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.
For the TV film, see Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic. The Colour of Magic is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns.. 1 Plot summary 1.1 Setting.