Facts first: chartmaker Billboard announced last week that starting with their Dec 5th issue, they will be adding a Folk Albums chart to their sales-tracking activities. Snip: …The Nielsen SoundScan-based survey will house new releases from traditional folk artists such Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco and Monsters of Folk, as well as appropriate titles by acoustic-based [...]
Quote of the Week : Well, actually he’s the idiot, he fell in love to a break up song. (Izzy LaFontaine, Modern Family ) Song of the Week : True – Spandau Ballet ( Modern Family ) Big News of the Week : A Melancholy Happy Trails to Ken Ober : Every once and a while you hear about a death that makes you feel like part of your childhood died with them. That happened a couple of weeks ago...
Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark & Entertainment... (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by Tamera H. Bennett Once again, my thanks to entertainment attorney Gordon Firemark for asking me to co-host the Entertainment Law Update Podcast. Episode 6 is available for downloading here. Make sure to take a look at the show notes, which I have summarized below. Noonan v. Staples - Jury: Truthful E-Mail Sent About Fired Staples Manager [...]
Everybody hates something, and often, our choices are highly personal. Nevertheless, there’s a certain consensus about the most reviled Top-40 hits of all time: “Muskrat Love,” “You’re Having My Baby,” “Run Joey Run,” and “Seasons in the Sun” would make most people’s lists, I think. And “You Light Up My Life,” too. In my...
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive It's been one of pop culture's enduring mysteries: who was Carly Simon referring to in her hit song 'You're So Vain'? Some of the more popular theories over the years have been Simon's ex-husband James Taylor , as well as Mick Jagger and Warren Beatty . While she's still coy about it -- she's said that it might be about a few men, not just one -- she revealed...
As far as I’m concerned, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” is a classic song that takes me back to my younger years. It’s not that I can relate to the words or anything but it just takes me back to a time when life was simple. Throughout the years, Carly Simon has had many other [...]
I visited Wolfang's Vault once before ( Free Download Friday #15: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead ) but since I got a message that he'd cracked open the vault and made even more concerts available for download (currently 763 items!) I thought I'd go back to see what was new. There are loads of concerts that interest me and most are reasonably priced. For example, you can get 52 minutes...
My Sunday night TV watching routine now lasts long into the week. I watch Dexter at 9:00 and then flip over at 10:00 to watch Mad Men. Well, I used to. Don’t know what I’m going to flip over to...
I am just in awe of an interview. Here's a section of it, and it's an interview with Carly Simon : Gregg Shapiro: A few years ago, Joni Mitchell re-recorded her songs in orchestral settings, and Cyndi Lauper released an album on which she revisited some of her best-loved songs in acoustic settings. Carly Simon: How dare they copy me! Actually, I was privileged to hear Joni's record in her car. We had...
Carly Simon was on TV this morning and will be on again in a bit. Tonight she's on NBC's Latenight with Jimmy Fallon . This morning she was on Fox's Good Day (link has the video of her appearance) . Moving over to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing that we were at yesterday. There were three female veterans of the Iraq War attending that we knew. (I'm sure there were more...
A few weeks ago two of my brothers and my boyfriend and I took a trip down to Eugene, Oregon. I'd been there many times before, but somehow each time I was busy with other things like eating fish tacos and losing a race to a pancake , so I've never had a chance to check out the city's selection of vintage stores. On this trip I made shopping a priority and dragged the guys around to a few different...
Do you recognise the bloke in the picture? He was our toff Prime Minister for a couple of years in the early 60s. We were used to toffs in those days. Here's a list of British Prime ministers so you can see what I've had to put up with during my life. I came from a left wing family and my dad was a keen member of leftie associations and book clubs. My dad would read and my mum would rant. So it's very...
We’re nearing Thanksgiving, but there’s not too much to be thankful for this week. America has turned its back on Jay Leno, and as a result, he’s turned his back on us by only offering one musical guest this week. Thankfully, that lone guest is Dolly Parton who, like her or not, always entertains.
Carly Simon is broke. Yes, broke. After loosing money in unwise investments (Madoff?), and taking on too much debt, the Simon and Schuster heiress finds herself in the poor house–two of them. One a West Village townhouse, the other a beach pad on Cape Cod. We should all be that destitute. I [...]
Videos
