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...selling mainframe computers to banks in Mississippi. He was so good he graduated to a big-picure gig in IBM's finance-industry division. But, entrepreneurial at heart, he quit to start a company that bought, sold and leased used IBM equipment. The company was soon taken over by Cook Industries, a conglomerate headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that had interests in everything from hardwood floors to termite-terminating. "Bark" ran the data-processing operation for the entire enterprise...
...Cook soon fell on hard times, and Barksdale was forced to lay off half his 110-person staff. He scrambled to find a way to save the rest. One Sunday in church he collared an old pal who worked at a Memphis start-up called Federal Express that was trying to figure out how to automate the transportation unit--getting computers to route the couriers, trucks and airplanes. Barksdale's pitch: FedEx could buy Cook's data-processing department lock, stock and mainframe and sell services back to Cook. Within a few years, Barksdale was chief operating officer of FedEx...
...Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
...disco, and it is certainly not the macarena. Amid this chaos of spinning lights, moving bodies and exciting beats stands the world's most sought after DJ and most versatile party-guy, the forerunner of the Big Beat Movement, and the master of the remix: Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook. On his new album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Fatboy Slim combines funk, soul, slamming techno and jazzy bits with ingenious samples and a vibrant sense of humor into a single, irresistible album. But unlike many other techno groups, Fatboy manages to maintain the immediate and improvisational texture...
...combines witha relatively slower beat tempo and a conspicuously'80s hair-rock vocal refrain. The overall effectof these seemingly unrelated and clashing soundsamples can only be understood in the context ofFatboy Slim's mixing style and amazing abilities.In lesser hands, such combinations would soundawful, but it appears that Norman Cook can makeanything sound good...