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Date: 14-FEB-2003 11:21:29
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Subject: Words & Music. (Songwriters & Publishers).
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InfoTrac Web: Gen'l Reference Ctr Gold.
Source: Billboard, Nov 2, 2002 v114 i44 p48(1).
Title: Words & Music. (Songwriters & Publishers).
Author: Jim Bessman
Business Collection: 142P1833
Electronic Collection: A94011695
RN: A94011695
Full Text COPYRIGHT 2002 VNU Business Media
NASHVILLE UNDERGROUND SURFACES: Nashville Underground (NU), the label formed
in 1999 by husband and wife singer/songwriter/entrepreneurs Lari White and
Chuck Cannon to showcase the under-recognized artist side of Nashville's
top-hit songwriters, has inked a distribution deal with Rykodisc.
White looks for Rykodisc to start putting out NU product sometime in the
second quarter of next year, including the two previously released Nashville
Underground Sampler Series compilation volumes (which have featured the likes
of Victoria Shaw, Gary Burr, and Stephony Smith), an upcoming all-female third
volume including the likes of Beth Nielsen Chapman and Gretchen Peters, and
solo album projects by roster writer! artists Cannon, Pam Rose, Gary
Nicholson, and the newly signed country and pop songwriter/film and TV
composer Steve Dorff.
"I always say we're the world's only record label created by and for hit
songwriters who are also great performers and artists themselves," says White,
who was recently in New York showcasing herself and fellow NU songwriters Shaw
and Marcus Hummon at an acoustic writers' night at the Cutting Room, then
starring with Stephen Bishop at a Humane USA animal-rights benefit at the W
Hotel as part of Fashion Week that was attended by the likes of Moby,
Bernadette Peters, and Alicia Silverstone.
[Graphic omitted]Meanwhile, White has completed her own self-produced album,
Green Eyed Soul, also to be released via Rykodisc early next year but as the
label bow of her Skinny WhiteGirl Records, which will focus solely on her
recordings. White, who writes for LaSongs Publishing (ASCAP), penned
everything on it except Rod Temperton's much-covered Heat-wave hit "Always and
Forever."
"I holed myself up in the studio for one-and-a-half years and made a record,"
the former RCA country artist continues. "It's a very different album, a
180-degree turn [from country toward] 21st-century blue-eyed soul and R&B. It
shows all my influences: Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone,
Ashford & Simpson. One song, 'We Got it Goin' On,' I totally tried to write
[like Ashford & Simpson's hit] 'Solid': Chuck and I have been together since
1991, so they are big influences on me personally, as well as from their
songs. I really respect and admire them and literally wanted to write
something that made me feel as good as 'Solid.'"
'POKEMON' AND BEYOND: Cherry Lane Music Publishing, which first partnered with
4Kids Entertainment Music in 1998 on Pokemon-related music product, has inked
a long-term music-rights and administration agreement with the children's
music supplier, a subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment.
[Graphic omitted]Cherry Lane will now receive 50% of 4Kids' interest in the
musical compositions and master recordings relating to the TV series Yu-Gi-Oh!
Cubix, Tama & Friends, Ultraman Tiga, Ultimate Muscle; The Kinnikuman Legacy,
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Fighting Foodons, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Additionally, Cherry Lane holds the exclusive right to administer these
compositions and masters.
The first album under the new arrangement is Yu-Gi-Oh!: Music to Duel By, to
be released Tuesday (29) by DreamWorks, which is based on the music in the
Yu-Gi-Oh! animated series. "It's the perfect complement for kids playing the
enormously popular Yu-Gi-Oh! card games and videogames from Konami and toys
from Mattel," 4Kids Entertainment chairman Al Kahn says of the disc, which
will contain the show's theme songs along with orchestral passages and other
songs from the series. New music scheduled for future episodes is also
included.
4Kids has a multi-year agreement with Fox Broadcasting to license its
Saturday-morning programming block and provides all children's-programming
content for the Fox Box 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday slot.
"We're delighted to continue our very successful music partnership with
4Kids," Cherry Lane president Aida Gurwicz says. "As evidenced by the number
of new series developed since Pokemon, on, 4Kids has proved itself to be a
major player in the children's television market."
Pokemon and the other series in the Cherry Lane deal are distributed in the
U.S. by 4Kids' Summit Media Group subsidiary.
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