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...Fields and Otto (Roberta) Harbach; Composer Stanley (What a Difference a Day Made) Adams, Occasional Songwriter Billy (Barney Google) Rose. Their statements were all designed to show that they and many of their famous colleagues were being put out of business by the organization known as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI...
...collections, the largest share of them in the form of flat annual fees from broadcasting stations, which nowadays amount to as much as $18 million a year. The bite was painful, and in 1939 broadcasters raised the cry of "monopoly" against ASCAP, got together and formed a rival agency, BMI. The two have been scrapping ever since, e.g., 33 ASCAP composers are now suing BMI for $150 million...
Songwriters' Case. The accusations brought in unsworn testimony by the ASCAPotentates: 1) BMI (which is owned by 600 broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does...
Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...years BMI has grown husky, with a big pool of music and composers to draw on. This week 33 ASCAP songwriters filed a civil suit against BMI, the networks and their related record companies, charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties...