There is a mistery with these two songs. Can you solve it. Post your answers here.
If knowone gets it, then the real story tomorrow.
Happy Holidays to All,
Ric
I don’t know but I wish he were mine.
Um, they have the same tune?
From Answers.com:
The 1971 John Lennon song “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” has a partly identical meter and a virtually identical tune . Extracted from the foregoing article: “Lennon’s composition is almost exactly the same song as “Stewball,” only with other words attached to its melody. It is almost a case of direct plagiarism.”
Haim
True, but consider this: While there are 12 separate tonal intervals in an octave, Western musical scales use either 5 or 7. Going back to the roots of music, it’s a little hard to imagine that there are any unused combinations.
The number of songs that are direct copies of classical pieces are long past counting. Perhaps the most famous being A Lover’s Concerto (1965), by The Toys, a note-for-note ripoff of Bach’s Minuet in G minor. Keith Emerson made a career out of “rocking” old fugues…
For fun with metaphysical music theory, check out *Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid *by Douglas Hofstadter. But make sure you have plenty of time, it’s a looooong, slooooooow read!
Haim:
Correct! Happy Christmas and Stewball are the same melody. Only the lyrics have been changed.
Ric
I looked it up and came up as Skewball? of Skuball…interesting stuff…do you have a lot of time on your hands? lOL