"Great artists steal" (The C64 SID Challenge) 1/2

http://www.tepg.se (The Electronic Playground :: Games in movies and TV shows)

Part 1/2

A short trip down memory lane as we explore the great C64 musicians and where some of their inspirations came from.

Included are songs by among others; Galway, Hubbard, Crowther, Whittaker and Cooksey.

Listen to the original composers and their songs and see how many you knew beforehand.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• c64
• sid
• original
• music
• hubbard
• crowther
• whittaker
• cooksey

[inphanta]

Wow, some crusty old relics were dug up for this. Thing is, the most fondly remembered C64 tunes were not "borrowed" from other artists (the likes of Sanxion, Cybernoid and Parallax for example). Most of the tunes you feature here are very crude, early compositions that are not at all representative of what the SID chip went on to become. Informative compilation though.

[kaiBiggins]

So true... there are some serious tunes made on the C64 -- true masterpieces.

[MooglyGuy]

For what it's worth, some of these songs were in the public domain anyway (case in point: The Entertainer)

[kaiBiggins]

That might certainly be true ^^

[kaiBiggins]

Well, as i mentioned at the end there are so many more tunes to cover, Tim Follin is surely one of them.

[jci10]

Dude, everyone knew these songs were "borrowed" from the original authors like you mentioned. Nothing new here... with the exception of Zoids and another Hubbard song which escapes me now...

[bytesabre]

The "KickStart" music is such because on British TV there was a programme in the 80s about motorcross of the same name that used the Mr Walkie Talkie track as the theme tune. Most people know the music in the UK as "The kickstart theme tune"...

[videofan006]

I would also say that they did not steal anything. They worked quite legally and with approval and pride of all of us on translating well known melodies into this new media - cyber music. Yes these were slightly different times. People did not sue each other for whatever they could, but rather were happy if someone liked their tunes so much to implement it into movies or games... different times... and perhaps more normal, cheers.

[videofan006]

I would like to say "yes" but I cannot. I respectfully disagree with the thesis. It happens that I remember these times and how it came that this music was translated for SID, yes not composed, but translated. Nobody then who knew anything about music would mistake these perfectly well known tunes. And this is exactly WHY they were translated into games. It is also true that working on them gave these artists an opportunity to master their field of interest and later go for more... much more.

[tausendstein]

@kaiBiggins:

Did You ever hear the word "licensing" :) ? You can always play music from other composers, but You have to pay something for it. AND: Most of the songs in famous C64 games were originals by the computer composers ! Nevertheless a nice compilation, but perhaps You can remove the word "steal" from the title.Thx.

[spikeman14]

The one for California games is The troggs - Wild thing! Not whatever you put in this video

[thejokemon]

Most of them where obvious covers. Not one of the best and most famous tunes where here so this film was kinda meaningless.

[markchox]

#1 charriots of fire