Hoop Dee Doo Revue Rewritten Due to Copyright Claim

[k5jm]

Hoop Dee Doo, Hoop Dee Doo, I smell a lawsuit and they change the revue....

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Hoop Dee Doo Revue Rewritten Due to Copyright Claim
Posted on August 15, 2011 by John Frost

It’s a long and sordid story, but the crux of the matter is the original Hoop Dee Doo Revue featured a song based on a famous Perry Como polka (hear it here). Alas, all these years later the owners of the copyright on that song demanded Disney pay up, or stop using the song. Rather than fight, Disney has rewritten the title song of the popular show.

There’s a full video of the dress rehearsal or you can watch this version snapped on a cell phone, where the sound is a little better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT773H2b3Os

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the show in person. But while I don’t find the new song quite as snappy as the original, the audience doesn’t seem to mind and is clapping along with a lot of energy. If you’re a fan of the HDDR, what do you think of the new song?

For comparison I’ve place the opening title as it was in 2006 below the jump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKOGXG3JlgU

Here is my favorite, Frank Yankovic

 

[MainStreetFireman]

My DW first saw this show on her first trip (she thinks it might have been 4/73) to WDW, and we have seen it as a family every trip except one (and we wish we had seen it then in retrospect!).

It appears that the opening and closing numbers are the re-worked ones and that there is a new "chicken serving" song. Do I have this right?

Looking forward to seeing the new songs in less than a month! I'm OK with minor reworkings...just a s long as they don't change the Dole Whip!

 

[jcb]

Disney may have written the opening but it is not accurate to say that this was done "rather than fight" the copyright claim. Disney moved to dismiss the copyright claim. Rather than rule on the motion, the judge ordered the parties to a settlement conference. That is set for September 26, 2011.

The motion is still pending and, but for some procedural quirks, I thought Disney had the better argument. Disney's position is that their agreement with ASCAP licenses their use of the song. That license authorizes "non-dramatic performances". Disney's reasons for saying the use of the song is non-dramatic is:

Disney’s performance of the Composition is “non-dramatic” for at least two primary reasons: (a) it does not tell a story or advance or contribute to any narrative element of any “plot,” to the extent that the Show could even be deemed to have a “plot”; and (b) the Composition itself is and always has been just that, an individual musical composition (colloquially, a “song”) that is not and has never been a “dramatico-musical” work (i.e. a musical) or any part of any “dramatico-musical” work.

 

[kaligal]

I don't like the new song much and hope they come up with something better if they intend to stop using the original.

Big fan of the show.

 

[k5jm]

Disney may have written the opening but it is not accurate to say that this was done "rather than fight" the copyright claim. Disney moved to dismiss the copyright claim. Rather than rule on the motion, the judge ordered the parties to a settlement conference. That is set for September 26, 2011.

The motion is still pending and, but for some procedural quirks, I thought Disney had the better argument. Disney's position is that their agreement with ASCAP licenses their use of the song. That license authorizes "non-dramatic performances". Disney's reasons for saying the use of the song is non-dramatic is:

Disney’s performance of the Composition is “non-dramatic” for at least two primary reasons: (a) it does not tell a story or advance or contribute to any narrative element of any “plot,” to the extent that the Show could even be deemed to have a “plot”; and (b) the Composition itself is and always has been just that, an individual musical composition (colloquially, a “song”) that is not and has never been a “dramatico-musical” work (i.e. a musical) or any part of any “dramatico-musical” work.​

Jack, I find it funny that no where on the Hoop-Dee-Doo website does Disney mention the fact about the Hoo-Dee-Doo Musical Review being the "longest-running continually performed musical production." That is a fact that WDW used to promote.