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No. The royalty rules are different based on the medium (live or recorded), but you never need an artist's permission to cover a song.
In regards to live performance, specifically, the venue is responsible for obtaining a blanket license through a performance rights organization for all copyrighted songs that would be played in their venue. The artist doesn'...
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Dave Wyndorf, songwriter, lead vocalist, and a guitarist for Monster Magnet, explains in an interview with Adam De Ville for Collide:
Adam De Ville: “Dinosaurs in Vietnam!”
Dave Wyndorf: Yeah! I just pictured a T-Rex stomping through Vietnam and chomping
everything up during the war. I made it all up on the spot and Dave
Sardy was totally into ...
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No
This song is not a cover from another artist.
The song was released in a EP called Popestar and is credited A Ghoul Writer which is an alias for the band credits.
The intro vaguely reminds me Dio's Rainbow in the Dark but I can't read your mind to know what it reminds you ("read-my-mind" questions are off-topic).
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I think Shocking Blue - Venus. It's been covered a number of times successfully:
Original
Stockley Sisters (1976)
Yōko Nagayama (1986)
Bananarama (1986)
Seduced (2004)
Arguably, the two most famous are the original and the Banarama cover.
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Most likely this is an even lazier attempt at confusing listeners than soundalikes:
These remakes aren’t motivated by artistry, but by money. Soundalikes
are a completely mercenary venture. The whole goal is to duplicate the
original song in every respect, using studio musicians and vocalists,
in an effort to lure consumers on digital music services ...
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Is it possible that you are thinking of the game soundtrack of Bachsmith II http://www.deezer.com/us/album/11803966? Actually the Rondo Alla Turca is from the first part: http://www.deezer.com/us/album/8440555 Seems that the performers are The Notetrackers. Here is the cover of the game that I think matches your description:
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Yesterday - The Beatles
From Wikipedia
Yesterday is one of the most recorded songs in the history of popular music; its entry in Guinness World Records states that, by January 1986, 1,600 cover versions had been made.
The song has been covered by an eclectic mix of artists including Cilla Black, Aretha Franklin, Marianne Faithfull, Tose Proeski, The ...
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Most likely not. According to the French wikipedia article, Benjamin Mazuet "Ben Mazué" is a singer-songwriter so he mainly performs on his own songs.
Looking at his album 33 ans. There is no traces of credits of another artist.
He credits himself on this specific song.
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According to the song's Wikipedia article, there was a version released this year by Swedish singer UNDRESSD. It can be viewed on YouTube.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Limbs
I want to suggest the King of Limbs based on your art. If I said one song had dark bass and a high pitched 'ni' coming in, it would be Lotus Flower. The song was also a single from the album.
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'Unchained Melody' seems a potential winner with the following UK chart successes
Jimmy Young (1955)
Al Hibbler (1955)
Les Baxter (1955)
Liberace (1955)
Righteous Brothers (1965 & 1990)
Robson & Jerome (1995)
Gareth Gates (2002)
and, as can be seen from the above linked Wiki page, a raft of other successful versions (notably appearing on US genre ...
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Well, even though Save all Your Kisses was originally written in 1974, two years before it became a hit, Tie a Yellow Ribbon was a hit the year before, in 1973, so you'd have to say that was the 'original' in that respect.
It has to be said, though, that songs of that style were not a new phenomenon, even outside Eurovision, though Eurovision itself may ...
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I Think imagine by John Lennon has made many hits throughout the years up until now.
The song have been recorded each and every year and it has made many hits in the charts.
Title Performer Release date Info
Imagine John Lennon October 8, 1971 First release
Imagine Ray Conniff January 1972
Imagine Carl Wayne February 1972
Imagine Joan Baez ...
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Yes, it is a cover/parody/translation of the song "Mirror" by Lil Wayne ft. Bruno Mars
He pretty much just translated all the words form the original song into Yiddish (unlike what he did with "Bas Kol")
YouTube video of Mirrors
It may be a bit uncomfortable to watch that video, here is a link for an audio-only video with lyrics.
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References in the wikipedia article about the album Black Sabbath lead to this page about the phoshoot location.
From that page:
"Not much is known about the eerie woman used in the photo other then
she was a model/actress hired for the day and her name was Louise."
From another page some more info
Johnny Morgan and Ben Wardle write:
The ...
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The first song is just the chorus to the original ABC by the Jackson 5, repeated twice with the name "Elmo" inserted instead of "baby"
Ba-ba-ba-ba!
A B C, easy as one, two, three
Simple as do re mi
A B C, one, two, three, Elmo, you and [unintelligible]
The second song is Big Joe Turner's Shake Rattle and Roll
Check it out!
Get out of that ...
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You may enjoy the arrangements made by the Uri Caine ensemble released on this live CD. They don't fit any of your genre recommendations exactly, but they're interesting arrangements nonetheless.
You can hear the tracks in this YouTube playlist.
Lastly, you may be interested in the term "Wagnerian rock."
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I'd hazard a guess it reminds you of:
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The rhythm, the sound of the instrument and the specific melody of the riff are all very similar.
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Listen to this one... very much NOT the same, but this is what comes to mind. "National Aerobic Championship Theme"
Then go watch the Kee and Peele skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-Dd71CqnM
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There are certain stylistic choices that can start out as personal idiosyncrasies, but become so widely imitated that they end up as genre markers. For modern pop/R&B, one of the most characteristic of these markers is "melisma," the singing of multiple pitches on a single syllable. Originating in the black gospel, church-influenced sound of soul ...
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This cover is made by Clear Static.
You can find a link to the music video here.
Clear Statics cover of Dead Mans Party by Oingo Boingo.
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This is a fairly standard electric guitar riff, and unlikely to be a sample or a cover. Your best bet on finding similar music is to look for electric blues or blues rock. It sounds like this riff is using a slide, so you might add that into your search. Compare, for example, this recent electric blues piece by Gary Clark Jr. (there's a long section near ...
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The song you are thinking of is "Tom Hark" by The Piranhas from 1980. Which is itself a cover of an original song from 1958 by Jack Lerole, according to Wikipedia.
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If a song is copyrighted, a recording artist does need to pay royalties to the owner of the copyright. This may be the original author(s) (not necessarily the artist who recorded the original version, as obviously many artits record songs authored by other people) or another entity (normally a corporation) to which the copyright was sold.
As a far fetched ...
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I'm not sure it's based on any one specific melody, but it's generally in a Celtic folk style. The specific song it reminds me most of is "The Irish Washerwoman".
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The Loco-Motion hit #1 twice and by Little Eva and then Grand Funk Railroad and then hit #3 by Kylie Minogue. For big hits charting multiple times I do not know of any more successful cover versions of any song.
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Although Yesterday is indubitably the most recorded song, I haven't seen any evidence that it has hit the charts multiple times, perhaps because the original version is so definitive.
Blue Moon, however, according to its Wikipedia article, has hit the US charts at least four separate times, in very different versions (as well as having additional iconic ...
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