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2/18/2005:  If also a songwriter/producer, a recording engineer is in a good position to help the clients "make it" in music and ride their coattails. Best of all it's "extra" income - Editor

Making Money In Music Pt 1
ADDED & LIFETIME INCOME
By Bob Dennis

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1970: Barney Perkins had to leave early that day because he had to pick up a check for $6,000.  This "songwriter royalty" check was in addition to his weekly wage as a recording engineer for HDH Sound Studios.  He had, from the engineer's chair, earned the position of being 1/6 writer on a gold award tune, Gonna Put It In The Want Ads by the Detroit Female Soul group, The Homeycone.  The record was the first of four gold records that the girls would earn in the early seventies. 

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