How many songwriters never even thought about sending Elvis great songs due to the expected arguments over sharing the rights to the songwriters royaltees?
The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed the two men primarily responsible for Elvis' last hit song and how an argument over rights almost cost the king his recording. "I knew Elvis needed a mature rock 'n' roll song to bring him back,"said singer and songwriter Mark James. "I though...
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How many songwriters never even thought about sending Elvis great songs due to the expected arguments over sharing the rights to the songwriters royaltees?
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That's a good question.........wonder how many times that Parker if any did Parker step in and kept a good song from getting to Elvis
How come nobody ever mentions ''Burning love'' that went to #1 on Cashbox.
Neither Billboard or Cashbox has given an explaination on how they compile the charts.
Cashbox and Record World were just as good as Billboard is.
It's always infuriated me that Chuck Berry's piful of a song ''My Ding a ling'' kept Burning love from hitting number one on Billboard.