He's Ripped This Off......

[Bathsheba]

from Hill St Blues theme. Who do I report the little ginger tinker to? ;)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHWPTjzOxs

[Bathsheba]

hahahah!! Am proper chucklin' 'ere!! Nicked! :)

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[Bathsheba]

sorry Andy,..my reply was to Talbot,....shall check out that one you mentioned x x

[Bathsheba]

Yes, I see what you mean re the Pharrell Williams one. I'm not very well up on recent music....if it's not played on Radio 2, I don't know it, lol :)

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[Bathsheba]

but whatever........let's be careful out there.........;)

[Gromit]

Baths, this might help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DMsl2s0mU

[Bathsheba]

Ah! Thanks Gromit! It's all clear to me now!
Another definite rip-off!
And I've had to check,...he's not singing " I've found myself a derriere"....that would be silly.

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[andy-hughes]

Actualy baths, this is not the same thing - this is sampling - a different thing altogether.

Sampling is used when an artist lifts a riff, or a section, or a rhythm, or even a complete tune, and lays another vocal over it. The original artist will have given permission, and will have a royalty cut from sales, and usually an acknowledgement in the composer section of the recording details.

That is not the same as Blurred Lines, which blatantly copied the Marvin Gaye rhythm and overall atmosphere - that is a rip-off - for which their bottoms were righteously sued - successfully.

[Bathsheba]

@Andy....right......hardly dare ask this, but is it the same as a "mash up" .....? ;)

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[andy-hughes]

Sort of.

A mash-up occurs when an inventive and studio-savvy dj or producer with clever ears spots the similarity in the structure of a song, to the point where you can overlay one on top of the other, with intriguing results.

Insofar as it is illegal - I very much doubt if permissions are sought or granted - it does tend towards the 'rip-off' camp, but I have quite a collection of them, and you'd be amazed at the songs that will fit together.

The one a lot of people have heard - Chris Evans has played it - is Every Breath You Take by The Police mashed with 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol, but there are some wonderfully inventive ones out there - The Benny Hill Theme (Yakkety Sax) matches Eminem's Without Me, and even more startling is Iron Maiden's The Trooper which fits with The Monkees' I'm A Beiliever.

Put YouTube Mashup into your search engine, and start being entertained and amazed

[Mamyalynne]

Some mashups are really remixes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT5eJwgAtvY&list=PLD68198AF5FA07756&index=4

[Mamyalynne]

In my wholly uneducated view of course.

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - on occasions, a degree of editorial massaging can occur, to get the tracks to synch completely, but carefully done, they work extremely well.

[jno]

Liechtenstein have borrowed the British national anthem, apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34052000

[douglas9401]

Mick Hucknall: Why and more importantly, how?

[Bathsheba]

@douglas.....his very existence? I have no answers to that one ;)

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[andy-hughes]

Mich Hucknall? It's the same as any pop star in the UK - out of a population of sixty million - fifty-five million think he is an MOR Charlie Drake with as much soul as a paperclip - but the rest buy his records.

It's as simple as that - 'twas ever thus.

[douglas9401]

Aye, thanks for that.

[mastercraft]

Can't see the familiarity.

[douglas9401]

Thanks, Bathsheba. :-)

[Bathsheba]

@ douglas,...you're welcome ;)

Sadly, I've heard another this morning, thought I'd post it here rather than start a new one.
I even had to ask a friend what the original song was, all I could describe it as was the "he doesn't wash up song"....Stand by, I'll post both .......