Topic summary
ASCAP
Extracted from the Wikipedia article American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Membership expands
ASCAP's membership diversified further in the 1940s, bringing along jazz and swing greats. In the 1940s, it was common for ASCAP and BMI to send out field representatives to sign new songwriters and music publishing companies, as the firms were not household names; one such ASCAP employee was Loring Buzzell, who later formed the music publishing company Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music.