[mb-users] Bandname as composer?

[Z]

This made me think about the Beatles, how should the composition of the
tracks that are known to be composed by either Lennon or McCartney
individually but credited as always as Lennon/McCartney be entered as?

2008/7/7 Fred Marchee <fred at intercookie.com>:

> Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> > Fred Marchee wrote:
> >
> >> I want to add AR's to the composers of the songs but the CD (Vaudeville)
> >> says: "All songs written by In Tua Nua". I can do the following edits:
> >>
> >> - Add composed by "In Tua Nua" (and AR all the band members to the group
> >> which I nevertheless will do in a minute)
> >> - Add composed by all the bandmembers (they have seven band members)
> >> - Search BMI and add the legal composers (they are the band members but
> >> not all of them)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Of these, it seems to me:
> >
> > Having an AR say "In Tua Nua" composed the song is imprecise about which
> > human beings actually did the composition work, but that accurately
> reflects
> > the imprecise knowledge you have with just the record cover. Therefore
> it's
> > a good contribution to the database.
> >
> > Adding ARs that say each individual band member composed the song is more
> > precise than your knowledge justifies. Therefore it's perhaps misleading.
> >
> > Searching BMI gives you more precise knowledge, which justifies adding
> ARs
> > with just the legal composers.  It's great if you are willing to do this
> > research.
> >
> > Also, bear in mind that the ReleaseAnnotation is a good place to put any
> > kind of unstructured information that doesn't fit into ARs. You could,
> for
> > example, put in a comment in the ReleaseAnnotation that the album cover
> > gives composer credit to the group without saying which people actually
> > composed which song. That is a factual statement, and it's worth
> recording
> > in MB.
> >
> > I appreciate your diligence. And I appreciate your planting more
> composition
> > ARs out in the wasteland. Maybe a forest will grow from your efforts.
> >
> > -----
> >      -- http://jdlh.com/ Jim DeLaHunt , Vancouver, Canada  •
> > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/JimDeLaHunt
> >
> >
> I was planning to go for the hard way (=BMI), thanks for pushing me this
> way ;-)
>
> Fred
>
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