UCSD BEAT - Big Yellow Taxi (Counting Crows)

The UCSD BEAT singing Big Yellow Taxi at the Dots Winter Show. Solo by David Chung

Category:

Music

Tags:

• UCSD
• BEAT
• BIG
• YELLOW
• TAXI
• ACAPELLA
• COUNTING
• CROWS

[DDrumChung]

umm...well, if you listen to it, we did the Counting Crows version of the song, so...yeah.

[bubbleyummygum]

Awww :] how cuteee dchung :D

[iLuv2sing365]

i didnt see his last name but the first thingi though of was "Chung" i was right! lol good job guys

[fagri81]

nice..

[09163338723]

hhhhow many times this song revised!

[skullsplitter13]

I don't buy it. Serious, knowledgeable musicians credit songwriters and arrangers. In this case the songwriter is Joni Mitchell and the arranger is the person (or people) who've created the particular arrangement that the UCSD group is using. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging Counting Crows for inspiring this version, but it shows ignorance of accepted practice when the songwriter is not credited.

[ChiroJoel]

Actually, I take it back. It makes a LOT of sense, and here's why:

For the most part, a cappella groups are cover bands with unique instrumentation. If someone is listening to a cover and really likes it, they may want to know where they can hear the version being covered. If this is the case, they have no interest in who the original artist was - they want to hear the sound they're familiar with. The original is good, but it's simply not what they're looking for.

[ChiroJoel]

I didn't say it made sense. I said it was how it's regularly done in the a cappella world. It's done so often, in fact, one might call it a custom. Or customary.

[ColeJohnson81]

This reasoning makes no sense. When acknowledging credit, it is customary to mention the songwriter first and then the arranger. Since Counting Crows is not the songwriter, and since they aren't responsible for this particular arrangement, it really doesn't matter from which source the idea for this version was "borrowed."

[ChiroJoel]

I get this kind of comment on my videos a lot too. It's not that the song was ORIGINALLY by Counting Crows, but that this a cappella arrangement was based on the Counting Crows version. I think you'll agree that they did it differently than Ms. Mitchell did.

[Michael03mc]

that was nice