[mb-users] Singer/songwriter covering their own songs?

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Hi all!

Just to be clear, I haven't entered any of these edits yet, don't worry.

Given the strong stands on the issue, which make sense in that they
are very clear-cut rules for what is a cover and not, I will simply
add the cover AR where appropriate and possibly add annotations
explaining what's going on.

Philip

On 9/4/07, artysmokes <artysmokes at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> >
> > 2007/9/4, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org>:
> >>
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >> What about when an a group releases a song and later a member of that
> >> group (say, John Lennon) makes another version. He both wrote and
> >> performed the original version, just not by himself. Using the
> >> strictest possible interpretation of the cover AR, this is also a
> >> cover AR. Can this really be what we want?
> >
> > This is how I would see it, but this is only my opinion.
> >
>
> Mine too. Paul McCartney occasionally performs tracks he wrote and recorded
> as part of the Beatles. They aren't later versions (i.e. later *releases*)
> of old songs. They are cover versions.
> In answer to the original question, YES, an artist *can* cover a song they
> wrote themselves, if it has been previously released by another artist.
> (Burt Bacharach is another artist that has recorded several cover versions
> of songs made famous by others, but which he actually wrote). To emphasise,
> a cover version is a new recording of something that has been *released*
> previously, whoever wrote it.
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