"Borrowed" tunes

[accountantpete]

I like discovering original bits of music that have been used by more famous bands.

Here's It's A Beautiful Day from 1969 which formed the basis for Child in Time by Deep Purple

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4a-HvG_gVQ


Any others out there?

 

[rich p]

Borodin was adapted for 'Strangers in Paradise'.

 

[bumsteer]

Deep Purple, blimey. We are showing our age! From the same era Emerson Lake and Palmer used to rip off, sorry adapt, loads of classical music: Janacek's Sinfonietta, Copland's Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man all spring to mind.

Andy Williams's Can't Help Falling in Love is one of many uses of Martini's Plaisir D'Amour.

The 1978 song If I Had Words by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley (featured in Babe) is based on the theme from the last movement of Saint Saens 3rd Symphony.

Does anyone know what's that song (Robbie Williams ??) which uses the twiddly theme from John Barry's music to You Only Live Twice?

 

[Dayvo]

The Who's Behind Blue Eyes was covered VERY well by Limp Bizkit.

 

[Hacienda71]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThdTAWQFAQ&feature=fvw


I new LZ had copied Howlin Wolf but didn't realize about the others.

 

[Over The Hill]

There is some record on radio 2 at the moment that uses Rip it Up and start agian by Orange Juice from the 80s
Catchy but annoying.

 

[Over The Hill]

Best classic into a pop tune is Lady Linda by the Beach Boys

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzd4D9ndtok


Bach

 

[Fnaar]

"One of those things" by Dexy's uses "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon (Zevon is credited on lter re-issues).

 

[raindog]

Lennon nicked Chuck Berry's You Can't Catch Me for Come Together and nearly got nicked himself.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The Enemy's last album all sounded like somone else.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

shite, bland magnolia rock purveyors used kraftwerk's "computer love" riff in one if their releases. i was appauled.

 

[threefingerjoe]

Copland's Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man all spring to mind.

Interesting thing about "borrowing" from Copland, is that you'd be borrowing things that he already borrowed! For example, Rodeo contains the old fiddle tunes "Bonaparte's Retreat" and "Miss McCleod's Reel".

 

[mr_cellophane]

Deep Purple - Black Night

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlODWd4GeM

taken from
The Blues Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothing Yet

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGRTLn2uKY

taken from
The Liverpool 5 - She's Mine

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zn18ckr7k

 

[TheDoctor]

Does anyone know what's that song (Robbie Williams ??) which uses the twiddly theme from John Barry's music to You Only Live Twice?

Would that be 'Millennium'?

'Planet Rock' by Afrika Bambaataa had sample from 'Trans Europe Express'
Great tracks both of them.

 

[goo_mason]

Fish told me once that he'd 'borrowed' the melody for the "I'm losing on the swings; I'm losing on the roundabouts" section in 'Script for a Jester's Tear' from 'Lazy Sunday Afternoon' by the Small Faces.