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Thread started 08/26/12 9:37pm

MickyDolenz

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Steve Miller Band ~ Jungle Love

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #1 posted 08/27/12 6:27am

Gunsnhalen

Classic~

Heard this song a ton on classic rock radio growing up cool

Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener

All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen

Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce

Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive
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Reply #2 posted 08/27/12 6:27am

scriptgirl

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LOVE

"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #3 posted 08/27/12 2:59pm

RodeoSchro

A friend of mine met the guy who wrote this song last year in San Diego. The guy makes so much from this song that he doesn't have to do much else except surf!

This is a great song. I'd have loved to been in the room when all the guitar riffs were being worked out.

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Reply #4 posted 08/27/12 3:07pm

BarbieJones

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Reply #5 posted 08/27/12 7:26pm

theAudience

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RodeoSchro said:

A friend of mine met the guy who wrote this song last year in San Diego. The guy makes so much from this song that he doesn't have to do much else except surf!

One of my favorite Steve Miller tracks.

Just goes to show what the royalties from a popular album can generate.
I have a friend with a co-writing credit on a semi-popular Chicago album.
Although the track never got any airplay, he was able to buy a house (in Los Angeles) based on the sales of the album.


Music for adventurous listeners


tA

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Reply #6 posted 08/28/12 2:03am

RodeoSchro

theAudience said:

RodeoSchro said:

A friend of mine met the guy who wrote this song last year in San Diego. The guy makes so much from this song that he doesn't have to do much else except surf!

One of my favorite Steve Miller tracks.

Just goes to show what the royalties from a popular album can generate.
I have a friend with a co-writing credit on a semi-popular Chicago album.
Although the track never got any airplay, he was able to buy a house (in Los Angeles) based on the sales of the album.


Music for adventurous listeners


tA

peace Tribal Records

That's a point I'd like to explore further. I know absolutely nothing about publishing and song-writing credit and royalites, other than these anecdotes.

Is publishing/song writing where the real money is? You hear artists like Prince say that record companies screw artists all the time, but Prince is also known the for the line, "Sell my publishing? What a laugh. I might not know Bo but I do know math!"

Do artists forget to tie those up when they sign their first deal? Or what?

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Reply #7 posted 08/28/12 2:20am

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I love this one. I remember hearing it in the 1970s but I never heard it again until years later when it was once the theme song for "Everybody Loves Raymond" so I always think of Raymond every time I hear it nowadays.

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #8 posted 08/28/12 2:46am

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RodeoSchro said:

That's a point I'd like to explore further. I know absolutely nothing about publishing and song-writing credit and royalites, other than these anecdotes.

Is publishing/song writing where the real money is?

You don't think Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson were buying song catalogs for nothing, do you? razz That's why Colonel Parker had it set up that if Elvis was to record a song, half of the publishing went to him, or he got a writing credit. Elvis didn't always like this deal, because he couldn't record certain songs if the songwriter refused (ie. Dolly Parton), as Parker wouldn't allow Elvis to.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #9 posted 08/28/12 12:55pm

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theAudience said:


RodeoSchro said:


A friend of mine met the guy who wrote this song last year in San Diego. The guy makes so much from this song that he doesn't have to do much else except surf!




One of my favorite Steve Miller tracks.

Just goes to show what the royalties from a popular album can generate.
I have a friend with a co-writing credit on a semi-popular Chicago album.
Although the track never got any airplay, he was able to buy a house (in Los Angeles) based on the sales of the album.


Music for adventurous listeners


tA

peace Tribal Records



LoL...It's really you two!! lol

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