On 24/11/2022 03:11, Tanya Glenn wrote:   
   > On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 2:00:47 p.m. UTC-4, gfr...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> Ballad of Geraldine melody is identical to Dylan's Girl From the North   
   Country. Dylan did inform Donovan that he did indeed compose the melody. This   
   was contrary to Donovan's belief that it was traditional. (might be a scene in   
   the film, 'Don't Look    
   Back'   
   >> On Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Ed Lewandowski wrote:   
   >>> I'm listening to The Very Best of Donovan and the track currently   
   >>> playing is called "Ramblin' Boy" which sounds very much like   
   >>> Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". Actually, the tune is identical? There   
   >>> is absolutley no information, other than the title of the song with   
   >>> this CD. Can anybody fill in the blanks? Who wrote it? When? etc.   
   >>>   
   >>> I was just about to post this a track titled "Ballad of   
   >>> Geraldine" came on. This one sounds identical to Dylan's "Boots   
   >>> of Spanish Leather". Again, can anyone supply more info? Did   
   >>> Dylan's songs come first? Is Donovan singing traditional songs?   
   >>> What's the story?   
   >>>   
   >>> TIA - Ed.   
   > Tom Paxtons Rambling boy sounds a lot like Dylans dont think twice ...   
   especially the guitar... interesting i think because music used to be more   
   about the music then than the artist... they were just all inspired by each   
   and writing without a thought    
   to how similar it may be and certainly not getting upset about it like things   
   are now because thats what it was inspiration. I miss something I never even   
   had the pleasure of knowing. Something it seems none of our youth will ever   
   know when you watch the    
   videos now.... MUSIC. The message and the music bought and sold and bought   
   again.   
      
   Hmm, interesting. I admit the melodies are similar but the chord   
   sequence is enormously different.   
   I think that, since there are only eleven notes in an octave, then the   
   number of possibilities for completely new tunes is probably nil by now.   
   Therefore it is inevitable that similarities will occur.   
   All that can be creatively changed is a new arrangement of those 12   
   notes (and occasionally their octaves), the instruments you play them on   
     - and the words of course :-)   
      
   Chris D   
      
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