The Company

The Song Partnership is a music publishing company incorporated in the UK.

Our main objective is to publish music written by our founders Dave Cop, Pat White, Keith Wilson and the late Bill Nabb.

Our substantial catalogue spans four decades and includes songs and instrumentals written in many styles, mood and genre.

If you’re in A&R, artist management or a producer looking for songs for a band or solo artist, a music supervisor looking for music for film, television or advertising, we have a wealth of product to choose from.  Alternatively, feel free to email us with your synopsis, scenario or just a plain wish list and we’ll send you a link to some suggested songs.

We have songs suitable for indie, rock and pop bands, male and female solo artists, reggae, country, folk, big ballads, torch songs and some dark brooding singer songwriter style songs.  We have many instrumental pieces suitable for film and TV.

Whatever your music requirements may be, we’re confident you’ll find what you’re looking for here.  Nothing is off the table, we’re happy to consider every opportunity.

 The Partners

Dave Cop and Pat White met at school in 1970 both aged 16.  With a mutual interest in music they soon became good friends and formed a band with some fellow students and started gigging and writing.  As is the case with most young bands members came and went until 1977 when a friend introduced them to Bill Nabb who joined the band as the singer.

Like the Three Musketeers Dave, Pat and Bill had a rare bond, both as friends and writers and produced a large diverse body of work for 30 years until Bill sadly passed away in 2006 after a long battle with cancer aged 52 and we proudly dedicate our company to his memory.

I’m Keith Wilson.  My interest in music followed a parallel course to that of Dave and Pat at a college 10 miles up the road and our paths crossed many times at local gigs and parties.  In 1984 I was looking for a guitarist to complete the line up for a project and a mutual friend gave me Dave’s number.  Dave and I began writing together and we’ve been friends ever since.

I Met Pat White through of my friendship with Dave Cop, we have also collaborated on countless projects and have been friends for 30 years.

Shortly before his illness Bill suggested that he, Dave and Pat should publish their catalogue and not let it slip anonymously into obscurity.  That has been our inspiration.  Dave and Pat invited me to join them in their endeavour and add my work to the catalogue.

They say there are no friends in business.  I politely disagree.

We are The Song Partnership and we look forward to doing business with you.

Keith Wilson.

Biographies

 Pat White

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away some stuff was going on but I was learning how to play the piano. This went on for quite a while until I sold my extensive scalextrics collection and bought a guitar and taught myself how to play.

I then met this bloke called Dave Copleston who taught me a bit more and lots of fun and bacon sandwiches and cups of tea later songs started to emerge.

During this time we also collaborated with other guys and produced some fancy and unusual kind of Gongy,Yessy,Crimsonny etc stuff that amused us all immensely.

Then the Rock and Roll started, mixed in with anything else that took our fancy. It’s always been a source of amusement to me that people get labeled with a style or become known for a certain genre as I don’t think that’s what song writing is about. I can’t tell what the next song will be about let alone the one that I may be involved in at the moment……….it’s as unpredictable as your next thought.

Throughout the years I have also done live engineering for a number of bands not the least being The Legendary Pink Dots for whom my better half April was a founder member. I remember when they started and offered to help them by mixing their sound. They seemed to enjoy the quirky echoes and flanging and varieties of other effects that I used to produce their unusual pieces and still seem to use this template in their current productions. I always said that, in my opinion, a live sound engineer is another member of the band as they have to know all the parts played by the members of the band and understand the relationships between those parts to produce an effective soundscape.

Over the years I have had the privilege of being involved with a lot of very talented people and all of them ,and the projects I’ve been involved in, have had a major influence on the work that I’m still producing. I think the important thing is to never close your mind to what is possible and what can be achieved with a little co-operation and a little less ego.

Keith Wilson

Dave Cop

Bill Nabb

April White