From: Sound Revelation Services
[chris.jones@soundrevelation.co.uk]
Sent: 29 May 2006
12:42
To: owe@riverside-records.se
Subject: FW: Emile
Ford
Thank
you for your reply but you appear to be missing the point. The fourteen
tracks were stolen - they have never been assigned and there
was
no
contract therefore you are in possession of stolen property for which I
fail to understand how you can deny your responsibility. You certainly
do
not
have the master copy. For your information Emile Ford has
never met Carola Lundstrom and would certainly never have
handed over unfinished
work
to be released. You can a/b against the samples on our website which are
not in their final form due to the corruption
with downloads, but give
enough
evidence to verify that you have undermined Emile Ford's
ability.
Emile
ford came to Great Britain as a sound engineer not as a singer and formed his
band The Checkmates for the sole purpose of experimenting
and
perfecting his abilities. He personally produced the hit single "What
Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For" which became Britain's
first
million selling single. It became the first single by a mixed race
group to sell a million and Emile Ford was the first artist to produce his own
first hit
record. There is no way Emile Ford would have released substandard
recordings on to the market.
With
regards to the Swedisc material this was a promotional two year deal for
exclusive release in the Department Stores in Sweden and not
for
general release. The tracks 13-27 were all
home made recordings especially for promotion through the Department Stores in
Sweden.The
other
tracks on the CD are also unassigned without a contract and
contain recordings with The Big Six (a Scottish band) and the Checkmates
which
you
have not publicised on the album cover and which could only have come
from Sanctuary.
Further I would like to know to what you are inferring
regarding your comment "I also found out that there were
other circumstances re. Emile Ford which I will
not
mention in this mail."
Anything you have to say will be noted placed on
our website.
I would like to
remind you that Emile's family in Sweden have tried to make contact several
times and he also appeared on Swedish Television in 1990
in
Gothenburg and 2004 in
Stockholm and no contact was made by you or
your Company
Emile Ford would be happy to meet you in Sweden
(full expenses to be covered by you) to avoid a lengthy
settlement.
I await your reply.
Christine
Jones
Sound Revelation Services
Agency
Thank you for
your letter.
Let me start
to explain the background on these fourteen tracks:
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.
I will get
back to you during Monday!
With Kind
Regards
Owe
Midner
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Midner
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