On 2021-04-08 7:47 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/8/2021 7:21 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>>
>> I hear an interesting story about music credit and royalties a couple
>> weeks ago.Â* The Animals had taken an old folk song House of the Rising
>> Sun and made some changes to it, turning it into a major hit. It had
>> been a collaborative effort, but there was not room on the record to
>> list five of the bad members, so they decided to go by alphabetical
>> order and put Alan Price's as arranger.Â* That meant that Price was the
>> only one who got the royalties for it. It caused a lot of hard
>> feelings with the band.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for the odd analogy.Â* Surely you're not equating anything Kuthe
> and [former] friends recorded in his basement with music that actually
> had a publisher and *radio airplay/popularity and received royalties?
>

I am certainly not equating it that way, but goodness only knows how it
plays out in Kuthe's weird little world.