Who is the owner of songs
Wal Bada said:
1st you have to know who owns the songs. It's the lyricist and composer who owns the song. The songs that WD Ariyasinghe sang were owned by Master Khemadasa, which was morally wrong because he earned money out of that.
WD Amaradeva is the composer of Sandun Gase song and he owns it. And he never sang it for commercial purposes. And this song is on a cassete which is out for ornamental purposes.
You go to the Infolanka site, find letter A and click on Amaradewa WD, and find the song or just follow the hotlink in my earlier post.
Hi
Thanks for the information. Today for the 1st time I heard Amaradeva sing
this song, but I have no hesitation in saying that the duplicate is nowhere near
the romance of the original sung by Milton Perera. The medium through which
a song comes to the listner is the voice of the vocalist . We always associate
a song with the singer, & not with the lyricist or the composer. We never
associate a song with someone who sings it the 2nd time even though he may
be the composer of music, and did not sing it for commercial gain. Master
Amaradeva himself would have fallen in love with the original song for its sheer
beauty for which the credit is due to Milton Perera.
Going by your logic that the composer & lyricist are the owners of a song,
I dread to think of the day Sunil Ariyaratne & master Kemadasa break into
song for ornamental purposes. I for one will never listen to them !
Many a lovely melody sung by Victor Ratnayake was composed by Mervyn
Perera ( unknown to many ) but he has never done this ornamental thing !
With all due respect to master Amaradeva, although I never liked his voice.
Chrisanthie