To: Claud
But this is a quotation of a fragment of melody that has come to be recognized as quintessentially Australian—it’s not a ripoff of a whole song or the melodic/harmonic structure thereof. Heck, Mozart was doing it back in the day.Hell, Jimi Hendrix quoted "Strangers in the Night" at his famous Monterey Pop Festival performance of Wild Thing (see 2:48 here). Musicians do it all the time. As long as it's not the central theme of the song, it's not only not a big deal, it's generally considered quite a compliment.
22 posted on
02/05/2010 11:10:50 AM PST by
Terabitten
(Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
To: Terabitten
The man who owned publishing rights on Maybelline (Chuck Berry's song) sued John Lennon when the Beatles' released Come Together (for the line "here come ol' flat top, he come moving up slowly...").
The result was a settlement by which John Lennon would record a whole album of cover songs (for which the same man owned publishing rights).
27 posted on
02/05/2010 12:27:39 PM PST by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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