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.



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