Post by Jim on May 12, 2020 9:00:15 GMT -5
A video post by Sleigh reminded me that titles of songs are not subject to copyright.
He did a great version of Cindy Lauper's Time After Time. Now I'd never heard this song before, but my Mom used to sing the old Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne Time After Time from 1946.
There are many titles that are associated with two or more songs.
At my Auntie Vera's 100th birthday party, she asked the pianoplayer to play the song that my Uncle George used to sing to her when they were courting decades ago, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? The piano player played and sang the Van Morrison song Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Vera bent over and whispered to Maggie, my darlin' lovely wife, "That's a very pretty song, but it's not the one George used to sing to me."
The next day, Maggie grabbed a guitar and we headed over to Vera's place and sang her the Scotty Moore song, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Vera said, "That's the one George sang!"
There's also Stairway to Heaven by Neil Sedaka in 1960 and by Led Zeppelin in 1971.
The Four Seasons version of Big Girls Don't Cry is an entirely different song than Fergie's version.
Todd Snider often introduces his song B, Double E, Double R,U,N, Beer Run by saying, "I wrote this song, then, a couple of years later Garth Brooks wrote it again."
It seems the shorter and less complicated the title, the more likely that there will be another song with the same title. I wonder how many songs are called My Girl.
He did a great version of Cindy Lauper's Time After Time. Now I'd never heard this song before, but my Mom used to sing the old Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne Time After Time from 1946.
There are many titles that are associated with two or more songs.
At my Auntie Vera's 100th birthday party, she asked the pianoplayer to play the song that my Uncle George used to sing to her when they were courting decades ago, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? The piano player played and sang the Van Morrison song Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Vera bent over and whispered to Maggie, my darlin' lovely wife, "That's a very pretty song, but it's not the one George used to sing to me."
The next day, Maggie grabbed a guitar and we headed over to Vera's place and sang her the Scotty Moore song, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Vera said, "That's the one George sang!"
There's also Stairway to Heaven by Neil Sedaka in 1960 and by Led Zeppelin in 1971.
The Four Seasons version of Big Girls Don't Cry is an entirely different song than Fergie's version.
Todd Snider often introduces his song B, Double E, Double R,U,N, Beer Run by saying, "I wrote this song, then, a couple of years later Garth Brooks wrote it again."
It seems the shorter and less complicated the title, the more likely that there will be another song with the same title. I wonder how many songs are called My Girl.
