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...superstars have at least one good motive for getting along well: financial. When they signed contracts for the Rome concert, neither they nor their management teams foresaw the extraordinary revenues that the event would generate. The singers accepted a flat fee from Decca, with no royalties. Economically, it was a disastrous decision. Music-industry sources have it that Pavarotti, who records exclusively for Decca, used his clout to sweeten his deal once it was clear that the album was going through the roof. When word leaked to the others, Domingo, who free-lances primarily with Sony and BMG, was said...
This time around, all the performers are demanding stiff fees. Wary of the huge financial commitment that was being asked for, Decca hesitated to commit itself, and the Warner Music Group jumped in. The new deal is estimated at nearly $1 million for each artist. That's the way to sing for your supper...
...Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from her fecund Columbia years, bound to urge anyone with ears on to the complete -- and completely indispensable -- Columbia recordings (available on nine separate CDs). BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS (GRP) includes 50 performances from 1944 to 1950 that push Lady Day toward pop but still keep her sensuality and edge of danger...
...picked up the nickname the Octopus for controlling more than half the top stars in the business, including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis. Wasserman became MCA's top agent. As president of the company in 1949, Wasserman began producing television shows. In 1962 he bought Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, and dropped the agency business...
JASCHA HEIFETZ: THE DECCA MASTERS, VOL. 2 (MCA Classics). Jascha plays Gershwin! And Stephen Foster! And Irving Berlin! The greatest violinist who ever lived, in dazzling arrangements of It Ain't Necessarily So, Old Folks at Home and White Christmas, among other American bonbons. Those were the days...