"More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues

[LuisStrublic]

this track from the primrose album "children's world" kinda sounds like the theme song to "mister rogers' neighborhood"

[Mr]

Hahah, nice find.

[Porn Library]

The late great Sam Spence not only made this rip off for NFL library, but had the balls to give it the same exact title of the tune he ripped off from Alec R. Costandinos.

[Walk the Skies 202]

The late great Sam Spence not only made this rip off for NFL library, but had the balls to give it the same exact title of the tune he ripped off from Alec R. Costandinos.

Spence did a similar thing when he basically remade Ralph Dollimore's Hit and Run, as his version also uses the same title. (Is this a case of library music "ripping off" library music?)

[Lord Thames]

Another library track which rips off another library track - a sub-genre I'm always intrigued by!

This:

Owes a clear debt to (even down to the switch to a major key halfway through)

Though the Glen Somers arrangment also reminds me a little bit of Rodney Bewes' psychedelic classic, the theme from Dear Mother, Love Albert

[tim gueguen]

There's got to be at least a couple of examples of library tracks copying library tracks that are actually the same writer using a different name, so they could sell the a reworked version of an old piece to a different label.

[Lord Thames]

I'm sure there are - I'm going to have a think about that now, because I'm certain there will be some!

[Herring Gull]

I'm sure there are - I'm going to have a think about that now, because I'm certain there will be some!

I know of two from Cliff Twemlow aka Peter Reno/John Agar/John Lewis etc.

"Summer Friend" originally released by De Wolfe, later recorded under the title "Sunset Stroll" by the Brno Radio Orchestra for the DI Music library, later published by Parry Music.

Also, the same with the track "Crimson" released with De Wolfe and later re-recorded under the title "Summer Romance" by the Brno Radio Orchestra for DI Music.

[Lord Thames]

I didn't know Twemlow had composed for Parry!  Nice to hear the Orchestr Studio Brno too

[tim gueguen]

Trevor Bastow doing a piece pretty obviously inspired by Japan's "Cantonese Boy" from their final album, the classic Tin Drum.

[StevieBarr]

Not so much a rip off of an actual number but how much does the vocalist on John O'Brien-Docker's Freak Out (as featured in The Sweeney) sound like Ozzy Osbourne?? I'm still not convinced that it isn't him.

[tim gueguen]

This Brian Bennett track has more than a hint of John Williams's Superman theme to me.

[Feralibrary]

Not so much a rip off of an actual number but how much does the vocalist on John O'Brien-Docker's Freak Out (as featured in The Sweeney) sound like Ozzy Osbourne?? I'm still not convinced that it isn't him.

Off the LP "Pop Sounds Vol.1" on Chappell?
I was listening to that in the kitchen yesterday, and I thought to myself "Hey that sounds like a really good approximation of Ozzy Osbourne". The singer also does a weird little vocalisation that sounds like Robert Plant in the middle eight of "Whole Lotta Love" where he sounds like he's getting ready to sneeze...