[78-L] How's this for chutzpah?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Nov 2 21:18:08 PDT 2013


Correction..it has a BMI listing on the label. The reverse side, You're Gonna 
Need That Pure Religion, is ASCAP and it's also "arranged by Joe Davis".

On 11/3/2013 12:13 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> Another story of someone claiming a copyright he hasn't the slightest claim
> on..I've seen I'M LEANING ON THE LORD by the Famous Blue Jay Singers of
> Birmingham on Champion, Decca and Varsity (it was probably on a late Paramount
> or Broadway as well), but somehow when it's reissued on Joe Davis 7000, and
> retitled I AM LEANING ON THE LORD, it acquires a credit, "arranged by Joe
> Davis" and an ASCAP designation. Same original recording. (I gotta read his
> book one of these years.)
>
> dl
>


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