Word: ascap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup to sense that Jeanie's light brown hair has turned gray in the last two months, and Old Black Joe has long been a member of the angelic choir. Just to make sure he stays there, the government has decided to start a criminal anti-trust suit against ASCAP, but those who think that this may mean tuneful radio music again are in for a long wait...
This fight is nothing that Santa Claus brought with him last Christmas. The networks have been cursing under their breath at ASCAP since 1932, but a few months ago they balked out loud at a demand for five per cent of the broadcasters' commercial business. ASCAP, they said, was charging unfair flat rates. It was paying eighty per cent of the writers' incomes to twenty per cent of the writers. It was a union. It was a monopoly. It was a new kind of musical big bad wolf. But hadn't the broadcasters' revenue doubled? Hadn't they sunk...
Radio caused other casualties. Sheet music sales began to toboggan, and many a music publisher reduced personnel. Busy was Billy Rose with the production of an ASCAP on Parade program for independent stations in Manhattan, Washington, Pittsburgh, Kingston...
...many a critic of Tin Pan Alley, the bright side of B. M. I.-ASCAP bickering was the hope that disheartened common listeners might turn to serious music. More than offsetting this Ivory Tower optimism was the gloom of advertisers. Uncertain how the public was taking it all, they hoped their goods would not stagnate on their shelves. If that hope isn't realized, the war may end abruptly, since money will talk no matter what radio wants to sing...
...Grand rights" permit the performance of "part of a show including both song and dialogue." "Small rights" cover individual musical selections without dialogue. Since ASCAP controls only small rights to its music, it can't prevent patches of musicals from being aired. But nobody knows exactly where grand rights begin and small rights...