Aimiel
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Christian Music Group, the company that owns the copyrights to the song, credit the actual authors:
Songwriters: Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant
He's Alive lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group
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Songwriters: Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant
He's Alive lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group
Capitol can make any claim they want, but on the original album Don Francisco put out he was credited with the lyrics and music. I know because I had the album. I've been a huge fan of Don Francisco's since the mid 70's and have owned most of his early albums. Furthermore, the words and music fit stylistically with the other songs he's written over the last 45-50 years. His signature lyrical style is telling Biblical stories from the perspective of one of the participants in the story, and that's what this song does. He tells the story from Peter's perspective. I can give you example after example of this if you would like.
I know van Zandt is a good song writer, but the message of He's Alive fits with Don Francisco's song writing much better than with van Zandt's.
Aimiel
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Capitol can indeed do whatever they want, such as letting Don Francisco receive the award, making his albums more popular and leading to better sales; but they give the songwriters credit for the lyrics because, legally: they have to.
That is a null and void argument. The record label that published Don Francisco's music also had a legal responsibility to provide accurate songwriter information on his albums. The album on which He's Alive was included, Forgiven, gave Don Francisco the credit for music and lyrics. If they had provided false information they would have been sued into oblivion.
The major record labels, including Columbia, have a long and shameful history of cheating musicians out of their copyright and the income from their record sales. Think there's a reason Don Francisco went to self-publishing his music decades ago? He left the big record labels behind a long time ago. On his web site his old major record label albums are called his "old" music. He sells those cds from a different page on his site than he does the last couple of decades of his music. He also tells the story in his testimony how the big company executives tried to control his content. They didn't like him writing songs about morals and righteousness. That their dislike/hatred of him would cause them to cheat him is no big stretch.
If you want to believe what Capitol says though, go ahead.
Here's a link from Don Francisco's website. In it the claim is made that Don wrote the song in 1974. Why isn't he being sued for making false claims as this site and the content have been up for several years?
https://www.donfrancisco.com/about
As to songs similar in style to the lyrics of He's Alive, I'd like to see you show multiple instances of the same style from van Zandt and/or Collins. I'll give you hooktube links to a slew of examples from Don Francisco.
The first five links are from the album Genesis to Job and all come from the life of Job.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=mQtYgUOh3GQ God, Job, and the Devil
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=vooU3ca70Gw Job's Lament
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=m5YOJE4gg3g Cold Comfort
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=Q9OCLfnihaw Job's Defiance
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=zB5oL7Ti814 God's Reply
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=yeBqjKlQCn8 Beautiful to Me
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=7VknKAoxDiI Got to Tell Somebody
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=uYmucQyOBuA Too Small a Price
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=5eHrwQB5Yf0 Since I Met Him
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=qnu2JmPMBT8 Come and Follow
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=1tXD40DfWuw Voyage to Gennesaret
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=1_mxqsNuIHQ Everything is Possible
If you want more examples I can give them to you. I figured this was enough to prove my point though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF89swJ9IU
When the chorus is sung my mind's eye turns to The Messiah, "I can't help falling in love with You" amen.
When the chorus is sung my mind's eye turns to The Messiah, "I can't help falling in love with You" amen.
Arthur Brain
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annabenedetti
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Bob Dylan - Forever Young
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Ursine Vulpine - Forever Young
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annabenedetti
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From Killing Eve
Cry Baby Cry - Unloved
Cry Baby Cry - Unloved
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Another:
Devil's Angels - Unloved (Killing Eve)
Devil's Angels - Unloved (Killing Eve)
Arthur Brain
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Intriguing series...
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It is, I'm watching the second season now. Jodie Comer is fantastic as Villanelle.
Something I love about a lot of series I've seen on Netflix and Prime is their soundtracks. I've looked up quite a few songs based on just a passing bit in a scene. Russian Doll comes to mind too, but many others.
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annabenedetti
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She really is mesmerizing, the way her expressions move across her face makes (for me, anyway) everyone else fade into the background. I only watch it for her, actually.
Unfortunately I couldn't play your video, so here's one that'll play here:
Arthur Brain
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The way she can veer from almost child like playfulness to utterly lethal killer is brilliantly portrayed and her expressions are as you say. Everyone else involved is good but she pretty much makes the show.