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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: 1989 |
| Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:43:33 -0400 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
To: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: 1989
>> Hell, Fine Young Cannibals even got a tribute band -- anybody
>> remember a one-hit wonder called Londonbeat? Their single "I've
>> Been Thinking About You" was absolutely the most blatant FYC ripoff
>> imaginable, to the point that many people (including me) thought it
>> was FYC's new single the first time they heard it.
>
> Simple explanation on that one: The vocalist in Londonbeat did the
> backing vox on "The Raw & The Cooked."
Well, Toni Tennille did backing vocals on THE WALL, but that didn't
make "Do That To Me One More Time" sound like "Comfortably Numb."
It's still a pretty blatant knockoff.
S
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