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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 26 2000, 20:38 Can anybody tell me what has Mike Oldfield got to do with a well-known song by Paul Hardcastle called "19" [the one which used pieces from old newsreels about the Vietnam War] ? MO is credited among the writers... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 24 2000, 21:38 COOOOOL!!! Is that true? I like "19". The only thing I can guess that MO is credited is the fact that the "pingling" synthesizer tune on "19" sounds just like the tune in TB where the instruments are called up. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 02 2000, 15:11 Hi, Dolphin. Sorry for this late reply but I only saw your post right now. YES IT'S TRUE!! If you want, can send you scans of the two covers of the compilation discs I have, where "M. Oldfield" is clearly mentioned among the writers. So that's what it is. A sample. Now I got it. It's all because of today's record companies' (and copyright) laws. I think that when the original 45rpm came out, MO wasn't mentioned anywhere. Now, anyone reprinting that song is obliged to mention MO simply because Hardcastle used a fragment from a MO-written tune... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

ChiRho Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: Nov. 26 2001, 05:10 It does sound similar, but can anyone confirm that Mike is not credited on the original 45? I had this thought that maybe he did the bit where we hear probably the only thing that could be called a verse/chorus: "All those who remember the War, They won't forget what they've seen; Destruction for men in their prime Whose average age was nineteen." To me, that sounded like it maybe didn't quite fit the rest, especially when Paul whacks it on as a sample ("D-D-D-D-Des-D-Des-Destruction") --XP http://www.chirho.i12.com/ http://pub97.ezboard.com/bchirho -------------- <P>Mr. ChiRho Email to chirho@mine.nu.almost (guess what drops) Visit ChiRho Network Central [URL=http://www.chirho.i12.com/]http://www.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Check the forums (topic suggestions still welcome[URL=http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/]http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 26 2001, 14:23 IMHO that verse is the only thing turning a rather incoherent jumble of samples (altough all of them are linked by their common theme) into a very decent dance song. I don't have the original 45 so I can't really say if Mike was credited on it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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