# Song-melding **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177 "2018-01-22T03:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/141 "2018-03-03T19:04:28Z")
Been playing the compilation album Tea and Symphony - the English Baroque Sound a lot this past week and the third track - Alice - starting at [6:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcLlXyuSuo&t=2597s), has been merging in my mind with [Do You Remember Walter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5bcZeGqwE) by the Kinks, especially the chorus of Alice which starts around 7:15. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/142 "2018-03-03T19:19:45Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Been playing the compilation album Tea and Symphony - the English Baroque Sound a lot this past week and the third track - Alice - starting at [6:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcLlXyuSuo&t=2597s) Just so you know, that links to the time stamp associated with “My World Turns Around You.” [Here’s the link to the beginning of “Alice.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcLlXyuSuo&t=363s). ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/143 "2018-03-03T22:46:17Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Been playing the compilation album Tea and Symphony - the English Baroque Sound a lot this past week and the third track - Alice - starting at [6:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcLlXyuSuo&t=2597s), has been merging in my mind with [Do You Remember Walter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5bcZeGqwE) by the Kinks, especially the chorus of Alice which starts around 7:15. Kinks - Tin Soldier Man Ravel - Bolero [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r30D3SW4OVw/maxresdefault.jpg "Maurice Ravel - Bolero") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30D3SW4OVw) ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/144 "2018-03-05T04:48:11Z")
I like to slip from the outro of **R.E.M.** _Everybody Hurts_ into **Simon and Garfunkel** _Bridge Over Troubled Waters_ _Hold on, hold on … Sail on Silver Girl …_ The keys don’t really match, though, so it’s a compromise either way. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/145 "2018-03-05T17:36:09Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > The definitive sounds like Smash Mouth’s WALKING ON THE SUN winner is SHE’S NOT THERE by the Zombies. I think it is the Rhodes Piano sound (although I doubt either group used an actual Rhodes to record) that clinches it. The Zombies have a cleaner sound, Smash Mouth seems to be using a fuzz box or some other effect on all of their instruments. Space Cowboy has a very guitar sound compared to either of these. I suspect WordMan’s two suggestions will compare better with SC when I get to them, although he mentions them in comparison to WotS. > > I was not familiar with WATERMELON MAN, but I like the one version I just listened to. It doesn’t sound like any of the other songs being discussed in my opinion, it sounds like a long alto sax jazz number. The guy on the cover of the album is holding a tenor sax, but if he is playing a tenor he is in its highest range. I don’t find any relation to Walking on the Sun (or Space Cowboy); not the instrumentation, the tempo, the feel, nothing. In fact it seems laid back and cool- kind of the opposite of the other songs being discussed. I am curious what elements you think are similar to WotS? Or the Zombies tune for that matter (which as I said above IS very similar to WotS in my opinion). Is it possible I found an unusual recording that had cool jazz rubbed all over it but the ‘normal’ version is an up tempo, higher energy rock tune? I guess I really do not have a good ear for this stuff. I hadn’t listened too much to smashmouth. But it sounded latin to me. It just dawned on me that I have heard it before, a lot. In fact it’s the time the doors _ **plagiarized themselves** _, so there’s two of them, and I hear some of Santana in it, from later on. Soul Kitchen When the Music’s Over Oye Como Va [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J7ATTjg7tpE/maxresdefault.jpg "Santana - Oye Como Va (Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ATTjg7tpE) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/146 "2019-01-30T00:20:27Z")
Had to pull the stake back outa this puppy after getting hit by a couple of meldy melds while deadheading hydrangea this morning. This [descending synth line](https://youtu.be/SHJboL5D9Io?t=24) melds into this [descending brass breakdown.](https://youtu.be/nTpoo4BLN7g?t=193) Mick goes [“up”,](https://youtu.be/1BjQYQ5p2Ko?t=166) as does[David.](https://youtu.be/oJdPS4RYzWM?t=34) In my archeological search for this I came across a [sorta similar thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652658) Not sure how I missed this one. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/147 "2019-07-01T02:24:41Z")
Another meldy meld between Shania Twain’s singing [0:12 to 0:19](https://youtu.be/E7auzP9RhCY?t=9) and Steve Tyler’s [3:28 to 3:35.](https://youtu.be/ubYyofUBnec?t=204) Sure, pretty common bluesy rock/whatever stuff but when hearing that muffled Shania muzak bit back in the day, my mind’d play tricks on me and picture Steve taking over. Shania’s song. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/148 "2019-07-01T02:52:46Z")
Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” and the Rolling Stones’ “Midnight Rambler” share that dotted rhythm, some chord sequences, and the melodic arc. Funny that their lyrical themes are so very different. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/149 "2020-04-27T00:45:02Z")
The beginning - up until 0:13 - of Donovan’s [Wear your Love Like Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmruh9tKxM) melds perfectly into Blue Oyster Cult’s _Don’t Fear the Reaper_ at [0:30.](https://youtu.be/Dy4HA3vUv2c?t=27) ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/150 "2020-04-28T03:30:06Z")
WTF is wrong with everyone here??? How has it possibly taken 3 pages of posts before the most obvious one of all: The theme to “Final Jeopardy” and “I’m a Little Teapot”.:smack: :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/151 "2021-12-16T05:25:07Z")
I can’t hear the rhythm guitar [here 🙂](https://youtu.be/cQ3Tul2F7vg?t=2883) without thinking of the rhythm guitar [here. 🙁](https://youtu.be/S5Vz-z4PEkk?t=15) If they had been isoated on their own separate tracks, they’d dovetail quite nicely together. Aaaawww that LP vocalist looks like a slightly younger and innocent Seth Puttnam. [whatever passes for a cuteness emoji here] ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/152 "2021-12-16T05:46:26Z")
“Any Dream will Do” from _Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat_ starts with an almost identical musical phrase as “Ripple” from the Greatful Dead. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/153 "2021-12-16T06:11:40Z")
If you listen to the full Tchaikovsky _Nutcracker_, sooner or later you get to that passage that sounds like “This is the way we wash our clothes” Back in the early 70s came a hit song “Precious and Few” by Climax, and I can’t hum it in my head without it turning into The Association’s “Cherish” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177.md?page=7)