I like Jim Brickman's songs in fact he's one of my all-time favorite as well as my ex's :D. However, he released an album recently called "Hope" but If you care to listen to listen to it, doesnt it sound familiar?

Link :

http://profile.**********/ESFcCb8/music/JXd9udy6/hope/

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aOhWtkqdL._SS260_.jpg

and listen here :

http://profile.**********/ESFcCb8/music/oHTbtiWA/if/

Yes, its Nelson del Castillo's classic love song "If" ! Sobrang gayang gaya walang tinira. Actually Del Castillo already wrote a protest but Jim Brickman just aplogized saying it was an "honest mistake" . I was like WTF, sobrang gayang gaya and it was an honest mistake? Anung akala nya sa mga Pinoy, tanga? maybe he should be sued for copyright violation, thats just wasnt an accident, it was purely copied. Jim is reaping the reward and poor Nelson doesnt get credit. It happens to be the song which made him known. grabe talaga tong si Jim. Pakawalang hiya. :purity: :purity:

(Note : yung ***** just replace it with w w w. i m e e e m . c o m para makuha nyo yung link)

correct ko lang papsy...

p r o f i l e . i m e e m . c o m

un****ingbelievable.... honest mistake my ass!!

http://www.iloiloviews.com/trenas-vs-gonzalez-jamora-vs-gonzalez-in-2010.html

Ilonggo singer Nelson del Castillo, whose only claim to national fame is his original song If, may yet amass big money as a result of an American musician’s indiscretion.

His lawyer, our good friend Zafiro “Boy” Lauron, intends to file a civil claim of US $10-million against Jim Brickman for piracy. Brickman has won a Grammy award for the instrumental entry Hope. Minus the title and lyrics, it is a hundred percent lifted from If.

Brickman must have panicked because, after Lauron had written him about the piracy, he apologized to Del Castillo for the “honest mistake” and sent a $10,000 check along with the letter. That’s equivalent to P400,000, barya in American standard. Del Castillo returned the check and demanded $10 million.

I don’t personally know Nelson. But I can sympathize with his plight, having worked with the music recording industry in the 1970s.

You see, I was with the media bureau of Wonderland Records when the song Bakit, recorded by Imelda Papin, skyrocketed to the number one position in the top 10 charts. The 45 rpms carried the name of radio broadcaster John Manalili as song composer.

As a result, a lady named Gloria Pereyra approached Wonderland producer Alice Cabahug. Introducing herself as ex-girlfriend of Manalili, Pereyra said she was the real composer of the song and eventually went to court to seek payment for damages.

Gloria did not win her case in court. But somebody else, a Japanese music producer named Hirohide Yanai, approached me to set him an appointment with Gloria Pereyra. Without much ado, he made a deal with Pereyra to produce the Japanese version of Bakit in Japan.

The P15,000 payment (a good amount in 1978) did not really make Gloria Pereyra rich, but she had certainly won poetic justice.

di ko pa napapakinggan pero may tendency nga na ang dalawang kanta halimbawa ay magkapareho ng tono lalo na at pareho sila ng chord patterns. pero kung sa simula at wakas ng kanta ay katulad na katulad nung kay nelson del castillo, maaring kinopya talaga.

Walang hiya. Mang-aagaw!

$10,000 lang! Ang cheap naman.

pangit nung quality sa link....kaya di ko makumpara...

anung kanta ba?

i hope he doesn't settle for anything less. pano ba i-report to sa cnn??? :D

hehehe..ginantihan ko na si Jim B..D ni L ko na lahat ng kanta nya through torrent!!!!

nakakabwisit talaga papatugtugin sana ni misis yung valentine na kanta ni jim brickman para medyo mapunta ako sa "mood" :D pero imbes na magkaganun inis yung pumasok sa isip ko... leche talaga :lol1: