Dionne Warwick: No radio royalties for performers due to 'flat-out procrastination' by Congress

Just the News ^ | June 28, 2021 | Nicholas Ballasy

[subterfuge]

LOL. What’s a record?

[LeonardFMason]

LOL!!!!! Best Post today! She must be living on Social Security.

[wally_bert]

The spouse listens to some local sports chatter after I pick her up from an overcrowded ball game.

That and and a couple of local stations for traffic are about it for presets.

I’m close to turning off XM.

148, Yacht Rock, and Wilkow are about the only reasons I have.

[zeugma]

My heart just bleeds for a talentless has-been who’s entire catalog should have entered the public domain 20+ years ago.

[zeugma]

She is bankrupt at -$10.2 million and needs that royalties safety net.

... or she could actually get a job like the rest of us.

[AlanSC]

Call Sirius and tell them you want to cancel. They will offer to reduce your $20 charge down to $6.95 per month for a year. I don’t drive as much with work from home and didn’t see a need for $20 and since i have other options wanted to save the cost and the customer service rep was happy to offer me a reduced rate for a year. When it goes back up to $20 next year you can decide then what you want to do.

[minnesota_bound]

Dionne Warwick supports OJ Simpson.

[dennisw]

Writing songs and owning what you write has always been the road to riches. That is, if your tunes hit it big. Dionne Warwick knew this and knows this. She was very talented but should have written more or any? She always sang what others wrote.
As it is she made beaucoup performing and recording. She still gets residuals from recording, but nothing compared to what her song writers are getting. Or the estates of the song writers, such as Hal David (died age 91)

Robbie Robertson of The Band snagged most of their song writing credits. Even though these tunes were *really* written with the other members helping along. This is why RR is wealthy today, while the other Band members are not, or died without much money.

[minnesota_bound]

#40 and annoyed the actual creator of the music!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

There’s a saying in music, “change one word, get a third” meaning the singer can horn in on the songwriting credits and royalties just by doing very little.

Years ago CeeLo Green had song titled “Forget You.”* Five other people have songwriting credit on it. One is Bruno Mars.

* That the nice title for radio airplay.

[jimfree]

... or she could actually get a job like the rest of us.

Uh, like she hasn't had a career already? I expect to be working some at 81 years, but geez.

[zeugma]

Uh, like she hasn't had a career already? I expect to be working some at 81 years, but geez.

Fine. She can collect social security like the rest of us then. I see no reason to continue to plunder the public domain for her benefit.

[gnickgnack2]

Was just thinking I want to do that. Where does one get those oddball songs digitally, and what’s the process for getting them onto my phone?

[Vaquero]

Yeah. I used to know how. Adult children help now. I got itunes on my computer you can buy almost anything thing digitally from iTunes or amazon. Then you transfer to a thumb drive or your smartphone or find a younger person to help. I have purchased much of my (100s) of record albums And replaced digitally. If I don’t want the whole album it costs between a buck and a buck and a quarter per song. I use the thumb drive in my truck with 600+ songs. Or I can blue tooth thousands of songs from my iPhone to my truck or to my sound system at home.