Wikipedia

Draft:Ann Munday

  • Comment:
  • My first take on the article is that the page does not read like an encyclopedia article. Two helpful pages are Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and WP:Encyclopedic style
    * The entire section #Women executives in the music industry should probably be deleted. You might be able to salvage some of the content if rather than saying she was interviewed (not a notable event), etc. is to see if there is content from the source that speaks to Munday's capabilities, accomplishments, etc. that can be quoted / summarized.
    * There are a couple of places where there's focus on the reason why Munday might be brought in (like the paragraph starting "Chrysalis Records pulled out..."), but the information that would be useful for this article is the what, when, where of the situation that relates specifically to Munday. For instance, <name of Employer > < hired, promoted > Munday who < accomplishments, area of responsibility >
    Happy editing! –CaroleHenson (talk) 23:59, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
Ann Munday
Ann Munday
Born1949
Enfield, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
OccupationMusic Publishing Executive
Employer(s)Hansen Publishing, Music Sales, Big Pig Music, Chrysalis UK, Chrysalis US, Imago Records
Known forSenior executive in the Music Industry

Ann Munday's career in music publishing spanned five decades. Munday worked with major recording artists and composers and held management roles with with Hansen Publishing, Music Sales, Elton John's Big Pig Music, and Chrysalis Music UK. In 1978, the founders of Chrysalis Records, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis sent Munday to Los Angeles to establish and manage Chrysalis Music US. In 1991 Munday joined with Terry Ellis again at his new company, Imago Records.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Career edit

Munday began her career with Charles Hansen Music's UK office, where she supervised the licensing of songs for sheet music as well as compiled music folios.

She joined Music Sales in 1972. In addition to copyright management, she formed a Public Relations department and was editor of many of the sheet music folios published for retail sale.[7]

At Big Pig Music, she managed the copyrights and licensing, working with founders Elton John and Bernie Taupin.[8]

In 1975, Munday was brought into Chrysalis Music UK, to manage their copyrights, find independent songwriters, and placing songs with their artists, which included Jethro Tull, Steel Eye Span, and Ten Years After.[9]

Chrysalis Records pulled out of their US distribution deal with Warner Bros. in 1976, and switched to independent music distributors. The founders/owners, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis decided that that Chrysalis needed a US publishing presence and sent Munday to establish an operation in Los Angeles as its General Manager. She was later \promoted to Vice President, running the division, overseeing signing of new writers, managing staff to file copyrights for songs, and finding artists to place songs on their records[10]. There she worked to sign new composers and work with the label's artists, including Blondie, Jethro Tull, Billy Idol, and Pat Benetar. She also worked with Carlene Carter[11], Frank Wildhorn who wrote Where Do Broken Hearts Go for Whitney Houston, Jack Lee, who composed Hanging on the Telephone, covered by Blondie, Come Back and Stay, covered by Paul Young and You Are My Lover, recorded by Suzi Quatro.[12]

After leaving Chrysalis, Ann managed country singer/songwriter Carlene Carter. Negotiated a record deal with Warner Bros Records, Nashville and subsequently with Irving Azoff's Giant Records.[13] In 1988 Ann went into partnership with Jim Beach (Queen's manager) and Paul Lillie (Chris Rea's Manager) forming Real Life. Continued to manage Carlene Carter, as well as Robin Beck with "First Time"

After selling his share of Chrysalis Records, Terry Ellis started a new label in 1990, Imago Records. He brought Munday in to run the publishing divisions.[14][15]

Ann Munday is among a handful of women in the music industry in the 1970s and 1980s who broke the glass ceiling, rising to VP General Manger. In the 21st Century, the music business is still dominated by men.[16] Munday was one of six women executives profiled and interviewed in Cosmopolitan's 1982 article on Women in the business side of the Music Business[17][18]. She was one of only a few women executives included in the chapter about women in the business side of the music industry in the encyclopedic book, She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, which primarily focused on women musicians and vocalists.[19][20], according to an 2021 Annenberg study, "...across 70 major and independent music companies... 13.9% were women".[21] Women fare far better outside the music industry; according to a 2021 report by U.S. News & World Report, “Women held 31.7% of top executive positions across all industries…”[22]

Work on the “All Different All Equal” Campaign edit

In 1997 to 2000, Munday was a juror for the media awards for the “All Different All Equal” (ADAE) campaign during the European Year Against Racism. She also produced a music magazine for the campaign.[23][24][25]

Credits edit

  • Editor Great songs of World War II London: Wise Publications, 1975. ISBN 0-86001-041-4.[26]
  • Editor Original Masters, music book of Steel Eye Span album by the same name. Chrysalis Music, 1977 ISBN 0-86001-490-8[27]

References edit

  1. ^ She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Penguin Books), Page 425, Chapter Talkin' Business, ISBN-13: 978-0140251555 Ann Munday "…began her career in early-1970s' London with Charles Hansen Music Publishing, moving on to Big Pig Music where she worked with Bernie Taupin and Elton John before joining Chrysalis Music in 1976…” |[1]
  2. ^ Billboard Magazine October 28, 1972 "ANN MUNDAY joined Music Sales recently from Hansen Publications where she held a similar position as copyright manager."[2]
  3. ^ Billboard Magazine - Nov 15, 1975 - Page 61 "Monday joins [Chrysalis Music UK] from Big Pig Music..." [3]
  4. ^ Billboard Magazine Sep 16, 1978 "The publishing arm of Chrysalis Records is expanding its activities in North America... Ann Munday, newly appointed General Manager of the Chrysalis Music Group in the U.S. and Canada."[4]
  5. ^ The Hollywood Reporter - Volume 320, Issues 1-17 - Page 10, "Ann Munday has been named vp and general manager of Imago Songs Inc. , the label and publishing company recently launched by Imago Records." [5]
  6. ^ Music Week, December 15, 1990 "BPI Chairman Terry Ellis has hired former Chrysalis senior vice-president Ann Munday to launch a publishing company to run alongside his new record label, Imago..." [6]
  7. ^ Billboard Magazine, October 28. 1972 "ANN MUNDAY joined Music Sales recently from Hansen Publications where she held a similar position as copyright manager. She will also be responsible for the formation of a public relations department" [7]
  8. ^ She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Penguin Books), Page 425, Chapter Talkin' Business, ISBN-13: 978-0140251555["...moving on to Big Pig Music where she worked with Bernie Taupin and Elton John..."|[8]
  9. ^ She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Penguin Books), Page 425, Chapter Talkin' Business, ISBN-13: 978-0140251555["... joining Chrysalis Music in 1975. Based in LA and New York she expanded its American catalogue …"|[9]
  10. ^ "Ann Munday is upped lo vice president and general manager of publishing for Chrysalis Music in Los Angeles." Billboard Magazine Dec 6, 1980 [10]
  11. ^ Music Week, December 15, 1990 "She will continue to manage Carlene Carter outside the US." [11]
  12. ^ Billboard Magazine, Dec 6, 1980, Executive Turntable "Ann Munday is upped lo vice president and general manager of publishing for Chrysalis Music in Los Angeles." [12]
  13. ^ Music Week, December 15, 1990 "She will continue to manage Carlene Carter outside the US." [13]
  14. ^ She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Penguin Books), Page 425, Chapter Talkin' Business, ISBN-13: 978-0140251555 "Vice-president/general manager of Imago Songs in New York between 1991 and 1993..." [14]
  15. ^ The Hollywood Reporter - Volume 320, Issues 1-17 - Page 10, "Ann Munday has been named vp and general manager of Imago Songs Inc. , the label and publishing company recently launched by Imago Records." [15]
  16. ^ The New York Times, For Women in Music, Equality Remains Out of Reach March 8th, 2021, “Three years ago, an academic tallied up the performers, producers and songwriters behind hit songs, and found that women’s representation fell on a scale between, roughly, poor and abysmal. The starkness of those findings shook the music industry and led to promises of change, like a pledge by record companies and artists to consider hiring more women… But the latest edition of that study, released on Monday by Stacy L. Smith of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, has found that the numbers for women in music have mostly not improved, and in some ways even gotten worse.” [16]
  17. ^ Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1982 Women In The Record Industry, "For the first time, women are pioneering in the zany competitive, and very lucrative pop-record industry... Ann Munday is vice-president and general manager of publishing for Chrysalis Records.”
  18. '^ Billboard Magazine Nov 20, 1982 "Sexual equality has been an issue in the music and entertainment fields as much as in other trades, but now Cosmopolitans on the case. The current edition of the feminine monthly plugs into music biz careers via a long feature on a group of women executives interviewed by the magazine. Among them are Chrysalis Music chief Ann Munday..."[17]
  19. ^ She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Penguin Books), Page 425, Chapter Talkin' Business, ISBN-13: 978-0140251555 “…Women have built up a strong presence within the publishing business through a combination of assiduous attention to detail and people man­agement. Vice-president/general manager of Imago Songs in New York between 1991 and 1993, Ann Munday began her career in early-1970s' London...” [18]
  20. ^ The Business Journal, July 22nd 2021, “Annenberg researchers have repeatedly found women artists capture the spotlight, but they have a smaller role in the broader industry...” [19]
  21. ^ Annenberg Foundation Inclusion in the Music Business: Gender & Race/Ethnicity Across Executives, Artists & Talent Teams - June 2021 "A total of 70 major and independent companies were examined for their top executives. At the pinnacle of power within these entities..., 86.1% of top executives were men (13.9% women, n=10)" [20]
  22. ^ U.S. News and World Report, States With the Highest Percentage of Female Top Executives "The share of women holding top executive positions in the U.S. has grown steadily in recent years, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Women held 31.7% of top executive positions across industries in 2021, a near five-point increase since 2015, when it stood at 27.1%."|[21]
  23. ^ Commission for Racial Equality. CRE Race in the Media Awards. Commission for Racial Equality, 1997. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.28327773.
  24. ^ Commission for Racial Equality. Commission for Racial Equality 1998. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.28327979.
  25. ^ Commission for Racial Equality. CRE Race in the Media Awards 2000. Commission for Racial Equality, 2000. JSTOR, Accessed 29 May 2023
  26. ^ Great songs of World War II published by Wise Publications, Music Sales 1975 |CiNii Research Incorporated Databases
  27. ^ Song Book of Steel Eye Span's Original Masters Original Masters - Steeleye Span

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Ann_Munday&oldid=1218389482"