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From: ian{at}beathoven.com (paramucho)
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Subject: Re: Yesterday influences?
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:43:02 +0000 (UTC), 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?
>
>-- 
>Kevin Wayne
>
>"Art is a tremendous means by which painfully guarded individuals bare 
>their souls."  --Steve Hindalong

Paul describes the content of his dream in detail. The song I found,
which meets most of his description is the Ray Charles' version of
"Georgia". 

See http://www.geocities.com/hammodotcom/beathoven/oldsweetsongs.htm

"Answer Me" has been suggested by others as a source for the music and
the lyric. Musically, "Answer Me" does not meet *any* of the points
McCartney described in his recollection of the dream. The combined
case for music and lyric has an even greater problem. For it to
succeed we would have to assume that late in 1963 McCartney had a
dream inspired by the music of the song and over a year later was
independently reinspired by the lyric of the song. 

McCartney's lyric deals with the same kind of things heard in Lennon's
"Help!" and "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" -- loss
of innocence,
childhood, and mostly, no way back home.

Whatever the case, it's a stunning, quite original song.

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