Dear IFS Readers,

here's a bonus IFS.

Today Sunday, June 19th 7:30 pm you'll find me at the San Marcos
River Pub, in San Marcos enjoying enjoying john Arthur martinez.

Yesterday I discovered my cowriter Mo Monserrat had one of his songs
used on an HBO show.

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FIRST here's a really great producer looking for excellent lyricists
who can write killer lyrics to his completed tracks.

have a listen to his work, he makes really great tracks and uses
excellent vocalists

Subj: Re: [ I F S ] Do ya got the goods?
From: fxs@...

Hey Ande

I'm looking for a talented lyricist who can write commercial lyrics
to an existing melody and meter.

I'm produucing all the tracks here in Australia myself at the moment.
These generally end up being pitched in Nashville.  Genre is country,
pop and christian contemporary.

Thanks

Andrew Cochrane
AUSTRALIA - Brisbane
fxs@...
http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artist.asp?artistID=5380

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there's MANY Singer Looking for Songs Opportunities in this issue
I found them for you on
http://songwritersdirectory.com/veiwmessages.cfm?catid=1

good luck

hope you get a cut

ande

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Date: Jun/05/2005
By: Stevi
E-mail: SteviMadison@...

Subject: Singer needs songs!

Comment:
Hi! My name is Stevi. I'm 19 years old, putting a band together and
we're looking for songs My style is pop/rock... with a little bit of
edge. I would compare my singing style to a mix of Kelly Clarkson and
No Doubts old stuff (like the song "Don't Speak") Please send contact
info or any of your ideas to my email! Thanks!

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Date: Jun/03/2005
By: Zabrena Beaty
E-mail: z_modelmanager@...

Subject: Female Artist Needs Songs/Lyrics for Demo

Comment:
I am currently looking for original lyrics/songs for a demo I will be
putting together in the near future. Styles I'm interested in include
R&B, Pop and Upbeat Country. I prefer unique and story like songs if
possible, but other categories are welcome as well. Thanks for your
time!

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By: Matthew weaver
E-mail: Policeres021@...

Subject: 23 year old male country singer looking for new co

Comment:
I am a 23 year old male from Minnesota and have recorded in the past
and I am looking for New music that has not been released before. My
E-mail is Policeres021@.... Thanks!! I am in to new music like
keith urban, rascal flatts, exc...

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Date: Jun/03/2005
By: Philip Calderone
E-mail: mail@...

Title: Producer
Company: Canyon Falls Productions LLC
Address: 713 W. Duarte Road, #G507
Telephone: 626 590-0285

Subject: movie CD submissions

Comment:
This is an open call for indie song submissions (female singers) for
a companion CD to a new horror film entitled Manhater. We are
producing a 10-15 song, multi-artist CD to be released in tandem with
the movie and the soundtrack CD. The song that is deemed of highest
commercial potential (both in standing alone and cross-promoting the
movie) will be placed on both CD’s, thus doubling the royalty. A
music video will be produced for this song and likely one other to be
on this song CD only. The video will be edited into two
versionsâ€"one to include scenes from the Manhater movie and one to
stand on its own. Please visit http://www.manhatermovie.com/ and
select the "Call For Submissions" button for details.

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Date: May/27/2005
By: Barry Roberts
E-mail: barry@...


Subject: looking for 3 top drawer songs!

Comment:
I have been in the radio business at morning drive talent, music
director and station manager and I have found one of the best female
talents I have heard in a long time. There for I'm going to help her
and the first stop is the song. So here's your chance send me your
best stuff I need two hard driving and 1 ballad country songs. This
is a 17 year old girl who looks like a young joan jett and has the
pipes of of a terri clark. I will listen to all that are sent to me
and will give you an honest answer. This isn't my first rodeo and I
know what I'm doing. I have help people like "The Great Divind" "Pat
Green" "Perfect Stranger" "Ricky Lynn Gregg" .... Just to let you
know I'm NOT A CON ARTIST! I'm really looking for top songs. Thanks
to all Barry R.

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Date: May/03/2005
By: Heather
E-mail: noxception5@...


Subject: Female vocalist looking for songs

Comment:
I sing mostly gospel music but I can sing pretty much anything. I
have a website it's www.talentmatch.com/heatherstanley and I would
really apprieciate some good songs. Any style is welcome but like I
said my main style is contemporary gospel. Thanks!! Heather~

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Date: Apr/03/2005
By: Bryon Sparks
E-mail: bsparks@...

Title: Singer
Address: 665 N. Mill Street Celina Ohio 45822
Telephone: 419-584-0641

Subject: Award winning singer needs songs for album..

Comment:
Hello, I am looking for songs to put on an album that I am wanting to
release called Ordinary People. I am an award winning singer with
many years of singing under my belt. I would need backing tracks of
the songs. Since I don't have a band. I am looking for pop or new age
country(nothing Twangy) My influences are people like: Barry Manilow
Al Green Clay Aiken Ronan Keating I like to sing songs that
meaningful and also those songs that just make you fell good Please
post or send license info or were I can get info on your stuff. Hope
you can help Bryon Sparks

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ARTISTS WHO have songs being performed
own the sound copyrights to your work need to READ THIS!

SoundExchange®, Inc. is a dynamic, 501(c)(6) nonprofit performance
rights organization embodying hundreds of recording companies and
thousands of artists united in receiving fair compensation for the
licensing of their music in the new and ever-expanding digital world.
Modern technology makes all of our lives a little bit simpler and
SoundExchange takes full advantage of its accuracy and efficiency to
license, collect and distribute public performance revenues for sound
recording copyright owners (SRCOs) and artists for noninteractive
digital transmissions on cable, satellite and webcast services.
Prior to 1995, SRCOs in the United States did not have a performance
right. This meant that, unlike their counterparts in most of Europe
and other nations around the world, recording companies and artists
were not entitled to receive payment for the public performance of
their works. Users of music, the digital music service providers,
freely performed these works at will, without a dime being paid to
the rightful owners of those recordings or the featured artists who
performed the songs - the recordings which created the backbone of
their business.

The Digital Performance in Sound Recordings Act of 1995
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:S.227.ENR:
and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
changed that by granting a performance right in sound recordings. As
a result, copyright law now requires that users of music pay the
copyright owner of the sound recording for the public performance of
that music via certain digital transmissions. The U.S. Copyright
Office recognized the benefits of SoundExchange's administration of
these royalties, and so has designated SoundExchange as the
administrative entity for subscription services' statutory license
fees.

At SoundExchange we are dedicated to making the process of licensing
music and collecting royalties as accurate, efficient and fair as
possible for everyone. Part of being accurate and fair is
distributing on a per performance or pay-per-play basis instead of
sampling. At SoundExchange, there is parity in royalty distribution
(http://soundexchange.com/royalty.html) and in governance
(http://soundexchange.com/about/whos_who.html) where everything is
split evenly between artists and SRCOs.

Members of SoundExchange include major and independent record
companies from Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group to
over 850 independents like Alligator Records, Beggars Group, Benson
Music Group, Koch International Sonido, Inc., The Mountain Apple
Company and Tommy Boy Entertainment. These companies understand the
economic efficiencies and benefits of sharing the costs associated
with the administration of statutory licenses.

We have assembled a unique and talented staff ranging from seasoned
music industry veterans to Internet strategists, technologists and
royalty professionals. Our distribution operations staff processes
millions of performances a year, our membership and royalty
departments ensure all artists and SRCOs receive the most accurate
payment possible. SoundExchange's licensing professionals strive to
make the process of receiving a performance license an uncomplicated
task. Together our team has developed one of the most modern and
groundbreaking music organizations ever.

SoundExchange is the principal administrator of the statutory
licenses under Sections 112 and 114 of the Copyright Act.
SoundExchange participates in each periodic rate making proceeding
under the Section 112 and 114 licenses to establish rates that
appropriately compensate copyright owners and performers for the
exploitation of copyrighted sound recordings. Such rate setting
proceedings may be resolved through arbitration proceedings or
through voluntary multi-party settlements. SoundExchange also
participates in Copyright Office rulemakings to establish the terms
governing how services operate under the two statutory licenses.

During 2002-03 SoundExchange has successfully completed negotiations
with:
CPB/NPR
Large Webcasters (DiMA)
Small Webcasters (SWSA)
XM and SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Preexisting Music Services (DMX, Music Choice, and Muzak)

In summary, SoundExchange handles the following:
+ collects performance royalties from the statutory licensees;
+ collects and processes all data associated with the performance of
the sound recordings;
+ allocates royalties for the performance of the sound recording
based on all of the data collected and processed;
+ makes distribution of the featured artist's share directly to the
artist;
+ makes distribution of the SRCO's share directly to the copyright
owner;
+ makes distribution of the nonfeatured artist's share to AFTRA and
AFM's Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund; and
+ provides detailed reports summarizing the titles, featured artists
and royalty amounts for each of the sound recordings performed by the
statutory licensees.

If you want more detailed answers, please see the FAQ page.
http://soundexchange.com/faq.html

from:
http://soundexchange.com/about/about.html

http://soundexchange.com/

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here's an excellent post from JPF's Brian Austin Whitney

It's not a rally for anyone. It's a realistic understanding of the 2
sides/types to what people consider music success:

1. Fame and the "Rock Star Dream" which is only offered and served
via the major label/corporate system. Too many people dream of it for
us to ignore it and pretend it's not a valid pursuit.

2. Making an actual living doing what you love, without the fame, but
with the ability to do it your way and approach it without having to
compromise your artistic vision.

We don't pretend there isn't a great appeal to being a star and
having a million people love your music. We have a small percentage
of our membership who have the talent, the marketability and the
stamina to pursue that type of success with a chance of making it
happen. I wish everyone could have that fame if that's what they
desired, but even if 100% of our members were 100% qualified, there's
only a very tiny number of slots to find that success. We try to
educate and nurture folks about the facts and realities of pursuing
the major label dream.

For the other 98%, we work very hard to offer a pathway to a human
scale success story. We work to find ways for people to get extra
gigs, a few more fans for their music, better ways to create that
music and a community to nurture and inspire them through the
process. Both sides exist in the real world. Most people start off
only believing the first exists. It's "Rock Star" or nothing. My hope
is that for those who just don't have "Rock Star" talent, musical
ability or marketability or just random good luck it often requires,
they will then take a look at other ways to make the music they want,
in the way they want, and possibly either make a living from it or at
least find ways to make that life and pursuit easier and more
effective.

The major labels are not all evil. The machines of major corporations
are inhuman because they force most of the human factors out of the
process. When you're selling items in the millions, you can't
effective deal with humans on an individual basis. It's like the old
quote "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." And so it
is with major corporations.

If any of us where put in the middle of a major corporate music
company, we'd either adjust to that scenario, or be quickly drummed
out. I've worked on both sides of that fence, I really understand it
very well. So, there's definite benefits to going corporate and
trying to become a rock star. And there are huge downsides. The same
can be said doing it the indie way. There are lots of freedoms you'll
never get in the corporate life, but you're not likely going to get
the limo treatment with movie stars/starlets hanging off your arms
and the big mansion in the Hollywood.

Because I have spent my dues in Corporate America and as a starving
artist I think it allows me to respect the plusses and minuses on
both sides. And there are just as many evil people in the indie
community as there are in any major label system. I always get tired
of the black and white hatred many have for the "system" when we know
that most of them would jump at a chance to be in the middle of it
all. (And before anyone even tries it, I don't care to hear "Not me..
I would never sell out to the major labels if they came to me with a
million bucks and offered to make me and my music famous." It's easy
to say that when it's never going to happen for you.. but not when
it's a reality facing you.

I've been called worse than an enigma, but if you read everything
I've written as a collection in the last 7 years, I think I have been
consistent.

Brian

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http://www.justplainfolks.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/003600-2.html

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Lyricist Couch Grouch / Robert George is still at it on
on his own Taxi Board

couchgrouch
http://taxi.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=lyrics1

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Larry Seyer has posted a new Podcast (Radio Show) onto the Electric
LarryLand website!

'Mark &Beth McQuilken Interview (Really Nice Compressor)'  is
available for free download into your IPOD or onto your DESKTOP.

You may download this Podcast and any of the other previously
released shows  (for FREE) at http://www.electriclarryland.com/?p=32

Alternatively, you can download the free IPODDER software (for Mac
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Write on,
Ande Rasmussen
AndeRasmussen@...

http://songramp.com/ande
http://www.AndeRasmussen.com

512-217-2728 cell

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