Author Topic: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues  (Read 260081 times)

LuisStrublic

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #105 on: June 17, 2026, 06:11:34 PM »

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

funny drag n drop guy

Mr

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #106 on: June 25, 2026, 12:42:44 AM »
Hahah, nice find.

Porn Library

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #107 on: July 08, 2026, 01:09:57 AM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #108 on: July 08, 2026, 04:10:26 AM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #109 on: July 19, 2026, 12:24:48 AM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #110 on: July 19, 2026, 05:01:42 PM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #111 on: July 19, 2026, 05:47:39 PM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #112 on: Today at 02:33:14 PM »
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

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Re: "More or less a blatant rip-off"-type cues
« Reply #113 on: Today at 03:52:13 PM »
I didn't know Twemlow had composed for Parry!  Nice to hear the Orchestr Studio Brno too