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7 Songs That 'Rip Off' Other Tunes - David Bennett Piano (Original Post) ItsjustMe Jan 2023 OP
Some of my favorite "WAIT A SECOND"'s Montauk6 Jan 2023 #1

Montauk6

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1. Some of my favorite "WAIT A SECOND"'s
Mon Jan 23, 2023, 12:28 PM
Jan 2023

You may never have noticed it but it screams out at me. Huey Lewis & The News, famous for beating Ray Parker Jr on "Ghostbusters" eating off "I Want A New Drug" (and that's still a reach, imho) got some 'splainin' to do on their "Back In Time," the main riff of which is pretty dang similar to a brief snippet of David Bowie's "Changes." (listen to the piano at the :11 mark)



This is more blatant. I don't know if Luscious Jackson gave credit to EWF but based on what brings down the gavel in other cases, they should have




This is a more well known cop (even down to the finger squeaks):



I don't know if it was for clearance reasons but in Rocky, the movie used the actual Kool & The Gang slow jam classic "Summer Madness" yet on the soundtrack album Bill Conti had a very similar track called "Reflections"



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