![]() ![]() It may not seem to make much difference but it does ratchet the catchiness up a notch. 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. The Foundations originally released Build Me Up Buttercup written by Mike dAbo and Tony Macaulay and The Foundations released it on the single Build Me up. 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) Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968, and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. (Build me up) Buttercup baby, just to let me down (Let me down) And mess me around and then worst of all (Worst of all) You never call baby when you say you. C E7 Why do you fill me up Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all you never come, baby F G When you say you. 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. 'Build Me Up Buttercup' is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by the Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. 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. I had never heard the claim before, regarding a Tchaikovsky concerto being plagiarised for an ABBA song. ![]()
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