[78-L] Lenny

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Changing note values a bit, the first line of "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is identical to the first line of the hymn "Rock of Ages".  Is that plagerism?

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>Dozens and dozens more - too lazy to look up what they were adapted from,
>but here are titles:
>
>MY REVERIE - Debussy
>THE LAMP IS LOW - Ravel
>MY FANTASY (1940)/TWILIGHT (1950)/STRANGER IN PARADISE (1953)- all adapted
>from the same Borodin melody
>BAUBLES, BANGLES & BEADS - Borodin
>AND THIS IS MY BELOVED - Borodin
>STORY OF A STARRY NIGHT - Tchaikovsky
>FULL MOON AND EMPTY ARMS - Rachmaninoff
>TILL THE END OF TIME - Chopin
>IF YOU ARE BUT A DREAM - Rubenstein
>STRANDE MUSIC = Grieg
>HOT DIGGETY - Chabrier
>I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS - Chopin
>
>And on and on.....
>
>Dave Weiner
>
>On 7/9/13 4:15 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>Also HERE COMES THE NIGHT..like The Things I Love, adapted from
>>Tchaikovsky's 
>>"Melodie". The ASCAP ban was partly responsible for the adaptations from
>>the 
>>classics, but they'd existed well before that.
>>
>>dl
>>
>>On 7/9/2013 4:11 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>>> Here's a short list I compiled years ago.  I know nothing about
>>>classical music.  Corrections appreciated.
>>>
>>> ON THE ISLE OF MAY - Connee Boswell - from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet
>>>in D Major Andante Cantabile Movement
>>> MOON LOVE - Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony,
>>>2nd Movement
>>> OUR LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly - from Tchaikovsky's Romeo&
>>>Juliette
>>> THE THINGS I LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly or Jan Savitt or Gene
>>>Krupa - from Tchaikovsky's Melody Opus 42 #3
>>> TONIGHT WE LOVE - Freddy Martin&  Clyde Rogers - from Tchaikovsky's
>>>Piano Concerto in B Flat
>>> RayK
>>>>
>>>>
>>> From: Dan Van Landingham
>>> Your discussion on borrowed-stolen music themes reminds me of a 1941
>>> Bluebird Jan Savitt 78 I have on a 33 called "The Things I Love" with a
>>> vocal by Allan DeWitt.I first heard it in the late '70s and didn't give
>>>it
>>> much thought until I heard the melody in a string quartet piece years
>>> later.I believe it was by Tschaikovsky.I've heard several Tschaikovsky
>>> themes show up in so called "pop music" recordings of the '40s.I have
>>>bad
>>> version of Tschaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fair" by Larry
>>>Clinton
>>> done under the title of "Bounce of the Candy Fairy".I can't remember the
>>> title of the other side,but it was a good tune and if it weren't for
>>>that,I
>>> would have broken the record just out of respect for Tschaik-
>>> kovsky.Les Brown's "Everybody's Making Money But Tschaikowsky" was
>>>another
>>> matter:I saw that one by Spike Jones and his City Slickers in a junk
>>>store
>>> but never bought it.I can't remember if it was on Victor or
>>>Bluebird.There
>>> was a nice,dancable version of his "Pathetique" symphony I had on
>>>OKeh,but I
>>> don't remember if it was Les Brown or from other band like Frankie
>>> Masters.It was a nice record.I once tried to write a set of lyrics to
>>> it:they went something like,"Forever,I will give my love to
>>>you...."That was
>>> some 30+ years ago for a woman I was madly in lust over.She was HOT.
>>>
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