Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have something to do with the fact that Ishtar features two of Hollywood's hottest stars. Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman play Lyle Rodgers and Chuck Clark, a singer-songwriting duo trying to make it in New York. Their only problem is that they are bad. Really bad. Even their agent (Jack Weston) tells them, "You're old, you're white, you have no shtick...
...vocals put the Four Seasons on top of the pop world. In 1971 Gaudio, who never liked performing, stopped touring with the Four Seasons but continued to produce the group's records and started working with other artists as well. Valli agreed to stay with the Seasons as lead singer. All the while, Gaudio and Valli never felt the need of a written contract. They have divided well over $50 million on the strength of their original handshake. Says Valli: "If you trust your partner, contracts are not important. We have never had to police one another." Indeed, they...
...over time things even out. In 1978 Valli was the big breadwinner because he sang the title song from the movie Grease, which brought in an estimated $2 million for the partnership. In 1981 Gaudio starred, when the music he produced for the Neil Diamond movie The Jazz Singer earned him perhaps $1 million or more after divvying up with Valli...
...made a record, and everyone bought it. Then you went on tour, and everyone lined up for tickets. That was all any of us knew about the music business, and that included the people who ran the business." The speaker is Tom Rush, a folk singer, acoustic-guitar operator and onetime rambling man with some mileage on him. Just now, like other New Hampshiremen in Mud Season, he feels entitled to be a touch grouchy. There was plenty of snow for cross- country skiing this winter on the logging roads around his big hillside house, but the maple-syrup season...
Wait a minute. This guy is a folk singer? A modern Leadbelly? He sounds like one of those hero CEOs in FORTUNE or Forbes who eats nails, sleeps three hours a night and never, never loses his driving wheel. Worse to come: by 9 a.m., the six employees of Maple Hill Productions have started to arrive, make coffee and restructure the music biz. The strategy that Rush worked out with Sykes was to use the Tom Rush name for leverage, once it was re-established. Then he would create a central organization that could bring folk musicians and audiences together...