Mama (Live) by B.J. Thomas and Saint Behind the Glass by Los Lobos: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 11%, unrelated.

11%Unrelated

Harmony	54%
Melody	33%
Sound	2%
Rhythm	71%

These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.

	Mama (Live)	Saint Behind the Glass
Artist	B.J. Thomas	Los Lobos
Key	A Major	G Major
Tempo	95 BPM	102 BPM
Most alike passage	2:17–2:28	2:59–3:09

Track B moved up 2 semitones (G Major to A Major)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.76; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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Mama (Live) by B.J. Thomas and Saint Behind the Glass by Los Lobos: how alike are they?

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