jobeterob
01-18-2013, 01:29 PM
Bob Olhsson from Facebook, on Gladys Knight:
She may have originally not wanted to go [[to Motown) but I can't remember anybody who was more into Motown than she was while I was recording her! Motown's original contracts looked much worse than they actually were. I never understood this until I saw my first Capitol contract a decade after I left Motown. Motown paid a third the points but it was based on list price as opposed to wholesale and nothing was deducted but advances and studio musician fees. The net income to an artist was probably lots more than what most labels paid.
She may have originally not wanted to go [[to Motown) but I can't remember anybody who was more into Motown than she was while I was recording her! Motown's original contracts looked much worse than they actually were. I never understood this until I saw my first Capitol contract a decade after I left Motown. Motown paid a third the points but it was based on list price as opposed to wholesale and nothing was deducted but advances and studio musician fees. The net income to an artist was probably lots more than what most labels paid.