US publishing royalty society ASCAP has confirmed the identity of its new chairman following the previously reported news that Marilyn Bergman is standing down from the post after fifteen years.
And the new chief is the society's former Vice-Chairman, Paul Williams, the songwriter behind songs like 'Rainy Days And Mondays', 'An Old Fashioned Love Song' and 'Let Me Be The One', and whose worked has been performed by the likes of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Ella Fitzgerald, David Bowie, Ray Charles, REM, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughn, Johnny Mathis, Luther Vandross and even Kermit the Frog.
Williams was appointed at a board meeting of the collecting society in Nashville last week. Songwriter Jimmy Webb was also elected into William's old Vice-Chair role, while on the corporate side of the operation, Irwin Robinson of music publishing firm Paramount Allegra Music was re-elected to his Vice-Chairman role.