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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 and BMI...
Glad enough for a new song and a new songwriter, BMI planned to broadcast (over WABC) /'// Spend the Rest of My Life with You, by Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...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 a juicy $4,000,000 into BMI? Couldn't BMI become a bigger union and a badder monopoly...
...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...
ASCAP and BMI thrust themselves directly into local affairs Friday night when their feud forced the Harvard band to revise its schedule and resort to Stephen Foster instead of Harvardiana...