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Originally posted by rbautz
It's the same today when successful performer artists are getting writing credits, because they have the power in a single driven market.
The song was a success for Dolly, maybe sold 500k singles. If Elvis would have brought out this song as a main single, he would have sold 10 mil WW, 3 dollar each single, 30 mil, 15 mil each of one.
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Parton was interested until Presley's manager told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign away half the publishing rights to any song done by Presley
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There's something deeper obviously
It's crystal clear what he wanted, 50% for a song he's just covering and didn't write
