On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Melissa P <[email protected]>wrote:
> It’s great when singers write their own material. But it makes no sense > to assume that singers must write their own material, because almost no one > possesses both talents.**** > > ** ** > > For example, it’s absurd for David Foster to encourage a 12-year-old > Jackie Evancho to write her own material. Just plain silly. But that’s > the state of the business these days. > Of course it's absurd. I also thought of Linda Ronstadt as an artist who went to the top of the pop charts in the rock star era without writing her material. So it's not a black-and-white issue. But song royalties are paid to songwriters, not performers. I've been reading memoirs of seventies rock stars and in the UK in the sixties any group of teenagers with their own instruments could get booked doing covers of R&B and soul songs at dances. When the good ones were separated out and were encouraged to record their music they would be told by managers that the path to the big money/success was to stop doing covers and write their own music. That just wasn't true in the preceding era, the one where Steve and Eydie could attain great success and be ubiquitous on variety shows. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
