Acuff-Rose Music

Acuff - Rose Music Publishing is a leading American music publisher who primarily marketed country music.

The company was founded in October 1942 by country singer Roy Acuff and songwriter Fred Rose from. The driving force was Acuff, who recognized the market Potent savers of country songs, but without an experienced partner to go it alone did not trust.

Acuff - Rose Music was the first music publisher, who settled in Nashville. He came a little too overestimated the ascent to the center of Nashville's country music. The mid-1940s he also contributed significantly to the survival of the collecting society BMI and fracture of the ASCAP monopoly in ( the establishment of Acuff - Rose was the BMI financially supported).

Initially, the song composed by Acuff and Rose stock was the sole basis of the new foundation. Business was still such a good that in 1945 son Fred Wesley Rose was hired for accounting. 1946 joined a highly talented songwriter named Hank Williams approached the two Roses. He was taken a little later under contract and soon rose to superstardom on it. The largest commercial success but was successful in 1950, when sold by the composed by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart and interpreted by Patti Page Tennessee Waltz over five million records and corresponding royalties were taken. With Hickory Records own label was founded, which existed until the late 1970s.

Over the years the song portfolio grew to more than 20,000 titles. Many of the greatest songwriters of country music worked for Acuff - Rose. Wesley Rose, who in 1954 took the lead after the death of his father, rose to become the most powerful man in the Musicrow. 1985 Acuff - Rose Music was bought from the Opryland Music Group, and finally acquired by Sony in 2002.

1994 became the music publisher in the headlines, as in Campbell v. Acuff Copyright process rose from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in principle was taken ( to the detriment of Acuff - Rose). It was about the question of whether a parodic performance of a song ( in this case, Pretty Woman ) royalties are to be paid.

• Music Publishers (United States)
• Country music
• Company (Tennessee )
• Nashville