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Love Is a Wonderful Thing by The Isley Brothers and Love Is a Wonderful Thing by Michael Bolton: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 8%, unrelated.

8%Unrelated
Harmony30%
Melody44%
Sound67%
Rhythm0%

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

Love Is a Wonderful ThingLove Is a Wonderful Thing
ArtistThe Isley BrothersMichael Bolton
KeyF MajorD Major
Tempo167 BPM125 BPM
Most alike passage0:01–0:102:51–3:00

Track B moved up 3 semitones (D Major to F Major)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is no closer than chance (distance 2.48; 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).

Why this pair

This is a pair from a copyright dispute that was decided or settled. Public background: melody / song; Jury 1994 ($5.4M); 9th Cir. affirmed 2000 (Three Boys Music v. Bolton). Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.

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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