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Your Mother Should Know

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
1 hour ago
1 min read

The Gershwin estate was riding me... Paul's archivists gave me the answer: it's like Silicon Valley! Paul came up with the song, but Ira and the estate thought it was familiar, and found a published tune from Primrose that was remarkably similar for the opening few bars. Turned out it was an interpolation. Nobody knows who wrote it, but Paul won in court.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
an hour ago

This was during the era where Paul began to get really into old songs, much like when they pinged me about Fry Up The Eggman! Best compliment of the whole saga was when they said that the whole song is the type of thing that the Gershwins would have written, but that pissed them off as Jews that believe in Israel as a state.

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