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Thread #47949 Message #910797
Posted By: ard mhacha
15-Mar-03 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Abdul Abulbul Amir (Percy French)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR
I was listening to a programme on RTE Radio this morning on the life of Irish Tenor Brendan O`Dowda.
O`Dowda was a great interpeter of Percy French`s songs, and he stated that he had gone to the London Music Publishers who had all of those years ago pilfered the song.
O`Dowda stated, he produced proof that Percy French had indeed written the song while a student at Trinty College in Dublin,
The Music Company obliged O`Dowda and credited French with the song.
Percy French`s daughters had told O`Dowda that their father in those early days was ignorant of copywrite and after Abdul Abulbul Ameer was stolen, he never made the same mistake again. Ard Mhacha.