Subject: RE: Peter Kennedy First to Spot Beatles
From:
GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 24 Jun 11 - 08:23 AM
Also (it is alleged) Kennedy claimed to have copyright over the phrase 'Yellow Submarine' after having 'collected it' from grafitti on a toilet wall in the Cecil Sharp House following one of the infamous EFDSS curry nights, circa 1965, and so copped a slice of the royalty of the 1966 hit song, which though sung by Ringo is a L&M composition also supposed to be inspired by the same grafitti at CSH, only, it seems, Kennedy got there first.
The wrangle continues to this day, which is why Liverpool's sight-seeing amphibian tourist attractions are called Yellow Duckmarines to avoid paying royalty to the Kennedy estate. I have in my keeping a rare press review edition of Kennedy's encyclopedic Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland which features a folk-processed traditional variant of Yellow Submarine he claims to have collected from the singing of an unnamed source-singer, a former sailor in the US Navy, in Yarmouth in 1967.
In the old sea town, where I was born,
There I grew to sail the sea,
And I spent much of my life,
In the hunting of submarines,
Oh we'd sail out in the sun,
Where the sea was e're so green,
But there sailed beneath the waves,
The dreaded yellow submarines,
Why it was pulled from the official edition I can't possibly say, perhaps on grounds of Political Correctness, or maybe as American Folk Song Kennedy felt it had no place therein.
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sj
