Originally Posted By: Pat Marr


But its worth pointing out that the guys you mention as being the originator of the ideas... they got their ideas from somebody else too... how far back do we go to find the "originator" of the idea?


That's not the point at all.

One performer or group earned enough loot from making a recording of the other's recording and the former gets to live like kings in fine houses located in fine neighborhoods while the original composer/performer is forced to exist in a tar paper shack or an inner city "ghetto" situation. The white group earns enough to send their kids to college from the recording, the black originator of the music does not earn enough from the licensing fees of the white recording to do much more than purchase groceries and maybe a used car.


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edit: having said all that, the examples you gave aren't the evolution of a style or idea... they're direct copies. Weren't the originals protected under copyright? Didn't the subsequent artists have to pay a licensing fee to record somebody's existing song?


In some cases, licensing was likely paid. But the amount of money that reaches the original recording artist - if they even still or ever owned the rights to the recording in the first place, often they did not - is a very small fraction as compared to the amount of money that the white artists, white owned recording companies and white owned radio stations and their advertisers glean from the sordid business.

The same Gus Cannon had a song about the true situation:



"You'll have some dinner -- in a little while..."


--Mac

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