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Thread #58681   Message #1269365
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Ross
11-Sep-04 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Say You Love Me / I've Waited As Long ...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: waiting for you to say you love me?
Re-I've waited as long as I can.   Numerous Irish and Scottish acts have been recording this song as "Say You Love Me" and spuriously claiming it as trad. Maybe its worth somebody recording the history of this Hylo Brown song.   There have been a few hit versions in Ireland when the song was suddenly re-discovered and recorded in different styles by Country and easy artistes. Somewhere along the line somebody didn't pay any attention to the real title of the song or its copyright and called it 'say you love me'. The publishers are American - and obviously will not know what has gone on. The organisations who administer royalty payments and claims have a problem, as there are numerous songs already called 'say you love me'.   So poor Hylo Brown has been losing out on his song.   If it had stayed correctly ttitled as 'I've waited as long as I can', it wouldn't be so much of a problem - but now its gone out falsely titled as Trad. and under a common title, it's snowballed.   Is Hylo Brown still alive? If not his relatives still deserve the royalties he has been unintentionally done out of!