DM’s ownership of the recording and performance rights to “Whoomp!” was undisputed. Rather, Bell contended those rights were assigned to Alvert Music, a third party affiliated with Bellmark, prior to Bellmark’s bankruptcy filing. In 2002, the former president of Bellmark, Alvertis Bell, sued DM for copyright infringement, regarding the composition rights to “Whoomp!” Bell contended the composition rights to the song were not among the assets DM purchased from Bellmark’s bankruptcy estate. Following the sale, DM exploited the recording, performance, and composition rights to “Whoomp!” DM was a music content company that licensed 90’s chart toppers like “Whoomp!” and “Macarena” for use in movies, television shows, video games, and ads. purchased substantially all of Bellmark’s assets for $166,000. As part of Bellmark’s bankruptcy proceedings, DM Records, Inc. Under the recording agreement, Tag Team assigned half of its copyright interest in the song to Bellmark. In 1993, Tag Team, which is comprised of artists Cecil Glenn and Steven Gibson, entered into a recording agreement with Bellmark Records governing the ownership in the composition, recording, performance, and royalty rights to the song. The dispute and its resolution showcase a not uncommon end for large IP judgments: the judgment debtor files for bankruptcy and the judgment creditor is left to recover against the bankruptcy estate’s assets. We are gonna always be here.24 years after Tag Team’s hit song “Whoomp! (There It Is)” topped the charts, a long and ugly dispute regarding ownership rights to the song and related copyright infringement damages has been settled in bankruptcy court. So hopefully I’m successful in that and be successful in this voiceover and acting. And hopefully, with my mastering I can sit back in my studio and put things together for people to sound good. I know DC is going to be a big actor one day. “But hopefully something else comes out of this. “The ride is unpredictable, man,” Steve says. Steve, meanwhile, is taking a course in mastering. Tag team whoomp there it is how to#He’s also working hard on his voice acting, which he first got interested in back in the 1990s, when he had to teach Minnie Mouse how to rap. Will the exposure lead to bigger things? DC has his film work, including #M圜orona, a meta romantic comedy set-and filmed-in the pandemic. A few live shows are scheduled for the summer. They played halftime of Game 1 of the NBA’s Western Conference finals. They were the grand marshals of a NASCAR race in Talladega. led to loads of podcast appearances and some more gigs. So DC did what he always does: “I joined an organization or association or society.” In this case, it was the Public Relations Society of America. How do you market an act that’s hot because of a commercial but can’t tour because of a pandemic? Kind of a novel problem. But he honed his pitch: a band with a clean earworm that everyone knew almost from birth, thanks to the Disney version, a Kidz Bop version and its appearance in loads of movies-including seasonal fare like Elf, guaranteeing millions of kids would hear it every Christmas season.Īfter Tag Team shot the Geico spot, DC says publicists weren’t sure what to do with the duo’s sudden upswing in popularity. “Me and Chubby Checker were the only black people out of 5,000 people,” he says. rep, voice actor, actor, “tech guy” and “ guy.”) A few years back, after being told by bookers that there was no interest in a one-hit-wonder novelty act, he joined the International Entertainment Buyers Association, an industry group that books musical acts, and went to their convention, where he walked around in a “Whoomp! There It Is” T-shirt. (In a 45-minute conversation he referred to himself as a rapper, DJ, P.R. DC worked to keep Tag Team relevant, booking private gigs and wearing just about every hat imaginable. “If you’re going to have one hit, man, that’s the one to have,” says DC.) The band never broke up, but they stopped recording in the late nineties. What followed is straight out of Behind the Music: yearslong lawsuits over samples and ownership, a bankrupt record label, changing musical tastes. Tag Team and 95 South even appeared together on the Arsenio Hall Show to raise money for charity. The groups, however, had no beef with each other, each maintaining that the almost-identical phrases were born of coincidence they were just the kinds of things you’d hear all the time in clubs down south. Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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