Word: lp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There he is, between reels of the late show on TV, popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called...
...songs are dusty, and in many cases so are the singers: Who remembers Frankie Fanelli's Mala Femmana? With discount record outlets in most major cities, peddling warmed-over LP collections on TV would seem like a short cut to bankruptcy. Yet in two months Fiedler's two-minute pitch has sold over $1,000,000 worth of records. The Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll has racked up $4,000,000 in sales, and Love Italian Style is nearing the $1,500,000 mark...
Sellout Audience. Her first LP for Atlantic Records has sold 750,000 since its release last November; her second, just completed, will be released in October. Her income from records, concerts and club dates last year was ap proximately a quarter of a million dollars, and is expected to be much more this year. Last week, starting a 32-city tour, she drew a sellout crowd of 10,000 in Columbia, Md., most of whom, by the end of the show, were standing on everything from plastic Spring-O-Lators to rhinestone-studded roller skates to pay her tribute...
...Royal College of Music and rock as a keyboard sideman for such pop luminaries as Cat Stevens, T. Rex and David Bowie. Currently a member of Yes, England's foremost progressive rock group, Wakeman, 24, has conceived, performed and produced what is so far the most provocative rock LP of the year. The Six Wives of Henry VIIKA...
...Park when the reclusive Queen of Rock gave one of her rare concerts, and a free one at that. Her face scrubbed shiny and her hair short and curly, Carole King, 30, wore blue jeans like most of her audience and sang old favorites from Tapestry, the best-selling LP in rock his tory, as well as her new song Fantasy: "Our reality will be as good as never-never land...