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Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: No Payment For My Elvis Songs Says Crudup

James Johnson, New Musical Express, 20 February 1971

SIXTY-FIVE year old blues-man Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, whose songs 'That's Alright Mama' and 'My Baby Left Me' were hits for Elvis Presley back in the '50s, alleges he never received any royalties from the recordings.

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