Would you rather -- music edition

Two-hitter! I love Never Surrender!

 

Best of luck! Great lineup; I'm jealous.

 

Hey, SVB did co-write "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Bill and Taffy, along with John Denver).

 

Which actually has very little to do with West Virginia, but don't tell the folks in Morgantown that.

 

A guy I know had one big hit he was the singer.

Sweetheart by Frankie and the Knockouts. Ever hear of it? Late '81. It did okay. No other hits.

Six years later, he wrote "Hungry Eyes" and "I've Have the Time of My Life". Wrote the damn soundtrack to Dirty Dancing.

Someone offered him a flat price (15 grand, I think) for the songs before the movie came out. He said "nope" and took the royalties.

Read somewhere he clears 600-700k a year on the residuals... even 30 years later.

He doesn't have to work. His kids won't either.

 

This is lunacy.

 

For most people who listen to top 40, their list starts and ends with Brick.

 

In Robert Hilburn's new Paul Simon bio he notes that Simon had control of his songs from day one, a lesson he learned from his father who was a musician. The amount of money he has made from that must be staggering.

 

As someone who never, ever listens to Top 40, stuff like this is always sort of mystifying to me. I would have thought it would be "One Angry Dwarf" if anything. Had no idea "Brick" was a mainstream hit.

 

Does this include the songs he stole from other people?

(Los Lobos: not big Paul Simon fans.)

 

In the book it doesn't sound like Simon was a big fan of them. Steve Berlin is still ripping on Simon years later.

 

You sure it wasn't the early 90s? Early 80s was Eddie Money's peak. Big hits on MTV and opening a bunch of stadium shows on the Who's '82 "farewell" tour (behind the Clash and/or Santana). I remember him opening the show at the Silverdome. And he was still popular in the mid-80s ("Take Me Home Tonight" was a huge hit and that was '85 or '86). No way he was playing frat house keggers at that time.