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This month, rock producer Jimmy Iovine has returned to Christmas as the theme for his LP for charity and has put together the benefit album to top all benefit albums. A Very Special Christmas, with profits going to Special Olympics, is a virtual Who's Who of this year's Billboard Pop Charts: Madonna, Bruce, U2, Whitney, Bon Jovi, Run DMC, and many, many more...
...there are 15 songs from 15 top stars of four countries. But despite the stars' varying homelands, this LP's charm comes from its being so American, in the full-blown commercial sense. The artists from other countries (Sting and U2, among others) have for the most part been more successful in the US than abroad...
...vocals of the Pointer Sisters and the powerful pop saxophone of Springsteen sidekick Clarence Clemons. And Run-DMC's new rap, "Christmas In Hollis," (also included on Profile Records' new compilation Christmas Rap) not only provides some decent rapping and scratching, but adds a touch of humor to the LP as well...
Even CBS Chairman William Paley went along with the deal, thus giving up an enterprise he spent decades building. Paley started the division in 1938, when he bought a small record company for $700,000. He hired Artists Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby, among others, and introduced the first LP record in 1948. CBS took chances on new artists, signing both Bob Dylan and Springsteen when they were unknowns...
...title track of Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., sounded like a marching song, but the rhythm thrust home a sawtooth short story filled with despair and defiance. The new LP is a little more straightforward and a lot more spare. Springsteen's E Street Band reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill...