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Missing LS program or misremembering?

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When I was 11 years old, my mother bought the family a C128 when they first came out. She ordered it from an electronics store in NYC and it arrived a few weeks later when were back home in Michigan. I remember her being surprised that it had arrived early because she said they told her that the C128 wouldn't be released for another week. I was always proud of saying that we got our C128 before it was released to the public. I have my doubts that's true. Anyway...

My mother bought a Loadstar disk which contained two programs that I fondly remember. One is Movie Mogul which I found to be on LS #19. The second program was a jukebox containing several songs. And here's where I'd like to know if this was removed. The one I specifically remember was "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" by John Parr. I really liked that song so I would play that SID quite often.

I've searched the LS database several times as well as checked the disks from that time period and can't find it. Was that included in Loadstar, but removed due to copyright issues? Am I misremembering and it didn't come from Loadstar? I could swear both that song and Movie Mogul were on the same Loadstar issue. I just don't know.
 
Any chance it was something downloaded from QLink instead of from LS? Looking through my LS64 index I can't find any commercial music like that being included.
 
Loadstar did publish transcriptions of commercial music at times, I remember one issue that had Bridge Over Troubled Water as the Presenter tune, I don't know if those were removed at some point, but I'd expect them to be so far under music publishers' radar that it never registered, and anyway it's not like a digitized recording.

After the main explorer is done, a good encore project would be a list of all the SID music Loadstar published. Why stop after only one gargantuan feat of effort?
 
Kevin said:
Any chance it was something downloaded from QLink instead of from LS? Looking through my LS64 index I can't find any commercial music like that being included.
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No chance. At that time, being 11 yo, I'd heard of Quantum Link, didn't have a modem, might not have understood what it did, no credit card, nothing.
 
rodneylives said:
Loadstar did publish transcriptions of commercial music at times, I remember one issue that had Bridge Over Troubled Water as the Presenter tune, I don't know if those were removed at some point, but I'd expect them to be so far under music publishers' radar that it never registered, and anyway it's not like a digitized recording.

After the main explorer is done, a good encore project would be a list of all the SID music Loadstar published. Why stop after only one gargantuan feat of effort?
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So there is a chance! So far, the only music I've come across have had their copyrights expired or the SID author's original music submitted to Loadstar.
 
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