Respect Music has partnered with Ford Music Services to be the preferred representative  for Respect  repertoire for sync representation in the USA. Respect Music also has a joint venture with them to represent Ford Music repertoire in the UK. Ford Music Services in conjunction with Respect Music currently represents catalogues from music publishers, record labels, Grammy Award winning songwriters, composers and recording artists for placement in film, television, new media and advertising.The condensed artist and catalogue roster is outlined below.

Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Roy Orbison, Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Christina Aguilera,Norah Jones, Lil Wayne, Ziggy Marley, Bing Crosby, Sly & The Family Stone, Ray Charles, Nate Dogg, Mystikal,Lyle Lovett, Busta Rhymes, Tina Turner, Louis Armstrong, Mary J Blige, LL Cool, Joan Jett, Mariah Carey, The Chilites, Herman’s Hermits, Donovan, Taj Mahal,Heart, Hot Chocolate, Pat Benatar, Sarah Vaughan, Art Gartfunkel,Shirley Bassey, The Wailers, Diane Warren, Beau Brummels, Bessie Smith, Sammy Davis Jnr, Tyrone Davis, The Five Americans,Jackie Wilson, Brunswick Records, Eddie Murphy, Mary Jane Girls,Grant Lee Phillips,American Gramophone, The Stories,In Groove Records, Jay & The Americans, Nas, All 4 One, New Line Records, The Brass Construction, Guy Mitchell, BT Express, Animotion, Device, Divinyls, Kansas, The Smithereens, Oingo Bongo, Eagle Eye Cherry, The Sonics, James Ingram, Connie Francis , Bobby Darrin,The Rooftop Singers, Dean Martin, Connie Francis, Charlie Parker, Donna Summer, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, The Shangrilas, Young-Holt Limited, The Accents, The Ventures, The Dixie Cups, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Righteous Brothers, James Taylor, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins,Exile.

WHO IS ART FORD, FOUNDER OF FORD MUSIC SERVICES:

• Ford Music Services was formed in January 2001 by eight-year BMG Music Publishing film & television music marketing innovator Art Ford.  As Vice President of Film & Television Music at BMG, Ford increased BMG’s synchronization and soundtrack mechanical revenues over 400% utilizing new marketing techniques.  He pioneered music publishing’s first song search system in 1993 by launching the ground breaking 1-888-BMG-SONG preview system (pre-Internet.)  The system set a new standard in the industry for marketing songs.   In 1999, Ford created the Sundance Film Festival’s first official music showcase called “Where Music Meets Film – Live From The Sundance Film Festival,” which was a VH-1 television special produced in association with Robert Redford and The Sundance Institute. Art created the showcase to give major and emerging recording artists the opportunity to interact with many of the world’s most notable filmmakers to explore future soundtracks.  Due to the tremendous success of the 1999 music showcases, it has now become an annual event at Sundance.  Artists such as Joss Stone, The BeeGees, Josh Groban, Babyface, Michelle Branch, Joan Osbourne, Lindsey Buckingham and many others have performed.  Art utilised the advertising community’s Clio Awards to market BMG’s song catalogue’s to the advertising community by hosting music panels and sponsoring music related events as the first exclusive music sponsor for the Clio Awards.  No music publisher or record label had ever used the Clios to gain exposure for their music catalogue’s before.  As a result of Ford’s reputation in the synchronization area, in January of 2002 he was brought in as the Music Supervisor for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

WHAT ONLINE & PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYSTEMS DOES FORD MUSIC SERVICES USE:

• Ford Music Services owns and utilizes a proprietary state-of-the-art business-to-business online song search system that allows clients to:

(a) Make multi-criteria song searches (i.e., key word, year of release, tempo, chart position, genre, etc.)

(b) Preview and download songs from anywhere in the world (territory smart search capacities)

(c) Print-out lyrics and song info

(d) Preview selected songs, posted on the site for a specific production

(e) Contact Ford Music Services representatives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

(f) Forward song files onto other intra-company creatives

• Ford Music Services utilizes an online advertising agency and brand cross-referencing search system that allows them to target brands and ad agencies for catalog marketing.

• Ford Music Services utilizes their own e-marketing system that allows them to focus on specific catalogs, targeting certain client groups (i.e., music supervisors, editors, trailer houses, ad agency creatives, new media companies, etc.)

WHAT PLACEMENTS HAS FORD MUSIC SERVICES RECENTLY SECURED:

• FILM: Ford Music Services has licensed music in many current Blockbusters, such as  Austin Powers, G-Force, Race To Witch Mountain, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Barbershop 2, Charlie’s Angels, Breaking All The Rules, Stomp The Yard, The Butterfly Effect, The Bourne Identity, V For Vendetta, Akeelah & The Bee, Mr. 3000,  ATL, XXX: State Of The Unio, and many others.

• TELEVISION: They’ve placed many songs in the biggest television programs, including the hit series Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami, The Shield, Las Vegas, Nip Tuck and many others.

• COMMERCIALS: Most notably, Ford Music Services has become a leader in licensing songs to some of the most lucrative and influential advertising campaigns in the world, including Citibank,  Nextel, Coca-Cola, The Gap, MCI, Volvo and Old Navy.

• NEW MEDIA: Ford Music Services has licensed multiple songs to the multi-million selling Sony PlayStation “Primal” video game and the NFL Street 3 video game, along with numerous songs to other video games manufactures and developers.