Raleigh Music Publishing Forms Joint Venture With ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund

Raleigh Music Publishing and ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund have formed a joint venture to acquire music publishing catalogs.

Under the terms of the joint venture, ICM Crescendo will commit dedicated acquisition capital to music publishing catalogs sourced and administered by Raleigh.

As part of the deal, Raleigh Music Publishing will gain an equity stake in the acquisitions through its catalog administration role in the joint venture.

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Raleigh Music is led by co-president Peter Raleigh , who previously led the copyright teams at Cherry Lane and Imagem Music Publishing U.S.; and co-president Steven Storch , who spent 21 years at Sony Music Publishing and had been the company’s CFO before moving onto Imagem.

Raleigh Music’s holdings already include the published works of Elvis Presley — among them “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “All Shook Up,” “A Little Less Conversation” and “Don’t Be Cruel” — as well as the George Gershwin catalog including “Summertime” and “Rhapsody in Blue”; the Alan J.

Lerner catalog, encompassing standards from “My Fair Lady,” “Brigadoon” and “Gigi”; and the Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and Tony Bennett’s “Blue Velvet.” “The American Songbook and the great songs of the 1950s and 1960s represent some of the most enduring creative achievement in our culture,” Raleigh said in a statement.

“At Raleigh, we see ourselves first and foremost as stewards of that legacy.

The families and heirs who entrust their songs to us do so because they know we genuinely love this music and will protect its copyrights, its integrity and its place in the world for generations to come.