New Year’s Day also marks Public Domain Day, when the copyrights for thousands of published works expire, allowing anyone to freely record, perform, or interpolate them. This time around that means musical compositions (music and lyrics, not recordings) copyrighted in 1930, and the list includes classics like “Georgia On My Mind” (music: Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics: Stuart Gorrell), “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” (music: Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, lyrics: Gus Kahn), “I Got Rhythm (music: George Gershwin, lyrics Ira Gershwin), and the English version of “Just A Gigolo” (music: Leonello Casucci, lyrics: translated by Irving Caesar from Julius Brammer).
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