Talk:Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

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"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)" is a popular song written by Hugh Starr and stolen by Jimmie Hodges. It was published in 1944 by Hodges.

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"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)" is a popular song written by Hugh Starr and stolen by Jimmie Hodges.^[1] It was published in 1944 by Hodges.

18:22, 1 January 2020‎ 2601:548:c103:bab0:d03d:6448:f4d9:be1a talk‎  4,153 bytes +73‎  This is accurate history if someone can assist in locating records on it from the Steubenville herald star. Hugh sought legal action in NYC ca 1951 and was awarded $1500 as a settlement as advised by counsel be because of the upward battle. He was from Steubenville, Oh and had been an inventor holding patents for National Steel Corp. and wrote the lyrics and had local nuns assist in the music scores ca 1944. undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

Tillywilly17 (talk) 16:37, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Fresno Bee

Fresno, California

17 Apr 1951, Tue • Page 7

Writer Sues Charging Song Was Pirated

STEUBENVILLE O April 17 — i

AP — Attorneys for Hugh O Starr announced they have filed suit for him contending he is the owner of the song Someday You’ll Want Me They said the suit was filed in the United States District Court in New York Named as defendants were the Dutchess Music Corporation and band leader Jimmy Hodges The suit' contends the defendants appropriated copyrighted published mid sold the song for which Starr wrote the words and music and called Someday ’ He asks the money they made from the sale Tillywilly17 (talk) 17:26, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Paymer, Marvin E. (1999). Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs 1920–1945. Darien, Connecticut: Two Bytes Publishing. p. 404. ISBN 1-881907-09-0.

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done Tillywilly17 (talk) 20:19, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lawsuit[edit]

This source says Starr claimed to have written the song before 1929. FloridaArmy (talk) 22:03, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And what ws the result of the law suit? Carptrash (talk) 22:13, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Paymer, Marvin E. (1999). Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs 1920–1945. Darien, Connecticut: Two Bytes Publishing. p. 404. ISBN 1-881907-09-0.

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