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Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Sette pistole per i MacGregor
1966 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Franco Giraldi
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
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I've made a public playlist [1] on Spotify with the pairs of songs from that article, plus a bonus pair that wasn't covered in the article.
The odd numbers songs are the newer songs, with each of those immediately followed by the song it was accused of infringing.
I was also going to include a pair where there was no copyright dispute as far as I know and I'm not sure why because the newer song sure sounds like it has the same chord progressions, melody, structure, and arrangement, but Spotify only has the newer song.
YouTube has them both so here they are there:
Newer song [2]: "Jolly Roger" by Adam and the Ants from 1980.
Older song [3]: "The March of the MacGregors" by Ennio Morricone for the 1966 movie "Seven Guns for the MacGregors".
[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5g9P8Xn9s3SGR19ilOg6Lq?si=797e53d8bfd34cad
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4n-oo32Jg
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JQ1JTsJ4k
Just listening to both songs once, I didn't notice anything close.
What I'm curious about are the cases where it is extremely obvious that one song is based on another, and no one says anything.
Case in point: "Jolly Roger" by Adam and the Ants [1], from 1980. This is extremely similar to "The March of the MacGregors" by Ennio Morricone, from the 1966 film "Seven Guns for the MacGregors" [2].
It's not only the same melody, "Jolly Roger" is also largely the same arrangement.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc_-vSIy3fY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JQ1JTsJ4k