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• McCain's last chance, or a chance to shine?
One of the locals wondering aloud about that is Nashville songwriter Chuck Cannon, who wrote a big hit after 9/11 for Toby Keith called “American Soldier.” A shrewd fellow who served as president of the Nashville Songwriters Association, Cannon ...
• Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged
LOS ANGELES - The federal Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday left the royalty that songwriters receive on sales of CDs and digital downloads at 9.1 cents per song for the next five years. Both songwriters and music sellers applauded the ruling ...
• Jennifer Hudson returns to first love -- music
With her, she has such an amazing voice, you can pretty much pick any song, and she can sing it," said Harvey Mason Jr., one of the songwriters and producers on the CD who also worked with Hudson on the "Dreamgirls" soundtrack. "It really gave us a ...
• Media, tech companies unite to fight piracy
I just like this approach a whole lot better," said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters Guild of America and an advisory board member, told a news conference on Monday in Beverly Hills. Arts+Labs is co-chaired by Mike McCurry, who was a press ...
• Writer of Motown hits dies at 67
Many of his biggest hits were co-written with Barrett Strong, with whom he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. He and Strong won the Grammy in 1972 for best R&B song for the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.” Many of ...