"Keep It Gay" from 'Me and Juliet'
"Keep It Gay" from 'Me and Juliet'
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
"Keep It Gay" from 'Me and Juliet'#0
Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:54pmI just heard this song on the Showtunes channel, and it bears a strange resemblance to "Keep It Gay" from The Producers. Or, rather, the song from The Producers bears a strange resemblance to it. Coincidence, or intentional by Brooks?
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#1
Posted: 5/10/05 at 12:49am
Not much similarity music or lyric-wise between the two songs. Just the title.
There are many cases where shows share song titles...
No More in GOLDEN BOY, INTO THE WOODS and THE GOODBYE GIRL
Maria in WEST SIDE STORY and SOUND OF MUSIC
All at once in BABES IN ARMS and PIPE DREAM (The latter sometimes listed as All at Once You Love Her)
Just a few ... there are probably dozens of other examples.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#2
Posted: 5/10/05 at 12:55am
yes. "It Takes Two" from INTO THE WOODS and HAIRSPRAY, "Take A Chance on Me" from MAMMA MIA! and LITTLE WOMEN, also "The Heart is Slow to Learn" has two completely different versions by Don Black one from DRACULA and the other originally supposed to be in Webber's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA II. I remember someone freaked out and posted that after DRACULA had opened that Frank Wildhorn stole a song from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Webber recycled his melody into THE BEAUTIFUL GAME and Black wrote a new lyric for DRACULA but retained the title. it's not that uncommon. if two shows had two songs with the same title and similar melodys then there'd be some legal action going on... however, I do think, some song titles are owned. like I don't think you can write a new song titled "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" no matter how different it may be...
didn't VANILLA ICE get sued for stealing music from QUEEN??? I dunno...
Updated On: 5/10/05 at 12:55 AM
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#3
Posted: 5/10/05 at 2:17am
Except ...1) the actual song title is "Over the Rainbow" and 2.) ever notice the opening two notes of Bernstein's "Somewhere" are the same?
Yeasr ago Groucho Marx was having a war with the brothers Warner. When they objected to a Marx Bros film called A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA fearing it would tread on their classic film, Groucho objected to the title of their Cole Porter biography NIGHT AND DAY saying the title ws stolen from 2 Marx Bros classics: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA and A DAY AT THE RACES!
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#4
Posted: 5/10/05 at 3:01amSorry, but the first two notes of OVER THE RAINBOW are a full octave apart, unlike the first two notes of SOMEWHERE.
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#5
Posted: 5/10/05 at 3:26ami was just going to say that wildcat. that was not an intelligent comment by frontrow.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
re: 'Keep It Gay' from 'Me and Juliet'#6
Posted: 5/10/05 at 9:12am
Song titles (or pla titles or movie titles, etc.) cannot be copywrighted. A phrase may be trademarked, however, if you actually coined the phrase yourself. For example, the Rodgers & Hammerstein organization has trademarked the phrase "Some Enchanted Evening", since Oscar Hammerstein coined the phrase. Therefore, you could not sell "Some Enchanted Evening" perfume, or open a "Some Enchanted Evening" restaurant without getting sued by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
I imagine if you used "Some Enchanted Evening" as the theme of your high school prom, they'd be OK with that...
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