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09 Sep 12 - 05:59 PM (#3402176) Subject: can a traditional song become a pop song From: The Sandman This might seems like a waste of time, but I do not think it is as much a waste of time as can a pop song become traditional. so the silliest answers are also accepted, have fun |
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09 Sep 12 - 06:09 PM (#3402180) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Bernard Gaudete... |
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09 Sep 12 - 06:43 PM (#3402196) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Bert Goodnight Irene |
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09 Sep 12 - 10:24 PM (#3402256) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: dick greenhaus Of course. Look at the Weavers. Fairport Convention, etc. |
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09 Sep 12 - 11:56 PM (#3402269) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Larry The Radio Guy Most people I know who perform the House of The Rising Sun think of it as a rock/pop song hit by Eric Burden and The Animals. Anybody who sings one of the other variants is considered weird. |
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10 Sep 12 - 12:13 AM (#3402270) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: GUEST,Hip swinging cool cat folk daddy-o "can a traditional song become a pop song" No nay never, not if you lot of old traddie party pooping miseries keep on trying your best to prevent it ever happening... |
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10 Sep 12 - 12:57 AM (#3402272) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: GUEST,Albert Walkingstick There were lots of Bob Dylan songs covered by POP gruops. I would hardly call Gaudete a "Traditional" song - being ancient does not mean traditional |
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10 Sep 12 - 01:54 AM (#3402279) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Ernest Didn`t the Dubliners make the charts with "Seven drunken nights"? Of which there are variants like "Intoxicated rat" (Harry Smith Anthology)... And "Whiskey in the jar" done by Thin Lizzy and Metallica - oh no, that`s rock.... |
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10 Sep 12 - 02:43 AM (#3402284) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Ann N .... and the Seekers 'The Carnival is over' uses the tune for the Russian Folk song Stenka Rasin but not the original lyrics :) |
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10 Sep 12 - 02:49 AM (#3402285) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Spleen Cringe Trouble in Mind |
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10 Sep 12 - 04:25 AM (#3402305) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: theleveller Scarborough Fsir Whiskey in the Jar Blackwaterside. |
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10 Sep 12 - 05:26 AM (#3402318) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: MGM·Lion There were lots of Bob Dylan songs covered by POP gruops. I would hardly call Gaudete a "Traditional" song .,. But - ah - you would call a Dylan song so? Hmmmm.... ~M~ |
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10 Sep 12 - 06:34 AM (#3402336) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: zozimus Did the Beatles not start off with "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean?" Meanwhile, we all wait with anticipation for Jedward's new CD. That might answer the question. |
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10 Sep 12 - 07:50 AM (#3402365) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: The Sandman Trouble in Mind" is a slow eight-bar blues song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones. |
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10 Sep 12 - 10:25 AM (#3402423) Subject: RE: can a traditional song become a pop song From: Jim Carroll Strawberry Fair - Anthony Newley Rubber Dolly - Shirley Ellis Wild Mountain Thyme - Rod Stewart (even had a copyright battle with the McPeake's over ownership - and won). Jim Carroll |