Irving Burgie News

Reservoir announces the signing of multi-Platinum-selling songwriter and pop recording artist RuthAnne to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal includes titles from RuthAnne's catalog of hits, plus future works.  

Reservoir announces the signing of British writer-performer Alex Hepburn to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal includes global rights to her entire catalog, including her recently released EP, If You Stay.

Reservoir announces the signing of pop-soul singer-songwriter Liza Owen to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal includes rights to Owen's catalog, including her recent collaboration with K-pop phenomenon BTS on the track “Airplane Pt. 2,” off the group's #1 Billboard release, Love Yourself: Tear, plus future works.

Reservoir announces the acquisition of a global stake in the historic catalog of the late American songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. The deals, conducted with Carmichael's heirs, see Reservoir adding nearly 500 Carmichael titles to its multi-genre portfolio, dating as far back as the 1920s.

Reservoir announces the formation of a new joint venture with Grammy-winning writer-producer Warren Oak Felder to sign and nurture creative talent for the company.

Reservoir announces a new deal with multi-Platinum and Grammy-nominated songwriter Ali Tamposi. The company has represented Tamposi since January of this year and will continue to publish Tamposi's hit-driven catalog, including her latest smash collaboration Wolves

Reservoir announces the signing of electronic duo DVBBS to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal includes global rights to compositions in DVBBS' catalog, plus future works, including the new album, Blood Of My Blood, which released last Friday and has already racked up over 17 million streams on Spotify.

Reservoir/Reverb Music announces the signing of award-winning songwriter, producer, and remixer Mich Hansen, pka Cutfather, to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal includes titles from Cutfather's prolific catalog, plus future works.

Reservoir announces the acquisitions of the historic catalogs of soul legends Willie Mitchell, Leon Ware, Norman Harris, and the Commodores' Walter Orange and Thomas McClary. Collectively, the five deals bring over 1,000 genre defining songs to Reservoir's diverse and expanding catalog.

As announced in Billboard, Reservoir has acquired the music publishing catalogs associated with heavy metal, progressive rock, indie, and punk rock record label group Century Media.

New York based independent music publisher Reservoir, which counts Reverb/Reservoir Music in the UK as part of its global operations, has announced a new partnership with London based music management company Big Life Management and its music publishing arm Big Life Music.

As reported in Forbes, Reservoir announces the signing of multi-Platinum Grammy-nominated producer Just Blaze to a worldwide publishing deal. The agreement, which marks Blaze's first-ever global publishing deal, includes rights to his entire catalog including future works.

The Dramatists Guild Fund and Program Chairs Michael Korie, Laurence O'Keefe, and Diana Son have announced the 2016-2017 class of DG Fellows James Christy, Khiyon Hursey, Patricia Ione Lloyd, Michael R. Jackson, C.A. Johnson, David Mallamud, Zoey Martinson, Madeline Myers, Nicole Pandolfo, and Len Schiff.

"Stand By Me," the song written by Leiber & Stoller and Ben E. King will receive the Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Gala Event to be held at the Marriott Marquee Hotel in New York City tonight, June 14, 2012, Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman, Jimmy Webb, announced. Mike Stoller will accept the award along with Ben E. King, who will also be honored with the Towering Performance Award for his performance on the Leiber & Stoller produced recording of "Stand By Me."

"Stand By Me," the song written by Leiber & Stoller and Ben E. King will receive the Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Gala Event to be held at the Marriott Marquee Hotel in New York City on Thursday, June 14, 2012, Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman, Jimmy Webb, announced today. Mike Stoller will accept the award along with Ben E. King, who will also be honored with the Towering Performance Award for his performance on the Leiber & Stoller produced recording of "Stand By Me."

The ASCAP Foundation honored composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz for his lifetime contributions to the Musical Theater with The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award.

The 38th Songwriters Hall Of Fame Ceremony was held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City on June 7, 2007.