Calendar Girl – Neil Sedaka

You can apparently listen freely to Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl video  on YouTube but they want to
charge us £100 to have the track accompany a slide show of our calendar girls!
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I’ve been holding back on putting a slide-show of all the calendar pictures on the website because I thought it would be nice to set it to Neil Sedaka’s classic track  “I love, I love, I love my Calendar Girl…”

So I wrote to his management company in New York and asked them to pass on the request.  They replied that “all requests must be directed to EMI Music Publishing UK”.

And so I wrote to them, explaining that we wanted to have the track accompany the slide show and that it was to promote a non-profit project raising money for a local charity.

They replied:

“Due to company policy we are unable to offer a gratis licence, but I can licence on a nominal fee basis. Please note that this quote is still subject to writer/ management approval which I will seek should you wish to proceed with the request.

For a 12 month exhibition (public performance of the promo video) for £100″

£100!! -  Nominal Fee!! – Erm… Wake up and smell the coffee EMI.  This is for CHARITY!! And in comparison to the EMI empire a very very small concern indeed.

Needless to say we won’t be taking them up on their “kind” offer.  I’ll source some nice royalty-free background music instead!

I’ll bet Mr Sedaka himself wouldn’t have thought twice about waiving his “nominal” fee and would have been pleased his song was helping a worthy cause.