MORE MANSON: One of the Doris Tate...

MORE MANSON: One of the Doris Tate organization’s biggest concerns is over who gets the royalties from the Manson song on the Guns N’ Roses album--royalties that could amount to $62,000 for each 1 million albums sold.

Geffen Records announced that its take would go to victims’ rights organizations, while an early-’70s legal judgment directs money made by Manson to Bartek Frykowski, the son of Manson Family victim Wojiciech (Voytek) Frykowski.

But another player has emerged.

Phil Kaufman, who produced the original Manson version of “Look at Your Game, Girl” and released it on a 1971 Manson album titled “Lie,” claims that he owns the rights to it. Kaufman, now road manager for Emmylou Harris, is best known for keeping a vow to his late friend Gram Parsons by stealing the singer’s body and cremating it at Joshua Tree National Monument in 1973.

Kaufman met Manson when both were serving time at Terminal Island in the mid-’60s. Manson had a guitar and “sang like Frankie Laine,” Kaufman recalls. Kaufman later hung out with Manson and his “family.”

Kaufman says that Manson signed over to him all rights to the songs on the “Lie” album, which he released after Manson’s arrest. He has the document, and is having his attorney pursue it, he says.

“I called the album ‘Lie’ because before the trial and all the evidence, I thought Charlie couldn’t have done that. I knew them as being gentle, part of that take-acid-make-love period. Of course, history proved me wrong,” Kaufman said.

Of the tune GNR recorded, Kaufman recalled, “That was the song Charlie used to entice girls into the family. He meant ‘look at your game, girl,’ like ‘see the head game you’re playing, when you could be free and be with me.’ I’d listen to him sing it to these new girls, and it worked.”

Kaufman says he has no qualms about taking the royalties should his claim prevail. “His family members made three attempts on my life. That should be worth something,” he said.