A song in memory of Claudene Christian, Captain Robin Walbridge, and H.M.S. Bounty with lyrics by Mark Skinner, performed by Mike Whitehead and Tom Harrison.
Wreck of HMS Bounty
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Nicely done. It would also have been nice to have acknowledged the obvious debt to Gordon Lightfoot and his song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Sounds too much like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
http://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw
Very dismaying…..this ‘song’ is a direct rip off of Canadian musician, songwriter Gordy Lightfoots’ ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’.
Many thanks to the previous posters for their comments! I have added a note concerning Gordon Lightfoot’s powerful and hauntingly beautiful song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” onto the YouTube page — it was always on the Bounty’s Facebook posting of the video. The reason I used the music from Gordon’s tune is that less than a month before she perished, Claudene Christian sat in our living room and sang a harmony as I played “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, and then commented on how much she loved the song. Thus it seemed the most fitting music for a requiem for her.
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To Mark Skinner, nay lad, ye cannot ‘use’ an artist copyrighted intellectual property…so have you inquired of Gordon Lightfoot for allowance?
There is a long tradition of reusing melodies. Our national anthem uses the melody of the “The Anacreontic Song.” If Lightfoot’s publisher do object, YouTube may take down the audio. The video slideshow is beautifully done, regardless.