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House Hearing on Radio Royalty & AI
- Thread starter TheBigA
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Years ago I attended a James Taylor concert in Chapel Hill NC. This was not long after he was divorced from Carly Simon.
James was going to play a song that had featured Carly singing harmony on the recorded version. He announced that he would be accompanied by "Mr. ReVox", and sang along with Carly's voice playing from a reel-to-reel tape machine that sat right up front on the stage with him.
James was going to play a song that had featured Carly singing harmony on the recorded version. He announced that he would be accompanied by "Mr. ReVox", and sang along with Carly's voice playing from a reel-to-reel tape machine that sat right up front on the stage with him.
Seems to me he did that same thing on Saturday Night Live (or some TV show)
Good Lord! I'm sorry, but asking or thinking performers should get on stage and lipsync their hits borders as cruel, both for their fans and for the artist.
Sometimes it's better to just remember the past, not to let it show what toll it's taken on us all.
This is why I never saw Brian Wilson live. Even though he didn’t lip sync, it was mainly his backing band singing & playing while he would just sit there and occasionally play or sing, while doing hand motions.
I agree. Better to hang onto memories of the way things were.
Yeah, when AM stations still played his songs! 😆
And they can't even leave the dead untouched. Now Queen is Auto-Tuning Freddie Mercury's voice, and putting it in an AI-generated video:
I was listening to a program today online about "Unforgettable", which became a major hit after someone decided to add Nat King Cole's voice to his daughter's. There was some concern over whether such a thing would be accepted. Now it's quite common, and the host of the show wondered how soon we'll be hearing duets with two deceased people.
The problem with two dead people doing a duet is there's no one to promote it. When Natalie Cole did the Unforgettable album (it was her idea to do it, not someone else), she did an entire tour around the album to promote it. Hard to do that when both artists are dead. She was a current artist at the time, so the record received airplay on currents-based radio stations even though the original songs were 30 years old. What made the Natalie album even easier was that both she and her father were on Capitol Records, so the masters were under the same company.
And they used many of the same musicians that also performed on Nat's original version.
Plus, it was a trick that was already done before (although not posthumously), when radio DJs stitched together the Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond versions of "You Don't Send Me Flowers", leading to them officially performing it as a duet.
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