Talk:Keeping the Dream Alive
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Keeping the Dream Alive
[edit]Having gone through your notability guidelines, I struggle to understand why the article for the song Keeping the Dream Alive by Freiheit was deleted. If it was just a novelty song which had disappeared into obscurity I would have understood, but Keeping the Dream Alive still receives airplay in the United Kingdom during Christmas (It was Christmas last week, I should know), and is often included on compilation albums. If your decision to redirect my article is based on chart positions, please remember that Driving Home for Christmas, another festive tune, only reached the top thirty, yet I don't see anyone making a fuss over that article; at least this song got to #14. Your guidelines also state that any potential entry must have been "... performed in a medium that is notable, e.g., a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album". I can confirm that the song was often used during American Idol as a backdrop to console failed contestants, was performed on Idol Gives Back (There is a video of this on YouTube), and was used in the major motion picture Say Anything.... It should also be noted that Kim Wilde covered the song on the deluxe edition of her 2015 album Wilde Winter Songbook. And I should also say that I was about to add more references before it was deleted. One of the reasons I created this page, apart from seasonal inspiration, was because to this day people still believe that it is a Beatles song, and indeed the references describe the song as "Beatle-esque", which confirms its notability. I think your decision less than an hour after posting was very unfair, condisering you didn't even "discus" it with other editors; Something similar happened years ago when I created the John & Edward page, but at least it was other editors gave their opinion before it was restored, and even then another editor passed off my work as their own. Maybe you hate Germans...it was years ago, and you probably hadn't been born...get over it!Jemmabond (talk) 15:26, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Songwriting credits
[edit]This is with regards to an edit I have made regarding the songwriting credits, specifically the English lyrics. Originally the article stated that the English lyrics were cowritten by Victor Briggs; however, the actual cowriter is Curtis Briggs, so I have corrected the article accordingly. I made this edit based on the song's various copyright registrations, which all list Curtis Briggs as the cowriter, not Victor Briggs:
https://online.gema.de/werke/search.faces (GEMA database - contains the song's copyright entry as well as other songs cowritten by Timothy Touchton and Curtis Briggs e.g. the rest of the songs from Fantasy)
https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/search/workID/410099700 (ASCAP database entry for the song - like with the GEMA database, the ASCAP database also contains other songs cowritten by the same duo, though not as many due to the writers' affiliations with GEMA rather than ASCAP)
https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?PAGE=sbSearch&SEQ=20190813131029&PID=Ha2dPYNNV3auxXXl6qdPjupqtoox (United States Copyright Office - Registration Number: PA0000419947 - again, there are other songs cowritten by the same duo in this database)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098258/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd (the soundtrack page for Say Anything... - not a copyright database, but the song was featured in the film and the songwriter in question is listed correctly on the page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.255.101 (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)