There is a video I’ve seen before on Youtube when I can go out and get high speed access. The song is Will the Circle Be Unbroken. It’s a live video with NGDB, Chet Atkins, Roger Mcguinn, Mark Oconner, Johnny Cash,Roy Acuff, Michael Martin Murphy, Earl Scruggs & Randy, Ricky Skaggs, Chris Hillman, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris and others on it singing it. I know it’s on the album by that name but they also taped the recording.
Will The Circle Be Unbroken is from 1907. It’s been declared to be in the public domain so no publishing rights remain on that old chestnut.
Good Morning To All is from 1893. The melody was ‘borrowed”/stolen for “Happy Birthday To You” and Warner Brothers claims that they still own publishing on Happy Birthday up until 2035 even though the birthday lyrics with that melody were published in 1912.
The way song publishing rights are handled is a crock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRJLkNqNXI&feature=player_embedded... Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol.2Johnny Cash
Roy Acuff
Bruce Hornsby
Paulette Carlson
Michael M. Murphey
Earl Scruggs
Roy Huskey Jr.
Randy Scruggs
Ricky Skaggs
Chris Hillman
Jimmy Martin
Levon Helm
Emmylou Harris
John Hiatt
Roger McGuinn
Bela Fleck
Sam Bush
Mark O’connor
Rosanne Cash
Jerry Douglas
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Chet Atkins
Marty Stuart
Vassar Clements