Re: (TV) Is nothing sacred?

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 3:50 PM +0000 2/25/05, Keith Allison wrote:
> so I did give a cheer when Tom Waits sued the company and won a hell 
> of a lot of money when they used Screaming Jay Hawkins singing a 
> cover of one of his songs (forgotten which) for, I think, an ad for 
> jeans.

I believe that was Frito-Lay, and I don't think the vocalist was 
Screaming Jay, but someone else they'd hired.  They'd wanted to use 
"Step Right Up," and when he refused, they recreated it closely 
enough that Tom won the judgement.
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Maurice Rickard
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