A press release popped in today informing us that a Lawrence, Kansas, songwriting duo has won the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) prize for Best Children's Song.
Fran Snyder (vaguely familiar) and John Paul Williams (who?) are their names, and the song is "If I Had a Giraffe."
It beat out -- make that totally beat the britches off -- "Stinky Feet" by Lanny Sharwin of Santa Barbara, Calif., and "Peanut Butter Jambalaya" by Dana Cohenour of Blaine, Wash.
MP3: Fran Snyder, "If I Had A Giraffe"
Peruse the contest's other winners here.
I gotta say, that grand-prize-winning song sounds like a parody of late-'90s Peter Gabriel.
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I was very disappointed in the Grand prize winner of this years contest. The song's chorus is almost directly stolen from the melody of the elvis song "always on my mind". Shouldn't they be rewarding originality? This just encourages more of the derivative and unoriginal songwriting that seems to abound these days.
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