O Jellyfish: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
Jellyfish – “No Matter What“ (1993)
And the original:
Badfinger – “No Matter What“ (1970)
O Jellyfish: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
Jellyfish – “No Matter What“ (1993)
And the original:
Badfinger – “No Matter What“ (1970)
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Eagle-eared reader Steven (Hi, Steven!) spotted this coincidence:
Nelson Bragg – “Trying Hard To Please You“ (2012) (excerpt)
Badfinger – “Name Of The Game“ (original version) (1971) (excerpt)
Thanks, Steven!
Here are the full versions:
Nelson Bragg – “Trying Hard To Please You“ (2012)
Badfinger – “Name Of The Game“ (original version) (1971)
Badfinger – “Name Of The Game“ (1971)
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My friend Michael spotted this one:
Dave Clark & Friends – “Right Or Wrong” (1972) (excerpt)
Badfinger – “No Matter What“ (1970) (excerpt)
Much obliged, Mr. Michael.
Here are the full versions:
Dave Clark & Friends – “Right Or Wrong” (1972)
Badfinger – “No Matter What“ (1970)
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Last week I played you “Hello”, a song by Australian-hearthrob-from-the-60’s Normie Rowe. It turned out to be more popular than I thought it was going to be. (My original thought was “not at all”.) Quite a few people liked Normie and his red jacket, and suggested I find and listen to some more of his stuff. At the time I posted “Hello”, I had a grand total of nine Normie Rowe songs. I now have 151.
One of those newly-acquired songs is called “Maybe Tomorrow”, and when I saw the title my eyes lit up as I thought: “Beauty! It might be a cover of the Badfinger song called ‘Maybe Tomorrow‘”.
Alas, it isn’t (and it’s dreadful*) – but I’ll play it anyway because you can hear them both and compare the two:
Normie Rowe – “Maybe Tomorrow” (1981)
Badfinger – “Maybe Tomorrow“ (1968)
I’ll try to find you a better Normie Rowe song for the next time**.
(*That’s my opinion. You, on the other hand, may adore it.)
(**Unless you say rather assertively: “Don’t you dare play anything else by Normie Rowe”.)
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Okey dokey. Here’s the second of the three songs that kick-started my love of power pop all those years ago:
Badfinger – “No Matter What“ (1970)
Formative song number three tomorrow.
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Speaking of Badfinger (I mentioned them in yesterday’s coincidence), this coincidence involves them again. And a slide guitar.
I know this is a very tiny coincidence (it’s only about four notes) but it’s bugged me for ages, ever since I first heard the newer of the two songs.
Jellyfish‘s “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” (1993) starts with a slide guitar doing this:
That always – and I mean always – reminds me of the start of Badfinger’s “Day After Day” (1971):
Here are the full versions:
Jellyfish – “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” (1993)
Badfinger – “Day After Day“ (1971)
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Today’s coincidence isn’t exactly musical – it’s lyrical.
You’re no doubt familiar with this line in The Beatles‘ “Help!” (1965):
Well, so is Badfinger:
Badfinger – “Because I Love You” (1981) (excerpt)
Here are the full versions:
The Beatles – “Help!“ (1965)
Badfinger – “Because I Love You” (1981)
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