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Posted by Kernix on 01/10/06 19:09
The only songs that you could use without any worries are songs labeled
"Traditional" or songs that have somehow come into the public domain.
Traditionals are songs where no one knows who wrote the originals.
Examples: House of the Risin' Sun, I Know You Rider as done by the
Grateful Dead, the xmas song Auld Lang Syne, Blue Moon of Kentucky,
Little Sadie (think either the Radiators or Widespread Panic did a
version), In the Pines (Nirvana & Leadbelly), Amazing Grace, Rock a Bye
Babie, I'm Henry the 8th I Am, Greensleeves, Watlzing Matilda, Danny
Boy, SRV's version of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Swanee River, When Johnny
Comes Marching Home,...
Check various nursery rhymes, and various blues, bluegrass and folk
tunes and ethic folk songs like Irish traditionals.
Also, I think of lot of Grateful Dead covers were traditionals: Deep
Elem Blues, C. C. Rider (may be Big Bill Broonzy's though), Dark
Hollow, Cold Rain & Snow, Don't Ease Me In, Going Down The Road (also
may be Big Bill Broonzy), Hey Pocky Way, New Orleans' Aiko Aiko,
Peggy-O, Samson & Delilah blues classic, Staggerlee, Sittin' on Top of
the World, We bid you Goodnight, Jack A Roe, See That My Grave is Kept
Clean... Also, check the songs on Dylan's 1st Album.
Songs in the public domain - not even sure if there's such a thing, but
think about Shakespeare's sonnets or plays - I don't think anyone can
claim copyright privileges to them, so they must be in the public
domain, and therefore can be used/reproduced without any permission
(but don't quote me on that.) So due to age and the lack of family
relations, things can fall into the public domain. Other ways that
things become public domain might be by donation by the creator upon
death, or other ways I can't think of.
Research "Traditional songs", "Public Domain", and check out the US
gov's site about copyrights. Here are a couple of links to Traditionals
- there may be some you recognize that I do not. Don't count out
Children's songs. Anyway, it's a start:
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lists/traditional.html
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/traditional.html
http://www.radford.edu/~bluegrass/songlnk.html
http://www.know-britain.com/songs/traditional_songs_index.html
http://www.anglik.net/songsandrhymes.htm
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/McQuail_Dead_02.html
Jim
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