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Song Is First No. 1 for Most of the Principals Involved October 10, 2008; Written by Edward Morris "So this is what it's like when you get a No. 1?" Jimmy Wayne marveled aloud as he sauntered into a Music Row conference room packed with reporters. The media had gathered at BMI headquarters in Nashville on Thursday (Oct. 9) to question Wayne on his first chart-topper, "Do You Believe Me Now," and witness the celebration of the song's three co-writers, Joe West and Dave Pahanish, who are BMI affiliates, and Tim Johnson, who is signed to SESAC, a competing performance rights organization. A party at SESAC followed the BMI festivities. Wayne told the reporters he was standing on the side of the stage on Labor Day at the annual Jerry Lewis telethon, ready to go on, when his publicist showed him a note on her Blackberry that "Do... [read full story]
