Village People - Cant Stop The Music - The Original Soundtrack Album '1980

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. The Village People - Cant Stop The Music
02. David London - Samantha
03. The Ritchie Family - Give Me A Break
04. The Village People - Liberation
05. The Village People - Magic Night
06. David London - The Sound Of The City
07. The Village People - Milkshake
08. The Village People - Y.M.C.A.
09. The Village People - I Love You To Death
10. The Ritchie Family - Sophistication

Cant Stop the Music is the sixth studio album and first soundtrack by Village
People for their movie Cant Stop the Music released in 1980. Though the movie
was a commercial failure, the album did better, reaching #9 on the UK Albums
Chart, #47 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S.A., and #1 in Australia (on the Kent
Music Report). This album was reissued to CD in 1999.
It contains songs not only by the Village People but also by David London and
The Ritchie Family. The album also features a re-make of Y.M.C.A. with lead
vocals by Ray Simpson. Simpsons remake never charted and was not released as a
single.
This is the first Village People album that was not certified Gold by the RIAA.

On May 7, 2012, publishers Cant Stop Productions and Scorpio Music failed in
their attempt to prevent Y.M.C.A., Milkshake, and Magic Night, written by Victor
Willis from the Cant Stop the Music motion picture soundtrack from reverting to
Willis as scheduled starting in 2013. In a historic ruling, Judge Barry Ted
Moskowitz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of
California ruled that Willis can in fact terminate his copyrights granted to the
publishers because a joint author who separately transfers his copyright
interest may unilaterally terminate the grant. In response to the ruling, Willis
stated I am just looking forward to having control of the songs. So as it
currently stands, in 2013 at a minimum, Victor Willis per the court order will
own (recapture) 33\% of Y.M.C.A., Milkshake, Magic Night, and other Village
People hits. However, his percentage of ownership may increase to 50\% if the
songs were only written by Victor Willis and Jacques Morali, not Henri Belolo.
In fact, Brian Caplan, Willis lawyer stated that he is confident they will prove
at trial that Henri Belolo didnt write any of the lyrics to those songs. Judge
Moskowitz has granted the publishers, Cant Stop Productions and Scorpio Music,
30 days to amend their complaint to argue why Willis should not be allowed to
provide evidence that Henri Belolo was not one of the writers of Y.M.C.A.,
Milkshake, Magic Night, and other Village People hits.

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