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With three of its songs for this year's show, "One on the House" already accepted for publication by Broadcast Music Inc., the Hasty Pudding Theatricals hopes to benefit this spring from the musical battle between ASCAP...
...title number "One on the House," "Sweet Dreaming," and I'm Not in the Mood," composed by Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '41, have been accepted by BMI, subject to slight changes so as not to resemble any song copyrighted by ASCAP. publications of the songs will be made to coincide with the trip through the East and Middle West during Spring vacation...
...promised among other things to license its music on a pay-when-you-play basis, to permit customers to choose tunes they liked without taking the whole B. M. I. catalogue, to offer its music to all users of the same class on equal terms. Since ASCAP hasn't yet given in to the Department, B. M. I.'s consent decree will not go into effect until all dangers of competitive disadvantages are passed...
Still fighting mad last week was ASCAP. Having scored a success with its first ASCAP on Parade program, it kept the show zooming along by playing two new songs by Irving Berlin. One was an anti-Hitler ballad called When that Man is Dead and Gone, the other: Little Old Church in England. On hand were Al Jolson, Ethel Merman, Benny Fields and Hildegarde...
...ears of the public, neither is right. But the government completed an agreement with BMI last Monday whereby BMI said they would be good and "refrain from practices condemned as undesirable by the government." So ASCAP is liable to be ushered into court on March 5 for "unlawful conspiracy in keeping music off the radio," and "exploiting composers by preventing them from selling their music except on terms of a self-perpetuating board of directors." But then, ASCAP has visited the Supreme Court four times before, and has won every time. They're getting used to it. So hold...