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...some time now, I've hesitated to say anything about the ASCAP-BMI fight, purely because I don't believe I know enough about it. Who's at fault is hard to say, although Uncle Sam seems to have all the answers. For may part I'll put a plague on both houses and hope they get it in the neck for trying to put one over on the public...
...where Meade Lux Lewis got his style, listen to his old-time teacher Jimmy Yancey, on Yancey's Bugle Call and 35th and Dearborn (VICTOR). Jimmy plays in a nice easy-going style, with bass figures somewhat more elaborate than those of Meade Lux . . . Since I wrote about ASCAP-BMI I learned from a very unreliable source that the whole thing has been settled. It seems that ASCAP gave in and has made some sort of settlement offer. The story is supposed to break Monday, but as usual, Miller gets there first. (I hope...
...deeply into radio's coffers and now seeks only to pursue its advantage. Furthermore, they say charges should be made upon the music presented, with no fee blanketing all sponsored broadcasts. Radio men maintain that the absence of ASCAP music will be amply taken over by the offerings of BMI composers and arrangers, supplying tunes from the pens of artists from Bach and Beethoven to Bob Crosby...
...year is a question to be answered by the listening public. If America's 50,000,000 radio sets start turning more and more to ASCAP-contracted independent stations, and advertisers follow the trend, the networks will have to throw in the towel. But if the combination of new BMI, old American, and foreign tunes suits listeners' tastes, the Society of Composers will find itself in an awkward position. Whatever the battle's outcome, American music should emerge with a new lease on life...
...Buck, president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). ASCAP holds performing rights to a mighty volume of sound: 1,270,000 musical compositions. Last week in San Francisco, at the word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers. Melodious and wonderful was ASCAP's assault. At the San Francisco Fair...