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Music Album Cover Picture

Please, I want to know how to upload a cover picture to music album Best of 11-Twelve I uploaded one on commons but it was deleted. I want to know if there's another way to upload it. Thank you Senor Mido (talk) 18:44, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Senor Mido.

It would have been deleted because it was a copyrighted image and commons doesn't accept images subject to copyright.

You can upload the image to Wikipedia instead under "fair use" provisions, but you do need to follow some quite strict rules:

• Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline

Here is an example of a copyright image used under "fair use" (which just happens to be the second-greatest album ever, after "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine).

There is an upload wizard to assist you with this, but I can't remember where it is. Someone is sure to know.

PS: this should be at Wikipedia:Help desk, or maybe somewhere else, but, whatevs.

Hope this helps. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 08:02, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Musical genre identification

What musical genre best applies to this music by Guy Lombardo?

• Guy Lombardo - The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven - YouTube
  

—Wavelength (talk) 18:50, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure that it can be narrowed down to just one genre Wavelength. Some (most?) of it fits into the Swing music prevalent in the Big band and Swing eras. That music has its roots in jazz. Other songs on the list can fit into other genres. Maybe other editors will have more specifics for you. MarnetteD|Talk 20:25, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, MarnetteD, for your reply.

—Wavelength (talk) 02:07, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

My father was a bit of a geek as far as big band music goes, and he explained Guy Lombardo's music (his favourite by the way) as being sweeter than Sammy Kaye's music, but both of them being in the same genre of sway music, which was part of swing music. According to our article on him, his slogan was "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye". Now as to what the differences were, I can't really describe, but I suspect it has to do with being more at the orchestral end of the spectrum, the opposite end being trad jazz. So I reckon the genre is, as the title itself says, sweet swing music. (As an aside, Billy Rose's music was described as "slurp" music, which described the upward glissandoes which characterised his arrangements, the most vivid example I remember is "You're the Tops".) --TammyMoet (talk) 21:47, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, TammyMoet, for your reply. (Wikipedia has an article "You're the Top".)

—Wavelength (talk) 02:07, 31 May 2015 (UTC)