BING CROSBY
QUARREL WITH STUDIO WILL NOT RENEW CONTRACT Bing Crosby has decided against renewing his contract with Paramount at the expiration of their current deal. He has two more pictures to make—the next, “Ghost Music,” with Mary Martin and Basil Rathbone. (Basil plays a sweettempered, but lazy, composer.) The trouble between Bing and the studio is due to the song-publishing houses owned respectively by Paramount and Bing. The songs written for Crosby’s pictures are divided between the two publishing houses — and Bing claims that Paramount always picks the best songs for its publication house—tend turns the less catchy tunes over to Crosby’s company. The reason that the studio agreed in the first place to the division of publishing companies was that Crosby always gave its pictures good plugs on his radio programme. In any future picture contract signed by Bing there will be a stipulation giving him sole publishing rights to his songs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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154BING CROSBY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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