The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56235   Message #880616
Posted By: curmudgeon
02-Feb-03 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: Song Ownership-Tommy Makem
Subject: RE: Song Ownership-Tommy Makem
Many years back, Sing Out, in its review of the Clancy Bros/Tommy Makem Songbook, severly called them to task about copyrighting trad material, pointing out that their "arrangement" of South Australia was not only note for note, word for word, the version sung by A.L. Lloyd, but was also in the same key.