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Few studio musicians ever have any notoriety. On the www.facebook.com/justplainfolks page, I linked a current JPF nominee who is now 77 years old, who did have one major hit (which has become the standard version of this often covered song"Hold Me, Kiss Me, Thrill Me" which was 55 years ago but which most people over 20 have heard (it was also in Jersey Boy's I was told by my wife) named Mel Carter who primarily had a world class studio musician career going back to Sam Cooke. These folks often make recordings great but don't get paid further nor are acknowledged without deep research, especially when they were singing much of what was heard vocally in the days before auto-tune.

Studio musicians are supposed to be given a % of digital royalties, but I fear it will never really get to the right people because as I understand it it is being generically paid to the unions to be distributed, and I don't remotely trust the money, whatever it adds up to, getting to those who need and deserve it. If they aren't still in, or never were in, the union, how would they ever get paid the money they earned? Perhaps there's been a change in how the money is to be paid, but if not, it's ineffectual at best and a small number of favored current studio guys will get the money and at worst, it's a scam padding the coffers of another union black hole probably to be spent on the next political election to curry favor with the powers that be, the opposite of the intent.

Brian