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Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. was an American music publishing firm formed in 1942 by Roy Acuff and Fred Rose in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. [2] Currently, the company's catalog is owned by Sony Music Publishing .
Their Acuff-Rose Music was almost immediately successful, particularly with the enormous hits of client Hank Williams. [3] Acuff-Rose Music remained a foundation of the country music business even after Rose's death; his son, Wesley Rose , took over the presidency and continued with Roy Acuff until 1985, when the company's catalog was sold to ...
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994), was a United States Supreme Court copyright law case that established that a commercial parody can qualify as fair use. [1] This case established that the fact that money is made by a work does not make it impossible for fair use to apply; it is merely one of the components of a fair use analysis.
Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990.
The son of songwriter Fred Rose, he was born in Chicago and studied to become a chartered accountant. [1] He eventually moved to Nashville and in 1945 he became involved in Acuff-Rose Music, a music publishing house established by his father and his father's partner, Roy Acuff. [1]
The second floor is a museum to Music Row. The original Acuff-Rose sign is one of the most notable artifacts up on the wall.“The Acuff-Rose sign, to me, is one of the most famous iconic signs in ...
Increasingly frustrated at Sun, he gradually stopped recording. He toured music circuits around Texas and then quit performing for seven months in 1958. [22] During the period of 1958–1959, Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose Music, [6] a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music