Gordon Lightfoot Forums - View Single Post - two most similar songs, and why you feel they are similar

talbot10 · 09-06-2003, 09:43 AM

I"n April of 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against Michael Masser, alleging that Masser's song "The Greatest Love of All" (recorded by Whitney Houston) stole twenty-four bars from Lightfoot's 1969 hit "If You Could Read My Mind"

I think these things are likely accidents.
That does not mean you could still not sue someone of course but Gord has inadvertantly done it too in my opinion. Listen to the opening bars of "Spanish Moss". and tell me that is not Buddy Holly's "it's raining in my heart". It is the same meloday and chord progression.

Bill Hall

09-06-2003, 09:43 AM	#28
talbot10 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Eastchester, New York, USA Posts: 446	I"n April of 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against Michael Masser, alleging that Masser's song "The Greatest Love of All" (recorded by Whitney Houston) stole twenty-four bars from Lightfoot's 1969 hit "If You Could Read My Mind" I think these things are likely accidents. That does not mean you could still not sue someone of course but Gord has inadvertantly done it too in my opinion. Listen to the opening bars of "Spanish Moss". and tell me that is not Buddy Holly's "it's raining in my heart". It is the same meloday and chord progression. Bill Hall