![]() At least that was the legal reasoning until "Whiter Shade of Pale" which has completely upended confused the concept of songwriting credit and arrangement. It shouldn't matter what "lick" a guitarist comes up with, unless they change the chords or melody they shouldn't participate in the songwriting. Legally speaking an arranger is not entitled to songwriter credit - for example Jack Nitzsche arranged Spector's 60's hits, but was not entitled to a songwriting credit. Elvis got a publishing cut out of all the songs he recorded, but did not write any of them. Is there any BMI rule that the first writer must have contributed the most to a song? I believe there's a way to look up what percentage of a song is owned to which creditor - someone did that with Beach Boys songs a while back, and it was fascinating - sometimes Wilson got 70 percent, sometimes 50 percent - but again it may have been a business decision rather than a true reflection of who did what. John and Paul had a specific agreement to share credit on songs no matter who did what (or indeed if one person wrote everything on a song), and agreed to Lennon-McCartney.Īs long as the BMI credits remain the same, it seems to me it doesn't matter what sequence the credits run in, it seems petty to change an established order as really today the sequence of credits may or may not reflect how much each member contributed. In the distant past - before songs became "band" compositions with contributions from multiple band members, but were composed by professional songwriters - Tin Pan Alley and then Brill Building era - wasn't the composer of the music (chords and melody) listed first, then the lyricist? So Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote a song, it would be listed Wilson-Love, unless Brian wrote the melody and Brian the words, then it would be Love-Wilson (I can't think of a song where that was the case though). No one has ever claimed, and no one has brought forth any evidence, that McGuinn is the principal composer of the song. Not quite the same thing here, since McGuinn already has a co-credit on "Eight Miles High." But if things are what they seem.that is, that there are no legal impediments to rearranging the order of credited songwriters on any given release.then it speaks rather poorly of McGuinn if it's he who has engineered the reordering. Certainly one could say that this riff is crucial to the song's success.but Eric Carmen has argued (quite passionately) that it's still not part of the song's composition, and that he has no intention of sharing the composer credit on "Go All the Way." Wally Bryson of Raspberries has argued for years, futilely, that he should have a co-composer credit on "Go All the Way," since he came up with the song's signature guitar riff completely on his own. Under a strict interpretation, a musician who adds an instrumental part (or puts a specific arrangement to) an already-composed song doesn't get the credit.the song already existed before he/she did anything to it. 22.Click to expand.This gets into the whole debate about what a "composer's credit" really means.It quickly was labeled a drug song in fact, many consider it the first psychedelic rock song as it was recorded roughly six months before the Yardbirds’ Happenings Ten Years Time Ago. Does NOT have radar Love attached (Sick of that song )and is a studio track is nearly as long ,and is ten times better than any version of Radar Love or. Tambourine Man (Banjoman Soundtrack Version) (Live) Still, Eight Miles High made for an irresistibly kinetic single, about the Byrds’ 1965 trip to London. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Live) Child Of The Universe (Candy Soundtrack Version) One Hundred Years From Now (Gram Parsons Vocal Version) You Don't Miss Your Water (Gram Parsons Vocal Version) The Christian Life (Gram Parsons Vocal Version) Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) Stranger In A Strange Land (Instrumental) She Don't Care About Time (Single Version) The Times They Are A-Changin' (Withdrawn Version) Noch heute inspiriert ihr Sound zahlreiche … Trackliste Box Set 1 ![]() ![]() The Byrds gehören neben Bob Dylan, den Beatles und Beach Boys zu den Pop-Pionieren zu Beginn der Rock'n'Roll-Ära. ![]()
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