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About Motor Music

Motor Music was founded in 2003 as a partnership between Cherry Lane Music Publishing and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) to develop original music and sound recordings that communicate and identify the sound of NASCAR. Through Motor Music, NASCAR offers complete music production and publishing services from Motor Music to its business partners including drivers, teams, tracks, licensees, broadcast and video production partners, international television and entertainment projects and sponsors within the sport. Cherry Lane Music Publishing administers the compositions and master recordings worldwide.

About Cherry Lane Music Publishing

Cherry Lane, with its extensive catalogue of copyrights and library of masters spanning virtually all genres of music, is known for its expertise in copyright exploitation and administration. The Cherry Lane catalogue includes such great standard songs as "Just the Two of Us," "Take Me Home Country Roads," "Come Fly With Me," "Day-O" and "All Shook Up," as well as more recent Billboard chart-toppers including the Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love," the Elvis Presley remix of "A Little Less Conversation" and the DreamWorks' singles "The Middle" and "Hanging By a Moment." Cherry Lane is also the music publisher of World Wrestling Entertainment, whose series of albums have consistently ranked near the top of the Billboard charts.

Cherry Lane's administration and co-publishing relationships with film and television production companies include DreamWorks SKG, Mel Gibson's Icon Productions, Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, John Carpenter Productions, Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizon Films, John Malkovich's Mr. Mudd, 4Kids Productions, AFMA, The Konigsberg-Smith Company, Avnet Kerner, Hearst Entertainment, Regent Entertainment and Leonard Hill Films. Film and television credits include the DreamWorks films "The Road to Perdition," "Shrek" and "American Beauty"; 4Kids Productions' "Pokemon," "Yu-Gi-Oh!," "Ninja Turtles," "Ultraman," "Ultimate Muscle," "Kirby" and "Fighting Foodons" series, World Wrestling Entertainment's "SmackDown!," as well as dozens of made for television movies, and documentary programs aired on A&E, History Channel and Discovery Channel.