[78-L] Stolen tunes
Dave Burnham
burnhamd at rogers.com
Thu Jul 11 12:42:32 PDT 2013
Hey, dl, what was the Doris Day tune that you brought up a couple of years ago based on "Narcissus"?
db
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On 2013-07-11, at 2:59 PM, "Ray Kilcoyne" <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Speaking of Jolson, his ANNIVERSARY SONG was adapted from Sophocles Papas Ivanovici's "Danube Waves Waltz".
> RayK
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> From: David Lennick
> Before "Night", somebody recorded it as "Go" in the early 50s. Tony Martin sang
> O Sole Mio as "There's No Tomorrow", Elvis sang it as "It's Now or Never". Al
> Jolson's "Avalon" was adapted from "E Lucevan le Stelle", and Puccini
> apparently told his lawyer not to sue unless it was a hit. And the Crew Cuts
> made an entire lp of classical adaptations.
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> Dan Van Landingham wrote:
>> In the late fifties,the late Jackie Wilson recorded a couple of sides,"Night" which was based on "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" by Saint-Seans and "Alone At Last" based on the first movement of Tschaikowsky's Piano Concerto No.1.Some years later,an all girl group from the sixties recorded a number called "The Mountain of Our Love" based on "In The Hall of the Mountain King" by Grieg.That one dated from about 1964 or thereabouts;I don't remember the name of the group.Tschaikowsky was a gold mine for melodies that were used.I had that one 78 on OKeh that was based on the first movement of his Symphony No.6 in b minor but I can't remember the name of the tune nor the artist.I first thought it was Les Brown but I don't think it was.More like Frankie Masters.I haven't seen it in years.Then there was that Coleman Hawkins recording of "How Strange":I have it on CD but I also have it on a Bluebird 78 by Van Alexander on B-10189-B.According to the label,it was
>> based on a work by one B.A.Prozorovsky called "Kak Stranno" and was featured in an MGM movie called "Idiot's Delight".In the RCA/Reader's Digest set,"The Great Band Era",there is a 1941 recording of "The Things I Love" by Jan Savitt:it was based on a Tschaikowsky piece.Brown's recording of "Everybody's Making Money but Tschaikowsky" was timely:as I said,many of his melodies were used,especially during the ASCAP war against radio in the early forties.
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>> On Wed, 7/10/13, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Stolen tunes, was Re: Fwd: The results of your email commands
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 9:30 AM
>>
>> And "Life in the Finland Woods"
>> became "Mocking Bird Hill".
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>> dl
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>> On 7/10/2013 10:27 AM, Bud Black wrote:
>> > And the Cuckoo Waltz became The Louisiana Lullabye.
>> (byoo byay)
>> >
>> > Bud
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
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>> > On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:43 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>¬
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I don't know, but I wonder if Yablokoff also sued
>> Cole Porter? The second
>> >> strain of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" bears more
>> than a passing resemblance to
>> >> Yablokoff's song "Papirosen", the melody of which
>> HE took from a traditional
>> >> Yiddish melody.
>> >>
>> >> And the Lucky Strike "Be Happy, Go Lucky" jingle
>> can be heard almost note for
>> >> note in a Mozart Piano Concerto.
>> >>
>> >> dl
>> >>
>> >> On 7/9/2013 6:56 PM, Doug Pomeroy wrote:
>> >>> Why is this message being rejected, can anyone
>> tell me?
>> >>>
>> >>> I did not include (or even exclude!) any
>> "non-text/plain MIME parts"
>> >>>
>> >>> What's this all about?????
>> >>>
>> >>> Begin forwarded message:
>> >>>
>> >>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> >>>> Subject: The results of your email
>> commands
>> >>>> Date: July 9, 2013 6:43:07 PM EDT
>> >>>> To: audiofixer at verizon.net
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The results of your email command are
>> provided below. Attached is your
>> >>>> original message.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - Results:
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Ignoring
>> non-text/plain MIME parts
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>> >>>> - Unprocessed:
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ while listening to
>> the second movement of Dvorak's Piano Quintet=20
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ #2, Op. 81, that I
>> recognized what sounds like the source of Eden=20
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Ahbez's song
>> "Nature Boy".¬ Wikipedia adds this background:
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Yiddish theater
>> star/producer Herman Yablokoff, in Memoirs of the =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Yiddish Stage,
>> claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" was plagiarized =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ from his song
>> "Shvayg, Mayn Harts" ("Hush, My Heart"), which he wrote =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ for his play
>> Papirosn (1935).¬ Ahbez protested his innocence,
>> claiming =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ to have =93heard
>> the tune in the mist of the California mountains,=94 =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ but later agreed to
>> pay Yablokoff in an out-of-court settlement.
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Ah, those misty
>> California mountains!
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Doug Pomeroy
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Audio Restoration
>> and Mastering Services
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ 193 Baltic St
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Brooklyn, NY¬
>> 11201-6173
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ (718) 855-2650
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ audiofixer at verizon.net
>> >>>>> Message: 7
>> >>>>> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:47:10 -0400
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - Ignored:
>> >>>>> From: David Weiner<djwein at earthlink.net>
>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lenny
>> >>>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> >>>>> Message-ID:<CE01EB6D.3BBDE%djwein at earthlink.net>
>> >>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;¬ ¬
>> charset=3D"US-ASCII"
>> >>>>> =20
>> >>>>> Dozens and dozens more - too lazy to
>> look up what they were adapted =
>> >>>>¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ from,
>> >>>>> but here are titles:
>> >>>>> =20
>> >>>>> 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 =3D Grieg
>> >>>>> HOT DIGGETY - Chabrier
>> >>>>> I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS - Chopin
>> >>>>> =20
>> >>>>> And on and on.....
>> >>>>> =20
>> >>>>> Dave Weiner
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - Done.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> From: Doug Pomeroy<audiofixer at verizon.net>
>> >>>> Subject: Classical tunes used for pop
>> songs, was Re: [78-L] Lenny
>> >>>> Date: July 9, 2013 6:47:33 PM EDT
>> >>>> To: 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Maybe someone else has mentioned this, but
>> it's only recently,
>> >>>> while listening to the second movement of
>> Dvorak's Piano Quintet
>> >>>> #2, Op. 81, that I recognized what sounds
>> like the source of Eden
>> >>>> Ahbez's song "Nature Boy".¬ Wikipedia
>> adds this background:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yiddish theater star/producer Herman
>> Yablokoff, in Memoirs of the Yiddish Stage, claimed that the
>> melody to "Nature Boy" was plagiarized from his song
>> "Shvayg, Mayn Harts" ("Hush, My Heart"), which he wrote for
>> his play Papirosn (1935).¬ Ahbez protested his
>> innocence, claiming to have “heard the tune in the mist of
>> the California mountains,” but later agreed to pay
>> Yablokoff in an out-of-court settlement.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ah, those misty California mountains!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Doug Pomeroy
>> >>>> Audio Restoration and Mastering Services
>> >>>> 193 Baltic St
>> >>>> Brooklyn, NY¬ 11201-6173
>> >>>> (718) 855-2650
>> >>>> audiofixer at verizon.net
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Message: 7
>> >>>>> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:47:10 -0400
>> >>>>> From: David Weiner<djwein at earthlink.net>
>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lenny
>> >>>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> >>>>> Message-ID:<CE01EB6D.3BBDE%djwein at earthlink.net>
>> >>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;¬ ¬
>> charset="US-ASCII"
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 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
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Doug Pomeroy
>> >>> Audio Restoration and Mastering Services
>> >>> 193 Baltic St
>> >>> Brooklyn, NY¬ 11201-6173
>> >>> (718) 855-2650
>> >>> audiofixer at verizon.net
>> >>>
>> >>>
>>
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