>David,
>
>Do you know if that song is a new, actual collaboration between Eggers and
>Partridge, or is it a rewrite of XTC's "Are You Receiving Me?"
>
>I'm guessing the former, but I suppose it could be one of those deals where
>a "new" song turns out to be so close to a predecessor that the original
>author ends up with co-credit, i.e. Rolling Stones &  k.d. lang over
>"Constant Craving"/"Anybody Seen My Baby" and Rod Stewart/Bob Dylan on
>"Forever Young."
>
>Drew
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It's a brand new song not related to the XTC song. Eggers sent Partridge a 
number of song ideas and one of the songs was a piano demo called "receiving 
me" Partridge sent Eggers back a completed song demo with drums, vocals, 
guitars etc. ...Partridge wrote the new lyrics and music to the chorus of 
the song. I believe that initially the Nines were trying to convince Andy to 
sing on the track as well but I have since heard that the song was 
rerecorded by the Nines.
David
>From: "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Nines/Jason Falkner/Andy Partridge
>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:13:49 -0700
>
>David Henwood, quoting Steve Eggers of The Nines:
> >>The album will also include a co-write with U.Ks Andy Partridge of XTC
>called "Receiving Me"
>
>David,
>
>Do you know if that song is a new, actual collaboration between Eggers and
>Partridge, or is it a rewrite of XTC's "Are You Receiving Me?"
>
>I'm guessing the former, but I suppose it could be one of those deals where
>a "new" song turns out to be so close to a predecessor that the original
>author ends up with co-credit, i.e. Rolling Stones &  k.d. lang over
>"Constant Craving"/"Anybody Seen My Baby" and Rod Stewart/Bob Dylan on
>"Forever Young."
>
>Drew
>