Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
So the pipers/bands appearing in these album covers are:

Top left: civilian piper (possibly in a police pipe band, several of those dressed that way)

Top right: The Royal Scots

Bottom left and centre: The Scots Guards

Bottom right: The Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Aren't there trademark or intellectual property statutes that require album covers to display correctly and identify the ensemble actually performing the music on the recording?

Recently, I went WAY down a rabbit hole (in the wrong direction) after watching the film that won the Oscar this year for "Best Documentary" (The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a fascinating short biography of the very first woman hired by the NY Philharmonic (not until 1966), learning, along the way, that symphonic orchestras in Europe AND the US embraced blatant gender discrimination for centuries when hiring musicians (the Vienna Philharmonic wouldn't even let women audition until the 1990s)!

I had just recently listened to Leonard Bernstein conducting the enormous Mahler 2nd Symphony in the UK (featured in Bradley Cooper's Bernstein film portrait). I read that the vocal chorus was the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and that the performance was in Ely Cathedral, then drew the stupid conclusion that I must have missed Ely in my 2023 visit to Scotland (it's actually a small town near Cambridge, England, with an absolutely stunning 1,000+ year old cathedral.

MY purpose was to count the number of women added to the orchestra in the years between 1966 (when Lenny hired that double bassist) and 1973, when that famous UK performance occured. However, given a choice between listening to the Mahler 2nd and doing pretty much ANYTHING else would favor Mahler, so I probably listened to and watched the entire music video from DG 2 or 3 times, counting only 2 women (both harpists​), before realizing that the ensemble was NOT the NY Phil, but the London Symphony! Of course, in my case the symphony orchestra was correctly identified on the album cover, but I had just ignored it!

And, I cannot imagine being told to wear some of the stuff you've been told to to perform at LA area weddings.