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Smokey Robinson Legal Problems

radiofan2023 said:
You say this like whatever the Turtles did to warrant not being played on a countdown show is common knowledge, but it isn’t. Why don’t you explain?
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SiriusXM had to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan -- founders of the Turtles and also known as Flo and Eddie -- as a settlement of a lawsuit over past royalties. SXM denied they owed the Turtle guys anything but didn't want to take a chance in court, so they paid up in an out-of-court settlement. After that, management pulled all Turtles titles from the approved-for-airplay library and the ban continues to this day, a grudge that refuses to die. The ban extends to countdown shows. Rather than skip a title, which would raise questions management would rather not deal with from listeners, '60s Gold has to skip the countdowns of any weeks in which the Turtles had a song on the chart.
 
CTListener said:
SiriusXM had to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan -- founders of the Turtles and also known as Flo and Eddie -- as a settlement of a lawsuit over past royalties. SXM denied they owed the Turtle guys anything but didn't want to take a chance in court, so they paid up in an out-of-court settlement. After that, management pulled all Turtles titles from the approved-for-airplay library and the ban continues to this day, a grudge that refuses to die. The ban extends to countdown shows. Rather than skip a title, which would raise questions management would rather not deal with from listeners, '60s Gold has to skip the countdowns of any weeks in which the Turtles had a song on the chart.
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That really restricts 1967. They end up doing "Best of Spring" "Best of Summer", etc as there are only a few eligible weeks in that year
 
See my new post below. Made some changes to it. Still hope this story is a nothing burger.

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CTListener said:
SiriusXM had to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan -- founders of the Turtles and also known as Flo and Eddie -- as a settlement of a lawsuit over past royalties. SXM denied they owed the Turtle guys anything but didn't want to take a chance in court, so they paid up in an out-of-court settlement. After that, management pulled all Turtles titles from the approved-for-airplay library and the ban continues to this day, a grudge that refuses to die. The ban extends to countdown shows. Rather than skip a title, which would raise questions management would rather not deal with from listeners, '60s Gold has to skip the countdowns of any weeks in which the Turtles had a song on the chart.
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Good riddance. Flo and Eddie got exactly what they deserved.
 
Part of the filings deals with sub minimum wages, bad working conditions. One would think Smokey would remember back before he made it big: the crummy pay verses expenses almost all the entertainment folks go thru and be fair if not generous paying their help.

If the Ladies were really sexually assaulted, go to the cops that day and use a rape kit. That would lead to a rape conviction which would make a damage suit easy to win.

Monica kept clothing to win her case in the "Court of Public Opinion".

They should have hired a "slimy" lawyer who was savvy enough to threaten social media or TMZ and had a payday.
 
Yes and no. A lot of times the suit is never filed. Non di$clo$ure with a check with a lot of zeros can keep everything off social media. A really sharp (slimy) lawyer can keep you out of court.
 
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