Jim wrote:
> > Not to be argumentative here (since I'm looking forward to meeting you
at
> > the church in Topsfield in a few weeks!) but.... If I recall, lots of
the
> > songs on Tapestry were previously written. She was in the enviable
> > position of being able to choose songs from her considerable back
catalog
> > (and obviously did a remarkable job, too!). Count me as a fan of
Tapestry!
To which I replied:
> To be honest, I'm not sure, but I defer to wallyk on this one, and suggest
> that the copyright dates are correct, and that most of the songs were
fairly
> recent. I've pretty much got that impression over the years, from various
> articles and interviews.
Oh, that's sad - replying to my own posts! But I just thought of something
else. When an artist releases an album, how is anyone to know when the
songs originated? The chorus might come from something their mother told
them when they were five, but they hadn't written it down until they were
40. Does that mean the song is from their "back-catalogue" or not? I'm not
a song-writer by any means, but I think many times the process must be
pretty much tied up in life experiences, not living in that exact moment.
The great exception which proves the rule is Graham Nash's song "Just A Song
Before I Go". Someone bet him that he couldn't write a song in the 20
minutes he had before leaving for the airport, and that was the result!
Hell
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