HW Changing song titles

[Moonglum .]

Dave Brock once said this was for "publishing reasons".  Two possible
scenarios come to mind:

1.  Retitled song is significantly different to original, e.g. Mask of the
Morning sounds totally different to Mirror of Illusion.  I don't have the
1st album in front of me, but suppose for the sake of argument that Mirror
of Illusion was originally credited to Brock/Turner, and Dave Brock later
re-used the lyrics in a new musical setting.  Assuming that he originally
wrote the lyrics and Turner came up with (some of) the music, the new song
is all Brock's and none of it is Turner's.  So it gets a new name and is
credited solely to Brock.

2.  Problems with old publishing companies.  Let's say the band are in
dispute with the publishing company they were using in the early 70's and
they redo an old song.  Instead of issuing it under the old name, the new
version gets a new name and publishing rights are assigned to the new
publishing company.  Such disputes are not unknown, as the writing credit
of Calvert/MacManus on Silver Machine goes to show!
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:12:46 -0000, Dewi Thompson <dewi4 at BTINTERNET.COM>
wrote:

>Anyway, I've got a question which has probably been asked before, but I'll
>ask anyway.  Why do so many HW songs turn up with different names on
>various albums and tours?  I daresay there's a very good reason, but can
>someone explain?
>
>cheers
>Dewi