[Gay State Conservative]

During our conversations, Joe indicated that he had been screwed out of the royalties for his song “Peanuts,” but I never did learn the details about that.

I've read many stories like that regarding artists of that era.And the fact that he was illiterate made him doubly susceptible.I suspect that there was a lot more than song writing going on in the Brill Building.

[Maceman]

I've read many stories like that regarding artists of that era. And the fact that he was illiterate made him doubly susceptible. I suspect that there was a lot more than song writing going on in the Brill Building.

I always enjoyed that scene from The Sopranos where the rapper character Massive Genius tries to get the royalties back from Tony's friend Hesh, who screwed some poor black songwriter out of the royalties in the 1950s.