Cover assignments

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 5 Feb 2014, 22:23:37

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 5 Feb 2014, 23:32:59

Yes I know, but I have not found an evidence The Doors played the Jimmy Reed song. It could also be they performed a song with the same name written by somebody else (like The Power of Love could be Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jennifer Rush, Huey Lewis & The News…)

Any source for that ? secondhandsongs does not list The Doors with a version, that's why I asked.

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 0:05:24

Well what about that?

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-doors-bd6adba.html?song=Goin'+to+New+York

Of course, all these setlist are hypothethical and i have called for the deletion of all these setlists in another thread. The setlist are wrong but the concerts did happen.

The only interpretation that there's proof that The Doors did play, i had already corrected.

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/jimmy-reed-2bd69816.html?song=Going+to+New+York

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 0:46:08

Yes, but I mean, is there any youtube link or recording of The Doors that proofs they played the Jimmy Reed song ?

If they recorded the song for example, you could tell by looking at the credits.

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 0:50:45

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 1:40:37

Yes I have no doubt they played a song called Going to New York but there are no credits on this song either.

I just don't want to batch edit as long I'm not sure

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 5:41:43

I own this record, i did buy it at HMV. I'm just looking at the track list in the booklet that came along with it and it clearly states, Jimmy Reed as the sole writer of the song. It doesn't mention his wife/sister though.

The book The Doors on the Road also mentions it as a Jimmy Reed song. So trust me, at the Felt Forum, on January 18th1970, the Doors definitely played Jimmy Reed's Going to New York.
There's no evidence of any other songs by that name and get the lyrics of the Jimmy Reed's version anywhere you can and you'll see they're the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r0k9KSL31Q

Last edited 6 Feb 2014, 5:46:19

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 6 Feb 2014, 7:38:56

Thank you. That is exactly what I wanted, so we can be sure.

I changed the song to Jimmy Reed

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 7 Feb 2014, 21:20:53

I feel that Led Zeppelin's songs

Dazed and Confused
Nobody's Fault But Mine
and In My Time of Dying

should be called as originals. These songs were recorded by other artist before but Led Zeppelin changed the songs so much adding endless solos, changing the lyrics and the melody. There wasn't much left of the original song in Zeppelin's version which is why they credited them as songs of their own.

Whole Lotta Love was inspired by the song You Need Love by Muddy Waters but there were so many differences between the original song that they credited it as their own and citing Muddy Waters as a co-author. They didn't do that with Dazed and Confused, Nobody's Fault But Mine
and In My Time of Dying but it would be a lot more fair to do that than just calling it a Jake Holmes or a Blind Willie Johnson cover.

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 7 Feb 2014, 21:24:05

Stickin' In My Eye is a song by NOFX

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/nofx-1bd689c0.html?song=Stickin'+in+My+Eye

which appears on their album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Trash,_Two_Heebs_and_a_Bean

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 8 Feb 2014, 11:29:46

Led Zeppelin:

you can do a folk song as a punk song and still it is a cover.

you can do a song in a different language and slow it down or speed it up and still it is a cover

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 8 Feb 2014, 23:36:33

The Song
Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey by the Beatles appeared first on the album Beatles For Sale on December 4, 1964. It was released in America on june 14 1965, on Beatles V!.

Of course, both songs are covers.

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-beatles-23d6a88b.html?song=Kansas+City+/+Hey+Hey+Hey+Hey

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 8 Feb 2014, 23:54:09

You're completely right.

But as the songs of this medley are covers of different artists no cover tag will apply at the moment. The medley should not get assigned to any album yet, because you can't assign the single songs of a medley to different albums yet.

At the moment means, hopefully we can handle this sometime in the future, but not right now.

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 9 Feb 2014, 1:14:44

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/pink-floyd-13d6adc5.html?song=Up+the+Khyber

The song Up the Khyber was on the More album.

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-who-bd6bd2a.html?song=I+Can't+Explain

The Song I Can't Explain was on the Meaty Beaty Big and Boucy album.

Last edited 9 Feb 2014, 1:44:51

Re: Song incorrectly attributed as a cover

Posted 16 Feb 2014, 20:28:20

The song God Save the King, actually as God Save the Queen, british national anthem

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/henry-carey-43d0bbb7.html?song=God+Save+the+Queen

despite the uncertainty of the song, it should be attributed to Thomas Arne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Arne

For some reason, the site won't let me make that change and the decide to mention it as a Arne Frank cover.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Franck

Anybody speeks Swedish? I don't.

Last edited 16 Feb 2014, 20:32:56

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