This is for those of you, if any, who might be "quotation freaks" ... Listening to George Gershwin's piano concerto in F major today, at several points I was struck by the similarity of one particular passage to a part of the theme music to the old Perry Mason TV series. Has anyone noticed this, and if so, how striking do you consider the similarity? The duration of the "quote" is quite short (on the order of a few seconds), so it could be a coincidence, but it made me take notice several times. The portion in the TV series music is near the end of it, a sort of bridge. The part I am talking about lasts about 6 seconds; it is here: http://204.196.65.190/~rmabry/music/perry-gershwin.mp3 (I snipped it from a file I found a file on the web here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jsimko/hotlinks.htm) The corresponding part in the Gershwin starts at about 5:40 into the third movement on this Kathryn Selby performance, available on Naxos (8.550295 GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto) and lasts about 20 seconds. If you can play files from Naxos, go here and slide the seek bar to 5:40 (aint the web cool?): http://theatre.hnh.com/naxosmusicstation/msaudio/asx/createasx.asp?L_code=2714 11_03&item_code=8.550295 (This part is also at around 3:25 of the 3rd movement on a disk I have of Oscar Levant playing Gershwin. Yes, I know, I have too much time on my hands.) Of course, the Gershwin precedes the Perry Mason music: the former was written in 1925; the latter by Fred Steiner, in 1957, titled "Park Avenue Beat". Actually, while listening to the concerto, I was even more reminded of Gershwin by Gershwin --- there were numerous allusions (or illusions) to Rhaposdy in Blue (1924), but this isn't surprising. Rick Mabry Shreveport, LA