Here are some facts: 1. Songwriters make some of their income from mechanical royalties. In the US, the royalty used to be 8.5 cents per song per unit (CD) sold. On January 1st, 2006 it became 9.10 cents. An album that sells 500,000 copies in 2006, would give the songwriter $45,500 per song.
Dorothyâs Ruby Slippers, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland wore these sequined shoes as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothyâs magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, they were changed to ruby red to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road.
Shanice Williams will step into Dorothy's ruby red slippers for NBC's The Wiz Live! a musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.. The 18-year-old theater actress joins Grammy winners Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige and Tony Award nominee David Alan Grier for the live event, slated to air on Dec. 3.