[HANASHIR:1525] Re: Please help!

[Judy Git <hillel...>]

SPEAKING of which - I had a nice experience the other day.  Listened to music
teacher (Temple Israel, Raquel - Amy) teaching this really neat Sukkot song to 
the
kids.  I knew it.  It was written by.......  Raquel.

QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> Those words were adapted to a "folk" melody written for the words "lo yisa goy
> el goy cherev".  The music (with the hebrew words) can be found on page 57 of
> the book "Great Songs of Israel" edited by Velvel Pasternak - Tara
> Publications...
>
> I don't know who wrote the words "don't walk in front of me...etc."  I've seen
> it on greeting cards for many years... nor do I know who decided it should be
> sung to the lo yisa goy tune!
>
> And ultimately (we hope) some of the songs we are writing now will end up in
> someone's collection with "folk" written at the top!   As much as we all would
> like credit for our copyrighted work, it's happened to me already at least
> once... one of my best friends was recently at an "erev shira" in New York
> City where one of the leaders got up and taught a round I had written in 1986
> and taught to a relatively small group of people.  The woman had no idea who
> had written the song AND taught one part incorrectly.  When my friend
> approached her to say that she had done one part wrong the woman argued that
> she was absolutely right!   Once music is "released", we really have little
> control over what people do with it (unless they try to print or record it)
> oops - I digressed... hope my answer helped you!
> Raquel (Quelli) Gershon