MetadataThird Chair

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream — who wrote it?

ISWC T0709074736 Recorded by Al Hibbler and others✓ No disputed shares
Also registered as: IT SHOULDNT HAPPEN TO A DREAM

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream was written by Don George, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington. US mechanical royalties are collected by WC Music Corp. (33.34%), The Songwriters Guild of America (33.33%), Music Sales Corporation (33.33%).

Writers
3
credited writers
Publishers & admins
5
3 collecting groups
Linked recordings
873
matched to this work
Share registered
100%
fully registered
Unclaimed
—
below 1% threshold

Who collects the mechanical royalties

US mechanical shares as registered at The MLC · each writer’s chain: writer → publisher → administrator.

WC Music Corp. 33.34%WC Music Corp. · 33.34%
The Songwriters Guild of America 33.33%The Songwriters Guild of America · 33.33%
Music Sales Corporation 33.33%Music Sales Corporation · 33.33%
WC Music Corp. 33.34% The Songwriters Guild of America 33.33% Music Sales Corporation 33.33%
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