ASCAP Love Jimmy Allen Again As He Receives Top Songwriting Honors At The 21st Annual ASCAP Pop Music Award For Puddle Of Mudd's "She Hates Me"
Allen And Wes Scantlin, And Publishers Stereo Supersonic Music, Jordan Rocks Music, And Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Are Honored For ASCAP's Most Performed Pop Songs Of 2003.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – (May 18th, 2004) - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) honored Jimmy Allen at the 21st Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The presentation was one of the highlights of the songwriting celebration held on Tuesday, May 18th, 2004, which honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed ASCAP songs of the past year’s pop music season. Writers Jimmy Allen and Wes Scantlin, and publishers Stereo Supersonic Music, Jordan Rocks Music, and Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. were honored for the song "She Hates Me," performed by Puddle of Mudd. Allen took home Song of the Year award honors for the Puddle of Mudd song “Blurry” as the most performed pop song of 2002 at last years ASCAP awards. “I feel very blessed to receive this prestigious award from ASCAP for the second year in a row at an event where legendary music icons Metallica and Jackson Brown were recognized for their incredible body of work and amazing contributions to the songwriting world.
ASCAP, there is no substitute!,” said Jimmy Allen . "Not only I am grateful to be afforded recognition with my peers, meeting Metallica just made my night. They are, after all, THE reason that I picked up the guitar. This whole night has left me speechless." Allen spoke with Wes Scantlin by cell phone to congratulate the Puddle Of Mudd lead singer moments before he took the stage in Oklahoma City, OK.
Scantlin announced the award on stage to a rousing crowd response when Puddle of Mudd played , “She Hates Me.” Allen wrote “She Hates Me” along with co-writer Wes Scantlin while a co-founding member of Puddle of Mudd. Jimmy’s influence and songwriting contributions blossomed into huge hit songs including the award winning "Blurry," "Drift & Die," and "She Hates Me," from the “new” Puddle Of Mudd’s triple-platinum major label debut, Come Clean.
Allen and Scantlin are currently in discussions and reviewing vintage AND previously unreleased Puddle of Mudd songs for a possible future release of "Back In The Day" Puddle Of Mudd tracks. Most of the material is from the "Stuck" sessions and includes nearly 20 songs and rare live tracks that have been sitting in the vaults at Jimmy's studio in Kansas City.
Jimmy comments "I'm really excited about getting this music to the fans. This is Puddle Of Mudd at it's raw and rocking best....Wes and I did this stuff long before we had even heard of Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit. Our sound from that time still holds it's own and you know from one listen that it's Wes and Jimmy and Puddle Of Mudd. "Drift and Die" and "She Hates Me" came out of these sessions and there's a lot more where that came from."
Jimmy Allen’s hit songwriting ability and musicianship first came to light during 1997 when “You Don’t Know” from the independently released Puddle Of Mudd CD Stuck, was a Top 5 radio smash in Kansas City. Successes not withstanding, Jimmy made the decision to leave the then un-signed Puddle of Mudd. Allen now fronts his own band CUT-OUT and pursues many high- profile songwriting collaborations. 21st ANNUAL ASCAP POP MUSIC AWARD
The Pop Awards is an annual, star-studded gala where ASCAP honors the writers and publishers of the most-performed ASCAP songs of the prior calendar year. Established in 1914, the society is the world’s largest performing-rights organization, with over 150,000 active members. ASCAP is committed to protecting the rights of its members by licensing and collecting royalties for the public performances of their copyrighted works and then distributing these fees to the society’s members based on performances. ASCAP’s repertory spans the entire spectrum of music – from pop to hip-hop to rock, from the concert hall to the opera to the theater, from jazz to gospel, from Latin to rhythm and blues.
