Who owns jingle bell rock

If that original tune was as terrible as Helms and Garland maintained requiring them to completely rewrite it, allegedly , how come Cohen, a seasoned music vet, thought the song was so strong? Hank's brother Billy is still living. I think you would be interested in talking with him. Amazes me that veterans would hose themselves so badly on the IP front, especially when every author and songwriter I run across is looking for a black hole to hide their work in so The Man can't steal it and ruin their life forever.

On the other side of the coin, musician Scott Andrew once wrote an article about a local band who'd found 3 songs from their new album on a free music sharing site. Scott's question "Where were the other 7 songs?

Finally thought to Google Spirit's song Taurus. That's the entirety of the similarity. Did Page lift it? Is there a lawsuit here? Well, if Stairway had made eleven dollars, I'll bet nobody'd be suing for half of it. I wonder if there's someone, somewhere saying, "That Randy California of Spirit stole my riff and used it for 'Taurus' without crediting me Speaking of IP, I'm taking a slight—but negligible—risk with my last line of the post.

I could be sued for quoting a song lyric without permission, though I would argue that I'm just summarizing the post. Yes, the vocals are exceptional, the guitar is perfect if you think that style of minimalist guitar stabs is easy, you try it sometime and it's a catchy little piece of holiday drivel which explains its longevity. But as a drummer, you have to dig that killer high "snap" sound they get on the "snare" or whatever it is.

From Buddy Holly on down, rockabilly drummers are always going after anti-snare tones: strange little "popping" or dull "thuddy" tones "Every Day"--Buddy Holly as alternates to the usual snare drum crack.

One has to wonder all the materials they tried out to get that one perfect "pop"! Rockabilly drummers are like foley artists in films, the folks who provide all the sound efx. They fill the studio up with all manner of crazy junk to make the movie sound "realistic". Rockabilly drummers must do the same to achieve "non-snare" tones.

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Search uDiscover Music. Click to comment. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. In the wake of two chart-topping country singles "Fraulein" and "My Special Angel" , Decca Records assigned Helms to tackle a tune designed to capitalize on the rockabilly style popularized by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Helms had a low opinion of "Jingle Bell Rock" as written by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, but the singer said he and guitarist Hank Garland whipped the song into presentable shape. Nashville great Ernest Tubb is credited for discovering Bobby and for encouraging Decca to sign him. On the Dec.