"Keep the Curtains Closed Today"

Recently, I listened to The BBC Radio Sessions, and I noticed that the line "Could this be just the start of so many nights like this" in "The Look of Love" is similar to the line "Could this be just the start of coming home" in Colin Blunstone's later "Keep the Curtains Closed Today" (or "Let's Keep the Curtains Closed Today," as it's titled on The Ghost of You and Me).  When I lookt up the lyrics of "The Look of Love," though, all of the sources I referenced listed the line as "Let this be just the start of so many nights like this."  Initially, I suspected that this similarity indicated that Blunstone borrowed from Bacharach's song while writing his own, but because of the lyrical discrepancy with other versions, I'm not sure.  Still, I thought I'd note it here.

"Dance in the Smoke"

I was thinking about Argent's "Dance in the Smoke" yester-day, and I realized that the line "But on tiptoe, the flames would grow" generally ascends, giving senses of the height of standing "on tiptoe" and of the increase of "grow[ing]."  It's a bit difficult to distinguish the vocal parts, but I think the line is sung to the notes G A B C | C A B C.

Odessey and Oracle

A couple days ago, I wrote out the bass part for "Brief Candles."  When I lookt at it again yester-day, I realized that the rhythm in the bridge is similar to the rhythm of the bass part in the bridge of "Care of Cell 44."

Here's the bridge in "Brief Candles":

I'm not sure what key the song is in, but I put the notation in A major.

Here's the bridge in "Care of Cell 44" (excepting the last measure):

In the bridge of "Care of Cell 44," some of the notes are tied across the bar lines, but otherwise, the two parts have mostly the same rhythm.  This similarity lends a bit of cohesion to Odessey and Oracle even though "Care of Cell 44" was written by Rod Argent and "Brief Candles" was written by Chris White.