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
> http://www.bullseyerecords.com
> Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
> 
> http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
> 
> 
> 


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