Oedipus Next

Hear ya...maybe a better term would be "financial genius" in terms
of business art...as if not successful one would quickly be 'out of business' --

What I am getting at is that from a music publishing POV it is a wise
move to do jingles as the publishing licenses are scalable especially when
we're taking about jingles that have survived from the 70s and are stile viable today in this frenetic and capricious music market where commercials and sound bytes are the big money winners since they rely on licensing deals and not CD sales.

Manilow though ( my god I am embarassed to say this ) is a great performer I saw him in Las Vegas many times. His piano skills are up there with Elton John.