Sold millions on various compilations yet I've never been paid a penny.

Tam Paton must of had very clever lawyers.

No I suspect he had terrible lawyers - he and the band got equally ripped off by the Yanks.

JK2006 wrote:
No I suspect he had terrible lawyers - he and the band got equally ripped off by the Yanks.

Interesting JK, when Tam was on TV he had a gorgeous country house. Whilst BCR had pokey dwellings.

Bell Records was an awful record label in both sound and pressing. I do remember they jumped a lot and sometimes the B-sides were muffled at times. My sister's bought Glitter Band LPs each and each had a skips at the same places.


Whatever happened to Orang-Utan were they screwed by Bell also?

I've never heard this song before in my life, and I have a Bay City Rollers compilation contain 20+ tracks, half of which are dire. Was this during the Nobby Clark days? Tam Paton was living in a very large mansion in Edinburgh when he died, whilst the Rollers were penniless. They should have earnt millions from Merchandise alone.

Yes indeed Robbie - the Nobby days. And Tam did quite well from royalties in the early days - so did the individual Rollers. Compared to their BCR lives that is, they all made "a fortune". But in reality it wasn't as much as they should have done, especially when Arista took over Bell. I have never been paid my 4% producer royalty on any of the Nobby tracks. Nor my composer/publishing royalties on tracks like Jenny.

robbiex wrote:
I've never heard this song before in my life, and I have a Bay City Rollers compilation contain 20+ tracks, half of which are dire. Was this during the Nobby Clark days? Tam Paton was living in a very large mansion in Edinburgh when he died, whilst the Rollers were penniless. They should have earnt millions from Merchandise alone.

Looking on Discogs quickly, I can only find this on a CD box set that Cherry Red put out and bootlegs. It's like listening to the Beatles Decca demo tape.

Monkees didn't see a penny from merchandise. Peter Tork referenced it in an episode of the U.S. sitcom Wings.

If I remember rightly the actors on Dukes of Hazzard made very little with the Dukes merchandise, there was Dukes everything back even bed covers, tacky plastic plates and calculators; it was the definition of kitsch.