The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13381   Message #109971
Posted By: Sandy Paton
31-Aug-99 - 01:44 AM
Thread Name: Is Lyric Creep a Sin?
Subject: RE: Is Lyric Creep a Sin?
Gordon Bok almost always suggested that we include a disclaimer in the booklets that accompanied his records. Something to the effect of: "The words printed here are the ones I intended to sing. If they differ from those that are sung here, use the ones in the booklet."

Boy! Ask Rick how I can inadvertently change a song! I got a call from him after he had recorded a song he learned from me, a song by a well-known, living songmaker that I had learned (or thought I had learned) from one of the sopngmaker's very early recordings. Rick found the song in a songbook and tells me he wouldn't have recognized it! I knew that I had added one verse to give the song a locale, but I thought I was doing the rest of it pretty much the way I first heard it. Wrong! So when Rick gets sued for abusing the composer's artistry, I'm probably gonna have to make a bloody confession to get poor Rick off of the hook!

Anybody know how to bake a file into a cake?

Sandy (sweatin' it out)