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Topic: Booklet credits for Romance & Closer, A bit perplexing...

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Ugo

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Posted: Oct. 02 2005, 15:34

Due to the fact that I have so little time to read carefully all the posts in all the new topics, I don't really know if this has been mentioned previously or not. If it has, please forgive me and point me to the appropriate thread.

In the Light & Shade booklet, Mike is credited as writer on two pieces he didn't write: "Romance", whose composer is unknown (a while ago I thought it was by Narciso Yepes, but then I found out that he only did the best-known guitar arrangement, the one heard in the Jeux interdits movie); and "Closer" a.k.a. "Pres de Toi" a.k.a. "Nearer my God to Thee", which is traditional. Now, what perplexes me a bit is the fact that on the cover of the Voyager album (the last one before L&S where Mike played music he didn't write) there are at least two pieces being credited as "Traditional, arranged by Mike Oldfield", that are not traditional at all!!

So, I'm wondering whether it was only carelessness by the booklet compilers, or it was done on purpose - to make Mike appear as the writer of his own versions of those tunes so that he could get royalties from them... although I can't really picture him as a greedy kind of guy.

So, what do you think?

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Cinos

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Posted: Oct. 02 2005, 15:36

He'd get royalties for at least Romance anyway, since the composer is unkown, right?

Tati The Sentinel Offline

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Posted: Oct. 02 2005, 20:23

But for Slipstream, the writer was credited(Cluts,aka Jason Cluts).

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Locutus

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Posted: Oct. 03 2005, 12:14

(im not here to solve the problem)
just to add that Etude from The Killing Fields was also extremly highlighted as a F.Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra, a tremolo piece for guitar.(on remaster edition anyway)

maybe he's calling the shots because of the melody key change,and a general belief that trad. tunes are actually res derelicta....

Hillbilly

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Posted: July 29 2006, 06:29

I immediately recognised Oldfield's "Romance" as the Swedish -as I thought - song "Du är den ende" (which means "You are the only one")!

The most famous version of it is sung by Lill Lindfors. I only knew that the lyrics were penned by poet Bo Setterlind, but I had never thought about who the composer is. Now I had to find out!

A web site for a choir has the song credited to
Music: V Gomez.

Another site had this information about the composer and the title:
Trad./V.Gomez - Romance de Amor

A traditional tune adapted by (or composed by) V. Gomez?

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Posted: July 29 2006, 07:05

Quote (Hillbilly @ July 29 2006, 12:29)

I immediately recognised Oldfield's "Romance" as the Swedish -as I thought - song "Du är den ende" (which means "You are the only one")!

The most famous version of it is sung by Lill Lindfors. I only knew that the lyrics were penned by poet Bo Setterlind, but I had never thought about who the composer is. Now I had to find out!

yes true, because everytime i play romance when mom is here, she sings the lyrics to that song