From my records this is the first time a duo has won road march, for the last 50 years or more it has been by an individual.
However, the instrumentation at the beginning of the song band of the year is a sample from a pop tune and also the melody patrice is singing, which should have ruled them out of road march bc of the originality rule that was introduced by TUCO 2 years ago and stipulates you cant sample other music, it must be original to win competition and Road March, this was the reason I never entered one of my road march tunes bc it borrowed from an existing melody of another artist.
so this being the case, how machel and patrice win, strange that the rule wasnt enforced and how come the other artists didn't complain?
U does keep records? Interesting.
As for the samplin thing, the reason other artistes eh complain is because they understand the rule. Have a look...
Band of the Year, which was sung by Patrice Roberts and Machel Montano, has copped the 2006 Tuco/Digicel/CT 105 FM Road March award.
The winners walked away with a car sponsored by CT 105 FM.
The song was played 334 times on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, the highest tally in the competition for several years.
Coming in a distant second was Shurwayne Winchester’s Ah can’t wait, played 98 times and Montano’s Dilirious was played 91 times.
The announcement, which was made by Tuco president Michael Legerton during a press conference yesterday, brought with it questions on whether or not the song was sampled from Enya’s Caribbean Blue.
Only last week, Tuco had announced, in its update of the Road March rules, that “calypsoes that depend on samples or adaptation of existing melodies shall not be eligible and will not be considered in the Road March competition.”
However, Legerton said he spoke to a number of musicologists and even consulted a lawyer on the matter.
“Based on the international laws, which tells you that eight bars of any song can be used by anybody, we have checked it and we couldn’t come up with eight bars being used,” he said.
“Seeing that is not the case, the song becomes eligible as a Road March contender and eventual winner.”
The Tuco president said the organisation would not place an entire ban on sampling in future, but called on the younger artistes to be more creative.
“Let us learn to create melodies, because we can go back as far as and take all the Road March coming forward and you are hardly likely to find any sampling until very recently,” Legerton said.
“I have no problems with the youth experimenting, but you have to know how far we can go with that and what the end result is likely to be.”
He said an incentive will be put into future competitions for the road march song which has no sampling.
“So that way, if people want to be in the money, they are going to know they have to cut out sampling otherwise no way,” he said.
Few questions for you...
1 - Have you ever heard the song "Caribbean Blue" before?
2 - Have you ever heard Band of the Year? Did you hear the pop tune before you heard Band of the Year?
3 - If your answers to #2 & 3 are affirmative...when you heard Band of the Year, did you immediately say....wheeeeyyys....dat Band of the Year tune sound familiar boy...ah think it sound like dah pop tune.
Should you choose to respond, please try and be honest with your answers.
Thanx.
No i have never heard caribbean blue, but I have heard band of the year and the pop song there borrowing from i also heard but i can't remember the name, i have a very good ear for music my friend, sitting down with some the great artists from trinidad and talking with them they were amazed by my ear for music, band of the year is a sample, but is within the 8 bars bc I listened to it, but its still a sample and comes very close to to getting disqualified, just over 4 bars but just under 8 bars, machel and patrice come close.
Now I have some questions for you?
1.) did u know it was sampled?
2.) did u know about the rule?
3.) Have you ever composed a song in your life?
4.) can you even sing a note?
5.) have you ever released a song in your life?
6.) have you ever met any or been surrounded by our great artists? if so who?
7.) Are you a member of TUCO? bc I am
please respond honestly, bc I am an artist and I am a member of our calypso fraternity.
