This law hurt Prince, Little Richard and Fats Domino 💰

[@browndamon]

Prince wrote "I Feel For You," Little Richard wrote "Tutti Frutti", and Fats Domino wrote "Ain't That a Shame", but all three black artists didn't approve their often-more famous covers. In fact, they had no legal control over who played the music. Prince explains the legal reason why it didn't matter how they felt about music covers 👇🏾 🍿 Watch more! 3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Sign a Contract #CareerRemix #BringYourWorth kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2qomnVnlMajkNk 👉🏾 Catch the entire interview: Prince Interview On George Lopez 2011 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5TKp5ani619eZI 📺 Subscribe to Damon Brown's #BringYourWorth show kzbin.info

[@LegionIvory]

Actually, Prince had no problem with Chaka Khan singing his song. They even performed the song together live on her tour.

[@browndamon]

I appreciate this, and you are right. That was just later in the timeline. Initially, according to another interview, it was a record exec’s idea for her to do the Prince cover. They connected later and he even got her out of a bad record contract.

[@dwightlove3704]

Little Richard was extra heated at Pat Boone after he ruined "Tutti Fruitti" with his cover

[@babylove1468]

Prince Rogers Nelson was so very smart, and talented. He wrote many songs. The music industry can be very evil. Musical genius always, and forever! God bless everyone! RIP Prince!

[@DayTripperrr]

I have so much respect for Elvis, because he always gave credit to black musicians, and always credited their names and gave royalties to them when at the time he didn’t have to if he didn’t want to.

[@myrel543]

Yep and he was friend with Fata Domino etc...

[@OFFICIALIAMQGAMING]

Yeah he was a pedo …

[@mixkulture4783]

Lies

[@DayTripperrr]

@@mixkulture4783 yeah you were fed lies about a great man

[@damianmorris2545]

You dont realise just how much material he wrote for other people and made them stars,unbelievable talented human being.

[@browndamon]

Agreed. One of the few artists equal in both singing and songwriting ability 👑

[@brockwallace4661]

If you like Rock and Roll, thank Little Richard. He was THE ARCHITECT OF ROCK AND ROLL!

[@antonioiavarone6270]

Sono d'accordo ❤little richard nomber one ❤

[@jbisoneup95]

With all due respect. This still happens today and artists of all races do it.

[@oceanjames42116]

You know I really hope, the younger generation (can't believe I said that) learn everything they can about Prince, his music to this day stands throughout time. He was brilliant, genius level and no one really had a chance to see the real man, because of his insecurities and being shy; however, growing up and to this day he has always been the best! If only he could have trusted his Fams enough to share his problem and not with those on his payroll, he could be here still. At the same time, I believe he necessarily didn't want to be! Either way he'll always be loved! To those who come across this, don't look past artists because of their color, open your ears and hear the music, watch them perform, learn what you can, because if you don't, you can miss everything great! While we're on the subject of artists and what the creator was talking about,a good way to understand is by watching Cadillac Records about artists in the 50's

[@detroitkaraoke]

Cadillac Records was a very good movie. I feel it shed light on the horrible practice of black artists' music being stolen for profit. It was one of Beyonce's best acting roles.

[@jgyrwa]

Prince exposed a lot about the music industry before he died.

[@kriztoppa]

That’s why they killed him.

[@Nails_bruh]

Thank you for bringing awareness to this issue because not enough people know about it.

[@megapumped7021]

Prince recorded 14,365,476,477,466 songs and locked them in a vault. As a person who got into music in 2000, I got my music online and rarely on the radio when I started driving. The only song I heard of his was party like it’s 1999 and I never cared for it. I looked him up at one point 15-20 years ago and downloaded a discography but didn’t like what I listened to of it. What Ive heard of his guitar playing is great and I can tell he’s a very talented overall musician. Just not marketed for my generation.

[@2023FourRunner]

Great Point!

[@browndamon]

🥂

[@mickvinny7291]

20 years later amd it’s happening including metal

[@love2all837]

Damn why do they all have to be evil💯👎

[@jamesoblivion]

Still blows my mind that Pat Boone's cover of Tutti Frutti sold more copies than Little Richard's original. It was like the 'safe' version for racist teens, or teens with racist parents. And there had to be a LOT of racism, to make that woefully inferior copy fly off the shelves. But the iconic original remains, and thankfully, Richard got to enjoy success for many years, long after most people had forgotten Boone and his cash grab cover.

[@browndamon]

Boone was definitely the "safe" option. It is such a tough tension: The freedom for other artists to reinterpret great works and the ability for the original artist to be honored for creating it in the first place.

[@geraldstephens6612]

Please read your contract & get a good lawyer to help you understand it Before you sign it. Period.

[@browndamon]

Always true. The issue Prince had was with law, not his specific contract, but it is unfortunate that the people he worked with didn’t explain the law. And he didn’t have the Internet at the time, either!

[@ecaldwell9]

This law should not exist.

[@kamcox2508]

Yes there princes songs But we know PRINCE owned his masters xx

[@Grandmaster__Gee]

I feel for you ft. Grandmaster melle mel!

[@browndamon]

Ha! Yes indeed.

[@Jessica03998]

It's called copy cats.

[@YoMamaBih]

It's called thievery.

[@msf_recursion]

Prince was so far ahead of his time on this

[@browndamon]

Agreed. I’m really curious how AI voices will play into this. He was always a step ahead in the conversation.

[@dragonballz4998]

Prince and WB records had a tight relationship before the contractual disputes in the 90's. He went to WB and made complaints about on several issues such as, other musicians coverings his music with no say. Prince wanted a cease and desist against WB releasing his work to other musicians and WB said no, the music belongs to them and also they own your name. Prince then decided to request his master rights be released to him so he could re-record and re-release but WB denied that request as well. He also wanted to release more of his music frequently and in more quantity. Up to 3 albums a year. WB said no. Not only having no control of his work he did not receive any money generated by covers. I wonder how many people benefited from what Prince did, which was standing up to the practice of record companies owning your music, your name, merchandise sold and no royalties

[@browndamon]

I'm not familiar with the no royalties part, but you're right: The relationship was good until it was not. As I talk about in MJ, Prince & JayZ: From Icons to Business Titans | #BringYourWorth 330, both Prince and MJ also began at a time when having radio success almost certainly required a major label. I often wonder how Prince would have risen if he began his career two decades later, in his independent Crystal Ball era, rather than feeling like he had no choice but to sign.

[@dragonballz4998]

@@browndamon I don't know when Prince felt he had no choice to sign because in the beginning it was him that told WB there were conditions if he were to sign. Mainly, complete control of the production of the album, if you go back and look at his first album For You, there are no credits to anyone. 19yrs old, . All tracks were produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince. On that album he experimented with 27 different types of musical instruments. This is where fanatics exaggerated how many instruments he could play. Piano, guitar, bass, drums he was good at. The rest he just tinkered. Anyhoo, got off track, Prince actually didn't make a lot of money for himself and WB, often blowing the budget. But WB knew what they had and they just had to let him grow and POW! the hits started coming and 1999 album was a hit and then Prince took em to the moon with Purple Rain. He worked his ass off making quality music and for the record company to say the music wasn't his anymore that had to hurt him deep. All is well that ends well. They reconciled and got back together tho

[@Bluesmusicno1]

Disgusting pat boone doing tutti frutti is hilarious 😂

[@browndamon]

😂 My problem was that people didn’t know it was a cover!

[@KimWatts-k7z]

That's soooo night right! They did that to Charlie and look what happen

[@browndamon]

Which Charlie? There are a lot of them!

[@matthewallen1834]

What I'd like to understand is this: Why would Prince say this and then, in the same episode, perform a cover of D-Train's "You're The One For Me?" I always that was strange. Does anyone have any background or context behind this move?

[@NPGLAMB]

Prince covered a bunch of songs on emancipation though. La la means I love you and Betcha by golly wow aren’t Prince originals

[@browndamon]

Very true! I believe he asked the artists and/or songwriters.

[@donnamcpherson3000]

Total sacrilidge Pat Boone doing little Richard songs utter disgrace. That talent was carved from the rock mass and great hardship it was just abysmal ignorance and disrespect. These people should be sued. How could Pat Boone compare to Little Richard?

[@browndamon]

Not sure about the lawsuit, but I hear you on the comparison!

[@jamesdean9183]

I doubt it was Pat Boone’s idea. He was probably just told what to record by his manager or record label. You gotta consider, the artistic freedom of singers to record whatever they wanted was ALSO pretty strict at this point. They didn’t really have too much say on what they could and couldn’t perform until the early 60s

[@smokeyrameriz478]

Artist on the same record label would often cover each other's songs to fill albums. Sun records and chess records employed black artist and white artists. Not so sure it had a lot to do with race because they were sharing the white artists songs also.

[@jennybird4126]

Elvis always have credit to black musicians but many didn’t . This must be damaging to artists …

[@johnnysparks3417]

Compulsory liscence has restrictions. Ya can't compete with the writers performance for a year from his publishing release. They gotta pay mechanical reproduction every 90 days. Although at minimum rates congress sets And they can't change anything about the melody. Also they gotta publish the writers name. Regular mechanicals Report copys of sales every 6 months. Paying premium royalties. It's a congressional issue in law. They regulate the industry so. Whatever He still gets credit and paid millions for sales. That's business. Songs only have 1 year of protection. He still owns copyright as writer. And performs his own song. Unless he sold his copyright to a label or publisher. He still has writer royalties.

[@johnnysparks3417]

Sorry thats every 30 days not 90.

[@browndamon]

Thanks, Johnny 🙏🏾

[@Diesel-ug4pd]

Here we go victim

[@KimWatts-k7z]

Not*lol

[@kelliintexas3575]

THIS DID NOT HAPPEN WITH ELVIS. ELVIS WAS ON A BLACK LABEL. This where I keep seeing this crap from! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Go read what EVERY BLACK SONG WRITER SAID ABOUT ELVIS COVERING THEIR SONGS. Mike Stoller, one of the original writers of Elvis Presley’s 1956 hit “Hound Dog,” says the song was never stolen from blues singer and songwriter Big Mama Thornton. Stoller, now 89, recounted the story of how the hit song ended up with Presley.The pair eventually received royalties from “Hound Dog” once Presley released his hit version-which topped the R&B and pop charts and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988. Thornton still didn’t receive any financial return, even after the continued success of the song she originally recorded, which may have been a result of the corruption within the music business at the time and “systematic racism,” according to interviewer Brian Hiatt. “That’s true of not only Big Mama,” agreed Hiatt, “but of many black performers and songwriters.”Although Presley was familiar with Thornton’s original version of “Hound Dog,” his rendition of the track was based on the 1955 version recorded by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, according to Stoller, which had a more simplified chord structure and alternate lyrics shifting the song focus to a dog, not a man acting like a “dog” toward a woman.

[@LegionIvory]

The entire purpose of Elvis' career was to eclipse black artists. They wanted a white singer who could "act like a black singer," in order to achieve the same results without actually using a black artist. It doesn't matter who kicked it off. It was wrong.

[@이이-n4z8y]

Yea, and black artists took their music from CENTURIES of white artists.

[@browndamon]

If you’re referring to sampling, other artists were doing it well before ‘70’s hip-hop: The Beatles The White Album in 1968 is filled with uncleared samples, for one example. Classical musicians regularly “borrowed” from each other as well. If you’re referring to the covers mentioned here, other artists regularly took from Southern black roots music and many did not give legal credit, nevetheless compensation, until decades later, if ever. You can start by looking up Led Zeppelin. Every artist borrows. The issue is if the legal system is built to give fair credit and compensation. And many of the contracts for the artists mentioned here were not fairly drawn.

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@browndamon If you're going to appropriate every single aspect of my culture, the least you can do is learn to read.

[@browndamon]

Insightful comment! Thanks.

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@browndamon Use English if you're going to use my culture. Racist