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[Pete]

According to her, she's happy. How much was Mona Lisa
paid? She's still smiling to this day :-)

P e t e
S u r d o v a l

--- Mark Northam <mnortham at gmdgroup.com> wrote:

> Compared to what they would have had to pay her as
> an artist over time for
> that "sample" of her voice (far shorter samples are
> licensed and paid huge
> $$$ for today), they got a huge bargain!
> 
> I suspect, given the popularity of the song and the
> income stream, she would
> have opted for the $$$ over the "fabulous" silver
> disk...
> 
> Mark Northam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/23/07 8:53 AM, "Pete" <musical411 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > --- leshurdle wrote:
> >> 
> >> And she got ???
> > 
> > Sometimes, money isn't everything. According to
> Kathy
> > "Big Boys Don't Cry" Warren...
> > 
> > I was working at Strawberry Studios and I was
> > receptionist and secretary. And I believe they
> were
> > trying to work out what to put in the middle
> eight.
> > And a telephone call came through for Eric. So I
> went
> > to the studio door and just opened it quietly and
> > whispered, 'Eric, there's a phone call for you'.
> And
> > they all said, 'That's it!' The line they asked me
> to
> > say was, '[whispered] Be quiet, big boys don't
> cry'.
> > 
> > They asked for a silver disk to be made especially
> for
> > me. And it was all done in secret. And then they
> came
> > in to the studio to present it to me. And,
> obviously,
> > it's a fabulous memory and I've got it to this
> day.
> > 
> > P e t e
> > S u r d o v a l



       
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