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Thread #33126 Message #4063033
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Jul-20 - 03:45 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Fishermen Three/Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Subject: RE: Origins: Fishermen Three/Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
MG, I'm going to move you over here, where this has been discussed quite a bit. As stated above and in the Wikipedia article, the text is a poem by Eugene Field, published in 1889 - so it is well into public domain. There have been a number of melodies for the song, but the one that most of us know is the one written in 1964 by Lucy Simon of the Simon Sisters, who sang the song with her more-famous sister Carly Simon. The father of the Simon Sisters was the Simon of Simon & Schuster publishing. You can license the song for recording through the Harry Fox Agency at http://www.songfile.com/, It's quite easy to get a license, and it costs about 8 cents a copy (maybe a penny more). Let me know if you need help with licensing.