copyrights and songs that sound just like other songs thread

[shemthepenman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

this song cost the band big bucks for the fluted 'kookaburra sits in the old gum tree' bit, which they hadn't realised was still copyrighted  big hit in oz

we used to sing that kookaburra song in the infants, in assembly. i wonder if the music teacher had to pay to play it on the piano for us to sing to? remember back in the old days when the teachers used to actually play live music and everyone belted out the hymns. now they probably just get aleksa to play it. we even sang some Dylan ones. Blowing in the Wind etc. and the other one. the Mr Tamborine Man one. that’s about a drug dealer, though, isn’t it? and then the local vicar would come to tell us a fable or a bible story. christ, it was boring. he died and then a younger vicar took his place... and was even more boring. but he had a wife and didn’t seem so molesty. so that was a bonus.