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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROBBIE ROBERTSON: STORYVILLE (Geffen...
RICKIE LEE JONES: POP POP (Geffen). One of rock's most idiosyncratic talents bends pop standards like I'll Be Seeing You and Second Time Around to her own offbeat styling. She comes up with interpretations that career between the telling and the bizarre, but some of the most surprising renditions -- like, for God's sake, Hi-Lili Hi-Lo -- turn out to be the most successful...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON: STORYVILLE (Geffen). "Catch a thrill," Robertson sings in Go Back to Your Woods, and there isn't a bigger or better thrill to be heard anywhere right now than this ravishing new collection of songs that capture the fragile magic of American mythology and transform it into an eldritch excursion through the collective rock unconscious. Whew! Oh, mustn't forget: it really jumps...
...accommodate sometimes raucous crowds of buyers who had milled about for hours. Nationwide, the albums sold an estimated 500,000 copies within two hours of going on sale, and 1.5 million copies within three days. With 7.3 million records already shipped to dealers around the world, the record company, Geffen Records, has encouraged wild talk that the album could be as big as Michael Jackson's Thriller, the top-selling record of all time (more than 40 million copies sold worldwide...
...home help for those with life-threatening diseases. Williamson is also the prime fund raiser for Project Angel Food, a program that delivers 200 gourmet meals daily to dying AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area. Among the 800 volunteers who help with Angel Food are recording mogul David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century Fox head Barry Diller. Most of those celebrities are not devotees of Williamson's think-positive course lectures, but a few are, and the glamour has rubbed off. "There's so much to worry about," says Sandy Gallin, Hollywood manager...