Members Stackabones Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 So, what songs do you play in your sets, in your homes, at jams, that are PD? Out of the several hours of music I know by heart, I can only think of a few. I do solo guitar arrangements of Fur Elise, Old MacDonald, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. And that's it in the PD realm. Nothing vocal that I can recall. Is the Banana Boat Song (Day-O) PD as well? I think Belafonte probably owns the copyright to most of those tunes from Calypso. In one of the guitar methods I use there are pages of PD tunes, but I don't perform those too often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TN.Frank Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 With the exception of Metallica does any band really care if you play their songs. LOL. I thought that anything over 20 years old was PD, I'm probably wrong though. It would be nice to find out though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted February 18, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 With the exception of Metallica does any band really care if you play their songs. LOL. I thought that anything over 20 years old was PD, I'm probably wrong though. It would be nice to find out though. I'm not concerned about copyright infringement, just curious about PD songs in anyone's repertoire. If 20 years were the limit for PD, then all those hair metal power ballads are PD. And we know that ain't so. fyi... Wiki PD http://www.pdinfo.com/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larry50 Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 Banana Boat is not PD. Yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Starrshine Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 Well, I think that we all sing PD songs at Christmas time. Actually, any song published before 1922 is in the PD. Those of us that attempt an Irish ballad or two are in the PD, such as Drunken Sailor. Right now th only song that I can think of that I do regularly in the PD is Duncan & Brady.Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 AFAIK, all the traditional songs I do are PD. So that's about 50% of my stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members mrmoe Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 I do mostly my own songs, but there is one that I do occasionally....Spanish is a lovin' tongue....I do it as it was originally written. it's a sad old cowboy poem about a failed inter-racial relationship.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 A couple hundred songs I learned in the Ozarks, the Congo, and in Europe/other travels. Off the top of my head: Pretty Polly Gallant Vanity The Farmer's Curst Wife All Around My Hat The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Fairwell To Tarwathie The Female Highwayman Greenland Whale Fisheries Gypsy Davy The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter The Minstral Boy The Rose of Tralee Scarborough Fair The Four Marys Cocaine Dun Kilt My Baby Banaha Mikomba Lord Rendall Reuben Ranzo Married to a Mermaid The Keeper of the Eddystone Light Kamimbi Sally Don't You Grieve The Black Knight And The Child In The Road Bury Me Beneath The Willow Aura Lee Maningi Daba Barbara Allen Willie The Weeper and Minnie The Mooch Bunch more in my notebooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members missedmyexit Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 Is Greenfields of France or Wild Rover in the public domain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Queequeg Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 unless otherwise noted and expressly stated, I'm pretty sure Time Warner owns everything including your own compositions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MDR Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 I have a few Canadian folkie PD songs that I do occasionally: Farewell to Nova ScotiaI'se the ByeA La Claire Fontaine ...one that I do occasionally....Spanish is a lovin' tongue....I do it as it was originally written. .... I love this song - I attempt (feebly) to copy the Ian & Sylvia version. The way Ian cries out "Adios Me Corazon" in the last verse makes my hair stand up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Samilyn Posted February 18, 2009 Members Share Posted February 18, 2009 Hmmmm.....there are probably more, but these are ones I play most frequently: The Great Silkie of Sule SkerryThe Water is WideFarewell to TarwathieScarborough Fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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