, "Feels Like I'm Fixin' to Die". You know the one whose chorus goes:
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, I looked at the playlist on the radio station I was listening to and it was Lionel Hampton playing "Muskrat Ramble" from the 30's. Kid Ory wrote it in 1925, if I can read my scribbles correctly. I'm not saying the Fish intentionally too the licks from Ory and Hampton (and Louis Armstrong covered it, of course) but when you think of how few notes there are and how many songs are made, it's inevitable some would be repeated.
Do you know of any songs that are derived from bygone eras?
2 responses
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
2 Jun 09
Honestly nothing really comes to mind other than perhaps some remakes of some from the 80's but nothing I can particuarily think of. I think there are remakes and influences moreso in movies than in music, though I'm not a big follower of either.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
2 Jun 09
I listen to so much music that it's inevitable that I should hear these things. Music is in my house every waking moment, from the 20's to the 2009! I love music, couldn't live without it. I guess you have to listen a lot to pick up these little licks.
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
2 Jun 09
the other day my son was listening to one of those channels on tv that plays music and shows the album cover and info. it was playing a hiphop song with these guys singing "baby you send me" i told him would you believe those words are from a song when i was a little girl called "you send me"?
he said he knew a lot of songs are made over in different music.
he said he knew a lot of songs are made over in different music. @dragon54u (31633)
• United States
2 Jun 09
He's right--some composers are completely unaware of the riffs they are lifting. Others think of one and spend days agonizing "where in the world did I hear that before?!" Maybe your son would like to hear bits of the songs you recognize, if only for the laugh factor it would bring him. Be ready if he asks!
What really burns me, though, is sampling, lifting parts of others' songs and putting it together with others to make an "original". Usually without the consent of the composer. I heard "Crazy Train" in a hip hop song about a month ago and wondered if they paid Sabbath for the use of it. Or how Ozzie/Iommi could ever have consented to that.
