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Date: Dec 14, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: [gundam] Zeta Inbound!!!!!!!!!!!
On Tuesday, December 14, 2004 07:46, Vince Averello wrote:
Rights issues. too many layers of people to go through
(including Neil Sedaka here in the US, who appears to have
written/composed the themes). Bandai/Sunrise either couldn't
get approval or it cost too much for a limited release
In 1978, Dara released a 45 rpm single "My Guy" c/w "Beautiful You"
produced by
David Foster and Neil Sedaka on RSO Records. Dara recorded "Should've
Never Let
You Go'" with her father in 1980, which reached #19 on the pop chart. In
1982,
Dara released her first solo album entitled "I'm Your Girl Friend" only for
Japan. This album included "Angel Queen", the ED theme to the Leiji
Matsumoto's
Queen of 1,000 Years AKA Millennium Queen anime feature film, otherwise
scored
by the legendary New Age musician Kitaro. (A Japanese cover was also done
by
Moko Nanri.) The English lyrics were written by her father, Neil Sedaka,
who
was clearly intent on passing the torch, career-wise.
"I'm Your Girl Friend" featured a Who's Who of musical artists:
Drums: Mike Baird
Bass: Dennis Belfield
Guitar: Michael Landau, Steve Lukather
Keyboards: David Foster
Synthesizer: Steve Porcaro, Kitaro
Horns: Jerry Hey, Gary Grant
Sax: Gary Herbig
Backing Vocals: Pages (Richard Page & Steve George), Clif Newton, Bryan
Adams
Originally released on LP only by Canyon Record, the album was reissued on
CD by
West Wood Records, Japan (SDCF-1010) on 18 August 2004.
Dara Sedaka cut a wide swathe through the Japanese ad market thereafter,
bringing with her not only acclaim for her Japanese debut single and album
but
also the not inconsiderable name recognition of her father, who continued
to pen
most of her songs. Originally, Dara Sedaka was to have sung the Neil
Sedaka
compositions that became the Z Gundam OP/ED but the Powers That Be balked
at
such a package deal.
A compromise was reached whereby other artists, specifically Maya Akuyama
and
Hiroko Moriguchi, would do the vocals but that the music would be
restricted to
the Japanese market, allowing the Sedakas to produce it in North America,
if
they so chose.
Therein lies the rub. The Japanese own the lyrics, the arrangement and the
vocals, but not the actual composition, and the Japanese rights only extend
to
the Asian market.
Thanks for the repost. This doesn't seem to be commonly known info and
Dafydd didn't make a note of it in his post, so people can add the following
for trivia's sake:
All 3 of the Zeta songs composed by Neil Sedaka had original English
versions, though it looks like only 2 were recorded previously. "Z - Toki Wo
Koete" was derived from the song "Better Days Are Coming", which appeared on
Neil Sedaka's 1972 album "Solitaire". The original version of "Hoshizora No
Believe" was "Bad And Beautiful" from Sedaka's "Steppin' Out" recording from
1976. "Mizu No Hoshi E Ai Wo Komete" was written as "For Us To Decide" but
doesn't look as if it had been recorded before it was used for Zeta Gundam.
Way too brief audio clips from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000AF9G/ref=m_art_li_13/103-5428528-7695803?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000009CJX/ref=m_art_li_9/103-5428528-7695803?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174
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