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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Smolian" <[log in to unmask]> > Add to the list "Gloria" which is ripped from the movement of the same name > in Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis." > Also, add Robert Johnson (the blues hero)...who ripped off BOTH sides of Kokomo Arnold's blues hit of 1934! "Old Original Kokomo Blues" (itself taken from Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell) became "Sweet Home Chicago" after a (very) few alterations of the lyrics...and the other side was "Milk Cow Blues" (also recorded by Johnson). In fact, Johnson's "From Four Till Late" is simply a remake of the Tin Pan Alley blues, "Four O'Clock Blues!" Steven C. Barr