Talk:Alabama Song

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Fair use rationale for Image:Bowie AlabamaSong.jpg

Image:Bowie AlabamaSong.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Deleting Bowie single cover; dubious about fair use in this article and duplicated at Alabama Song (David Bowie song) which may be merged with this one anyway. Cheers, Ian Rose 02:02, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alabama Song should be the main article. The Doors and Bowie's covers would rightly be subsections of that page, if not pages of their own. But the Weill/Brecht original version should be the starting point. 72.79.198.204 06:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strange assertions

There are a couple of things I find strange or perhaps wrong in this article and it would be nice if knowledgeable editors could have a look and advise.

1. The Weill song, we are told, was written in 1927. Without hardly pausing for breath the article then says "The song style is typical of German schlager music, which was popular in Europe from the 1960s through the 1970s." I find this bizarre - how can a 1927 song typify a 60s/70s style? Surely the assertion is backwards, if it's even worth mentioning at all. What do you think?

2. When it talks about covers, the article mentions a 1964 cover as "very early on". Very early on in what exactly? This seems, at first sight, to be a rather popcentric comment. It's not exactly early in the song's history - it had been written for about 37 years by then. It might be early on in the writer's view of the history of pop covers, but it gives a very odd spin to the article, as if there was NO musical history or popular music between 1927 and 1964. Can this be what was intended?

Thanks in advance for having a look at these issues, from a long-dead ex-user 82.45.248.177 (talk) 12:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]