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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 207
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Valse Triste                          [ "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed]; ]
  "Happy Birthday To You"               [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
  blog post                             [ Brian Rogers <brogers3909@sbcglobal ]

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:33:41 -0500
From: "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed];
To: "old time radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Valse Triste

While listening to some "I Love a Mystery" I got to wondering about the
Valse Triste Theme. I checked Amazon MP3 downloads, and found Valse Triste
by the Dresden Philharmonic for $[removed] . Sibellus composed Valse Triste in
1903: Valse Triste is the illustration of a stage scene in which an old
woman on her deathbed looks back over her life and recalls, among other
things, the night of a ball when she danced the whole night long, to finally
cradle herself in the arms of death. For us ILAM fans, it is a more cheerful
illustration!

While I was there, I downloaded the Lone Ranger version of the William Tell
Overture by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jim Kitchen

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:35:41 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject:  "Happy Birthday To You"
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:34:42 -0500
From: Joe Mackey<joemackey108@[removed];

12/31


  From Those Were The Days

1940 ... One of the most popular songs to be played was Happy Birthday to
You; which was
performed in many different languages just to get past the ban. The
original song is now, in fact, a copyrighted piece of music, though it
wasn't at the time.

It was then as well.  The tune was originally "Good Morning To All," and
by that name (and lyrics) it was introduced by Patty and Mildred Hill to
a kindergarden class in Kentucky.  In 1893 they published the tune in
their songbook /Song Stories for the Kindergarten/.   Apparently the
Hill sisters' students liked the song so much that they began singing it
at birthday parties with the "Happy Birthday" lyrics.  The song "Happy
Birthday to You" was copyrighted as a work for hire by Preston Ware Orem
for the Summy Company, the publisher of "Good Morning to All." in 1935,
and the current owner, Time-Warner Corporation, insists that the song
cannot be sung commercially without paying a royalty.

It's not clear to me that the song was copyrightable, the melody having
been first published in 1893 and the "Happy Birthday" words having been
created by school children, not by any of the people who claimed to
copyright the song.  But I guess nobody has seen fit to try to challenge
the copyright.  The royalties are undoubtedly cheaper than the
litigation would be.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                     [removed]
92 State Street, Suite 700          Fax: [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004     [removed]

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:35:59 -0500
From: Brian Rogers <brogers3909@[removed];
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Subject:  blog post
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Here's the link to a blog post I just did about Graham McNamee and the 85th 
anniversary of the first coast-to-coast play-by-play of the Rose Bowl Game on 
Jan. 1, 1927.

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Brian Rogers
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