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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Here they come.... |
| Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:03:21 -0400 |
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At Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:50:16 SD wrote:
>Joe said..
>Apart from "Circle Sky" you just named every one of my fave Monkees
>songs and
>I never stopped to think they're all Nesmith tunes. Doh!
>Hummmm, all the money spent on Neil Diamond and Goffin/King songs...
>They could've saved themselves a butt-load by letting Nesmith write
>more.
>
>Yeah, but it all balances out. They MUST have been paid a boat-load
>to cover Linzer & Randall's "The Day We Fall in Love", right?
Not really. A song is a song is a song. You pay the standard mechanical
licensing fee...sometimes having to pay an advance on estimated sales but
I'm not sure that was the practice back in the '60s.
If you were doing it today it would be around $0.10 to $0.15 per song/per
album sold no matter WHO wrote the song. If Nesmith or any of the Monkees
wrote the song the same thing would apply....unless the record label itself
owned the publishing on the track then they would have to only pay the
song-writer's share of that fee.
And if the licensed song not written by a Monkee became a hit, ASCAP or BMI
(whichever performing rights organization in the US represented the tune)
would collect fees from US radio stations and the money would have gone
directly back to the owner of the song....leaving the Monkees themselves
without a dime from airplay.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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