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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Another example of plagiarism (Corey Hart vs Eurythmics)
Message-ID: <2239@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 07:03:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 07:03:50 1985
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Reply-To: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Rich says
>...as Corey Hart's stealing the repeeto-note sequencerism from
>"Sweet Dreams" for use in "Sunglasses at Night"....
>                               Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Now I don't know if you meant to imply that the two sequences
are note-for-note identical, 'cause they aren't.  They do
sound somewhat similar, but for instance (assuming that they're
both in C minor) Sunglasses starts out as

    Eb Eb
         D D
             C C
G G

where Sweet Dreams is more like...

          Eb

    C C          C


        Eb
C C          C


(Boy, we need an ANSI standard for textual music representation...)
You want Identical sequencer lines, you take "Ghostbusters"
and "I Wanna New Drug", then you've got something...

Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Corey Hart fan.

Steve Hayman
University of Waterloo Warriors Band
"One of the Bands in Canada"