![]() ![]() Then on '.poleon did', the chords are A and G but the bass descends through C# and B. So after 'My my, at.' the chord changes from D to E7 but the bass carries on playing D. See My Baby Jive was pop perfection.Īlthough Waterloo's chorus is unashamedly bog-standard, the verse is relatively interesting because it makes extensive use of inverted chords. ![]() To my ears, Waterloo owes much more to Wizzard than the Temptations Foundations. One musical similarity between the two, also exhibited in See My Baby Jive, is the repeated V after 'ever more' in Waterloo, which appears at both start and end of the Buttercup chorus, and after the three wo-ohs in the chorus of See My Baby Jive. This is all very routine though, nowhere near plagiarism. If you listen to the Waterloo chorus and try to block out the lead melody line, you can hear the Build Me Up melody snippet (sung as Wa - terloo of course!) as the harmony below the lead. When they sing 'Build - me up', the two notes (fourth resolving to third) harmonise with the two notes (sixth resolving to fifth) of 'Wa - terloo'. (Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music - Routledge) It's no surprise that ABBA's early music tends to sound like a deliberate review of what 1960s music had, and I also read Stikkan Anderson tend to buy songs in order to make Swedish hits and make a name for himself and Polar Music before ABBA was formed. The swung notes of "ti, la-la" may be a bit too simple to be merited as a copyrighted melody in my opinion because it's not nearly as complex enough or creative. switching to V-I-V, and then starting the refrain again, discounting the ascending quasi-bluesy diatonic bassline. That Foundations song sounds rather a bit like Baby Love by the Supremes rather than Waterloo, phrasing wise - I suppose I may view it a bit differently because from what I'm picking up there's an I-III-IV-V chord progression in C major for Foundations whereas ABBA's chorus is a rather straight forward I-IV in D major. There are other claims where Wizzard's See My Baby Jive had a role in inspiring Benny and Björn to make Waterloo, but whichever claim is correct is up to them. The band's energy shines through, right from their early Bayswater days in London, when they lived in and ran the Butterfly Club, playing, cooking and cleaning from dusk to dawn.Īs with all greta Motown songs, the style is uplifting, even though their is heartbreak behind it, and like the life of the buttercup, love is fleeting.I had never heard the claim before, regarding a Tchaikovsky concerto being plagiarised for an ABBA song. The Foundations, a whole decade before The Specials, were that admirable cosmopolitan rich mix of British culture, featuring players of West Indian, white British and Sri Lankan origin, and a range of ages from 18-year-old London-born drummer Tim Harris, to 38-year-old Jamaican saxophonist Mike Elliott. Here we have two of their biggest of four hits, written by Tony Macaulay with Mike d'Abo (Buttercup, 1968), with later lead vocalist Colin Young, and their earlier hit in 1967 written by Macaulay and John MacLeod, fronted by Clem Curtis, who left before Young replaced him. After yesterday's Les Fleur by Minnie Riperton, we turned to another uplifting flower song by the British ethnic-mix Motown-style band who were active between 19. ![]()
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