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It's the quickest resolution in Hollywood history -- Paul Anka says the
special administrators of Michael Jackson's estate gave him a 50% cut of
"This Is It" ... after he said Michael "stole" the original recordings
from his studio back in the 80s.

Paul also said John McClain told him, "Now we know why the song was so
good ... it wasn't the type of Michael Jackson song that he could write.."

Anka said he was humbled by the compliment.

Well "stolen" isn't quite the right word. It turns out that Anka and Jackson
collaborated in 1983 and had a falling out and never published anything.
Anka got the master tapes. I'm guessing the Jacksons recently dug up old
copies and are now trying to make a buck out of it.

The stupidity lies in trying to market the song as new material and imply
that it was recorded just recently. They would have made a hell of a lot
more money by saying it was "NEWLY DISCOVERED SONG RECORDED OVER A QUARTER
CENTURY AGO!!!" or something like that. That would generate huge buzz and
oodles of cash.

Even dead, Jackson is still surrounded by incompetence.

On Oct 15, 3:57 pm, Her Majesty <nicholecho... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

 At least Lennon had Yoko, who had similar
artistic sensibility, you know???

Oh yeah. I'm especially fond of her tender love ballads.
I love the one that goes,
"Fix the sky AAAAAAHHHHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Rope the sea YAAAAAAAAAA. Waaaa Waaaa EEEEHHH!
Bend the wind OOOOOOOOK! Yiiiiiiii WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Melt a tree PFFFFFFFT! GAAAAAAAA! YEEEEEEEEEEE!
WAWAWAWAWAWAAAA YOWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

The song was recorded in 1991 by Safire under the title "I Never
Heard." The lyrics were different but the arrangement was much the
same. In fact the piano part is the same one used on "This Is It."
She is (apparently) being hosed: the copyright to her recording is
being infringed.  Even though her record company (probably) owns the
copyright, she is still entitled to a cut of the action.

The excuse for ripping off the song, which was an album track never
released a single, was that Safire & her album were "obscure": so
obscure that her song didn't really exist and she doesn't really
matter. She wasn't THAT obscure: she had several dance hits and is
still touring.

--Timothy Horrigan

"Timothy" <Timothy.Horrigan at (no spam) alumni.usc.edu> wrote in message
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The song was recorded in 1991 by Safire under the title "I Never
Heard." The lyrics were different but the arrangement was much the
same. In fact the piano part is the same one used on "This Is It."
She is (apparently) being hosed: the copyright to her recording is
being infringed. Even though her record company (probably) owns the
copyright, she is still entitled to a cut of the action.

The excuse for ripping off the song, which was an album track never
released a single, was that Safire & her album were "obscure": so
obscure that her song didn't really exist and she doesn't really
matter. She wasn't THAT obscure: she had several dance hits and is
still touring.

--Timothy Horrigan

On Oct 15, 6:57�pm, Her Majesty <nicholecho... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:





On Oct 14, 2:19�pm, FishFood <d... at (no spam) home.com> wrote:

I wonder if Micheal was working on another track as the signature
tune for his comeback concerts?

I simply can't imagine Michael had this track planned. Also the
production of this doesn't come half way to what Micheal would
have done at this time. So the question is why didn't studios
make more of an effort to come up with something current?

Patience, my friend!

Some amazing things are possible with todays tech, which means
if they had Michael's vocal track, they could have crafted
something in a more current style, or simply tightened up the
production and not simply lifted track for the words 'This is it'.

The bottom line is that Michael didn't use the track for a reason.

All of which leaves me wondering if anyone of any musical taste
is in control of Michael estate.

He's hard to rival. �At least Lennon had Yoko, who had similar
artistic sensibility, you know???

They obviously just issued that song because it has the words "this is
it" in it.- Hide quoted text -

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All of which leaves me wondering if anyone of any musical taste
is in control of Michael estate.