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MPL Communications, Inc. in New York and MPL Communications Ltd. in London were established upon the breakup of the century's greatest musical force, the Beatles. Needing an umbrella for his management and business interests, Paul McCartney founded MPL (it stands for McCartney Productions Ltd.) and charted a quiet but steady course of investment in the area that has always meant the most to him: music.
While others in his position have elected to put capital into oil, minerals or other earthly pursuits, Paul opted to go into song publishing. Having never held control of his own compositions during the Beatles era, and so knowing how it feels to have a third party look after your publishing, he was determined to establish himself as a decent music publisher, someone whom the writers or their descendants could trust to cherish their treasures.
In short, MPL's music publishing business has been marked by considered acquisitions and sensitive, honest handling of the copyrights.
Among the catalogs MPL has secured are Nor-Va-Jak (which includes many of Buddy Holly's songs), Desilu Music Corp. (Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's company), Arko Music Corp., Barwin Music Co., Inc., Claridge Music Company, Conley Music, Inc., Edwin H. Morris & Company (a very significant catalog of standards), Harwin Music Co., Jerryco Music Co., Meredith Willson Music, Morley Music Co., Remsen Music Corp., Winmor Music, Inc., Wren Music Co. and, notably, Frank Music Corp. - a healthy body of songs including those by the great Frank Loesser.
And on top of all this, MPL publishes the many hundreds of compositions written by Paul McCartney: songs in every popular idiom that have won countless awards, received multi-million airplays, achieved gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales and been played to concert audiences around the world, as well as popular film and TV themes and classical works.
It is somehow apt that Paul McCartney, frequently acclaimed as the greatest popular songwriter of the century, is himself the owner of many of the songs that compete with his as the pick of the bunch, and it is no less than remarkable that the man who brought Till There Was You to a young audience for the first time (on Meet The Beatles) has ended up looking after that song's publishing. Indeed, a number of pieces that the Liverpool youngster and his eager band-mates played on stage in their formative Hamburg and Cavern Club days (Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It, Ain't She Sweet, Your Feet's Too Big and others) are now part of the MPL catalog.
Even more ironic is the fact that Paul's father led a jazz dance band that played some of the "MPL songs" around the ballrooms of Liverpool more than 60 years ago.
The McCartney's home was in all ways a musical house and Paul grew up in the post-war years listening to "MPL songs" played on the McCartney household piano (bought at Brian Epstein's family's store - but that's another story) and over the BBC airwaves. While Paul's own music is impossible to classify because it embraces such a diverse range of styles, it is clear that American tunes of the 1930s and 40s made a big impression, this influence surfacing in such McCartney songs as You Gave Me The Answer, Goodnight Princess, Gotta Sing Gotta Dance, Baby's Request, Honey Pie and When I'm Sixty-Four.
Also in the MPL catalog are the songs that Paul, like all English children of the era, heard on the post-war "wireless": The Inch Worm, The King's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling, Frank Loesser compositions for the film Hans Christian Andersen. Great songs all, from an age of (comparative) innocence.
Moving into the rock & roll era, MPL publishes an impressive roster of fine songs, led from the front by the hits of Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day, Maybe Baby, It's So Easy, Not Fade Away, True Love Ways and Peggy Sue, to name but a few - but also including Billboard number ones Sherry, Walk Like A Man, Big Girls Don't Cry and more - plus, of course, the Paul McCartney hit collection.
Truly, the MPL catalog is a living and breathing body of fine music. The great writers are here, the great lyricists, the great stage shows and films, songs that have been and continue to be sung by the great male and female artists and played by the great musicians and orchestra leaders.
Whether your need is in motion picture, stage, television, video, commercial advertising or the electronic media, there's sure to be a song for you at MPL Communications, Inc.
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