I read the book. Available cheap at ABE Books and a fun read.
The Jewish Mafia.
Ugh.
He hit the scene about the time I was old enough to start paying attention to music, and I have always liked his work. It’s too bad it turned out like this for him.
The character Heschie on “The Sopranos” was based on Levy.
Ancient musical history - bump for later...
IIRC, "Lucky" Luciano pulled some five families together to stop the warfare to make profits. After his death, the main families splintered off for various reasons and started up their warfare again.
Some nice girl dancing to “Hanky Panky” back in the day.😎
A lawyer once told me “those who run the music business are low-down, lying, thieving scoundrels who commit massive fraud for a living...and that’s the GOOD news.”
Heard one of his Christmas songs on his SXM show a couple of hours ago. He really can sing!
Troy Shondell of the Shondells established a short-lived recording studio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was called Star Fox Studio, located on Newaygo Drive. I recorded there on several occasions. The engineer was none other than Chuck Ainlay, who went on to engineer and produce a good many Grammy albums. I imagine the place folded for similar reasons, but don’t know for sure.
KLUV, an oldies FM station in Dallas, used to have free concerts and I went to one at the Texas Motorplex drag strip in Ennis (1997). They had Felix Cavaliere, Dion DiMucci, and some others I can’t remember right now.
We had a 40 minute wait for a performer who’s name I didn’t recognize to come out on stage. It was Tommy James, who came out and sang #1 hit after #1 hit. Amazing stuff.
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Best advice is to own your publishing rights. It’s inexpensive to do and protects your interests.
It’s easy to say that nowadays but back then when there wasn’t an internet or other means to effectively and efficiently gain information on this subject people went to sleaze bag operations and signed their livelihood away on a regular basis.