# Songs That Share The Same Tune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728 "2005-04-17T05:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/21 "2005-04-18T01:37:51Z")
Ha, that’s Audrey Hepburn. I wish I looked like her! I know “Aura Lee” because it was one of the first pieces I learned on the piano. I thought more people knew about it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/22 "2005-04-18T01:46:01Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > \*\* > “My Country Tis Of Thee” … “God Save The Queen” Also “God Blss Our Native Land”. And one other of the European countries has it as the tune to their national anthem, can’t remember which one. The hymn “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” is to the same tune as the German anthem “Deuchland Uber Alles” ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/23 "2005-04-18T01:54:29Z")
Twist and Shout/La Bamba. Same thing ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/24 "2005-04-18T03:18:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The hymn “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” is to the same tune as the German anthem “Deuchland Uber Alles” That tune also appears in a Haydn string quartet. Apparently at the time Haydn quoted it, it was known as “Gott erhaltet Franz der Kaiser” (God Save Emperor Franz). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/25 "2005-04-18T03:33:40Z")
Bach’s Concerto for 4 harpsichords (BWV 1065) is a direct note-for-note lift of a Vivaldi concerto for Four Violins. (OP3, #10 - I think.) ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/26 "2005-04-18T03:38:49Z")
The Rolling Stones “Has Anybody Seen My Baby” sounds so much like kd lang’s “Constant Craving” that Mick & Co. realized it and gave lang and her collaborator Ben Mink co-writing credits on the song before the album was released. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/27 "2005-04-18T04:06:18Z")
Every time this subject comes up, the pair that always comes to my mind is Rick James’ **Superfreak** and MC Hammer’s **U Can’t Touch This**. In fact, IIRC, Hammer very deliberately looked for an old disco/funk song to put his breakthrough hit to. Given hip-hop’s reputation for this sort of thing, I suppose the only surprise is that there weren’t others. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/28 "2005-04-18T04:30:37Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Every time this subject comes up, the pair that always comes to my mind is Rick James’ **Superfreak** and MC Hammer’s **U Can’t Touch This**. In fact, IIRC, Hammer very deliberately looked for an old disco/funk song to put his breakthrough hit to. > > Given hip-hop’s reputation for this sort of thing, I suppose the only surprise is that there weren’t others. I think that’s more along the lines of sampling, though. Otherwise, we’d be here all day wading through the 5,000 (my estimation) or so examples of hip-hop/R&B similarities with previous disco/funk songs. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/29 "2005-04-18T04:33:49Z")
Amend the above to include songs of any stripe, please. I’m recalling “sampling” examples that include pieces from America and Queen. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/30 "2005-04-18T04:38:27Z")
“It Sucks to be Me” from Avenue Q, and “For Now” also from Avenue Q. I suppose that doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/31 "2005-04-18T05:34:49Z")
“Daddy’s Getting Married” by Bif Naked sounds an awful lot like “Today” by the Smashing Pumpkins. “Ready or Not” by the Fugees really pissed me off the first time I heard it because I thought it rocked that a Jukebox in a pool hall would have Enya’s “Boadicea.” (In this case, they ripped off the entire entire song, including vocals, added a drumline and their own vocals to it, and made (at the time) the planet’s most expensive music video out of it) P.M. Dawn sampled (yeah, I know we aren’t into samples here, but it confuses me every time I hear them) Spandau Ballet’s “True” for “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”, enough so that when I’m listening to one I anticipate lyrics from the other. I’ve heard many argue that John William’s “Duel of the Fate’s” {From the Phantom Menace} is bloody close to Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” {from Carmina Burana} And there is something disturbingly familiar with Hans Zimmer’s score for the Rock… -DF ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/32 "2005-04-18T06:06:55Z")
> [@Dancer\_Flight](#): > > “Ready or Not” by the Fugees really pissed me off the first time I heard it because I thought it rocked that a Jukebox in a pool hall would have Enya’s “Boadicea.” (In this case, they ripped off the entire entire song, including vocals, added a drumline and their own vocals to it, and made (at the time) the planet’s most expensive music video out of it) -DF They also took basically all the parts from The Delfonics’ “Ready or Not (Here I Come),” including the title of the song. ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728/33 "2005-04-18T07:04:13Z")
> [@Dancer\_Flight](#): > > “Ready or Not” by the Fugees really pissed me off the first time I heard it because I thought it rocked that a Jukebox in a pool hall would have Enya’s “Boadicea.” (In this case, they ripped off the entire entire song, including vocals, added a drumline and their own vocals to it, and made (at the time) the planet’s most expensive music video out of it) Looks like I wasn’t the only one that was surprised by this: [Enya’s producer was gonn’ get medieval on the Fugees’ collective ass](http://www.enya.org/p_trans4/b019.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-share-the-same-tune/299728.md?page=1)