AIDA rip off- Page 2

[DivaMommy]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:25pm

For the cd - one possibility - Pocket Songs Karaoke has an Aida Karaoke cd. You can buy the rights to record any PS song. They could've done that and recorded to the tracks???

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:35pm

It is possible to record the songs from a show by just paying the mechanical usage fees BUT grand rights come into play here. You can't use dialogue. Nor can you use the show's orchestrartuions you have to commission your own. And you cannot record any songs or music that has not previously been recorded.

Sometimes you will see cheap budget labels with no-name casts doing songs from a show. That is how these get made.

In 1987 Tom Sheppard wanted to do a new digital album of CAROUSEL. However the R & H organization wanted to make their own CD for Sony (re-teaming Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras from the previous year's SOUTH PACIFIC album...I know ... I shudder at what that album might have sounded like.) Shepard went ahead and recorded his version with Barbara Cook, Sam Ramey and Sarah Brightman and applied for the mechanical rights. The R&H office was furious but there wasn't a lot they could do except deny Shpeard permission to release the ballet since at that time it had never been recorded. The SONY deal was cancelled and MCA released this version of CAROUSEL. The album was a dud though it sold well at the time - being the only CAROUSEL out on CD.

Still, I am curious about this CD of BEAST...can anyone supply a phone or e-mail where I can order one?