OFF: Ballroom Blitz

Tim ma-paharper at IOPENER.NET
Mon Aug 13 19:14:59 EDT 2001


That's agnetha faltskog-one of the `a's in abba
tim
Eric Siegerman wrote:
 >
 > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:55:14PM -0400, Doug Pearson wrote:
 > > It's probably a good time, then, to mention that if you find a song
 > > called "Stairway to the Stars", it might also be by the Sweet (no relation
 > > to the BOC song
 >
 > It should be noted that Chet Baker recorded a jazz album called
 > "Stairway to the Stars" in 1965 -- predating both BOC and Sweet :-/
 > (Damn, I love Google -- you never know what you'll turn up...)
 >
 > > And (to tie in with
 > > that other thread again) don't forget that their Chinn/Chapman-penned
 > > hit "Blockbuster" WAS lifted directly from one of the other big glam hits
 > > of the day (by a guy who lifted every stage of HIS career from other
 > > artists, so plagarism isn't a fair accusation here).
 >
 > Do tell!  I love that song -- and the rest of the Ch**2 stuff, up
 > until that Aguetha Faltskog (sp?) album kind of blew it for me.
 >
 > --
 >
 > |  | /\
 > |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
 > |  |  /
 > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
 > necessarily a good idea.
 > - RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)



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