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Post by doofus67 on Sept 1, 2019 2:14:24 GMT -5
Here's one that fools me from time to time. Whenever I hear the beginning to Madonna's "Borderline", sometimes I confuse it with Stephanie Mills' "Never Knew Love Like This Before". The chimes sound the same, but are arranged differently. A few years back, I was curious about the same thing. Turns out there's a direct connection between the two records. "Never Knew Love..." was co-written and co-produced by Reggie Lucas and James Mtume. "Borderline" was written by Reggie as well. He was given co-producer credit with Jellybean Benitez, but the story we often hear on the VJ Big 40 Countdown is that Jellybean came in to remix many of the tracks on that self-titled first album.
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 1, 2019 2:33:03 GMT -5
I also used to confuse the beginnings of Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run" and U2's "Mysterious Ways". Don't you mean "Rock'n Me"? That and "Ways" have different tempos but very similar guitar riffs.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 1, 2019 14:09:19 GMT -5
I also used to confuse the beginnings of Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run" and U2's "Mysterious Ways". Don't you mean "Rock'n Me"? That and "Ways" have different tempos but very similar guitar riffs. Actually, it was a remix of "Mysterious Ways" that I used to hear on the radio. It sounds a lot like the original, but begins with a drum beat similar to "Take the Money and Run" which repeats throughout the song.
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 1, 2019 14:39:49 GMT -5
Gotcha. Never heard that version. Sounds like it might be pretty cool.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 1, 2019 14:41:14 GMT -5
Another one I didn't mention earlier: The opening to Shocking Blue's "Venus" is very similar to some of the guitar work in the beginning of The Who's "Pinball Wizard", so I probably confused those at some point.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 1, 2019 14:44:47 GMT -5
Gotcha. Never heard that version. Sounds like it might be pretty cool. I think I like the remix a little better with that drum beat (which is probably why I still remembered that version years later).
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 5, 2019 17:04:40 GMT -5
The first time I heard "Breaking All The Rules" by She Moves, I thought I was listening to "That's What Love Can Do" by Boy Krazy.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 6, 2019 9:18:39 GMT -5
The first time I heard "Breaking All The Rules" by She Moves, I thought I was listening to "That's What Love Can Do" by Boy Krazy. Same thing happened to me with "Stop To Love" by Luther Vandross. The week it debuted on American Top 40, I was juggling that show with Countdown USA, the latter of which was starting their year-end wrap-up, so I wasn't paying full attention to the former. Anyway, I thought that Luther's previous chart hit "Give Me The Reason" had gotten a second wind and hit the Top 40, since both songs sounded so much alike.
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Post by matt on Sept 6, 2019 14:40:03 GMT -5
Here's one that fools me from time to time. Whenever I hear the beginning to Madonna's "Borderline", sometimes I confuse it with Stephanie Mills' "Never Knew Love Like This Before". The chimes sound the same, but are arranged differently. A few years back, I was curious about the same thing. Turns out there's a direct connection between the two records. "Never Knew Love..." was co-written and co-produced by Reggie Lucas and James Mtume. "Borderline" was written by Reggie as well. He was given co-producer credit with Jellybean Benitez, but the story we often hear on the VJ Big 40 Countdown is that Jellybean came in to remix many of the tracks on that self-titled first album. Interesting--and thanks for the info on those two songs. I did the same as you guys--the first few times I heard "Borderline" in 1984, I thought the beginning was "Never Knew Love Like This" until the beat kicked in. Same thing the first few times I heard "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston--thought the beginning (and really much of the song) sounded an awful lot like Aretha Franklin's "Who's Zoomin' Who". Same as with "Borderline" and "Never Knew...", both songs used the same producer (Narada Michael Walden in this case).
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Post by chrislc on Feb 2, 2020 0:27:54 GMT -5
I was listening to an early 1975 countdown recently and I thought Black Water was starting during the first few seconds of Morning Side Of The Mountain. I wonder if that happened to folks listening to the radio back then. Quite a shock and arguable letdown!
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Post by at40nut on Feb 2, 2020 9:24:54 GMT -5
I remember back in 1998/1999 when The Offspring had a song called "Pretty Fly" (For A White Guy) which "borrowed" an intro from Joe Elliot's "Gunter Gleiben Glauchen Globen" line from Def Leppard's "Rock Of Ages" intro. I was listening to a rock station that played new stuff mixed with classic rock, so there was some irony in that. I am a fan of both bands, but I really didn't think too much of the Offspring song at that time.
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 2, 2020 19:14:00 GMT -5
I remember back in 1998/1999 when The Offspring had a song called "Pretty Fly" (For A White Guy) which "borrowed" an intro from Joe Elliot's "Gunter Gleiben Glauchen Globen" line from Def Leppard's "Rock Of Ages" intro. I was listening to a rock station that played new stuff mixed with classic rock, so there was some irony in that. I am a fan of both bands, but I really didn't think too much of the Offspring song at that time. First time I heard it, I remember the DJ on the local station talking about the biggest selling bands from Orange County, CA, and a lot of people were surprised it was The Offspring. After this, I was shocked to hear the intro sampled from the Def Leppard song, only to realize it was actually part of their then-new single!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 12, 2020 11:28:02 GMT -5
I thought Oh Honey from Delgation was Float On.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 12, 2020 14:25:13 GMT -5
I was listening to an early 1975 countdown recently and I thought Black Water was starting during the first few seconds of Morning Side Of The Mountain. I wonder if that happened to folks listening to the radio back then. Quite a shock and arguable letdown! Chris,
Back in 1976--I thought, the intro for Theme from SWAT by Rhythm Heritage sounded like a #1 hit from 5 years earlier, Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes.
Speaking of Black Water by the Doobie Brothers--it was originally the B-side to Another Park, Another Sunday--a similar sounding song that was a top 30 hit from the summer of 1974. Of course, Black Water would be released as an A-side 6 months later and reach #1 during February 1975.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 12, 2020 21:27:25 GMT -5
I was listening to an early 1975 countdown recently and I thought Black Water was starting during the first few seconds of Morning Side Of The Mountain. I wonder if that happened to folks listening to the radio back then. Quite a shock and arguable letdown! Chris, Back in 1976--I thought, the intro for Theme from SWAT by Rhythm Heritage sounded like a #1 hit from 5 years earlier, Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes.
Speaking of Black Water by the Doobie Brothers--it was originally the B-side to Another Park, Another Sunday--a similar sounding song that was a top 30 hit from the summer of 1974. Of course, Black Water would be released as an A-side 6 months later and reach #1 during February 1975.
Wow Joe you're right about Shaft and SWAT. I was just listening yesterday to one of your 1965 shows and I noticed how Sitting In The Park by Billy Stewart sounded so much like Summer by War (speaking of '76). It might even have been the inspiration for the War song it sounds so similar. And since Love Shack came out I can't listen to Reach Out Of The Darkness without thinking Friend and Lover sound like the B-52s. Also, Joe, what was the deal with all the classical stuff beginning in late 65? There was Yesterday and A Lover's Concerto and I Hear A Symphony and Opus 17 and My Heart's Symphony and I'm probably forgetting one or two. Did Paul start all that by going on Ed Sullivan with a string quartet, or was it all just a coincidence, or what?
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