Match the McCartney Tune With the Artist He Was Imitating

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You know, like:

Little Richard - "Get On the Right Thing"
Eno - "Summer's Day Song"
The Orb - his Fireman project
Joplin (I think) - "Honey Pie"
Steely Dan (ca Aja - "Arrow Through Me"
John Lennon - "Too Many People"
Elvis Costello - "Getting Closer"
Crappy 80s Genesis - "Pretty Little Head"

What else? Benny Goodman - "When I'm 64"?

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Geir to thread!

Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Quincy Jones (complete with his boy, MJ)-"say say say"

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

talking heads -- "coming up"

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

gary numan -- "temporary secretary"

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

UB40 - "How Many People"
Simple Minds ca. 1989 - "Figure Of Eight"
Stevie Wonder - "What's That You're Doing" (well, Wonder helped him write it, and also provided vocals...)
10cc - "The Pound Is Sinking"
Late 19th Century Vaudeville: "You Gave Me No Answer"
Donovan - "Mother Nature's Child"
Stax soul - "Got To Get You Into My Life"
Bee Gees - "Dress Me Up As a Robber"
Crowded House - "My Brave Face"
Badfinger/Nazz/Raspberries - "Rock Show"
Himself on "Yesterday" - "Here Today"

Btw. "Pretty Little Head", possibly his worst ever single, sounds nothing like Genesis (nor McCartney...)

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus most of "Flaming Pie" sounds like Traveling Wilburys.... :)

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

that's b/c of jeff lynne's involvement, you silly geir!!

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I know. Hence the smiley :-)

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus most of "Flaming Pie" sounds like Traveling Wilburys.... :)

...only the first Wilburys paltter is kinda better.

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree about that anyway

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw. "Pretty Little Head", possibly his worst ever single, sounds nothing like Genesis (nor McCartney...)

I'm talking "Tonight Tonight Tonight"-era Genesis. Not only is Press To Play produced by Hugh Padgham, but unless I'm wrong, they also do a lot of that pseudo-native people-type crap on that song.


Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

John Barry meets Henry Mancini: "Live And Let Die" (like most Bond tunes, anyway....)

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Joplin (I think) - "Honey Pie" -it sounds like ragtime king - scott (the entertainer)joplin.mcartney said he was inspired by "the sting"

ertrob, Sunday, 28 November 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that's true.

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 28 November 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)


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