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...energetic partnership that was formed in 1986 by Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier and Charles Koppelman to produce records for other companies. The firm scored a major coup that year when it paid $125 million to buy CBS's music-publishing division, which held the rights to more than 200,000 songs ranging from Over the Rainbow to the score from Hair. Less than three years later, SBK turned around and sold the catalog to Thorn EMI, the British entertainment giant, for $295 million. As part of that deal, EMI gave $30 million to Koppelman and Bandier (Swid had left...
...years ago, young Songwriters Charlie Koppelman and Don Rubin were working for a Manhattan music publisher for $25 a week. It wasn't much, but then, as Koppelman says, "We really weren't that good as songwriters." After a while, they prudently turned to publishing other composers' songs, and eventually went on to produce recordings of those songs. Last week, after having turned out a string of 17 gold-record hits (sales of a million copies) by such performers as The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin and The Turtles, Koppelman, 28, and Rubin, 29, sold out their...
Flourishing as their recording ventures may be, most of the new producers are already restlessly expanding to other fields. In what appears to be the major trend, Crewe is moving into the production of television specials and films, and Koppelman and Rubin are preparing a musical series for network TV next fall. Morton also plans to make television shows, publish a sex magazine and, he adds, become a movie actor. Among other things, these departures may be a hedge against the danger that grows with every year that a producer ages: "cooling," or losing the golden touch...
...College of the Air (CBS, 1-1:30 p.m., or at other times throughout the day as chosen by local stations). PREMIERE of network television's first college credit course, "The New Biology," taught daily by University of Chicago Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Ray Koppelman...