Midsouth boys

I loved those guys and have gone the ebay route, myself.

The only copies I found through ebay and amazon go for forty dollars or more. I like them, but that just wasn't worth it.

I wish you luck, though.

Speaking of which, there was another group a little earlier than them who tried to incorporate a contemporary country sound (which at that time would be the Oak Ridge Boys and such).

I remeber that I had a cassette of theirs that had two songs: "I Saw You Last Night in the Arms of My Best Friend" (it wasn't a cheating song. he walks in and finds his wife praying), and "Please Let Me Sing in the Choir" (about an old man who wants to sing in the church choir, but can't sing, then dies and the scene shifts to him singing in the "heavenly choir").

That's all I remember. I'd be really curious to know who that was.

If anybody knows who I'm talking about, please, speak up.

 

I have several Midsouth Boys albums:

Boys Will Be Boys (1985) a cassette
Christian Country Hearts (1986) a cassette
City Lights (1987) a cassette
One Of A Kind (1988) a cassette
Down To Earth (1989)
Give What It Takes (1994)
Lessons Of Life (1992)
Shoulder To Shoulder (1991)

 

It the Dixie Melody Boys. The song about the old man was 'Antioch Church Choir'.

 

I actually don't have the cassettes and cd's anymore. I have them all on my pc in mp3 format. A friend had given me his collection of many of the old groups.

But they are the complete albums.

 

Cassettes are slowly phasing out as did the 8-tracks before them.

I probably will burn me the cassette recordings to cd for a hard copy back-up.

 

Tim,

I would offer to burn them to cd for you, but not sure if that would be legal.

 

I will check into it. If it is impossible to buy the old cd's anymore, would they still fall under copyright?

 

While surfing, I ran across this article:

It’s surprising to me that the Mercury News has accepted the record labels’ terminology in this matter. Piracy refers to making unauthorized reproductions of digital media for financial gain — or, stretching the term, for indiscriminate distribution. It is not piracy — “casual” or otherwise — when you buy music and make a few copies for close friends.
As Jessica Litman, author of “Digital Copyright,” writes in her law review article “War Stories,” 20 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law
Journal 337 (2002):

Under the old way of thinking about things, copying your CD and carrying the copy around with you to play in your car, in your Walkman, or in your cassette deck at work is legal. Borrowing a music CD and making a copy on some other medium for your personal use is legal. Recording music from the radio; maxing different recorded tracks for a ‘party tape,’ and making a copy of one of your CDs for your next-door neighbor are, similarly, all lawful acts. The copyright law says so: section 1008 of the copyright statute provides that consumers may make non-commercial copies of recorded music without liability. Many people seem not to know this any more.



http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=847

It would appear that copying old cassettes to pass out to others is perfectly legal.
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3.7) Can I legally make a cassette copy of a musical CD for my own use,
so I can play it in my car?

This issue has been argued back and forth for many years, with consumers
groups arguing that this was a fair use (see sections 2.8 and 2.9), and
the recording industry arguing that it was not. The issue was finally
settled by Congress when the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) (P.L. 102-
563, 106 Stat. 4237, codified at 17 U.S.C. 1001 - 1010) was passed in
October 1992. This Act added ten sections to Title 17, one of which
provided an alternative to the fair use analysis for musical recordings.
The new section states:

No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement
of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or
distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital
audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an
analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a
consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical
recordings or analog musical recordings.

17 U.S.C. 1008.

As the legislative history to this statute noted, "In short, the reported
legislation would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for
making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."
H.R. Rep. 102-780(I).

Does this mean you can make copies for your family and friends, as long
as it's not "commercial?" A strict reading of the words in the statute
would seem to say that you may. This is not as outrageous as it sounds.
Part of the impetus behind the AHRA was the perception that blank tapes
were being used mostly to copy commercial musical sound recordings. As a
result, the AHRA provided that a royalty payment (referred to as a "DAT
tax" by its detractors) be paid for each sale of digital audio tape to
compensate authors of musical works and sound recordings for the profits
lost due to these copies. See 17 U.S.C. 1003, 1004. Arguably, the AHRA
anticipates and allows exactly this type of copying, and a literal
reading of section 1008 would tend to support this position. But the
AHRA is still sufficiently new this hasn't been tested in court yet.

Note, also, that this section applies only to musical recordings; it
clearly does not include spoken word recordings. Of course, it is still
possible that such a use of a spoken word recording might still be
considered a section 107 fair use (see sections 2.8 and 2.9), even though
section 1008 does not apply to provide a clear exemption.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/faq/part3/

 

Thanks, but I remembered right after I posted that.

It wasn't the Dixie Melody Boys, but the Mercy River Boys.

All those "Boys" get confusing after a while.