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I would like to see how many people are interested in attempting an AmiRight commercial album.

I would suggest the following:

Step 1: Elect the authors
- This would be some proportional voting system to elect the authors whose parodies will be considered
Step 2: Elect the songs
- This will involve taking one author at a time and voting for the authors best song
Step 3: Elect the singers
- Singers send in MP3 samples of their voices and are elected to perform elected songs. The MP3's would be of them singing the songs they are applying to sing
Step 4: Elect the musicians
- Musicians send in samples of their work, playing the songs they wish to be considered for
Step 5: Submit the sample MP3's of voice and music along with the lyrics to the songs chosen to several major record companies and guage their interest in recording an album.

AmiRight could be the next National Lampoon or Second City!!!
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John T.G., It's a very intriguing idea...I'm interested but it may turn out to be a rather monumental undertaking.  Still, I'm looking forward to seeing the other author's thoughts & remarks about this.

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i'd be up for this too... only problem is all i've got is a cheap computer mic too and i'm probably far from the best singer here
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Weird Al does not *have* to get permisssion, but he tries to anyway just because he's a nice guy.
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I can back up wdh on that---legally speaking, there is no imperative for the artist's permission.  But, proper royalties to the songwriter still has to be made if any profit comes from a parody.

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i'd be up 4 it because ive been told i can "sang".

btw, we dont need permission as long as we don't sing over the artists instrumentals. just need someone with fruity loops or something like that to make reproductions of the instrumentals.
our single should be about something curent...

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there are two kinds of royalties that must be paid (this is based on Samples), theres recording royalties, and song royalties

If you take the music directly from the original recording by the artist, then you must pay recording royalties.  There is a way to get around this, and that is to either 1)Have the artist record a new version of the song just for you (like what Puffy did with Sting on "Ill be missing you")..you avoid using an original version then, or 2)You replay the song yourself

The second royalties, SOng royalties, must be paid no matter what...if you sample the song, no matter what recording you use, you are using that artists song....these royalties are paid to the SONGWRITER, not the artist (if different)..its his music, his lyrics, his arangment

now, true, we are not "sampleing" per se, but we are using their original music, and would therefore have to pay song royalties if we make money off of it (and if the songwriter is an a-hole, even if we dont)....if we use the original recording, then we have to pay recording royalties, because technicly, we are sampling the music....

but ever since the lawsuit brough against Biz Markee by Gilbert O'sullivan for "Just a friend", musicans are not allowed to sample the same way they used to (making something like "Pauls Bouteq" to become impossible)......

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I nominate "Uranus" by Spaff.com as an AmiRight single, with a female voice...
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Thanks for plugging Uranus, Mr. Grunt. Single or no single, I'd be thrilled to have a female do Uranus. Robert Lund has already recorded it:
http://www.spaff.com/poesy/uranus.html

But if any Annie-esque vocalists out there are really serious about taking a "crack" at it (heh heh), I'll see if RL is willing to pass along the bed (industryspeak for the minus-vocals backing track) that he whipped up for it.

xoxox
Spaff