Got You on My Mind

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Got You on My Mind
Album cover
Album by William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux
Released 24 August 2004
Recorded 1999 & 2003
Genre Jazz
Length 41:50
Label Waking Up Music
Producer Galison
Professional reviews
Madeleine Peyroux chronology
Dreamland
(1996) 		Got You on My Mind
(2004) 		Careless Love
(2004)

Got You on My Mind is a jazz album by William Galison and Madeleine Peyroux, mainly recorded in 2003. Seven of its eleven tracks are by the two collaborators, the remainder are by Galison alone.

The album is made up of a wide variety of material, ranging from jazz standards like Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' "The Way You Look Tonight" to pop songs like John Lennon's "Jealous Guy"; and containing two originals by Galison and one by Galison and Peyroux. The instrumentation is also varied, with Galison himself playing six different instruments.

Controversy

Tha album has a controversy-ridden history. In late 2005 it became known that Peyroux and her record label had been sued for $1,000,000 by her former boyfriend and musical collaborator Galison, who had produced and co-created Got You on My Mind. According to Rounder Records' legal department, Peyroux and her lawyer presented a seven-track EP, Got You on My Mind, to them as a demo, owned exclusively by Peyroux. When Galison challenged this assertion, Peyroux's lawyers threatened to sue him and his distributor for copyright infringement. They have since admitted having been wrong about the copyright infringement. The accusations elicited a lawsuit against Peyroux and her lawyers for libel and tortuous interference, as they led Galison's own distributors to pull out of involvement with the album. Peyroux has since countersued Galison for several million dollars for among other things, using her name on the CD, and for not paying her royalties. Galison claims that he has every intention of paying royalties to Peyroux when he earns a profit, but that after paying about $80,000 for production of the CD and about $50,000 in legal fees to fight Peyroux's efforts to prevent sales, he has not yet broken even on his investment. Bizarrely, if Galison wins the lawsuit for tortuous interference, Peyroux may be entitled to one third of the penalty against her.


THE CONFLICTING TESTIMONY OF ROUNDER RECORDS AND MS. PEYROUX's LAWYER JEFFERY GREENBERG ESQ.

According to Rounder’s sworn testimony, Greenberg falsely told them that Galison was merely an "accompanying musician" on these recordings with no rights to commercialize them. According to Greenberg’s sworn testimony, Rounder was fully aware of Galison's ownership of GYOMM from the time it was recorded. These two statements are fundamentally contradictory. Apparently, one of these two parties, Rounder or Greenberg has made false statements under oath.

Here are excerpts from the sworn testimonies of Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Marty Willard of Rounder Records:


Q Did you tell -- did you tell anybody at Rounder that William Galison was the co-owner of the --

A Yes….Yes… Yes…Yes, I did tell the label that he had his interest in these recordings.

Q When?

A Before the signing of the agreement and over the course of these negotiations after I learned that they were, you know, making these [recordings in February 2003]… I talked to Marty Willard. And it was no secret that William – you know, it was no secret, William's interest in these things.”


This is in direct contradiction to Mr. Willard’s testimony in his deposition of 11/14/2005 which establishes that Mr. Greenberg NEVER told Rounder about Galison's ownership of the Album until Galion's lawyer lawyer called Rounder ten months after they negotiated a contract with Greenberg on false pretenses,

Q: Did there come a time when Rounder or any of Rounder's agents or employees learned that Galison and Peyroux were joint owners and joint authors of GYOMM?

A: That is a claim that [Galison's lawyer] Steven Robinson made me aware of [In December 2003]… the only knowledge I had then, and continue to have now, with respect to the issue of ownership, is that these issues were and are a point of contention between Galison and Peyroux… I was not even aware that she had an agreement with Galison until much later. I don't think I was aware of any agreement between Peyroux and Galison until, perhaps, December of '03.”

PEYROUX IS BEING REPRESENTED BY "MOB LAWYER" RICHARD WARE LEVITT

As of this writing, Mr. Galison is representing himself pro se in this matter. Ms. Peyroux and the Firm of beldock, Levine and Hoffman are being represented by Richard Ware Levitt, Esq. . Beldock is also being represented by Leon Friedman, Esq, who shares an office with Mr. Levitt. In adddition to Ms. Peyroux, Mr. Levitt's other clients include:

The Bonnano crime syndicate. [5]

[Patty "The Pig" Defilippi-] ]"Bonanno Family Capo" sentenced on 3/17/07 to 40 years imprisonment [6]

Francisco Rosario - The New York City Police Officer who lied to the FBI about the sodomy torture of Abner Louima - now serving 7 years [7]

Emil Dixon - A drug dealer who murdered two, including a witness - now on death row http:[//www.nypost.com/seven/12222006/news/regionalnews/death_jab_sidestep_regionalnews_stefanie_cohen.htm ]

Primo Cassarino- Gambino family soldier [8]

Gino Galestro - Mafia henchman who had his victims dismembered and incinerated. Facing life in prison [9]

James Giordano - Gambling kingpin who ran a $1 billion dollar illegal internet gamblig ring [10]

Warren Hazel et al - indicted in 2003 for smuggling 2 tons of drugs into the US and for posession of assault weapons.


THE ROLE OF MADELEINE PEYROUX

The complicity of Madeleleine Peyroux herself in this case is not clear. Peyroux is being sued for libel entirely because her former lawyer Jeffrey Greenberg claimed that she had told him that Galison had "physically abused" her on "numerous occasions". 'However, Peyroux has denied under oath that she told her lawyer (or anyone else)that Galison physically abused her, and has stated under oath that Galison never harmed her in any way.' Peyroux has also stated under oath that none of the seven lawyers who have represented her ever showed her the January 2004 letter from Galison's lawyer threatening a lawsuit if the claims of physical abuse were not retracted. Likewise, Peyroux's complicity in the interference with Galison's contract with potential distributors is also based entirely on Greenberg's assertions, which include no proof of Peyroux's involvement. In other words, Greenberg is implicating Peyroux, by claimimg that he was simply representing her in the libelous statements and misrepresentations of ownership. Galison has asserted that he would release Peyroux entirely from the lawsuit and its potentially severe legal ramifications (including perjury and destruction of evidence)if she simply disassociates herself from her co-defendant Greenberg (and Beldock), whose testimony she has already contradicted under oath. Galison has asserted that even if Peyroux admits to wrongdoing regarding this case, he will indemnify her entirely and release her from any legal consequences for her actions.

A further controversy involves the rôle of Carly Simon, who is featured prominently on the back cover of the album – "Featuring Carly Simon as 'the scorpion'" – although she does nothing but speak one line on one track. This has been described as "a ploy to defraud her sizable and loyal fan base. It's truly shameful, and it's a scummy tactic that is unbecoming an album that clearly is strong enough to stand upon its own considerable merits".[11] To this criticism Galison responds: "If you had Carly Simon singing on one of your albums, would you not mention it? Carly is an inimitable artist, and her little cameo is a gem. That's why I put her name on the back of the cover, in letters half the size of Mine and Madi's. "Cheeky" maybe, but "scummy" is a little strong....and by the way, you are the only person to complain out of tens of thousands who have bought the CD."

Track listing

  1. "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (Dreyer–Jolson–Rose) –2:34
  2. "J'Ai Deux Amours" (Conger–Scotto–Vanna) –3:17
  3. "Flambee Montalbanese" (Viseur) –3:03
  4. "Got You on My Mind" (Biggs–Thomas) –4:18
  5. "Jealous Guy" (Lennon) –3:41
  6. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Fields–Kern) –3:04
  7. "Rag for Madi" (Galison) –3:19
  8. "Playin'" (Galison–Peyroux) –4:42
  9. "Shoulda Known" (Galison) –5:09
  10. "Heaven to Me" (Reardon–Schweikart) –4:05
  11. "Heaven Help Us All" (Miller) –4:32
(Recorded at Excello, Brooklyn, New York in March 2003 by Hugh Pool, except 3, recorded at Tonstudio Schlag in 1999 by Wolfgang Lohmeier.)

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