Mindy Carson - Bewitched (1950) [OT]
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Topic: Mindy Carson - Bewitched (1950) [OT]
Posted By: PopArchivist
Subject: Mindy Carson - Bewitched (1950) [OT]
Date Posted: 27 August 2023 at 11:21am
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Off topic but this song listed in Whitburn's 1950 annual listing does not appear to exist. I've searched everywhere.
Anyone have it, know where it is or can find a 78/45 of it? Thanks in advance. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 27 August 2023 at 12:03pm
Don't bother looking for it...it's a copyright trap that doesn't exist. |
PopArchivist wrote:Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 27 August 2023 at 12:25pm
I sort of wondered why it didn't exist ANYWHERE. Thank you. I take it that it helped Mr. Whitburn catch people? ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 27 August 2023 at 8:04pm
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Disappointing... with a title like "Bewitched," I was looking forward to adding it to my Halloween station. :-D ------------- Gene Savage http://www.BlackLightRadio.com - http://www.BlackLightRadio.com http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage Tulsa, Oklahoma USA |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 29 August 2023 at 5:02am
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Wild.
Can anyone point out any other examples? (No, "Ready 'N' Steady" by D.A. doesn't count...) Andy |
Posted By: FrankG
Date Posted: 29 August 2023 at 9:40am
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Coincidentally, I recently came across another copyright
trap listed in Wikipedia for the rock band Charlie: "Note that in earlier editions of Joel Whitburn's Billboard chart books, a Charlie album called Fifth Flight is listed as having charted in 1981 at #99. This album did not exist, and never charted — its inclusion in Whitburn's book is either an error or a deliberate copyright trap. In any event, later editions of Whitburn's books (post-2006) make no mention of it." |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 29 August 2023 at 10:00am
There are a few more sprinkled in various books over the years. I know them all, but it's more fun when people find them for themselves. For the record, I was never a fan of them and most have since been purged from subsequent editions. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 29 August 2023 at 10:00am
Yep, that's one! |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 29 August 2023 at 12:40pm
Yea when we can't find the track anywhere Paul I will remember to email you first about it. Did Joel really worry about people breaking copyright on his work that he had to throw in fake chart hits to ward them off? PS A copyright trap in a 1950 annual listing? I'm probably one of the few here who noticed it since I was trying to collect every 50's annual hit.... ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 30 August 2023 at 4:19am
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Copyright traps are common in reference works, but as I said, I was never a fan of putting them into the Record
Research books. I always felt that most of our readers would see them as "mistakes" and therefore they would reflect poorly on the books overall. In the end, we never did find anybody who copied those fictitious entries to any great extent, thus defeating the whole purpose of putting them in the books in the first place (and why we subsequently removed them). While we always strive for perfect accuracy, with the millions of data points in a typical Record Research book, some minor typos or typesetting errors are bound to occur. I wish our customers could see some of the initial printouts I run and then how much effort goes into proofing and editing the final product. Which is why we're sometimes late on our initial projections for getting a project done on time. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 30 August 2023 at 3:32pm
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I don't know if it was intended as a 'copyright trap', but the
sixth edition of The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits includes Florian Zabach's version of "When The White Lilacs Bloom Again" and indicates that it reached #40. The song actually only reached #50 and is not included in any other edition I own. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 31 August 2023 at 4:49am
That's another one! I was very unhappy with that one as it changed data for an actual record and not one that was totally made up like the others. Funny story (which gets back to the original topic)...When Joel was putting all the songs from the Pop Hits book on his hard drive, I got a frantic call one day that he couldn't find "Bewitched" by Mindy Carson! I had to remind him that it was a "plant" and we both got a good chuckle out of it. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 05 September 2023 at 8:38am
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I think there is another one in 2002. Forgot which one Paul, but its there. Doesn't exist either. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 05 September 2023 at 8:41am
That would be "Who U Been Wit" by Lil' Joe. Totally made up and no longer in our database, so it won't be in any future books. |