Meddelande

1981 I started a record label together with Hans Larsson, former RCA, Sweden. We bought the Swedisc label from Roland Ferneborg in 1982 and started to re-release material from the catalogue. At that time Mr. Ferneborg was in contact with Mrs. Carola Lundström (former employed at the Swedisc Record Company) who was asked by Emile Ford if we were interested to release the album as a master deal.

At that moment we were very buissy with new releases on our record company (Mill Records) so we did not have the time to release it then, she brought us the master tape and a cassette copy and we had no reason to not beleive the rightness. Mrs. Lundström was the one that had contact with Emile Ford on the earlier released albums on Swedisc and there was nothing mentioned about money for her - and she has never received anything for it either.

Later, me and my partner sold Mill Records, Rival & Swedisc to BMG Sweden and worked there as A & R´s in 5 years. As I launched the new label Riverside Records, I started to search for the tape and found it again in 1998. At that time we were searching for Emile Ford through magazines, studios in US and England without succeding, we also talked to his son in Helsingborg who had not heard anything for several years. I also found out that there were other circumstances re. Emile Ford which I will not mention in this mail.

Together with Roland Ferneborg we decided to release a double cd containing all the Swedisc material and save the royalty for 1/4, the other 3/4 statement of accounts will be payed by SonyBMG, Sweden.

I don´t know if you have been in contact with SonyBMG, but I will check that tomorrow and also that you ARE representing Mr. Emile Ford.

The cd has not sold much, without looking through the books I estimate it is around 1.000 as we printed that much sleeves.

If Mr. Emile Ford want us to stop selling the cd, we will do that and bring back the master to him. If he still should be interested that we sell the cd after changing to the re-mastered recordings, we can agree to that.

So, there is no thief who has earned any money on the recordings and we have reserved his part of royalty.