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The following is a list of songs that have been the subject of plagiarism disputes. In several of the disputes the artists have stated that the copying of melody or chord progression was unconscious. In some cases the song was sampled or covered. Some cases are still awaiting litigation.
"Funny" is a song by German-Russian music producer Zedd and English singer Jasmine Thompson. The two artists wrote the song with Michael Pollack and Casey Smith, as well as Jordan K. Johnson, Marcus Lomax and Stefan Johnson from the American production and songwriting team The Monsters & Strangerz , who produced the song with Zedd.
1910 – "The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company" was founded by S. Duncan Black (1883–1951) and Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956) as a small machine shop in Baltimore in September. Decker, who had only a seventh grade education, had met Black in 1906, when they were both 23-year-old workers at the Rowland Telegraph Company.
Japanese music distributor Exit Tunes gained the rights from the original Caramell producers, Remixed Records, to distribute the sped-up version of the original song in Asia, releasing first an album in April 2008 called Uma Uma Dekiru Trance wo Tsukutte Mita which included "Caramelldansen" (named "U-u-uma uma" (Speedycake Remix)) and other popular meme songs at the time.
Biko (song) Birmingham Sunday; Black (Sevendust song) Black and White (Pete Seeger song) Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones) Black Like Me (song) Black Magic (Baker Boy song) Black Man (song) Black Messiah (song) Black or White; Black Stations/White Stations; Black Tie White Noise (song) Blackbird (Beatles song) The Blacker the Berry (song) Bobcaygeon ...
A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture. Novelty songs partially overlap with comedy songs , which are more explicitly based on humor, and with musical parody , especially when the novel gimmick is another popular song.
The UK's Jamaican origin reggae band The Cimarons released it as a single in 1974.; The song has been covered by a great number of artists including by Italian pop singer Sabrina (Sabrina Salerno) in her 1991 album Over the Pop and by Stiff Little Fingers on their 1999 album Hope Street where the song is retitled "You Can Get It (If Yu Really Want It)".
It does not seem simple, what with many dominant seventh chords, not to mention an augmented fifth. It also has a melody with many non-standard intervals. Could it be that the structure of the song is better described as "interesting" than as "simple and classic" and that the song attracts jazz musicians (but not, say, bluegrass musicians ...