Word: joni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old president of Elektra-Asylum Records, is not complaining. The tour will help boost sales of Dylan's new Asylum album, Planet Waves, which already has become a Gold Record ($1 million in sales at the manufacturer's level). Two other new Geffen productions, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, and Carly Simon's Hotcakes, were gilded last month in their first week on the market. Since the recent downfall of Clive Davis as president of Columbia Records, Geffen has emerged as the financial superstar of the $2 billion pop music industry...
...July 1973, it was barely breaking even. Geffen merged Elektra with his small Asylum label, dropped 25 of the 35 Elektra recording artists, fired Elektra's art director and the entire publicity, promotion and production staffs. Then he spirited Dylan away from Columbia, the Band from Capitol and Joni Mitchell from Warner Bros, (a separate subsidiary of Warner Communications). In 1973, the first year of Geffen's tenure, Elektra-Asylum sales were $18 million; so far this year sales have already hit $7 million...
...BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY, Bette Midler. Song of the year. Peaked on the Billboard chart in July at number eight. Midler came into her own here after her offensive recording of a slow "Do You Want to Dance?" Dynamic, good-time sound; harmony by overdubbing her own voice. Joni Mitchell's current single, "Raised on Robbery," is in the same style...
...JONI MITCHELL--Thurs. Jan. 31 at Boston Music Hall...
...been aimed at revitalizing himself musically. It turns out that Arthur Garfunkel was a restrictive influence in roughly the same way Paul McCartney restricted John Lennon. Paul Simon sang Simon's problems; not unusual in light of the trend toward works exploring "the pain of the heart," exemplified by Joni Mitchell and Baby James. Songs like "Everything Put Together Falls Apart," "Run That Body Down," and "Armistice Day" probed their author's psyche, while "Mother and Child Reunion," and "Me and Julio" revitalized Simon's music, as well as letting him look within...