It reached #11 in the UK, and the Top 10 in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands. The song combines elements of " Do It Again", a 1973 Top 10 hit in the US and Canada by Steely Dan, with Michael Jackson's #1 hit from earlier in the year, " Billie Jean". ![]() This recording has led some to describe Harry Nilsson as the inventor of the mashup.Īlthough described as a medley in its title, " Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean" by Italian music project Club House could be described as one of the first ever commercially released mashups in 1983. Nilsson conceived the combining of many overlaying songs into one track after he played a chord on his guitar and realized how many Beatles songs it could apply to. ![]() Nilsson's recording of "You Can't Do That" mashes his own vocal recreations of more than a dozen Beatles songs into this track. The 1967 Harry Nilsson album Pandemonium Shadow Show features what is nominally a cover of the Beatles' " You Can't Do That" but actually introduced the "mashup" to studio-recording. ![]() Such works are considered " transformative" of original content and in the United States they may find protection from copyright claims under the " fair use" doctrine of copyright law. A mashup (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend, bastard pop or bootleg ) is a creative work, usually a song, created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, typically by superimposing the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another and changing the tempo and key where necessary.
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