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Posted on 07/27/2013 8:34:12 PM PDT by virgil283
"When Johnny Cash covers your song it's not your song anymore".............
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
You said one love One life When it's oone need In the night One love we get to share it It leaves you baby if you don't care for it
Did i disappoint you Or leave a bad taste in your mouth You act like you never had love And you want me to go without
Well it's too late Tonight To drag the past out Into the light We're one but we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One
Have you come here for forgivness Have you come to raise the dead Have you come here to play jesus To the lepors in your head
Did i ask too much More than a lot You gave me nothing now Its all i got We're one but we're not the same Well we hurt each other and we're doin it again
You said love is a temple Love the higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law
You ask me to enter But then you make me crawl I can't be holdin on To what youve got When all youve got is hurt
One love One blood One life Youve got to do what you should One life with each other Sister Brothers One life but we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One
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"When Trent Reznor was asked if Cash could cover his song, Reznor said he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video."
“ I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.[5]
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My quote above was from the Wikipedia article about the song Hurt.
Why would anyone have to ask the author of a published song if another singer “could cover it”? That report itself sounds gimmicky!
Who wrote this song, or first recorded it?
U2
The song is owned by someone, in this case it was the song writer. Before you sing it professionally you need their permission and you will pay royalties.
An incredibly moving and heartbreaking video. The way the music acted as counterpoint to much of the video, especially the happy bits of Johnny & June was incredible.
Mark
Good song by U2 and good interpretation by Cash.
I was in tears after watching the “Hurt” video for the first time and how Johnny Cash covered the song and his career and life in that video. And I was never a big Johnny Cash fan, although I admired his talent.
False. You and anybody can sing and record any currently published song without asking anybody’s permission. Go ahead and record yourself singing ‘Hey Jude’, upload it to iTunes and Youtube, release it on vinyl, 8-track tape and wax cylinder, and see if a SWAT team will be breaking your doors and shooting your dog.
Since I am not a professional I would be able to get away with singing it even uploading it to Youtube but the moment I started selling it I would be in trouble.
Still false. No permissions for recording other people’s published songs are required, period. Can you imagine the amount of communication traffic back and forth that such a system would entail? One needs permissions (something that I once negotiated) when requesting rights to translate the lyrics into another language, and the reason for it is that a co-author is then introduced, who might claim some part of royalties, which is something that American songwriters rarely if ever agree to grant, even if they grant a permission to translate.
I just remembered reading in interviews with professional songwriters of cases when unpublished songs were recorded by performers other than those for whom the songs were originally intended, due to the shenanigans of the publishers, who employed these songwriters, even if the songwriters still owned the rights to their compositions.
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