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WE ARE THE RECORDING ARTISTS

from PUTREFACTION LEFTOVERS (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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Is this my song or is this not my song? That is the question. The full story: I was in the process of dating a person named Carol back in 1991. Her birthday was coming up and I was scheduled in the recording studio with a fellow friend and musician, Sean Crain, so I decided, off the cuff, along with the couple assistant engineering students, to record us singing, “Happy Birthday to You.” When we all sang it, I did a totally silly vocal (pretending like I couldn’t sing) and everyone kind of had a silly but good time doing a terrible version of it on purpose. At the time, I was under the impression that the copyright was set or had expired and that I could claim this version as an arrangement done by myself. However, due to copyright law changes, the song retained its copyright and I couldn’t do anything with this recording without paying some kind of royalty fee. So, for all these years, this recording stayed with me, sitting on a shelf. Instead of waiting until 2030 for the copyright to expire (and new laws in the future may change it anyway) I decided to take the recording of what I had and do some interesting experiments with it using the Audacity music editor. Now, I can present this as my own song, retaining some of the silliness that was recorded just prior and after the singing of the actual song. Since I manipulated this recording to an extent that no one in the world would know it was me, along with 3 or 4 other people singing ‘Happy Birthday to You’, I believe I can claim this as my own work. Plus, it retains the flare for the avant-garde which I’m so fond of when it comes to sounds. This was recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA. with main engineer, Kearney Barton, and reworked and remixed at MINE Music Studio. This is recording #399.

Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA.

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Okay, this is: we are the recording artists, take one. That’s not like I’m a,
Go ahead. Oh, we’re all set? We’re all set. We’re all here.
Can we have us leading please? Now, okay doke!
Say take one again, I need to hear that.
We are the recording artists, take one.
Hello, everybody! To-----from----and all the people here saying---here we go!
Thank you very much! Nanu, nanu.

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from PUTREFACTION LEFTOVERS (2024 Remaster), released May 20, 2015
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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