Cowboy in a Continental Suit

• Published in: Twentieth Century Drifter p. 87
• Main Author: Diekman, Diane
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Illinois Press 07.02.2012
• Subjects: Agricultural management; Agricultural workers; Agriculture; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied sciences; Art education; Art music; Arts; Arts participation; Automobiles; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Business; Business structures; Cowboys; Cultural anthropology; Cultural studies; Engineering; Film studies; Governance; Government; Ground transportation; Ground vehicles; High culture; Income taxes; Industrial sectors; Industry; Instrumental music; Keyboard music; Knowledge industries; Motor vehicles; Movies; Music; Music education; Music publishing; Music theory; Musical chords; Performing arts; Political science; Publishing industry; Racing cars; Taxation; Taxes; Tonal theory; Transportation; Transportation modes; Western art music
• ISBN: 0252036328; 9780252036323

In December 1961, when Marty had been at Columbia for ten years, Don Law negotiated a contract change from a two-year to a ten-year term. “I made so much money back in 1959, ’60, ’61, and ’62, and I didn’t even have a CPA,” Marty told an interviewer in 1981. “By the time I got one, it was already too late. I’d spent a whole lot of my money and a whole lot of Uncle Sam’s. I had an income tax problem for eight or nine years.” To put the era in perspective, a 1964 Ford Mustang sold for $2,368.¹