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From: dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc)
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Subject: Re: Another example of plagiarism I had never heard before
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 16:43:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 16:43:08 1985
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    It's not just a minor ripoff, either.  'Steal Away', come to think
of it, is practically a note-for-note ripoff of 'What A Fool Believes'.

    I suppose that Michael Jackson will be next, suing that little kid
(DeBarge? The New Edition??) over his first record, which is note-for-note
a rewrite of 'ABC.'

    There was also a song around 1972-1974 (winter, I think) which goes
(oops) says something about a little kid (Jelly Roll's Soul in little white
shoes/bvbvbvbbvbvb about my rock and roll baby/...) and something about
being "born in a theatre/in Bluefield, West Virginia/) which struck me as
a flagrant theft of the Carole King song which goes "Sometimes you win, 
sometime you lose", probably from "Tapestry." Then again, Carole King, being
the underwriter for a bunch of music, probably leased them the tune??

    One of you guys out there is missing out. . .why not take a Cray X-MP
and generate a statistical database of what results in a popular song,
complete with DFT's... hell, the CRT and their ilk can't even keep their
own house straight, let alone, prosecute plaigars!

dya