[78-L] Composers who steal [FWD]

[Bud Black]

Which brings back the old story of the composer(s) of "Hello Dolly" stealing
a few bars from the 1947 Mack David song "Sunflower."  How much of this
story is true?

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Mike Harkin
Date: 06/08/09 02:06:37
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Composers who steal [FWD]
 
 
 
--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
 
> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Composers who steal
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 10:36 PM
> There are plenty of them,  and
> almost all of them have done so at one time
> or another,  intentionally or not.
>
 
> I guess the lesson is if you want to steal from a composer
> why not steal
> from yourself...you won't get sued that way.
 
Handel did it all the time!
 
Mike in Plovdiv
>
>
> Taylor
>
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