Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

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Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:25pm

I'm serious, actually.

So I bought "The Woman in White" CD and was listening to it, and I couldn't help but notice that the tune to the "Lammastide" number in the first act sounded very very familar, so I replayed it, started humming along and the chorus "Sing! For it's Lammastide!" is familiar, eerily familiar to "Hey Macarana! *chomp*"

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this.

#2

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:29pm

First, Puccini, now the Macarena.

What's next? Mambo #5?

#3

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:34pm

Listen to "Music of the Night"

Then sing the song:
School days, school days
good old fashioned rule days

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:35pm

I am pretty sure that The Thong Song is next.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:36pm

Also, didn't he bite off Pink Floyd's "Echoes"?

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:41pm

Wow.

Just wow.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:50pm

fvalle24,

The main theme of the Phantom overture was apparently ripped off from part of the song Echos by Floyd. I read an article about it where Roger Waters said that it was clear that Webber stole that bit of the overture (and of course the "Phantom Theme" we hear through out the show) from their song Echos. But, he said that life was too short to fight over something small like that.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:55pm

Winston89,

I read that too! I didn't believe it at first, but then I listened to the song...and it's there. I was somewhat disappointed, but not surprise.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:00pm

I read someone making that Macarana comparrision before when the show opened on broadway. I hadn't picked it up till then, now that is all I hear when i hear that song. It has always been my lest favourite song in the whole score.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:18pm

What about the Batman theme in Jesus Christ Superstar?

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:19pm

MOTN = Come to Me, Bend to Me from Brigadoon.

Masquerade = something from Turandot (Puccini, of course)

#12

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 4:06pm

Did Webber even write "Lammastide"? Isn't it a classic song from the period?

#13

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 4:44pm

I did a few different google searches. I couldn't find any other version of Lammastide other then what Webber wrote.

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#14

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 5:16pm

This video (and it's meant to be tounge-in-cheek) highlights some of the most obvious "coincidences" in Lloyd Webber's work.
Andrew Lloyd Webber obituary

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 5:17pm

I've thought the song sounded like "The Macarena" ever since I first saw the show.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:36pm

this is slightly off topic, but I remember reading somewhere that the "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" can be found in several places in the score of Evita, sped up, slowed down and...possibly inverted? I know it's really common for composers to have motifs in their pieces [there are certainly a lot in Sweeney], but I thought the DCFMA was really interesting and almost...ridiculous.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:42pm

I just finished reading the thread and was greeted by this banner ad.

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Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:46pm

I really hate this google ads thing.

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/13/08 at 11:38pm

LOL OP you got that off of a review from NY1 I bet...that's where I first found out about it & realized it sounds similar!

And "Lammastide" is a old-time Holiday (I believe in England, correct me if I'm wrong), about the new season (which the song describes).

Who cares I still love WiW!

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re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:41am

A better quality video of the obituary

Updated On: 8/14/08 at 01:41 AM

#21

re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?

Posted: 8/14/08 at 6:53am

There is a part in the Whistle Down the Wind overture that is a total rip off of the Jurassic Park theme.