Word: lp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the 1969-70 season; Thomas conducted 34 of the Boston Symphony's concerts and was on the podium at its spring recording sessions. The first results, Ives' Three Places in New England and Ruggles' Sun-Treader, soon to be released on a DGG LP, is 20th century music making at its best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky's Huxley Variations, a fiercely difficult musical mosaic that he seamed...
...work deciding what 45-r.p.m. singles to release that week. Musical careers hang on the outcome. So, in the long run, do the financial fortunes of the company itself. One morning this July the conferees were vigorously debating the merits of three songs in a new LP album when President Clive J. Davis took the floor and picked one out in a firm command decision: "That's the song. Cut it as a single today and ship it tomorrow...
Rubber Duckie is, of course, one of the more memorable moments from noncommercial TV's Sesame Street. Taken from Columbia's "original cast" LP, the song is sung by a puppet named Ernie who, it will be recalled, sounds like Bullwinkle J. Moose and looks-from the neck up-like a flattened casaba melon. After more than a month of heavy sales promotion, the song has already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly...
...Hammond is embarked on an even bigger rescue mission -the reissue of every one of Bessie's 160 records. Columbia, somewhat wealthier these days, is releasing them in a series of five two-LP albums, each containing 32 songs, each priced at an attractive $5.98. The first album, containing Bessie's first acoustic recordings (1923) and her last electrics (1930-33), has been out five weeks and has already sold more than 35,000 copies. That is an unprecedented feat in the history of reissues, and a surprise to everyone but Hammond. An executive producer with Columbia...
...genuine chunk of Beethoven and someone is definitely listening. From Mobile to Manhattan, pop radio stations are giving A Song of Joy heavy air play. The record is high on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and still climbing. As for Rios, A & M will release his new LP this week and is sponsoring him on a U.S. tour. That should give his fans all the Joy they need...