Word: columbia
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...musicians, won a Grammy this year and sold 250,000 copies in the U.S.; on July 1, Cooder's outfit will play Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who defected from Cuba in 1990, has a new album out titled Hot House (N2K). Cuba is also going Hollywood. In August, Columbia Pictures will release Dance with Me, a salsa-spiced love story about a Cuban immigrant (played by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne) who falls for an American dancer (Vanessa Williams); the lively Latin sound track features several Cuban artists, including the already mainstream emigres Jon Secada and Gloria Estefan...
Like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, Franklin helped bring spiritual passion into pop music. In 1961 she signed with Columbia, which tried to turn her into a singer of jazzy pop. In 1966 she switched to Atlantic, delved into soul, and began to flourish. Unlike many of her performing peers, Franklin took a strong hand in creating her own sound. Her guiding principle with producers, she says, is "if you're here to record me, then let's record...
Recording companies like Columbia and Paramount recognized and quickly moved to exploit this untapped black music market, creating segregated "race records" divisions. It was several years before these companies saw that male blues too could generate profits...
...time he went to Columbia University in the fall of 1919, he had already met his first collaborator, Lorenz Hart. That summer they had sold a song to producer Lew Fields for a show called A Lonely Romeo. (Extraordinarily, some of Rodgers' songs, to his own lyrics, appeared on Broadway even earlier, when...
...born in New York City on July 12, 1895. His father William was a theatrical manager; his grandfather Oscar I, a legendary impresario who took on the Metropolitan Opera by building his own opera house. The young Oscar was stagestruck from childhood, and by the time he attended Columbia University, he was performing and writing amateur routines. It was after the Saturday matinee of a college varsity revue that he first met Rodgers, whose older brother brought him to the show. Years later, remembering this meeting, Hammerstein wrote, "Behind the sometimes too serious face of an extraordinarily talented composer...