Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar- Page 3

[fetzles1490]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 2:25pm

One of these isn't from a musical, but the vamp at the beginning of Good Morning Baltimore and Say Goodbye To Hollywood by Billy Joel are identical.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 2:41pm

The "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ" section of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR sounds AN AWFUL like the beginning of ROSEMARY from HOW TO SUCCEED...TRYING.

The climactic phrase in Johnson's aria, "Quello che tacete", near the end of the first act of Puccini's GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, bears a strong resemblance to a similar phrase in the Phantom's song, "Music of the Night", in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Updated On: 12/16/08 at 02:41 PM

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 9:02pm

Just last nite I noticed that Come Back To Me from On A Clear Day You Can See Forever is very similar to Follow Me from Camelot. Different composers, of course (Lane and Loewe)... but, oddly enough, the same lyricist (Lerner)!

[rich.hanson59]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 9:21pm

"Stick to the Status Quo" from High School Musical is VAGUELY reminiscent of "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray.

**kindly note the EXTREME sarcasm

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:38am

I just finished listening to the Count of Mote Cristo and I think the opening chords of "When Love is True" sound very similar to the "I can show you the world" portion of "A Whole New World" from Aladdin. It's weird.

[heo1128]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 1:28am

Legally Blonde and Part of Your World, especially

"Back to the sun, back to the shore...just let me be legally blonde"

"Up where the walk, up where they run...wish I could be part of your world"

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 6:30am

There's this one song from A Tale Of Two Cities that sounds just like the instrumental from "Farewell, Good Angel" from Jane Eyre, but I can't remember what it is. It's weird, because James Barbour is in both.

[monkeybutt]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 7:08am

(The Beginning of) Under The Sea - The Little Mermaid

(The End of) What is this Feeling? - Wicked

They have that same bouncy thing!!!!

[blondebaby589]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 7:19am

I can't believe no one has said most of Jason Robert Brown's work

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 7:37am

I can't believe no one has said most of Jason Robert Brown's work
ZOMG A COMPOSER HAS WORK THAT SOUNDS SIMILAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVAR!!!!!

Seriously, all composers make music that sounds similar to their own.

[jlm96um]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:57am

"Nothing Like the Brain" from Young Frankenstein and "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress. I heard the YF overture on Sirius and actually thought it was Mattress.

Also, while I was willing Billy Elliott to be over, there is some song toward the end that sounds like "I Dreamed a Dream". Sorry, don't know which song from BE, but as I heard it, in my head I sang "but the tigers come at night."

[Timmer]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:15am

There are places where Andrew Lloyd Weber is reminiscent of Puccini. You can do a lot worse than that.

And as Billy Crystal has pointed out, the beginning of "Music of the Night" is the same as the opening bars of the old chestnut "School Days."

[Timmer]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:18am

T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Bad poets imitate; good poets steal." I think he meant that poets are often so influenced by ideas, themes, even diction of others that it looks like they stole it. The same can be said, I think, for composers. Not only do they steal from each other, they repeat themselves. Sondheim has been writing variations on "Another Hundred People" for over 30 years now.

[Usnavi]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:13am

"Be A Clown" (Cole Porter) from the MGM movie THE PIRATE and "Make 'Em Laugh" (Arthur Freed/Nacio Herb Brown) from the MGM movie SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
Updated On: 1/5/09 at 10:13 AM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:26am

^ and Arthur Freed got called out on that, too.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:49am

the music in The Color Purple sound like some R&B songs... parts of the overture sound like it's taken from that group All For One's song I SWEAR...

[biggest CHENO fan]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:43pm

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet or not...BUT...

The beginning of "Everyday" from High School Musical 2 and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King are EXACTLY the same.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 2:38pm

biggest CHENO fan, I have always noticed that, but didn't want to point it out because HSM2 isn't Broadway. But you're right, that's always really bothered me. Moreso even than the rest of HSM2.

[JillS]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 4:07pm

You've got me stumped too Schmerg! I just looked the "jane" song up on Itunes and I can't figure out what you might mean. By instrumental are you talking about the introduction to the song ? or the whole orchestration?

Anyway, whatever it is you think you're hearing - I claim "no foul" as I wrote all my music long before "Jane Eyre" made it to Broadway!

[Fan123]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 4:28pm

Has anyone mentioned 'Bowler Hat' (Pacific Overtures) and Czolgosz's part of 'The Gun Song'? (It takes a lot of men to make a gun...) Perhaps the tune similarity is only slight, but something about the 'feel' of the two songs is very similar to me.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 4:32pm

"You've got me stumped too Schmerg! I just looked the "jane" song up on Itunes and I can't figure out what you might mean. By instrumental are you talking about the introduction to the song ? or the whole orchestration?"

Jill & Schmerg, if you don't mind me butting in:

I think that Schmerg thinks that the overture/prolouge/whatever you ended up calling it beginning with The Way It Ought To Be on the concept album,..the first notes sound a tad bit like the ending of Farewell Good Angel...as in ever so slightly. And you have to be a big fan of both (such as myself :)). I'm no music major/person, but the UP down UP thing perhaps is what I'm thinking of the rhythm...I cannot explain it but I can see where Schmerg was going..just think they don't sound alike either.

I also think the piano-theme of the film 'World Trade Center' and the beginning to 'Legally Blonde' in ballad form are verye similar!!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 4:55pm

JillS-- I'm certainly not suggesting you ripped it off; don't worry! It's not even the tune that reminds me so much of "Farewell Good Angel," but the... rhythmic feel of it. I went back and listened to the concept album (it was "Up In The Garret," I believe), and it really doesn't sound as much like the little instrumental intro to "Farewell Good Angel" as I remembered.

I'm a big fan of both Tale and Jane Eyre, and I usually listen to them in close conjunction with each other, so it's probably just my own imagination making the connection.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 5:09pm

Yeah. I'm not hearing any similarities between "The Way it Ought to Be" and "Farewell, Good Angel". Is that what we're comparing? I don't hear it.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 5:11pm

It was "Up In The Garret." But the more I listen, the less it sounds like "Farewell Good Angel"-- the similarities were more rhythmic than melodic.

[JillS]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 5:20pm

No i didn't think you were suggesting a rip-off - hence my winky face! I'm just always genuinely curious to discover and become aware of the similarities myself when people say something of mine sounds like something else. (because despite the assertions of several unimaginative critics, I've never composed anything using tracing paper!)