Weirdest songwriting credit I've seen in a while

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So I can understand why Bowie would be credited on the Portuguese version of “Starman” whichh is “O Astronauta de Mármore,” by Nenhum de Nós, but why is Johnny Thunders in there?

Writer(s): Thedy Rodrigues Correa Filho, David Bowie, John Genzale, Sady Homrich

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:29 (one month ago) link

Even weirder than the "Foggy Notion" credit to

Sterling Morrison
Maureen Tucker
Douglas Yule
Hy Weiss

But even this one I can understand as some kind of legal thing and find discussion of.
https://velvetforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=144992

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link

First I thought it was some kind of sampling thing, but now I think it was just a database glitch. Not every source has him credited.

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:34 (one month ago) link

The correct songwriting credits include a "C. Stein" but that is Carlos Stein, not the guy from Blondie

Josefa, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link

So basically the glitch replaced C. Stein with Johnny Thunders. One could imagine how a slip like that might happen.

Josefa, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link

Thanks. Trying to imagine. Maybe somebody or something confused Carlos Stein with Chris Stein and then they decided to double down and changed it even further to John Genzale.

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link

One thing even had his full name, John Anthony Genzale Jr.

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link

I think we've talked about the "Foggy Notion" credit before. Lou lifted some lines from some obscure 50s (doo wop probably) song, which I assume Hy Weiss owned the publishing for (I very much doubt he wrote it).

biting your uncles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link

according to genius it's this tune, from which the "she made me do something that i never did before / i rushed right down to the flower store" stanza is lifted from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Ac47sfZTg
Solitaires, The - Later For You Baby - 1955 (Old Town)

and old town was hy weiss's record label so

budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 17:06 (one month ago) link

Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link

Not crazy about the Nenhum de Nos version, but this thread has reminded me of the existence of Seu Jorge's excellent Portuguese renditions of Bowie songs featured in the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic. Very subdued arrangements, just voice and acoustic guitar. Could almost come across as coffee shop bullshit which would normally piss me off (eg those wretched Hey Ya covers), but I feel like it works on the Seu Jorge album. Rebel Rebel in particular.

Ubiquitor, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link

I liked those songs in the movie but then not standalone for whatever reason. I did like another Seu Jorge song recently though

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:52 (one month ago) link

"Burgeusinha"

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:57 (one month ago) link

Nothing strange leaps out about the writing credits, to me at least.

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link

Problem with my typing though. "Burguesinha"

Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 19:02 (one month ago) link

"Anthem" - Leonard Cohen (as in "there is a crack in everything")

by Leonard Cohen, Rebecca de Mornay

bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 19:52 (one month ago) link

Interesting details on Wikipedia

By the time she was 16, De Mornay had an agent who was selling her songs to German rock & roll musicians, and she had written the theme song for a kung fu movie called Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death (1975). In 1980, De Mornay returned to the United States and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute to study acting.

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 20:37 (one month ago) link


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