Songs used for other than original purpose.

Subject: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:20 PM

Detailed HERE, Songs For Young And Old, is a case where a song has been used for propaganda purposes.

What are you views on this and are there other examples of songs and tunes, being used like this, for other than their original purpose?

Subject: RE: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: SeanM
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:27 PM

Do the large quantity of traditional folk songs that appear in Disney movies count? Bastard King of England in Robin Hood, Orange and the Green in Lady & the Tramp, etc. etc...

M

Subject: RE: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: Duane D.
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 09:20 PM

What about all the popular music with altered words being used as vehicles of commercial advertising?

Subject: RE: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jul 99 - 12:25 AM

About a year ago I wiped my ass on the sheet music to "Purple Rain"......it was a bit harsh and didn't get the job done too well. Does this count?

catspaw

Subject: RE: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: gargoyle
Date: 16 Jul 99 - 12:28 AM

Toss in the Apple/Macintosh folk....

John Lennon must be turning in his grave that he has become aligned with a mega/meglo/maniac corporation

Subject: RE: Songs used for other than original purpose.
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 16 Jul 99 - 12:36 AM

Sham, I find it distressing, all right--it's an anti-war song, of course. And of course yesterday's terrorists are today's heroes: the KLA, on the US list of terrorist organizations and major supplier of illegal drugs to Europe.

The use in movies doesn't bother me--I think the songs are generally treated with respect and have a narrative purpose: that is, of course, if the film makers are paying the appropriate royalties.

I was also kind of bugged by the Statue of Liberty stepping of her pedestal and wading in the channel to look at a car--to the tune of "Simple Gifts."

--seed