Dear friends While I am waiting for the lawyers to see if we have grounds for an appeal I thought I’d indulge myself with a little creative writing. For those of you who have offered financial support for the appeal our deepest thanks and I will get back to you when I know it is going ahead … Caswell V Sunny … a modern day fable. Hey Alabummer … we’ve found a song with the same tune as Christmas In Doxie. It was a big hit in Australia, New Zealand and got to number 3 in England … Patti Page had it on the Billboard charts here and it’s also the theme for a TV show that has been shown all over the world including here in the States. We also have a musicologist report that says the tunes are the same Your friends at Sunny Hey Sunny … we’re really F#$%^&* angry about this … we’ll sue this bastard Alabummer Sorry fellas it appears that he wrote the song 2 years before you did and we’re his publisher too Your friends at Sunny S#$%t…. What do we do now? Alabummer We’ve got it sussed … we’ll hire another musicologist to say the first one was wrong … we’ll say there wasn’t enough money in the pot to justify taking action against ourselves (We’ll keep quiet about the Kenny Chusny cover), we’ll say that, even though we were collecting money from his song, we didn’t have him signed to a contract so we don’t owe him any protection and … you’ll love this … we’ll argue that the clause on the contract that we lost says that … it’s up to our discretion whether we take action or not. Your friends at Sunny That sounds like a crock … do you think they’ll buy it? Alabummer They did Your friends at Sunny *this is a work of fiction … any resemblance to people living or dead, although understandable, is accidental.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:19:21 +0000