Listen to these two songs:
Το άγαλμα - 1969
Στίχοι: Λευτέρης Παπαδόπουλος
Μουσική: Μίμης Πλέσσας
http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?in...s&song_id=1425
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_AY9Nx1b4 (Πουλόπουλος)
Ήρθαν τόσα βάσανα - 1972
Στίχοι: Άκος Δασκαλόπουλος
Μουσική: Μίμης Πλέσσας
http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?in...&song_id=11752
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjTcsKBR5sI (Πουλόπουλος)
They're not the same, of course, but they're very similar in certain respects - it's almost like the later song "echoes" certain elements of the melody and accompaniment in the earlier song.
So I wonder whether Πλέσσας wrote Ήρθαν τόσα βάσανα for Πουλόπουλος in order to see if they could recreate their original success with Το άγαλμα.
What do you think? Do you think Πλέσσας deliberately wrote Ήρθαν τόσα βάσανα to sound similar to Το άγαλμα ?
Or did it just turn out that way because the same composer will often write the same way in different songs?