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| From | Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> |
| Subject | Re: Here they come.... |
| Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:27:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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Related to this -- I believe it was on Headquarters
(and I think the song in question was "No Time"), the
band gave the songwriting credit to engineer Hank
Cicalo -- basically a tip.
One other -- "What Am I Doin' Hangin' 'Round" was
written by Michael Martin Murphy.
Mike Bennett
--- Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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!!"
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
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>
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>
>
>
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