Originally Posted by: Pat OlsonOn some of the songs I've written, the song was so dang familiar to me, that I worried that I may have subconsciously stole it from somewhere. So I used to call everyone I knew to play it for them - probably drove my friends and family NUTS. I totally relate to this thread.....

Decades ago while in college the opposite happened to me. A popular group had a hit which had several bars of melody that was the same as a song I had written a couple months before. When I first heard the other song on the radio I went to the guitar and played mine..."Well, I'll be..." I was self-amused and just a little smug. Of course, there was no question of plagiarism or 'stolen from'...it was a heck of a coincidence.

I kinda got a kick from it. ;)