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(TV) Re: The Beat Generation



This track is also on the re-issue of the Rod McKuen cd "Beatsville"...  I do
believe he wrote it, although I don't have the cd here at the work place to
double check...

Makes "Blank Generation" seem like a cover song.  Does this make Richard Hell,
"Vanilla Ice" or "Puff Daddy"?

MICHAEL CARLUCCI wrote:

>     Any of you ever heard the Bob McFadden 50's track "I Belong To The Beat
> Generation"? There's a compilation LP with songs about the Beat Generation.
> Let's just say that Hell didn't come up with this track completely on his
> own. Philip's got an idea to sound scan it so y'all can hear it. I once
> called Hell on the track and of course he admitted to it being plagerized.
> Apparently Tom turned him onto the track and Richard just re-wrote the
> lyrics for the new generation. But basically it's the same riff that TV
> use and the chord structure is the same. A cool song. M T C

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