Mr Big Discography
- unreleased recordings -

BMI and ASCAP are the two largest music publishers in the world, and it is now possible to search their online databases for songwriters and songs. I looked up Dicken's entry, and was surprised to find many titles I had not heard of before!

Clik here to view Dicken's complete BMI or ASCAP entries. I have listed the unknown songs below, along with Dicken's comments.

unreleased songs (listed in BMI and ASCAP databases):

• Aley Loo
• All Together
• Bernadette
• Buffalo Bill
• Christmas Cheer
• Come On Halleloo
• Crying There In Mysery
• Emily Kane
• Don't Look Down
• I'm Not Free (But I'm Cheap)

"Don't Look Down" and "I'm Not Free" are listed in the ASCAP database as being written by Jeffrey Robert Pain and David Cairns, and subsequently recorded by Cairns' band Secret Affair.

Comments from Dicken:
Red Bus Records tricked me into signing song assignments. At that time I naively thought that I was just registering my songs / titles for the PRS..... when actually I was signing my copyrights over to them. They also asked me to put down all my ideas/titles as well (THIEVES!!!).... hence, Aleyloo / Bernadette / Buffalo Bill etc... etc... I didn't bother to finish these titles, but the melodies do exist somewhere in my mind. The songtitles that I did go on to finish, they (Red Bus) claimed, even "Goodbye World" which was just a title.. no lyric (I wrote that song in 1976 in the studio when we were recording "Romeo") and if that wasn't enough, they rarely accounted to me. I have many old tapes with songs that never got used... mainly because they were deemed not good enough at the time. Some of them weren't finished lyrically. Shaun at Rockshop wants to put the best of them on a CD and call it "Dicken's Demos 1969 - 1999". Lastly, I am puzzled about the Secret Affair thing. I don't know the songs, but I do know that I didn't write them, and I certainly never worked with a David Cairns.