Damn this isn't even subtle. Which came out first?
Daisy Jane came out in the 70s. I’m pretty sure Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were just big fans of the band “America”. They sampled them years later.
. The
Janet Jackson track "
Let's Wait Awhile" from her 1986 album
Control has been described as "bear[ing] striking similarities" to "Daisy Jane".
[6]Reportedly on hearing "Let's Wait Awhile" on a car radio in 1987 - the track then being a current single - the road manager for the group America pulled over at a phone booth to alert Gerry Beckley to the evident debt of Jackson's track to Beckley's composition: eventually Beckley reached an out-of-court settlement with Jackson and her co-writers
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis thus preempting litigation for
plagiarism.
[7] (The 2001 Janet Jackson album
All for You featured the track "
Someone to Call My Lover" which overtly sampled the America hit "
Ventura Highway" whose composer
Dewey Bunnell received a co-write credit for Jackson's song.)
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