[Dixielandjazz] Stardust

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

That sort of thing happens all the time, Bob, just not to everybody I 
suppose, but I recall several times in the past thirty years of my 
musical life that I was attempting to write a song and had not told 
anyone or even put it out for anybody to hear and wham bam thank you 
maam I heard the same melody and song composed and recorded and 
released on the radio by someone I never heard of before.   There is no 
real explanation for it but I suppose there are folks walking around 
all over the world with the same melodies roaming around in their heads 
just waiting to come out.   Weird, I say.   Perhaps many of us are 
simply musical clones triggered biologically to emit the same musical 
thoughts at the same or different times with no physical connection at 
all.

This same situation happened to Edwin Hawkins who actually filed a 
copyright on "OH HAPPY DAY"  and since the original composer was so 
long dead and none of his relatives knew anything about it either he 
got away with it and still collects all the royalties for it, and he 
did not sing it either  Dorothy Morrison did.


"music content"
They're Coming to take me Away, Ha Ha, They're coming to take me away 
ha ha!

  a big hit in the 60,s or 70,s at least in certain circles,  not okom 
however.     Since so many Dixieland songs sound almost the same I 
would guess it is safe to assume that this rare disease was more 
prevalent in the 1920.s   eh?

Cheers,

Tom I heard it through the grapevine Wiggins  or was it I heard it 
through the Grape Wine :))



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert S. Ringwald <robert at ringwald.com>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:35:53 -0700
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Stardust

   Bill Haesler wrote: 
 
 (snip) 
  PS: The hidden trigger at the back of me ole brainbox tells me that 
there is 
  an article in an IAJRC Journal, The Mississippi Rag, or perhaps 
Downbeat, 
  which makes a claim for an earlier composer for "Stardust'. Something 
along 
  the lines of "I wrote Stardust" says............ Another disgruntled 
punter? 
 (snip) 
 
  I know that it will be hard to believe but, I actually wrote 
"Stardust" in about 1955. Then I was shocked to find out that someone 
(Hoagy) had beat me to it. 
 
 --Bob Ringwald K6YBV 
 Placerville, CA USA 
 
 "There are three kinds of men: 
 The ones that learn by reading. 
 The few who learn by observation. 
 The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for 
 themselves." 
 --William Penn Adair (Will) Rogers B: 11/4/1879 D: 8/15/1935 
 
  
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