Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!eli From: eli@uw-beaver (Eli Messinger) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Cover Versions (Definitions) Message-ID: <2376@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 02:57:11 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.2376 Posted: Sat Dec 1 02:57:11 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:48:21 EST References: <6135@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 12 I think in the strict 50's sense, where "cover version" meant Pat Boone sucking the life out of a black rock'n'roll song, yes, we might leave the term to mean someone re-recording a song and garnering more wealth and/or noteriety than the originator... But I don't think this is true any longer. The term has had its meaning expanded to include, yes!, the local lunchtime high school band's rendition of "Hooked On A Feeling." We the lay people just go on forming our own language I guess. Sorry. America's Big Dealer... ...uw-beaver!eli