Give Us Your Heart Lord” by Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album “Where Would I Be Without You”? recorded and produced by Ross Gill

Last week’s blog finished with this question – “Has Mustard Seed Songs sampled or been guilty of sampling or plagiarism”?
Well, I have always tried my best to avoid both, however not with complete success! I once sang a song to a dear friend, Laurie Brokenshire (https://risen.org.uk/?p=1312 ) who told me that it was great but that someone called Harry Dixon Loes had got there first in 1920, as the tune was “Blessed Redeemer”!! So, I kept the words but changed the tune which became todays’ featured song “Give Us Your Heart Lord” – first sung by Lucy Simpson- Maynard and then featured in “Risen! The Musical”.
Re sampling – I remember sitting with my son, James at the Fernham Hall, Fareham during Mustard Seed’s first musical “His Story”. When the song “The One Whose Name Begins With J” (which featured in last week’s blog) started playing James gave me a big nudge and said that the intro was Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. I knew that, but had no idea that our MD at the time, Chris Backhouse, had decided to sample it and add it to the performance. I was a bit embarrassed but not that much as it sounded great!
As a young person three of my fav songs were:
Sam and Dave’s “You don’t know like I know” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB_gwY02724
Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-usrZxGns
Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIy6X4VTWpk
I just loved the brass break in all three. Mustard Seed’s “Uplifted” also has a brass break which I have to admit was heavily “influenced” by the former three- plagiarism – well I can tell you that I would definitely need to settle out of court! Do you agree?
Uplifted

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