Talk:Bye Bye Blackbird

Needs disambiguation
"Bye bye blackbird" is also the name of a US program. This page needs a disamgbiguation page plus that page too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.169.54 (talk) 02:29, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles
It has been proposed by Yeepsi that WikiProject The Beatles be added due to Ringo Starr recording this song on a solo album. I think this topic should be open up for discussion to see if individual songs by the solo members should be part of the project before the project added. Please do not add this category again until a discussion has taken place. Housewatcher (talk) 21:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Most of the artist projects add any song recorded by that artist with the relevant template, so it seems appropriate that the Beatles template should be added here. However, I note that the editor who added it also added the template to Boris the Spider which claims no Beatle connection in the article... and there's more. --Richhoncho (talk) 14:30, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ringo covers alot of songs on his Studio albums. Although, not every song he was covered has "Covered by Ringo", or in various forms on the articles. --Yeepsi (Talk to me!) 14:33, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * And if its not important enough to be stated and referenced in the article then the template should be removed. --Richhoncho (talk) 14:36, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

lyrics
The lyrics were removed because of copyright violations. But how come the lyrics are copyrighted? The song has been there for more than 50 years, so there shouln't be any copyright left, right?

Dboonz (talk) 11:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

I removed the lyrics because according to the WP article on US copyright law, "Works published or registered before 1978 currently have a maximum copyright duration of 95 years from the date of publication, if copyright was renewed during the 28th year following publication[29] (such renewal was made automatic by the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992; prior to this the copyright would expire after 28 years if not renewed). The date of death of the author is not a factor in the copyright term of such works." If you have evidence that the lyrics are out of copyright I would have no objection to them being re-added, but I suspect others would take the same action as me. Cheers. Richhoncho (talk) 19:23, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

The lyrics seem to be the lament of a migrant worker about to leave the north to go back home to the sunny south... Is this not worth a mention? Des anyone know which workers it might have referred to exactly? Szczels (talk) 14:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Mad Men
There is a mistake: this song does not appear in an episode of Mad Men. The actual song is called "Bye Bye Birdie", instead of "Bye Bye Blackbird". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chiqui1985 (talk • contribs) 04:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

House of the Rising Sun
It is not clear what the meaning of the old English/American folk song House of the Rising Sun is. However it is probably not about a "prostitute return[ing] to the business".Royalcourtier (talk) 06:30, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Especially if it was written before the 1940s, when there weren't that much of them around. Analog Horror, (talk to me) 19:02, 17 February 2020 (UTC)Analog Horror