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If you buy the album, who are you supporting, exactly?
by rcme 3y ago
If you buy the album, who are you supporting, exactly?
- pessimizer 3y agoI hope the above isn't considered a rude question, but treated as a real question. Who owns these recordings, and how did they get ownership? If I had to guess, I'd say the copyright started with whoever had the belongings (and tapes) she left behind, likely a family member, and they probably went into partnership with whoever shopped the tapes (and story) around to record companies. One of my favorite CDs; I wish people still wrote music like that.
- lioeters 3y agoI'm guessing the rights to the recordings belong to her brother Phil and/or the two people who produced the album. From the Bandcamp page: words and music by Connie Converse recorded by Connie Converse & Gene Deitch restored and produced by Daniel Dzula & David Herman From the article: > It wasn’t until 2004, when an N.Y.U. graduate student heard a 1954 bootleg recording of Ms. Converse on WNYC, that her music started to get any of the attention and respect that had evaded her some 50 years before. > The student, Dan Dzula, and his friend, David Herman, were spellbound by what they heard. They dug up more archival recordings, and assembled the 2009 album, “How Sad, How Lovely,” a compilation of songs that sound as though they could have been written today. It has been streamed over 16 million times on Spotify. I found an interview with these two, who set up a record label that published the album. The Connie Converse Double Album That Never Got Crowd-Funded - https://medium.com/the-awl/the-connie-converse-double-album-that-never-got-crowd-funded-203442a52cb6 https://medium.com/the-awl/the-connie-converse-double-album-...
- rcme 3y agoThat's interesting. Since her fate is known, it's possible these people are not the true rights holders of the music, but I guess if no one is complaining... Thanks for the info!