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Coincidence or Copy?

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We are always tought to fight against piracy, learnt about intellectual property rights, patents, copyrights, trademarks, plagiarism….and all sorts of legal stuff. But hey, before that, let’s listen to a smooth and relaxing song:


Mamula Moon by Felix Mendelssohn and His Hawaiian Serenaders
back in the 1940s

Did that sound so familiar to you? If it does, you’re a Malaysian. My first expression when I get to know this “Hawaiian-like” music, I went WTF?!

If you still don’t get what I mean, click here to listen.
Read THIS for extra information.

Coincidence or copy?
What do you think?

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  • LcF says:
    July 2, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    ya, it has been discovered last year. It is too “conincidence” :)

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  • Apple says:
    July 2, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    haha…what a “coincidence”…but still, I think the hawaiian-style song quite smoothing.

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  • Mann Mann says:
    July 3, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    fatimaria wrote on May 5 in http://cmorbutt.multiply.com/journal/item/32

    I have this record too 78 rpm which I played endlessly as a child in the late 70′s. My Dad a serving officer of the R.I.N. (Royal Indian Navy) , most probably picked it up in Singapore/ Malaysia or Indonesia during the WW 2. He was commissioned in 1942 , so the record is at least that old.

    Another thing, because the Music was performed by the Hawaiian Serenader’s, doesn’t necessarily mean that the music has any connection with Hawaii. I believe the music has its roots in Malaysia , and was modified by local (colonial influenced ) Bands . These military / police bands though usually led by Englishmen had a large component of Goan / East Indian / Ceylonese / Chinese and Malay performers whose western musical taste and ability far surpassed those of their tone deaf masters.

    As with everything else the west takes credit for all the pretty things on mother earth. The Terang Bulan is now being attributed to some 19th century French man……what will they think of next….the Taj Mahal built to the engineering designs of British Engineers perhaps?

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