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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 12, 2020 15:24:13 GMT -5
And crediting the original artist?? Created a 60's Oldies Radio station and a lot of the tunes are clearly covers. Drifters, Supremes, The Tokens...NOT.
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Jan 12, 2020 18:53:19 GMT -5
I have noticed that if I "thumbs up" a song then I may get other people's versions of that song down the road--and I'm fine with that as sometimes I enjoy the cover---- but I'm not sure what you mean by "crediting the original artist" as everything has been clearly labeled as far as I can tell.
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Post by HenryJ on Jan 12, 2020 18:55:34 GMT -5
Speculation on my part...
Somebody got custody of the name (Drifters, Coasters, Platters, Tokens, whoever),probably one of the group members, perhaps their manager, and went into a modern recording studio with the new group, new lead singer, etc. and remade the records with higher fidelity sound, higher signal-to-noise ratio, less distortion, with oodles of tracks. Of course it will not really sound like the original. On another thread someone mentions going to see the Yardbirds, but they only had the original drummer, with no one else having played on their records. And they are getting to use the name of the original group.
Just speculation on my part.
I think there should be a part of the law that specializes in governing the music entertainment business. Too many plagiarism lawsuits, too many groups getting the use the names of original groups, etc. Just my opinion. Would love to hear lawyer Fitzgerald's opinion on this.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 12, 2020 19:34:01 GMT -5
Yeah, a for instance is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The display on my TV showed the title + The Tokens. It was not. It was a cover version that was carefully but clearly produced to sound alike. "Under The Boardwalk" was even more blatantly a cover with a peculiar percussion set.
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Post by 6l6 on Jan 12, 2020 21:02:00 GMT -5
As always, follow the money.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 12, 2020 23:43:03 GMT -5
They do the same thing on Music Match (the TV thing with different channels for various generes of music). The big-band and jazz channels play all the standards, but rarely by the bands/singers that made the tune a hit.
It's usually some b-lister or somebody I've never heard of.
Yeah, it is about the money. It's half price! They pay a penny to play a tune instead of two.
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Post by tahitijack on Jan 14, 2020 11:49:05 GMT -5
I enjoy hearing alternative versions of songs. James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and Rod Stewart have done well by doing this. Sometimes I hear a different approach to music I can use. We play Lionel Richie's song Stuck on You but use the Hawaiian group Ekolu's cover version...very different and it gets a good audience reaction.
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