southern music headquarters new york city united states key people ralph peer ii chairman and ceo subsidiaries digitalpressure website peermusic peermusic is a united states based independent music publisher . contents 1 history 2 writer artist roster and repertoire 3 references 4 external links history edit ralph peer a field recording engineer and a & r representative for victor records went on a scouting trip to bristol tennessee . for two weeks he recorded artists such as jimmie rodgers and the carter family in what later became famous as the bristol sessions . with the success of these recordings peer would later establish southern music which later was called peermusic . 1 the company became very successful and influential in the 1930s . it hit the big time through peer s introducing central american music to the world . in 1940 there came another watershed when a dispute between the ascap and us radio stations led to the inauguration of the rival broadcast music incorporated bmi . bmi supported music by blues country and hillbilly artists and peer through his peer international company soon contributed a major part of bmi s catalogue . during and after world war ii peer published songs such as deep in the heart of texas and you are my sunshine sung by jimmie davis covered by bing crosby and many others humpty dumpty heart glenn miller you re nobody till somebody loves you russ morgan the three caballeros the andrews sisters say a prayer for the boys over there deanna durbin and i should care and the coffee song both frank sinatra . in 1945 he published jean villard gilles s and bert reisfeld s composition les trois cloches the three bells which was recorded by the browns . in the 1950s peer published mockingbird hill a million seller for patti page ; sway dean martin and bobby rydell ; and the novelty i know an old lady burl ives . then came rock n roll and southern published hits by buddy holly little richard the big bopper and the platters . in 2007 peermusic announced the 50 % acquisition of malaco music group . 2 ralph peer ii the son of ralph and monique peer is the current chairman and ceo of peermusic . 1 peer ii is also the vice president and director of the national music publishers association and the harry fox agency . 3 he is also a director and past president of the country music association an editor director of american society of composers authors and publishers and chairman of the international confederation of music publishers . 3 at the 2008 midem he was honored as music maker of the year . 3 in 2013 he received the inaugural international confederation of music publishers icmp award for outstanding contribution to music publishing . 4 writer artist roster and repertoire edit among the well known composers and producers that are affiliated with peermusic are the carter family jimmie rodgers hoagy carmichael buddy holly donovan david foster consuelo vel zquez y miguel angel poventud aponte martha cancel manuel de peppe agust n lara prince royce chayanne kim fowley victor manuelle anah melanie c dead sara family of the year kathleen edwards charles ives newton faulkner kitaro morten lauridsen annett louisan 1500 or nothin and sebastien grainger some of peermusic s most classic and popular song titles include tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree l.russell brown irwin levine everyday by petty hardin ; you are my sunshine by jimmie davis ; georgia on my mind and stardust by hoagy carmichael ; season of the witch and mellow yellow by donovan ; besame mucho by consuelo vel zquez ; sway by ruiz molina gimbel ; statesboro blues by willie mctell ; cherry bomb by fowley jett ; single ladies put a ring on it by stewart nash harrell knowles ; firework by dean eriksen wilhelm perry hermansen ; old time rock and roll by jackson jones iii ; glory of love and i have nothing by david foster ; umbrella by stewart nash harrell carter ; walk like an egyptian by liam sternberg ; it s oh so quiet by lang meder reisfeld ; mambo 5 by perez prado ; perhaps perhaps perhaps quizas quizas quizas by farres davis ; everybody s free to feel good by cox swanston among many others . 5 references edit a b peermusic company history . retrieved 15 july 2009 . peermusic acquires 50 % stake in malaco music . musicweek.com . july 19 2007 . retrieved 15 july 2009 . a b c national music publishers association ralph peer ii . retrieved 2 september 2009 . jones rhian june 18 2013 . ralph peer ii honoured with icmp outstanding contribution award . retrieved july 15 2013 . peermusic about us . retrieved 17 september 2014 . external links edit peermusic official site v t e member record labels and music distributors of the upfi because music delphine records na ve records no format outhere panorama ab disques peermusic pias t t ou tard wagram music retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peermusic & oldid 709791613 categories recording industry association of americamusic publishing companies of the united statespublishing companies established in 19281928 establishments in new york navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 march 2016 at 03 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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