Comments on: Music Urban Legends Revealed #23

By: Cleftonefan

Cleftonefan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:52:11 +0000

Music Legends #23. Sorry. That’s just not correct. Pat Boone’s version of Tutti Frutti DID further scrub the Little Richard lyrics. Pat changed it to “I’ve been to the east” instead of “she rocks to the east she rocks to the west I’m the one trhat she loves best”. he also changed “she knows how to lobve me… to “she’s a real gone cookie…” Put the lyrics side by side. All the rocking and loving came out.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:17:19 +0000

You’d have a point if he was using music, but he’s not.

We’re talking about words, and the law protects a person from having another person take credit for using their published work. The use of “snippets” of text (in this case multiple exact and nearly-exact sentences) and taking credit for it is a slam-dunk case of plagiarism. The crime doesn’t suddenly change because the accused is a musician and used it in a song.

Heck, if Dylan used that much of another person’s lyrics, he’d be expected to give credit for that too, so your comparison to “8 bars” doesn’t work at all.

Again, I’m not saying he should have been charged, or we should shun him for it or anything. It turned out fine for everyone. But that doesn’t mean we should make excuses for the act itself, which is what the article does.

By: fredzilla

fredzilla — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:29:01 +0000

If he was lifting entire chapters of the book for the songs then, yes it would be a big deal. He’s using snippets. Which is no bigger deal than someone using 8 bars of a song in another song. It’s called SAMPLING.

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:04:14 +0000

As I understand it, the switch from “Next Week” to “Moment In The Sun” as Ed’s theme song was down to money. NBC/Universal (which is one of the companies that owns Ed) wanted a more cost-effective song from their own catalogue rather than pay for one that wasn’t, so “Moment in the Sun” was selected. However, the choice wasn’t popular and the decision was made to pony up for more money to use “Next Week” in following seasons (I think only on the US version– the international version still used “Moment”, much like how Las Vegas and House use different theme music for international versions because of the music publishing costs of using works by big-name acts)

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:01:36 +0000

You don’t think that a dozen instances of lifting someone’s near-exact words is “THAT big of a deal”? Seriously?

I know he’s an idol of yours, and I recognize that the situation turned out fine for everyone, but it’s plagiarism, pure and simple. People get kicked out of college all the time for less, and here’s Bob Dylan making money off it with no real backlash and people make excuses for him.

I’m not saying that he should be strung up for it or anything, but really, merely recognizing that he did something wrong (and potentially litigious) when he so obviously did wouldn’t be so awful.

By: mary warner

mary warner — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:12:49 +0000

Well, replying to the Crazed Spruce above, I often hear of St Augustine, Florida being the oldest city in North America, but I think that may just be people thinking solely of the US. However, I think it’s safe to say that some West Indian cities (maybe Santo Domingo) are certainly older than Quebec or St Johns, and Mexico City is absolutely older, having been founded by Aztecs well before Europeans arrived.