{"id":741,"date":"2007-05-06T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/blogNew\/?p=741"},"modified":"2010-05-03T22:18:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:18:51","slug":"rare-scorpions-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Rare Scorpions Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always trying to find out more and more information about rare Scorpions songs. One of my tricks is to look in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/\">ASCAP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmi.com\/search\/\">BMI<\/a> databases for songs written by Klaus, Rudolf, and Matthias. I&#8217;ve discovered some super rare songs that no one has ever heard of before now.<\/p>\n<p>Also, ASCAP gives Rudolf with writing credit on the following three UFO tracks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=322395977&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=10&#038;start=1\">Bella Donna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=332726537&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=10&amp;start=1\">Crystal Light<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=381836657&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=10&#038;start=1\">High Flyer<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if that is a mistake or not. I couldn&#8217;t find any confirmation of this elsewhere. One person mentioned that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crystal Light<\/span> was ripped off from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Fly To The Rainbow<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some songs Klaus has written with Peter Wolf among others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=322080539&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Bigger Than Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=410497717&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Keep The World Safe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=420821552&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Lust in the Dust<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> As for rare Scorpions songs, I have found these songs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=320504254&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Bite of a Snake<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/repertoire.bmi.com\/title.asp?blnWriter=True&#038;blnPublisher=True&amp;blnArtist=True&#038;keyID=0&amp;ShowNbr=911150000&#038;ShowSeqNbr=9&amp;querytype=WorkID\">Dragonfly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=360708898&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Freejack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=430566391&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Magic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=460392432&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Pretty at Nite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=480311893&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Rock My Car<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=490944477&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Same Old Song<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=490843282&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Strangers in Paradise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&#038;mode=results&amp;searchstr=490944495&#038;search_in=i&amp;search_type=exact&#038;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&amp;results_pp=30&#038;start=1\">Sweet American Girls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/ace\/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&amp;mode=results&#038;searchstr=500610191&amp;search_in=i&#038;search_type=exact&amp;search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&#038;results_pp=30&amp;start=1\">Time Has Changed Like the Wind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I feel like most of these are left over songs from album writing sessions. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dragonfly<\/span> seems like a song maybe used on a TV show as background music. I bet <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Freejack<\/span> was written for the movie Freejack, but it wasn&#8217;t used for some reason and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hit Between The Eyes<\/span> was used instead. I&#8217;ve heard a bootleg of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rock My Car<\/span> from Sweden from the 1980s, but other than that I know nothing about it. I also know that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pretty at Nite<\/span> is a demo from LAFS. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always trying to find out more and more information about rare Scorpions songs. One of my tricks is to look in the ASCAP and BMI databases for songs written by Klaus, Rudolf, and Matthias. I&#8217;ve discovered some super rare songs that no one has ever heard of before now. 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