Serious It's Official! "Count on Me Singapore" Inspired From 'You Are My Sunshine!"

[JohnTan]

Joseph Conrad Mendoza, the Indian man credited for writing a song, We Can Achieve, that sounds exactly like Count On Me Singapore, has gone on record to say he was inspired by the You Are My Sunshine country song to write his piece.



Mendoza, 58, a social worker and teacher in India, was speaking to CNA over video when he made this fresh claim.

This issue, regarding the likely plagiarism of a song that many Singaporeans love and want to protect as their own since 1986, has become a dispute over copyright infringement between Singapore and one person in India.


Mendoza had said previously that he was not even aware of Count On Me Singapore until a few days ago, when he was accused of plagiarism of a Singapore patriotic song.

What Mendoza told CNA
In a snippet of a March 18 video interview that CNA conducted with Mendoza, the Indian man explained that he derived his We Can Achieve tune by improvising on another well-known song, You Are My Sunshine, which was written in 1939.

Mendoza said in the interview: "Funny, I was teaching the song, You Are My Sunshine."

He proceeded to sing the tune on video: "You are my sunshine..."

He then continued: "And our whole thing was a vision for children to build confidence. And then the idea for the first part of the song came in from there."

This explanation was followed by him singing the You Are My Sunshine tune, before improvising and transitioning into the tune of the first verse of Count On Me Singapore.

"And I was singing because I was a trumpet player, and I was singing, we put in some words together," he said.

You can watch how he did it here:



https://mothership.sg/2021/03/we-can-achieve-you-are-my-sunshine/

 

[nirvarq]

No wonder my elders say don't kill the snake first but something else can twist and turn even better ............ lol

 

[zhihau]

Just give him a longer rope

 

[bobby]

Tiagong our Mari Kita also copied from Negera Ku.....

 

[millim6868]

CB , caught still wont admit,eeally true,when a saying when u see sn indian n a snake ,u kill the indian,PAPigs useless even a song cannot defend, don talk abt taking care of sg n citizens ,all gone to the dog,no pride PAPigs MPs

 

[cocobobo]

Just give him a longer rope

Haha...
The fucker knows the noose will just get tighter, but this is his payday. He'll milk it dry, push out as many youtube videos as he can, get the sweet ad money, and then lie low. Will probably resurface as a life-guru tagged as 'the david who takes on mighty Singapore'

 

[dredd]

Why all the fuss about a song that I find pretty ordinary... "Count on me chin kang kor..."

 

[tanwahtiu]

Fucking cheat never fails to cheat... find a scapegoat to fit the lies...

 

[batman1]

Red Dot is a "plagiarism" hub.

 

[laksaboy]

Count on me Dracula

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN my uncle as a ex musician (soon par KNN) think that all the national songs till date sounds like fuck except the 1 sang by Sun yanzi KNN when your music sounds like fuck better be glad people still want to plagiarise KNN

 

[mojito]

Just give him a longer rope

This is called free publicity. What happen to POFMA fake new law?

 

[mojito]

Red Dot is a "plagiarism" hub.

So riche why must u steal?

 

[KuanTi01]

A sham afterthought. Why don't the twisting slithery snake claim he got his inspiration from Santa Esmeralda's You are my everything?

 

[Semaj2357]

A sham afterthought. Why don't the twisting slithery snake claim he got his inspiration from Santa Esmeralda's You are my everything?

hanor, his reputation for being a shitskin snake and whatever credibility will be gone after this saga is over - there goes my everything!

 

[CPTMiller]

Singapore government so powerful can easily sue him and let the court decides.
Why waste time state media interview??

 

[zeddy]

Signature
Q: You are trapped in a pithole with a revolver, an Ah Neh and five poisonous snakes. What do you do?
A: Shoot the Ah Neh six times.
- a tribute for Bro zeddy -

After watching the video, suddenly I remembered my good Bro KNNBCCB's famous signature. Wherever he is now, I hope he's well and fine. If you have any doubts about a Keling, just refer to the above. LOL