Churchill Kohlman
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Churchill Kohlman
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Churchill Kohlman was an American songwriter who wrote Johnnie Ray's 1951 hit, "Cry" while working in a Pittsburgh dry cleaning factory as the night watchman. Royalties from "Cry" were the subject of a bitter legal dispute between Kohlman and Perry Alexander, owner of music publisher Mellow Music. Alexander was ordered by arbitrators to pay Kohlman $15,331.24 to settle the dispute in 1953. Kohlman wrote hundreds of other songs, but none achieved the success of "Cry". Churchill had the following
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American songwriter
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2024-03-19T12:58:10Z
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