In his letter to Mr. Murray, Mr. Paterno was no less sarcastic: “This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies.”
Yeah. I’d spit in the face of whoever tried to give me all the money they’re still making from those songs. What would I do with millions of dollars? Especially if they gave to me in cash. I’d probably be injured from trying to lift it all, if I weren’t entirely buried in currency. And think! They’d do it again the next quarter, and the next quarter, and the next… Money, money, money forever. It’s like a curse!
That’s truly a great song, though it was a long while after I first heard it that I learned it was a Doobie Brothers tune. Doesn’t sound like them at all, probably because it was by Patrick Simmons rather than Tom Johnson.