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"O Mar" inspiration for "La Mer" ?????

jojo

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jojo @ 2013-04-16 16:55:49 UTC

On the next site it says that Dorival Caymmi's "O Mar", which he recorded in 1940, could very well be the inspiration for Charles Trenet's "La Mer" (1946).




Caymmi's 1954 version of "O Mar" was very close in arrangement with John Hartford's "Gentle on my Mind".


Listen (after 1 minute and 15 seconds) in the next Youtube.




http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Investigations/O_Mar.htm


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Bastien

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Bastien @ 2013-04-16 20:08:35 UTC

When he sings "O Mar" it sounds indeed like "La mer", but do you hear other resemblances apart from those 2 words?

jojo

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jojo @ 2013-04-17 05:42:44 UTC

No , Bastien I don't hear other resemblances than those two words,

but the resemblance with "Gentle on my mind" is much clearer to me and is more than 2 notes.


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