May News

• NMPA's David Israelite Panel – You won't want to miss David's enlightening discussion of the recent agreement on royalty rates which, if approved, will be in effect for the next five years. View a trailer of the panel here.  AIMP members can view the full video here. To  better understand the agreement and the rates for new media the NMPA has provided a PDF which you can download here. 
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Randy Poe - Leiber/Stoller Songs

"Hound Dog" - featuring Bekka Bramlett

Randy Poe has been President of Leiber/Stoller Songs since 1985. Along with well over 1,000 recordings (and over 100 of those appearing on various Billboard charts), Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s songs have been used in numerous motion pictures, television shows, and commercials. Forty of their hits were included in the show Smokey Joe’s Café: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller, which to this day remains the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. It was Smokey Joe’s Café for which the term “jukebox musical” was coined.

Prior to his position with Leiber/Stoller Songs, Poe was Executive Director of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York. Before moving to NYC in 1980, Randy was a radio personality in and around Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 

In addition to presiding over Leiber & Stoller’s various publishing and production companies for more than 25 years, Randy is also an author and Grammy-nominated record producer. A recipient of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for his first book, Music Publishing: A Songwriter’s Guide, Poe’s other books are Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyrics, The New Songwriter’s Guide to Music Publishing, Skydog: The Duane Allman Story, and the just-released Stalking the Red Headed Stranger or How to Get Your Songs into the Hands of the Artists Who Really Matter through Show Business Trickery, Underhanded Skullduggery, Shrewdness, and Chicanery as well as Various Less Nefarious Methods of Song Plugging: A Practical Handbook and Historical Portrait. A hilarious “how to” book, Stalking the Red Headed Stranger tells the tale of the author as he chases Willie Nelson across Canada in an effort to play the American icon a song written by Leiber & Stoller.

Randy has produced, compiled, and/or written the liner notes for over 100 albums, working with such labels as Rhino, Atlantic, Warner Bros., Vanguard, and the legendarily kitschy K-tel.

Poe has spoken at music industry workshops and seminars in the US and Europe. He has also lectured at Harvard Law School, New York University, and UCLA. Included among the numerous panels he has appeared on is the AIMP’s annual “A View from the Top” luncheon.

A member of The Recording Academy, and a former President of the California Copyright Conference, Randy is also on the advisory board of renowned folk music publication Sing Out! In 2002, he was a recipient of the music industry’s Heroes & Legends Award, along with Motown founder Berry Gordy.

Randy lives in Los Angeles with his wife Mina and son Riley.