It needs to be in classical style, but I’m not sure where to start. Most of the works are going to be some new “version of” with added/edited lyrics. I can do new works and I can do classical style, although I always have to look it up and think about it, but the combination of factors here is giving me brain static.
iTunes seems to get that it’s a “classical” release, but their version muddies the water, using original work titles instead of the titles on the release and piling artists on every which way (might be helpful for recording credits, at least): https://music.apple.com/us/album/hymn-to-potatoes/385551965
Hmm. The first question is whether VocalEssence should be as a performer on the release artist, or whether that’s just the label logo on the cover and it doesn’t count.
If we see this as classical (which probably makes sense) the next step might be to change the track artists to be the composers - I’d personally also include the arrangers as part of the track artists although that’s not explicit one way or the other in the guideline.
Next I’d add the performers, which you can probably base on the iTunes info indeed, if you don’t have a booklet.
And I’d generally agree that you’ll need new works for most since they’ll have parody lyrics, but you can worry about that last, probably?
I would say it’s just the label logo. On the back cover, the performer is listed as “VocalEssence Ensemble Singers.” For me, that differentiates the performer(s) from the label name. That leaves Garrison Keillor as the only artist credit on the cover.
That was my conclusion. VocalEssence is an organization which includes the Ensemble Singers, and also published the release. (Discogs had “Prairie Home Companion” as part of the artist credit, which clearly doesn’t fit MusicBrainz guidelines, and iTunes has a whole slew of artists, also not right for MusicBrainz.)
I’m asking because we seem to have a “VocalEssence” artist, but I haven’t researched it so I dunno if it’s the same as the “VocalEssence Ensemble Singers” or there are two or more groups under the org
I’d have to look up the exact sequence of events, but I think there was an evolution from it being the name of one group to multiple groups under the umbrella organization. By the time this release was created it was the latter.
Oh, here we go: 2002 Plymouth Music Series changes its name to VocalEssence.
I’ve actually started adding the works first, to get a better handle on the content (I have the recordings, just digital rather than CD). I’m not done yet, but the good news is that more of them than not are performances of the regular work, only woven into some kind of story or sketch narrated by Keillor. Would you still credit just the composer as the track artist, or would you include Keillor as well?
I did create a new work for “The Runaway Choir” as a medley, but even in that case it’s more a collection of partial performances broken up by narration than a single piece. Should I do it differently?
