Edited sentence: All in all Mr Melrose was a backstabbing opportunist who raped his artists by putting his name on compositions that not only did he not write, but could hardly understand.But it is said that Jelly Roll himself helped pick the tunes that Melrose put out.He took advantage of his artists and while he was living on his horse ranch in Arizona Jelly Roll could not get enough money from his copyrights to afford health care.Melrose was the beginning of what is wrong with the music industry today.Some say that he was nothing more than a crook.Which could be attributed to his death