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From: Kevin Wayne 
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Subject: Re: Yesterday influences?
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On 6/18/05 11:24 PM, abe slaney wrote:
> Kevin Wayne wrote:
> 
>>Paul McCartney's first reaction to waking up with the tune to
"Scrambled 
>>Eggs" in his head was to think that he'd heard it somewhere. Evidently 
>>he hadn't unconsciously ripped the whole thing off of someone, since he 
>>didn't get sued by Morris Levy over it, but it does seem unlikely that 
>>the whole tune just invented itself out of nothing. Has anyone come 
>>across any speculation on what musical influences there might be for the 
>>most famous (or at least most covered) pop tune of all time?
> 
> There was a thread started here about it (and a couple of other tunes) a 
> while back by Ian:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/dcl46

I should've replied when I first started getting responses.

The case for "I Saw Her Standing There" and "When the Saints
Go Marching 
In" is pretty clear.

I'm not sure about the connection between "Yesterday" and Ray Charles's 
"Georgia on My Mind." First of all, I suspect (but I'm not sure) that 
the version of "Georgia" that I'm familiar with--the opening to the 
"Designing Women" TV show--is the Ray Charles one, but if it's not, then 
I don't have a basis of comparison. If it is, then I guess I get the 
part about the chord structure, but the melody and whole song "feel" 
seem very different to me.

I wouldn't reject out of hand a thesis that has such careful analysis 
behind it, but it seems to me that "Georgia" is, at best, one of 
probably several influences that combined in Paul's mind to create a 
lovely melody.

-- 
Kevin Wayne

"Art is a tremendous means by which painfully guarded individuals bare 
their souls."  --Steve Hindalong

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