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[Jeff Sultanof]

Music Sales is a publishing company that obviously prepared the set to
promote the Scott copyrights, which they purchased in 1962. Usually such a
set is sent to producers, sound track supervisors and other music industry
professionals who might consider using these copyrights for movies, tv shows
and recordings. This set was not made so that people would actually sit down
and listen to it from beginning to end. Including 24 versions of the biggest
Scott copyright that they have makes sense for a basic reason: most music
supervisors, directors, etc. haven't a clue about music, and by listening to
any number of versions of a song, publishers hope that these people will
license not only a recording itself but the overall copyright, obviously
making money for the publisher.

Scott, a real eccentric, once claimed that he had no idea that his
compositions were being used in Warner Bros. cartoons. Warners owned the
copyrights at the time. How he looked at his royalty checks and didn't
wonder where this money was coming from is an intriguing thought.

WB once put out a 24 CD set collection of hundreds of their copyrights. I'd
love to have been the guy who compiled it. I heard he made a lot of money
doing it.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:40 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>
> I'm sure SOMEBODY out there must have thought a CD with 24 different
> versions of Powerhouse was a good idea. Probably the same now-unemployed
> moron who produced a BMG compilation of 17 versions of the Pachelbel Canon.
>
>
> Even "14 Blue Roads to St. Louis" (or whatever the title was) allowed you
> to stop after listening to one side..
>
>
>
> dl
>
> > From: bazdennen at roadrunner.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:35:47 -0700
> > Subject: [78-L] (no subject)
> >
> > From: bazdennen at roadrunner.com
> >
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Raymond Scott CD set
> >
> > To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > Bazdennen wrote:
> >
> > I have a copy of the Raymond Scott First 100 years set you are talking
> > about. Yes, it's in the style of a Fremaux release but the discs cite
> Music
> > Sales Corp as the US releasing entity. The transfers are impeccable. It's
> > a 3 CD box set with a booklet inside containing nice photos and notes.
> > Mine, too, is marked For Promotional Use Only Not for Sale. And yes, a
> lot
> > of it is Scott and some of it is covers. Very good covers. The first disc
> > is entirely devoted to Powerhouse in 24 different versions, for example.
> I
> > would be entirely happy to send you scans of the booklet and any other
> info
> > you want if you contact me off site.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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