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Used to be in the 60s that I know of that any song over 3 min got additional royalties from radio play - which the stations hated to pay.



ian, i think that you may have nailed it! it's all governed (prime ministered) by the almighty looney!

another thing that takes the song's length out of the "composer's" hands is the internal mathematics of the overall process. a 32-bar tune at 85 bpm and 3 choruses is about 4 minutes in length and that's more-or-less written in stone. not much we can do about that.

Donny

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