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Hey, y'all!
Wondering if you might find anything by a group called "Little Band Of Gold?" Think you'll like 'em.
Some old friends of mine.
R.I.P. The Bubblegum King....
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/RCobit.htm
RE: Express Yourself.....
Some of the most incredible session players ever assembled.
Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: Charles Wright (vocals, guitar, piano); Al McKay (guitar); Big John Rayford, Bill Cannon (saxophone); Ray Jackson (trombone); Gabe Flemings (piano, trumpet); Melvin Dunlap (bass); James Gadson (drums).
Additional personnel: Bernard Blackmon, Werner Schuchner (guitar); Sonny Burke (keyboards); Ray Brown, Tommy Terry, Horace Jones, James Jamerson, Sr. (bass); Earl Palmer, Maurice Miller, Byron James, Bobby Joe Knight (drums).
With no less than five drummers listed, I'd venture to guess that the ultra-funky second line drum thing is the great EARL PALMER!
Yup....
I gotta tell ya how much that Randy Newman tune means to me, as well. Sometimes the only way to hold on, is to just let go.
Wow, STILL funky!!!/
Thanks for those great ones, Drummer!
Nameless and names, as "shackie" used to say.
Matsui....wow!/
Awesome, indeed....
if for nothing more than the Rivera storyline.
"They have great pitching
at the top of their rotation, and they have a great-hitting lineup," Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees' pitching coach, said. "Obviously, we have our hands full. I think they have their hands full with us."
Rizz? The biggest "homer" I've
ever had to listen to. Niehaus is very good, but the rest, including Fairly turn every Mariner "moment" into world series victories.
"We were stretching him a little bit,
putting him in there for the third inning," Gardenhire said. "He hadn't gone more than two innings. But the guy wanted the ball. We asked him and he said he was O.K."
Oh man!
Betty Everett & Jerry Butler. Thanks for this gem, Missy.
knock, knock....
Sorry to break in, here's a note from a friend. Kin ya hep me?
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=1202236
I'm the one that's feeling mighty gay!/
Hey thanks Missy!!
I always loved these anthemic disco hits.
How about a tribute
to this dynamite singer, folks?
Izora Armstead, a Singer in the Weather Girls Duo, Dies
By BEN SISARIO
Izora Rhodes Armstead, one half of the disco-pop duo the Weather Girls, who sang the flamboyant and enduring club hit "It's Raining Men," died on Sept. 16 at a hospital in San Leandro, Calif. Her age was unknown.
The cause was heart failure, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The church where Ms. Armstead's funeral was held, St. John Missionary Baptist in San Francisco, confirmed her death.
"It's Raining Men," a bombastic vocal romp that winkingly borrowed from gospel music - "Hallelujah, it's raining men, amen!" goes its chorus - was one of the biggest hits of the genre known as hi-NRG, a souped-up version of disco that ruled dance clubs in the 1980's.
Sung with gusto by Ms. Armstead, then known as Izora Rhodes, and her partner, Martha Wash, the song only reached No. 46 on the pop charts when it was released in 1983, but hit No. 1 on the club charts and later reached No. 2 in England.
Written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer - now of "Late Show With David Letterman" - the song has since become an anthem of the gay club scene and in 2001 it again reached the top of the British charts with a version by a former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell.
The song was the centerpiece of the group's first album, "Success," which featured another booming Jabara-Shaffer composition, "Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas)" and a version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair."
Ms. Armstead and Ms. Wash met in San Francisco in the mid-70's when they both joined a gospel group called Now (News of the World). They were soon recruited to sing backup for Sylvester, a cross-dressing disco singer with a local following.
The two sang on four Sylvester albums, including the hit songs "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real."
The two went solo in 1979 under the name Two Tons o' Fun, a play on their Rubenesque physiques. They issued one album under that name before rechristening themselves the Weather Girls for "Success." They recorded two more albums before disbanding in the late 80's.
After the Weather Girls, Ms. Wash sang, often anonymously, for C and C Music Factory, Black Box and other groups, and Ms. Armstead moved to Germany to found a new Weather Girls group with her daughter Dynell Rhodes, who survives Ms. Armstead, along with six other children and several grandchildren.
I've been saying that
for some time, myself, berge. The genie got out of the bottle; somebody tell Jupiter and the other know-it-alls.
Why Buy If You Can Rent?
By SAUL HANSELL
Long before Sir Richard Branson dreamed of becoming the latest billionaire with a reality TV show, before he started his cellphone company, his airline and his record label, he sold music from the Virgin Record Shop on Oxford Street in London. When he began in 1971, of course, music was presented as grooves pressed into a vinyl disk.
Today, Sir Richard starts a new music store, VirginDigital.com, this time selling music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet. Virgin, a unit of the Virgin Group, becomes the first major music retailer to enter the download market, which has been dominated by Apple Computer and other technology companies.
What's interesting is that Virgin is putting its biggest emphasis on its subscription service, rather than on selling songs one at time for 99 cents a track, as Apple and Microsoft do. It is betting that new customers will join its Virgin Music Club for a $7.99 monthly fee to listen to an unlimited amount of music from Virgin's one-million-track library on their computers.
A premium subscription service that will allow those tracks to be moved to a portable music player, for a slightly higher monthly fee, will be introduced soon.
Several years ago, subscription services were seen as the music industry's best response to illegal song downloading, and several services were introduced, including RealNetworks' Rhapsody; MusicNet on America Online, which is owned by Time Warner; and a legal revival of Roxio's controversial file-sharing service, Napster. But Apple's simple à la carte store where customers can buy single songs has proved to be far more popular with consumers.
Jupiter Research estimates that 2.1 million people pay for music subscription services, including the cheaper Internet radio services. By contrast, 8.5 million people have paid to download a music file. (All of that is still dwarfed by the 23.4 million people who said they downloaded files free from sharing services like Kazaa in the month of July, according to a survey by the NPD Group.)
That track record does not scare Zack Zalon, the president of Virgin Digital. "Two or three years out, subscriptions will overtake à la carte because it is a much more interesting proposition," Mr. Zalon said. "It has just been difficult to articulate to consumers what it is."
Of course, the difficulty of explaining subscription plans to consumers is exactly why Apple chose the path it did. "Consumers have been buying music for 50 years," said Eddy Cue, the vice president of Apple in charge of its iTunes online music store. "They want to replicate that experience online."
Mr. Cue said that Apple might consider a subscription service in the future, but it has no plans to do so now. "Customers are speaking loudly with their wallets."
Though that may be true, it is far more profitable for online companies to offer subscription services. Typically, an online store pays 65 or 70 cents to the record companies for each 99-cent track sold. But with subscription services, the online services split the fees 50-50 with the record labels after deducting certain expenses.
That fee-splitting cost structure is leading to what may turn into a price war among music subscription services, which generally cost just under $10 a month. AOL offers a subscription service to its members for $8.95 a month. Now Virgin is $1 cheaper than that.
And in the next few months, several other subscription services will be introduced at prices as low as $5 a month, said Ellie Hirschhorn, the chief operating officer of MusicNet, a company that provides the technology and music licenses for the subscription services of AOL, Virgin and, soon, several other companies.
Mr. Zalon said that Virgin did not plan to compete mainly on price. For example, it is selling tracks at 99 cents, not matching Wal-Mart's online music store which sells songs for 88 cents. Rather, he said, Virgin seeks to differentiate its online store and subscription service with content and merchandising.
Virgin will emphasize less popular genres like jazz, blues and classical music, he said. And it will provide features like "ask the expert" to give users the old-fashioned experience of talking to a veteran record store employee. Site users can send questions by e-mail and get responses from staff members hired away from Virgin Megastores.
One big question for Virgin and others is how to set prices for subscription services that allow users to move songs from their personal computers to their portable music players. Until now, the only legal way to put most songs from major record labels on a portable player has been to buy them from stores like iTunes or to convert them into MP3 format from CD's.
New technology from Microsoft, which is being adopted by most major electronics makers like Samsung, Rio and iRiver (though not by Apple) will allow devices to play songs downloaded in a special format from subscription services.
The songs will be programmed to expire on a set date, but that date is automatically extended when users connect their players back to the music software on their computers. If the user does not continue paying the monthly subscription bill, the songs will not play.
The music industry has argued that the price for being able to download songs - even temporarily - from subscription services should be substantially higher than simply listening to the song on a computer.
"There is an increased functionality and there should be an increased value to that," said Ted Cohen, a senior vice president for digital development and distribution with the EMI Group.
He said that while the music industry initially felt the best way to fight piracy was through subscription services, it had been pleasantly surprised at the popularity of download sales.
Currently, the only subscription service with the ability to allow songs to be downloaded to portable devices is a test version of a Napster service called Napster To Go, which uses the Microsoft technology. (A new legal subscription service bought the Napster name after courts shut down the original.) It costs $14.95, compared with $9.95 for the regular Napster subscription service.
Chris Gorog, the chief executive of Napster, said the record industry is pushing for a price closer to $20 a month. But he argues that the record industry will be well served by keeping the price affordable.
"The portable subscription is the single greatest defense against piracy because it most replicates the illegal experience of unlimited access to music," Mr. Gorog said. Moreover, he said research showed that the average revenue to record labels from an active CD buyer was $4.82 per month, less than they would receive from a subscription service sold to consumers at $15 a month.
Then again, as with the first version of subscription services, consumers may not find these new portable services as attractive as the specialists think they will.
Sean Baenen, a managing director of the consumer research firm Odyssey, said surveys show that people are wary of subscription services for music because they are angry at the music industry for charging so much for CD's.
"I already think I am paying too much and getting too little, and I don't want to subscribe to something," Mr. Baenen said, referring to what might be a typical consumer response. "I want to buy the single I am looking for, then get out."
Others in the industry point out that surveys a decade ago said that cable subscribers preferred pay-per-view movies to subscription channels like HBO, but the channels turned out to be far more popular.
Moreover, Richard Wolpert, the chief strategy officer of RealNetworks, which offers the Rhapsody subscription service, says the idea that people buy music once and own it forever has not held true over the last few decades.
"I bought the Eagles 'Hotel California' on vinyl," he said. "Then I bought it on 8-Track, really, then on a CD, and now I've bought it as a download."
"What I really wanted," Mr. Wolpert added, "was to be able to listen to the album wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted."
Brown to Start for Yanks on Sunday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:12 p.m. ET
BOSTON (AP) -- Kevin Brown will return to the New York Yankees' rotation Sunday to start the series finale against the Boston Red Sox.
Brown has been out since breaking his non-pitching hand when he punched a clubhouse wall in frustration on Sept. 3. The right-hander threw in the bullpen Friday, wearing a glove but letting someone else catch the return throws. Yankees manager Joe Torre said Brown will pitch wearing a glove with extra padding.
Torre said he hadn't decided whether Brown will be in the playoff rotation. The Yankees entered Saturday night's game with a 5 1/2-game lead over Boston in the AL East. They have already clinched at least a wild-card spot.
Brown had surgery two days after punching the wall during a 3-1 loss to Baltimore that left the Yankees only 2 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox. He had the pins removed from his hand on Thursday.
Acquired last offseason in a trade with Los Angeles, Brown is 10-4 with a 3.99 ERA.
Aww, no; I really didn't mean
it that way. Really.
I'd recognize that ass anywhere/
Her name was
Kate Smith, sporty.....
http://www.lilesnet.com/patriotic/music/gba[1].wav
After ALL THESE YEARS...
after all you've seen and heard, you're STILL SURPRISED??!
Call to legalise file-sharing with taxes
By Mark Ward
BBC News Online technology correspondent
Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry should realise that efforts to stop illegal downloading are doomed, a conference has been told.
Instead the music industry should embrace file-sharers, said technology journalist and author Andrew Orlowski in a keynote speech at the Interactive In The City conference being held in Manchester.
Mr Orlowski said the record labels should look to novel ways to generate cash to support new artists.
One way could be the addition of a small surcharge to net subscription fees which could be shared among artists whose music is being downloaded.
Hi-tech pop swap
Mr Orlowski believes that the relentless pace of technological change is going to make it increasingly difficult to police pop swapping and tackle net piracy.
Copyright law is fine. We just need to enforce it in a more enlightened way
Andrew Orlowski
"Both the technology people and the music people are sharing the collective hallucination that technology will save them but it won't," he told BBC News Online.
Although he said that the current form of peer-to-peer networks let the music industry track down the most prolific file swappers, the next generation of technologies will render such efforts futile.
New gadgets and networking technologies will make it much easier to swap pop, but far harder to stop it.
Mr Orlowski said future short-range network systems, called personal area networks, will let people swap pop as they walk down the street.
Gadgets are likely to hold a list of their owners' preferences and, when they come in range of another device bearing tracks that fit this profile, will extract a copy.
"It's peer-to-peer in your pocket," he said.
Copy control
Such ubiquitous technology that makes it so easy to swap and share music is likely to outwit technological attempts, using so-called Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, to regulate it, said Mr Orlowski.
"I would never say never," he said, "but DRM requires a huge social change to make it work."
The ease with which music can be swapped in the future might also mean that existing legitimate music download services such as iTunes, Napster and others have a limited life, said Mr Orlowski.
The music industry needed to realise that a generation was growing up that was happy to get its pop for free.
Instead of using the law to stop this piracy, said Mr Orlowski, record labels needed to change their tactics.
"Copyright law is fine. We just need to enforce it in a more enlightened way."
The inclusion of a small surcharge on monthly internet subscription fees that was given to record labels to pay artists could solve the problem, he said.
"I do not have kids and I do not have a car but I do not have any objection to paying for roads and schools because it is better that they are there rather than not."
He added that the idea of a surcharge was winning the broad backing of many in the music industry including legendary figure Tony Wilson formerly of Factory Records.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/3674270.stm
Published: 2004/09/21 10:09:58 GMT
London, whoever is giving you the royalty information
is way out of touch. A typical new artist royalty is between $1.25 and $1.50/unit sold. This article by a music lawyer may help to clarify it a bit for you.
http://www.cosmik.com/aa-april02/mlm2.html
Here's the relevent section for computing what is called the penny rate (artist royalty) per unit sold.
Determining Your Record Royalty Penny Rate
Now that you understand the terms and concepts above, below is how the major labels calculate the artist's royalty rate per CD sold which, in turn, becomes the "penny rate" that is paid to the artist.
Single CD Record Company Royalty Formula
$18.98 (the "SRLP" ) x 12% (the total artist royalty of 15% less the producer royalty of 3%) x 75% (the packaging deduction remainder ....remember 25% off for every CD sold) x 80% (the CD reduction) = $1.37 per CD!
That $.38, of which you speak, is typical of the PRODUCER's royalty.
You full of
bad information, London.
Oh NO! Not again....
who they gonna sue this time?
Is there ever, truly, an "anonomizer?"/
No Fears: Laptop D.J.'s Have a Feast
By JON PARELES
DOWNLOADING music from the Internet is not illegal. Plenty of music available online is not just free but also easily available, legal and — most important — worth hearing.
That fact may come as a surprise after highly publicized lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing major labels, against fans using peer-to-peer programs like Grokster and EDonkey to collect music on the Web. But the fine print of those lawsuits makes clear that fans are being sued not for downloading but for unauthorized distribution: leaving music in a shared folder for other peer-to-peer users to take. As copyright holders, the labels have the exclusive legal right to distribute the music recorded for them, even if technology now makes that right nearly impossible to enforce.
Recording companies have tried and failed to shut down decentralized file-sharing networks the way they closed the original Napster. (That name is now being used for a paid-download service.)
Courts have ruled that the services can continue because they are also used to exchange material that does not infringe on recording-company copyrights. At the same time, a bill before Congress, the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, seeks to restrict the way file-sharing programs are constructed.
While the recording business litigates and lobbies over music being given away online, countless musicians are taking advantage of the Internet to get their music heard. They are betting that if they give away a song or two, they will build audiences, promote live shows and sell more recordings.
As with the rest of the free content on the Internet, there's no guaranteed quality control. Lucas Gonze, whose webjay.org lets music fans post playlists that connect to free music and video, describes free Internet music as "a flea market the size of Valhalla."
The first place to look for free music online is at musicians' own sites. Many performers, from Bob Dylan (www.bobdylan.com) to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (www.yeahyeahyeahs.com), post hard-to-find songs for listening: some as free downloads, some as streaming audio (which can be recorded with a free program like StepVoice at www.stepvoice.com). A next place to look is the labels, particularly independent rock and electronic labels like Matador (www.matadorrecords .com/music/mp3s.html), Vagrant (www.vagrant .com/vagrant/audio/audio.jsp), Barsuk (www.barsuk .com), Saddle Creek (www.saddle-creek.com) or Tigerbeat6 (www.tigerbeat6.com/html/catalogue.htm).
Many public radio stations also maintain music archives for streaming or downloading. Among them are the classical-music station WNYC (www .wnyc.org) and eclectic stations like WFMU in Jersey City (www.wfmu.org) and KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif. (www.kcrw.org), all of which have troves of live performances. MTV (at www.mtv.com) presents an entire album each week as an audio stream.
Following is a selection of sites offering free music online. Most of them are best used with a either a broadband connection or nearly infinite patience. While major-label recordings are largely (but not entirely) off limits, there's more than enough available music to satisfy every listener.
Epitonic
The first and best place to look for any band with an independent recording is www.epitonic.com, a superbly organized site that is likely to have music from nearly everyone heard on college radio. It includes not only downloadable songs but also biographical information and links for hundreds of acts, grouped under genres and subgenres. And it has an invaluable "Similar Artists" feature that can direct fans of one band to dozens of potential new favorites. Within Epitonic's huge roster is at least a song or two from some major-label acts, among them the New York band Secret Machines, the Texas band Sparta and the English bands Radiohead and Spiritualized. But independent bands like Bright Eyes or Godspeed You Black Emperor are every bit as good.
Webjay
At www.webjay.org, music fans share their Web finds with the world. There's no music on the site, just lists of links that allow users either to play entire lists or to download items directly one by one; it also includes links to videos and news sound bites. Webjay is something like the lists submitted by customers at www .amazon.com, but with connections to the music itself. As such, it's only as good as the widely varied skills of its contributors, and its links aren't always dependable. But it is a way for musical obsessives like bigwavedave to share his fondness for garage-rock or for OddioKatya to point listeners toward a wide assortment of Brazilian songs.
Furthurnet
Before the Internet became ubiquitous, the Grateful Dead's fans built up their own network to exchange concert recordings, a network that expanded as other jam bands sprang up. The logical extension of the process is Furthurnet (www.furthurnet .com). It is a peer-to-peer network that trades only recordings of bands that encourage listeners to record concerts: not just the Dead but Phish, Gov't Mule, Dave Matthews Band, Los Lobos, Wilco and David Byrne as well. Users need to install a program available on the Web site. Most of the available concert recordings don't use MP3 files, but a better quality audio format, SHN, which also requires some software installation. It's easy; information on the site explains all the technicalities.
Another connection for jam bands is www.etree.org, which points listeners toward recordings stored online and is equally fastidious about high fidelity. Meanwhile, concert recordings of all sorts, from vintage 1960's bootlegs to music only a few days old, have been traded at www.sharingthegroove.org, although the site is currently undergoing maintenance.
The Library of Congress
Through the years, tax dollars have supported researchers like Alan Lomax on excursions to collect music from every nook and cranny and tradition they could discover across the United States. The Library of Congress has made a considerable amount available free online. A place to start is the American Memory Collection (http://memory .loc.gov/ammem/audio.html), with fiddle tunes, American Indian music, border music from the Rio Grande, Dust Bowl songs and more.
Folkways Records
In 1987, the Smithsonian Institution bought the catalog of Folkways Records, which had set out to document every sound in the world and continues to support projects like a 20-disc collection of Indonesian music. Many of the Folkways recordings can be heard on the Web at www .folkways.si.edu, from "Classical Music of Iran" to "Creole Music of Suriname" to "Music of Indonesia Vol. 1: Songs Before Dawn."
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (www. .archive.org) has set out to preserve material that might otherwise disappear from the Internet, including Web pages, documents, books and video clips as well as audio, and it includes a Live Music Archive with more than 10,000 concerts via etree.org. Most are from jam bands, but there is plenty to choose from. (More than a million people have downloaded Grateful Dead music from the archive.) The archive also includes an assortment of other audio under All Collections, which has 131 songs from 78-r.p.m. discs, and more than 3,000 songs on what it calls netlabels, most of them releasing electronic music. Try the exotica-tinged selections from Monotonik.
Iuma
The Internet Underground Music Archive (www.iuma.org) was a pioneer of free Internet music. It was founded in 1993 as a place for musicians to post their own music online, and it just keeps on expanding. Unfortunately, it is both overwhelming and overwhelmed; finding a good song requires extraordinary luck, and downloading it will take a while. Like the other send-it-yourself sites noted here, Iuma can make a user appreciate what record company scouts do.
Garageband
Hopefuls face Darwinian competition at www.garageband.com, where musicians are encouraged to rate 30 songs before submitting one of their own (or pay a $19.99 fee instead) and other listeners are also assigned tracks to rate. The songs that rise to the top of the charts have a chance to be heard on Garageband's radio outlets or collected on its compilation albums. Garageband demands original songs, not cover versions, and its top-rated ones tend to sound more professional, if not always more distinctive, than those at other mass upload sites.
CNet
The computer experts at CNet include an extensive selection of music among their software downloads at http://music.download.com. A vast bulk of the music is submitted by musicians themselves, so there are a lot of derivative sounds to wade through, but the well-organized site also includes worthwhile bands as Editor's Picks, currently including Dios and Ex Models.
Vitaminic
A huge site based in England, www.vitaminic.co.uk, offers tens of thousands of aspiring bands and a smattering of better-known acts, although brand-name bands like Franz Ferdinand tend to offer only streaming audio rather than downloads. But the site is well organized and also includes video clips from the likes of Nick Cave.
BeSonic
A European site where musicians can place their songs online, www
.besonic.com has a slightly more international perspective than the other newcomer sites. Rankings and recommendations help visitors sift the material. Registration is required for downloading.
Pure Volume
More than 76,000 songs are available at yet another site for aspiring musicians, www.purevolume.com, which is strongly weighted toward rock. To winnow the site, try the Pure Picks column or look under the category Music for Top Artists (Signed).
DMusic
Musicians can also post their own songs on DMusic (www.dmusic .com). It helps users wade through more than 17,000 acts — an overwhelming majority categorized as alternative or rock — by listing DM Picks and by having users give songs a thumbs-up or thumbs-down and append comments. As with Iuma, most are amateur submissions, with plenty of jokes, but there are some enjoyable tracks scattered among the picks.
Smart-Music
Dance-music experimenters dominate at www.smart-music.net, a selective site that draws its downloadable MP3's from hard-to-find small labels. Dipping into the genres and subgenres of electronica, Smart-Music has about 300 songs available from (relatively) well-known groups like Mouse on Mars and Zero 7 as well as basement laptop obsessives, and a high percentage of them turn out to be worthwhile.
Ragga-Jungle
Slow, deep reggae bass lines are the foundation for whole families of dance music represented at www.ragga-jungle.com. It's an outlet for amateur and professional producers and toasters (rappers), and the downloadable songs, available free after registration, include echoey dub-reggae vamps, sparse dance-hall productions and frenetic jungle tracks. Each track has ratings and comments, and quick streaming allows users to sample tracks before committing to a download. Contender for best title: "A Waste of Half an Hour of My Life, and Four Minutes of Yours" by the Archangel.
Classic Cat
With so much classical music in the public domain, it's a surprise that there aren't more free downloadable sites offering it, although the length of classical compositions can make them inconvenient to download. At www.classiccat.net, it's possible to search by composer, from Monteverdi to Messiaen. The selection is spotty and links don't always work, but it's a start.
Asian Classical
Need some Indonesian gamelan music? On the Internet at www .asianclassicalmp3.org, a dedicated collector of Asian music has transferred recordings from cassettes to downloadable MP3's. The site includes music from nine countries, including 28 minutes of gamelan music from Java.
Iraqi Music
The straightforwardly named www.iraqimusic.com is a resource for both the classical Iraqi improvisations called maqams and more recent Iraqi recordings based on traditional (and thus noncopyrighted) songs. "Sister Sites" provides links to other sites with Middle Eastern music.
Trama
A Brazilian record label, Trama (www.tramavirtual.com), offers about 10,000 MP3's, primarily from local Brazilian bands. The site is in Portuguese and requires users to sign up, but after that, it is fairly easy to navigate. "Baixar" means download.
Micromusic
The Internet is home to countless obsessives. The ones gathered at www.micromusic.net make their electronic music from the sounds of the first primitive video games. Proud of what they can generate from eight-bit gizmos, they have placed hundreds of blipping, buzzing ditties online, garnering the attention of Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager, among others. Registration is required, but it's a modest inconvenience on the way to tunes like "How Bleep Is My Love."
Alaska Air to cut 900 jobs
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002031853_alaska10.html
Last time we spoke,
he told me that the Naz application was proceeding along smoothly, as far as I knew.
Time to call Robert, again/
A Digital Generation's Analog Chic...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/technology/circuits/09retr.html
(registration is free)
I think this "demotion"
now enables Falk to buy & sell, based on his inside information, without the scrutiny from public reporting of his transactions, which was previously necessary as an officer of the company.
Whatever happened to this lil gem....
http://www.edgereview.com/reviews.cfm?Category=audio&ID=59
Can ya play "Just Walkin' In The Rain,"
by Johnny Bragg & The Prisonaires?
Johnny Bragg, 79, a Prisonaires Singer, Dies
By PHIL SWEETLAND
NASHVILLE, Sept. 2 - Johnny Bragg, the leader of the Prisonaires, a singing group of Tennessee State Penitentiary inmates whose R & B music helped start Sam Phillips's Sun Records and influenced Elvis Presley, died here on Wednesday. He was 79.
The cause was cancer, his daughter, Misti Bragg, told The Associated Press.
The Prisonaires quintet became standard-bearers for Gov. Frank Clement's controversial prison-reform program, which emphasized rehabilitation. In the summer of 1953, under heavy guard, the singers traveled from their Nashville prison to Memphis to record at Mr. Phillips's fledgling Sun Records. The session yielded the mournful hit "Just Walkin' in the Rain," of which Mr. Bragg was the co-writer, and a feature story in a local newspaper.
"It was the song that put Sun Records on the map, and very likely the item that captured the attention of Elvis Presley as he read about the studio, the label, and painstaking Sam Phillips," the biographer Peter Guralnick wrote in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley."
That same summer, Presley made his first demonstration recordings at Sun. In 1961 he visited Mr. Bragg in prison.
"The Prisonaires were pioneers in that they were among the first R & B vocal groups to record and have hit records released in the South," Michael Gray of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum said on Thursday.
Mr. Bragg, born John Henry Bragg, was convicted of rape in 1943. He always denied the charges, and Governor Clement commuted his sentence in 1959. He soon returned to prison on a parole violation and spent time in and out of incarceration until 1977.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Bragg's survivors include two grandchildren. His wife, Gail Green Bragg, died in 1977.
"If you get to it, and you can't do it....?
There you jolly well are, aren't you!"
http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/jonah.html
Stop in again, sometime, B.
Thank God, for that timely reminder, Bob....
Getting together with the Bronfman's for the weekend; are you available??
Well, he definitely FELT it/