Remake (music)
In the music industry, remake is the name given to the recording of a previously published musical work by the same artist . The reasons for this can lie on the one hand in the improvement of the recording technology ( mono recordings are replaced by new recordings in stereo , analog recordings are replaced by digital recordings ), on the other hand in an arrangement that is musically adapted to the changed taste or a change of record company .
Delimitations
- The re-release (re-issue or re-release) is the later release of the same music title by the same artist - in unchanged form. The motive for this is often that the record company tries to use a certain point in time (e.g. the death or anniversary of the artist's death or a fashion trend) for commercial reasons.
- With a new mix also previously recorded material is used. When stereo technology was introduced, many tracks recorded in stereo were mixed into mono because stereo recordings sounded differently than mono recordings when played in mono. If the preserved master tapes are later remixed in stereo and released, it is not a remake.
- In turn, a cover version exists when a music track is re-recorded by another artist. There are cover versions that stick closely to the original as well as those that re-instrument the melody and / or add other content.
example
The example of Bill Haleys shows that his hit Rock Around the Clock was a cover version of the original by Sonny Dae and his Knights , recorded on March 20, 1954 and released in April 1954. Haley's version was first recorded in mono on April 12, 1954, the title appeared (as B-side) on Decca # 29124 on May 15, 1954 and only reached number 23 in the charts. After the song had been used in the film Blackboard Jungle (German title: Saat der Demokratie ), Decca decided in May 1955 to re-release it with the same catalog number. # 29124, although the Decca catalog was numerically more advanced (the single Mambo Rock previously published there by Haley already had catalog number # 29418). A remake in stereo appeared as a new recording for the first time in March 1968 on Decca Records.