Songs of Stevie and their copyright dates
 

This is from an e-mail I received in December,2006. I tried to search this database with no luck. Maybe one of you can figure it out and find more songs, but at least this gives us an idea of when these songs were actually written. Love, Viv


Out of curiosity I searched the US Copyright database for Stevie songs. (Anyone can do this at http://www.copyright.gov/records/.)

I ran across a number of songs that I've never heard of.

By title with copyright/create dates, they were:

Thunder - 8/31/76
Tall Man Riding - 8/2/77
You Like Me (with M. Campbell) - 4/20/87
Maker of the Birds - 5/12/78
Frustrated Love - 5/12/78
Storm - 2/12/79 - same as Storms???
I call You Missing - 3/12/93
Blue is a Valuable Word - 6/27/94
In the Darkness - 6/15/00- created in 1999
Real Tears - 11/20/89
For John - 12/22/80
Free Style (with L. Dudek) - 2/24/86
The Charmed Ones: The City of Hope Song (with J. Piergeorge and D. Russell) -3/30/88
Angel in Waiting - 4/21/95 - created in 1982
The Seduction of Man - 4/21/95

Wouldn't this one possibly be Edge Of Seventeen?

Angel in Waiting is a painting.

Wasn't Real Tears a B-side around the time of Other Side of the Mirror? I certainly have an mp3 of a song with that name somewhere, although I always thought it was from the Rock A Little era but this date says not... It's not a fantastic song anyway in my opinion.

Thunder = Dreams?

Here are my guesses for what the songs are

Thunder - Dreams
Maker of the Birds - This is that demo that goes by the same name.
Frustrated Love - Mistaken Love or Forsaken Love (I've seen both titles used - demo)
Storm - I'd bet same as storms.
I call You Missing - This is the demo I Call You Missing. Has lines from a few other songs like Whole Lotta Trouble
In the Darkness - Hmm - maybe Space Needle?
Real Tears - OSOTM B-Side
For John - Could be Edge.
Free Style (with L. Dudek) - Wasn't that the name of a song of Dudek's album?
The Charmed Ones: The City of Hope Song (with J. Piergeorge and D. Russell) - City of Hope demo.
Angel in Waiting - I would think it was Desert Angel - but not if it was created in 82 like you said.

Well, according to the copyright data base it's a visual art/painting copyrighted on that date. When you look them up it tells you what it is. (at least what form it came in when it was copyrighted.)

Type of Work: Visual Material
Registration Number / Date: VAu000333512 / 1995-04-21
Title: Angel in waiting.
Description: Drawing.
Copyright Claimant: Stephanie Nicks, 1948-
Date of Creation: 1982

Most of these of like Real Tears probably are songs but Angel In Waiting isn't. I know she has a few paintings and a few texts (stories/poems) listed on there. I looked her up when I was in my copyright law class.

I'm guessing that "Tall Man Riding " is The Highwayman ..the dates add up.

I'd guess that "In The Darkness" was an early version of what turned out to be "Everybody Finds Out" on the 'Say You Will' cd...which has been getting spins in my car this week for the first time in a long while- I'm finally appreciating 'Love Minus Zero' and 'Not Make Believe' from the 2nd disc more than I had back in '02, give me six or seven years with little new product, and I'm able to go back and find new favorites :)
I still think 'Everybody Finds Out' was the best dang song Stevie and/or Fleetwood Mac had come up with for years! Someone here long ago posted the alernate version that featured Lindsey so prominently, and I love that version, too.

And you're right, In the Darkness is Everybody Finds Out (agreed about the best song. One of my favorites.):


Type of Work: Music
Registration Number / Date: PA0001224390 / 2004-04-20
Application Title: In the darkness.
Title: Everybody finds out.
Appears in: Say you will. Reprise 48394-2, c2003. Compact disc
Publisher Number: Reprise 48394-2
Notes: Enhanced CD.
Performer: Performed by Fleetwood Mac.
Copyright Claimant: Welsh Witch Music, Future Furniture Music
Date of Creation: 1999
Date of Publication: 2003-04-15
Authorship on Application: words & music: Stevie Nicks, Rick Nowels.
Previous Registration: Prev. reg. 2000, PAu 2-509-624.


And these were all copyrighted together as a group:
List of titles:
001 And the days go by.

002 Arabesque.

003 Baby doll.

004 Blue water.

005 Bubbles and balloons.

006 Can never be sold.

007 Candlebright.

008 Can't buy.

009 Castaway.

010 Cathouse blues.

011 Cecilia.

012 China doll.

013 Dreamer.

014 Dreamers lose, others win.

015 Finders keepers.

016 For John.

017 Found another love.

018 Gemini amber.

019 The Glass blower.

020 Goldfish and ladybug.

021 Grandfather's song.

022 I was too young.

023 If you were my love.

024 King and queen here.

025 Lady.

026 Lady from the mountains.

027 Mistaken love.

028 No light.

029 Planets of the universe.

030 The Race has run.

031 Sanctuary.

032 Secret love.

033 Sing for the things money can't buy.

034 Smile at you.

035 Spinning wheels.

036 Standing still.

037 Starshine.

038 Taken my time.

039 24 carat gold.

040 Waltzing through stardom.

041 Watch chain.

042 Water witch.

043 When shall we love?

044 Without you.

045 You never promised me a rose garden.

Blue is a valuable word looks like it uses part of Street Angel but is not actually something Stevie wrote:

Type of Work: Music
Registration Number / Date: PAu001897207 / 1994-06-27
Title: Blue is a valuable word, & 1 other song.
Description: Sound cassette.
Notes: 1 song incorporates material from Street angel by Stevie Nicks.
Copyright Claimant: Bernadette Jackson, 1961- (Gretta Good, pseud.)
Date of Creation: 1994
Variant title: Blue is a valuable word
Other Title: Street angel
Names: Nicks, Stevie
Jackson, Bernadette, 1961-
Good, Gretta, pseud.

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Seduction of Man is a drawing:

Type of Work: Visual Material
Registration Number / Date: VAu000336620 / 1995-04-21
Title: The seduction of man.
Description: Drawing.
Copyright Claimant: Stephanie Nicks, 1948-
Date of Creation: 1995
Names: Nicks, Stephanie, 1948-

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I Call You Missing is Love Is Like a River:

Type of Work: Music
Registration Number / Date: PA0000757323 / 1995-08-09
Application Title: I call you missing.
Title: Love is like a river.
Appears in: Street angel. Modern Records 92246-2, c1994. Compact disc
Publisher Number: Modern Records 92246-2
Performer: Performed by Stevie Nicks.
Copyright Claimant: Welsh Witch Music
Date of Creation: 1993
Date of Publication: 1994-06-07
Authorship on Application: words & music: Stevie Nicks.
Previous Registration: Prev. reg. 1993, PAu 1-730-343.
Names: Nicks, Stevie
Welsh Witch Music

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Storm is Storms. Under the Storms registration, it says that the words to Storm were amended.

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You Like Me is a song on an album called "Two Stories" by the Williams Brothers.

"Real Tears" is a b-side from the Other Side of the Mirror. "You Like Me" is a great song that the Williams Brothers recorded and released. (In turn, Stevie recorded and released their song "Some Become Strangers.") Their version also appears on their own album.

That song (Highway Man) immediately came to my mind!

This is interesting, because the song "I Call You Missing," as it exists, has a lot of lyrics that emerged in "Whole Lotta Trouble."