On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 7:03:50 PM UTC-4, ersc...@email.arizona.edu wrote:
It won't be in public domain until 2070.
II music business.[10] Some early versions of the song credit the Rice Brothers. Descendants and associates of Oliver Hood, a LaGrange, Georgia musician who collaborated with Rice, claim Hood wrote the song in the early 1930s, first performing it in 1933On Friday, November 6, 1998 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, Michael Futreal wrote:
Who wrote You Are My Sunshine? Is this a song that can be freely
covered without ASCAP coming to get ya? Does anybody happen to know off the top of their head?
I recorded a minor key version of this song for Appalachian dulcimer (an improvisational piece that incorporates a minorized version of the melody as well the first verse + additional lyrics) for my self-released cd. I just kind of assumed when it occured to me to play around with it that it was a traditional public domain thing. Now, however, I'm
curious as to whether or not that is the case... Anybody?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_My_Sunshine#AuthorshipMichael Futreal
The Offramps -- hear us at http://offramps.simplenet.com
Authorship[edit]
While Davis and Mitchell are the credited songwriters of "You Are My Sunshine", Davis was never known to actually claim authorship, as he bought the song and rights from Paul Rice and put his own name on it, a practice not uncommon in the pre-World War
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