Maverick queue songs!

Your mom is to fat to ride TTD. said:
Ok I have a quick music question. Why doesnt Cedar Point play new music?

Well, one might think that they have to pay royalities on the music they play, and royalties are often less on older music, and re-recordings from the original. I have not, however, ever heard whether they pay royalties or not though.

For a business that sues their own fans, I have no doubts that CP is charged for royalties. Record companies, movie studios, and TV networks are all ridiculous if you ask me.

Craig, while I see your point, I have to ask whether your opinion would be different if it was your work that was being stolen? There would be little if anything left of those companies if everything were free and open to file sharing programs.

I have a very strong stance on buying all my music (I love iTunes), but at the same I can't stand the record labels.

Record labels are probably the worst in my mind. I buy a song on iTunes and I'm very limited to what I can do with it after that. Yet, those who don't steal their music can do what ever they want with it. While I understand the point of DRM (digital rights management), its execution is just penalizing those who are trying to do the right thing.

Not really related, but try to get an episode of The Office on your iPod "legally". I was successful with this up until two weeks ago. Thanks NBC.

^ Not to mention that the artists only see such a small fraction of the sale of any of their music. Most of it goes right into the pockets of the record companies.

I'm pretty sure that the park pays some kind of blanket royalties to ASCAP/BMI, but I'm not sure what the arrangement is. For example, they often play those really bad covers (the Ghostbusters theme comes to mind), where the song is performed by some nobody. I assume that means it's cheaper since the artist doesn't need to be paid, just the publisher. But even then, I suspect there are different rules for queues and the midways. The queues would probably qualify as a local club or bar (who also pays royalties, or is supposed to anyway).

But to answer the question posed earlier, you know how that place is. They go for what's generally safe and puts off as few people as possible. So when you try to pacify everyone, you actually meet no ones expectations and you just get bored with it.

We can thank the Mantis queue for making me hate "Love Shack" and want to stick hot pokers in my ears every time I hear it. The funny irony there is the song is about orgies, so I'm not sure how that was safe.

Chalk one up for the Mantis queue making me hate Breakfast at Tiffany's.

MArk one up... Oh wait I dont ride Mantis lol. ;)

And we can thank Maverick's queue for getting me to hum stupid songs like Rawhide and Mule Train all day. :)

Why cant they just buy songs for a dollar on Itunes and then play it in the park? I know there is some rule about taking someones music and then charging other people to listen to it just like MLB games but guest are paying to get in the park.

Buying music on iTunes or on a CD or whatever does not give you public performance rights.

Nope, iTunes only gives you rights to listen in private, so to speak. They can't get away with just spending $1 per song, as sweet as that idea may sound.

Yes Shawn, one of them does sound like it has a polka mix in it. I remember that one being a pretty short song; the other was fairly long.

Hey Shawn, I found the names of the two songs we were thinking of: the one is called "Frisky" and the other is "Lucious Cake Waitress", both by Marc Daine and the Jazz Cowboys.

DJ's can play any music they want as long as they paid for it.

Does anyone know the name of the song where it whistels through the whole thing?

Likely "A Fistful of Dollars" from the Clint Eastwood film. I also believe it was Ennio Morricone's first spaghetti western credit.

They should play I wanna be a cowboy, by boys don't cry. it fits the theme really well.

When I was there last year (opening weekend for the Maverick) they played the theme song to "Dallas" (if anyone remembers that show in the 80's). My mom drove me nuts watching that every Friday night and I couldn't wait until that song was over.. ugh.

@ You Mom & Cedar Dan- Yeah the whistling song is "Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo (Titoli) [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Main Title)]" from Ennio Morricone and I think they may use a song or two from the other Man with No Name Spaghetti Western Trilogy films I can't remember. The other two being "A Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More" although Clint Eastwood had a name in each of them - Joe, Monco and Blondie. Trivia: The other trademark sounds they make in some of his songs are meant to mimick a laughing hyena. Trivia: The Italian title translated into English is actually The Good, the Ugly, the Bad. The Maverick queue music aren't the real Ennio Morricone versions. What I see on iTunes is The Ghost Rider Orchestra that Top Chill Snowcones found. They have two albums "K-Tel Presents: The Greatest Western Themes" (12 songs) and "17 Greatest Western themes" (that one has "Rawhide" on it).

@ Buckeye - Good call on the Marc Daine and the Jazz Cowboys songs. A couple of unexpected upbeat instrumentals that people seem to actually like in line.

And from back a few pages Tennessee Ernie Ford did "16 Tons"