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...programs [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 30]. The first TV sound-track album to attain gold status was produced under my auspices more than 25 years ago. It was the music from the afternoon series Dark Shadows. Unlike most of today's TV sound tracks, this album contained only Charles Grean's original music from the show and was devoid of appearances by major stars. We used the people in the series and cut it for under $10,000--cheap even in those times. Today the record business is a whole different ball game, and the sales potential of the CD depends...
...Hartford, Conn. 21 Kangas, Nick '60 B 5.9 165 Chicago, Ill. 23 Creamer, Michael '61 B 5.11 165 Birmingham, Ala. 24 Curran, Michael '61 B 5.11 170 W. Hartford, Conn. 30 Winkler, Richard '60 B 6.0 180 Hinsdale, Ill. 31 Hard, Ted '61 B 6.0 180 Dallas, Texas 32 Grean, Michael '59 B 5.10 187 Rye, N. Y. 33 Muller, Louis '61 B 5.0 170 Maywood, Ill. 34 Forstmann, Tony '60 B 5.11 205 Greenwich, Conn. 35 Blanchard, Robert '61 B 6.2 197 Hamden, Conn. 40 Hallas, Herbert '59 B 5.9 162 Windsor, Conn. 41 Kahn, Jeffrey...
That was Monday. Tuesday morning the song was accepted by Atlantic Records. Tuesday night Grean flew to Chicago to have his touring wife, Singer Betty Johnson, record...
...song in 15 minutes, recorded it in a dozen takes in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Atlantic rushed the tapes into production, cutting enough "dubs" (sample acetate disks for immediate use, good for 15 to 20 plays) to give the New York disk jockeys a preview hearing (Grean also dispatched a pretty secretary to demonstrate the hoop motion to local deejays...
...days later the completed records started coming into Atlantic's New York offices, were promptly funneled out to a list of 2,500 key disk jockeys about the country. Atlantic distributors started setting up deejay hoop contests through the Middle West. Scarcely more than a week after Lyricist Grean landed, his song was on the market ahead of the competition, and the painful fruits of his inspiration were assaulting ears across the land...