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jazmaan
Fifth Love
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 Posted - 16/08/2010 : 07:26:13
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I was just watching this weeks episode of "Mad Men" on Tivo. There's a scene where Peggy is at an avant-garde film screening party. Playing in the background is Signed D.C.! The year is supposed to be 1964 or maybe 1965. So there's an anachronism there already.
But it's not LOVE performing the song. The group performing it sounds like an electric folk-rock group similar to the Seeds and with a male white lead singer. I never heard this cover version before. It could be vintage, or it could be a recent recording made just for the show, but it certainly makes you wonder why they'd go to all that trouble instead of just using the original?
You don't hear Arthur's compositions in film or TV very much. ( "The Red Telephone" featured in "Taking Woodstock" being a welcome exception to that rule.)
If you hear Love at all, its usually Bryan's "Alone Again Or". I wonder if Dianne knows about this. "Mad Men" would definitely need permission to use the song and would have to negotiate a sync fee.
Anybody know who the performer might be. Were there many covers of "Signed D.C." back in the 60's?
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kdion11
Old Love
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Posted - 16/08/2010 : 21:47:57
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Originally posted by jazmaan
I was just watching this weeks episode of "Mad Men" on Tivo. There's a scene where Peggy is at an avant-garde film screening party. Playing in the background is Signed D.C.! The year is supposed to be 1964 or maybe 1965. So there's an anachronism there already.
But it's not LOVE performing the song. The group performing it sounds like an electric folk-rock group similar to the Seeds and with a male white lead singer. I never heard this cover version before. It could be vintage, or it could be a recent recording made just for the show, but it certainly makes you wonder why they'd go to all that trouble instead of just using the original?
You don't hear Arthur's compositions in film or TV very much. ( "The Red Telephone" featured in "Taking Woodstock" being a welcome exception to that rule.)
If you hear Love at all, its usually Bryan's "Alone Again Or". I wonder if Dianne knows about this. "Mad Men" would definitely need permission to use the song and would have to negotiate a sync fee.
Anybody know who the performer might be. Were there many covers of "Signed D.C." back in the 60's?
KD: Hey Jazz, the big question would be, who owns the publishing
rights to Signed DC now.
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jazmaan
Fifth Love
USA
315 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 22:27:59
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| Last I heard Lieber & Stoller's "Trio Music" remained the publisher of most of Arthur's catalog. But I don't believe Arthur ever sold his personal share of writer's royalties, although I believe he did occasionally take some hefty advances against future royalties. |
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SignedRW
Fifth Love
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Posted - 24/08/2010 : 01:15:47
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| Hey Jaz- I've no idea who performed the "Signed D.C." cover on last week's "Mad Men," (have to admit that for me at least, it wasn't exactly my favorite ever cover of the song) but there have been at least thirty cover versions over time. No surprise that the original's still the greatest. The coolest thing about that episode of "Mad Men" was the on-screen appearance, at the very end, of Music Man Murray, a familiar name to Los Angeles area vinyl shoppers for many years, he was the proprietor of one of L.A.'s best and oldest used record stores. In the show, he played the older gentleman at the very end of the episode, asking his wife (about three times) if she had remembered to get pears. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 24/08/2010 : 01:32:39
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| is this the False Start thread? |
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Mad Men - Signed D.C. cover
