The Show Must Go On with Bruce Hilliard
How much of a copyrighted recording can I play without an internet algorithm detection system banning yours and my free non-profit production?
Welcome to the Better Each Day free non-profit production podcast. I’m your host free non-profit production podcast Bruce Hilliard with three of my songs I hope you’ll enjoy.
If you play more than a few seconds of a copyrighted song, through some coding system and artificial intelligence, or AI for the acronym lovers, it gets eliminated from whatever platform, be it social media or a podcast. If it happens too often the compliance cops ban your account. It's intended to keep people from using artists’ work without paying them.
So one way around this is to write your own stuff. Then the question is: How many times does it take for me to play my own stuff, my songs, before it’s too many for my audience?
One answer is: Until listeners past, present or future walk out and close the door. So far they’ve been 100% loyal.
Today I’m talking about three of my songs. Even If I Wanted To, Doesn’t Anybody Fall In Love No More and Whenever I Hear the Rain.
It took a 6:01 song to take this cruise on the subject of tenacity...to say what's needed to be said about never giving up in my song Even If I Wanted To. The never-give-up approach to life. But sometimes when your dreams and goals aren’t of value in your life anymore, and your time would be better spent on something else, it's a feeling of relief and liberation to quit something. It’s okay sometimes...and actually smart. Then move forward with a better plan of action.
But as for the times when you could never give up?
I have a genetic disorder with my hands that requires periodic surgeries. My hand is immobilized as I speak. The bandage comes off in three days. It won’t keep me from playing guitar in the future if I don’t allow it to happen. Don’t suffer. I couldn’t quit even if I wanted to. And people won’t let me. I’m finding out my truest of sisters and brothers have stepped up in ways they don’t realize...and it adds fuel to the fire that keeps us all together moving forward. And thank you guys!
I think we all have friends and relatives that we could not quit on. I’m reaching an age where some of those friends and relatives are never seen again. They perform the greatest of all magic tricks and die. The ultimate vanishing trick.
There are millions of theories as to where they went but they always leave you with eternal respect and for sure a sense of loss.
We’re left with a memory and somehow the “I couldn’t walk away, I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to” commitment, or better yet “emotion” for them. It just lives on. So enough introduction. Here are three from me starting with six minutes of a heartfelt Even If I Wanted To. A song about not letting go no matter what.
Even if I wanted to, even if the sun refused to shine
I couldn’t walk away, I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Even when the world is cruel, when I hide
You’re a candle in the night in a window shining
On a cold October night
Just a lonely heart on a open road in a car with an old guitar
A song came on the radio and I didn’t get too far before I said
Every day of my life, every breath that I breathe
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every single day of the year, I’ll thank my lucky stars
I won’t give up, no I couldn't give up even if I wanted to
Even when you’re miles away from me, even in my solitude alone with myself
I couldn’t hang it up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Even when the world is upside down and the voice in my head
Says it’s time to go, cash it in, give it up
Ain’t no way we can save this ship has sailed away
But no matter what it takes me
Every day of my life, every breath that I breathe
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every single day of the year, I thank my lucky stars
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Even in my wildest dreams, even when it feels so real
And I can’t wake up to tell you what's on my mind, the way that I feel
Ooo the way it will be, no matter how we disagree
We defied the odds when there ain’t no rules
Even a fool can see
Every day of my life, no matter what I do
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every single day of the year, I’ll thank my lucky stars
And I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
The summer ended with a cry
If I ever live without you
Now you know I would die
Even if I wanted to, I love you
No matter what I do
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every single day of the year, I thank my lucky stars
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every day of my life, no matter what I do
Well I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to
Every single day of the year, I thank my lucky stars
I won’t give up, no I couldn’t give up even if I wanted to...
