"I Can't Make up My Mind"

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I was just thinking about the bass part for "I Can't Make up My Mind" and wondering how it would look if notated (I've been getting better at notation and more interested in notation simultaneously; I think they're related).  Anyway, I thought the part during the verses would be two eighth notes and then two dotted quarter notes, so I tried this with my MIDI software, and it worked.

The two eighth notes and two dotted quarter notes looked familiar to me, and I realized that this is the same rhythm that's in the bass parts for "Tell Her No," "Whenever You're Ready," and "Time of the Season."  There are differences though: this isn't the 5th, 7th, octave phrase, and this doesn't start with an upbeat like those do:

The rhythm itself is the same but -  because it's moved over so that it starts on the downbeat and includes different notes - it doesn't really sound the same.

I should note that "I Can't Make up My Mind" is a Chris White song, but those other three ("Tell Her No," "Whenever You’re Ready," and "Time of the Season") are Rod Argent songs.