My mom gave me an AM radio with an earplug when I was 10. There I discovered summer pop music and the positive girl vibe of Lady Marmalade. While Patti LaBelle’s 1974 earworm of a performance made Lady Marmalade famous, the lyrics and music were created by co-songwriters Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. Nolan wrote numerous famous songs during the 1970s as a singer-songwriter, and co-writer with Crewe and other songwriters. Many of the songs, including Lady Marmalade and My Eyes Adored You, the Frankie Valli chart topper, were huge hits. Nolan has a simmering dispute with Sony/ATV Publishing and various other music publishers (“defendants”) over copyright ownership, royalties, and reporting and paying Nolan his earned music publishing income. In 2016 Nolan became aware that the defendants had acquired his music publishing rights and had not been accounting for or paying him his music publishing income. He sued the defendants later that year with, the case…
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