Artists & Music

Artists & Music PBS LABEL BOWS WITH MONICA MANCINI SET (Continued from page 13) Mancini has recently done a session Hepburn sitting on the fire escape by Will Jennings, who wrote them says. "A few customers have already for Michael Jackson and worked on and singing it in the movie. So I dis- specifically about her and her At adult standard WQEW New come in talking about the album, so the soundtrack to "Armageddon." sected it and found a way to relate father; Mancini says it's now York, VP /station manager Stan I'm assuming it will do well for us," Since the death of her father in to it by thinking of my dad -which become her signature song. Martin, who also hos :s the "WQEW says Saja. "It's certainly [in line] 1994, the self- managed, IMG- is basically what I did on the whole According to PBS Records pres- Cabaret" show, is eagerly awaiting with what we specialize in, and booked singer has performed an album. I wept my way through the ident Tony Outeda, Mancini is "the premiering the album and giving there's always interest in Henry ongoing series of pops concert trib- whole process." quintessential PBS recording away copies. "She sang on my show Mancini music." utes to him with various orchestras, "Monica Mancini" was produced artist: She has a pure voice for and absolutely kno( ked my socks Monica now looks to keep per- some conducted by Bill Conti and by her husband, Gregg Field, and singing that I would compare to my off," says Martin. " is very excit- forming and recording. "I have to Doc Severinsen. arranged and conducted by Patrick favorites, like Karen Carpenter or ing for a young pet former who's see what I want to put out there in "Obviously, I grew up with the Williams, who got his first writing Linda Ronstadt or Bonnie Raitt, this good to sing our songs." terms of image, since this `artist' guy and his music," she says. "But job in Hollywood from her father. and she's never made a record Outeda says that en ad campaign thing is very new to me," she says. when I decided to go on the road Engineer Al Schmitt won his first before. Even though she's had a lot will center on directing people to "I've been singing all my life and and do concerts -and put out this Grammy for the elder Mancini's of experience singing, she's not the TV show to sell the record, know who I am as a person, but I CD-I discovered a lot of his music soundtrack to the 1962 John Wayne well- known, so we're launching her "rather than advertising a new have to figure out where I fit in. that I didn't know! He had such a film "Hatari!" career." record by a new arlist whom peo- "I love singing standards, but huge well of music." "The album is very orchestral, Outeda reports heavy early ple don't necessari-, connect with people are always saying, `Have I When she was assembling her al- but I wanted [album track] `Dear press interest in Mancini and the songs of Harry ]Mancini." got a song for you,' and now I have bum, she knew that some of her Heart' to be very small and inti- expects high visibility for her dur- But Ron Saja, owr er of Footlight to start listening to them. They just father's songs had to be on it; mate," Mancini continues. "It has ing the PBS pledge period, when Records, a Manhattan store spe- have to be good, classy music with "Moon River" from "Breakfast At just vocal and guitar, and I changed she will appear on -air in a dozen or cializing in soundti acks and cast great melodies -which is why Tiffany's" is among those included. a couple lyrics to make it a love let- so major markets between Nov 28 recordings, is well ware of Moni- doing Dad's music is such a piece of "When I think of `Moon River,' I ter to my dad." and Dec. 11. Outeda notes that the ca -and says his clientele is, too. cake." think of Andy [Williams' version], The closing track, "Music On The whole album will be shipped on so I had to find a way to come up Way," she adds, is a new song taken street date to adult standards radio with a fresh approach," she says. from a musical cue in her father's and syndicated shows, "because "The lyric is very pretty, but I score for the 1970 movie "The Molly with all the great songs, people will never paid much attention to it Maguires," which starred Sean play what they want to anyway - because I always related to Audrey Connery. The lyrics were supplied and we're happy to let them," he Dígítal Stamp Offered Firm Says Tool Protects Against Infringers SILVERTONE ISSUES GUY /WELLS' LAST GIG BY PAUL VERNA solute breakthrough in the docu- (Continued from page 13) NEW YORK -A C. imarillo, Calif.- mentation process." gether, we was like, `Boom!' " Junior were going to do two nights "You could sit around and wait for based new -technology firm called In a typical firstuse.com transac- The musicians first recorded to- as a duo acoustic performance. the golden moment to put out the firstuse.com has lau nched an Inter- tion, a user sends a file over a secure gether on Wells' breakthrough 1966 When that all came about, we Buddy and Junior record," Tedesco net site that allows c reators of intel- server and receives a digital finger- Delmark album, "Hoodoo Man thought about it, [and] we ap- says, "but what would that be? It's one lectual property to instantly time - print that matches the file. Authen- Blues "; Guy was billed on the set as proached both Buddy and Junior and of these things that we recorded a stamp digital files in order to protect tication depends on the fingerprint "Friendly Chap." Explaining the said, `Guys, what if we make a record number of years ago and intentional- them against possib e infringement. matching the binary code that makes pseudonym, Guy says, "He was with out of this ?' ly held onto, waiting for what Debuted Oct. 15, irstuse.com is a up the file. Delmark, and I was with Chess, and "At the time, I didn't know that this appeared to be the right opportunity third-party registry that can be used Firstuse.com co- founder and VP in those days they didn't loan you ... would be the last time that they actu- ... It just seems perfectly justified to to validate any inte lectual proper- of development Craig Honick says I was havin' a hard time with Chess, ally would perform together. From all put out a record from these guys at ty-a copyright, Trademark, or the company aims to establish a crit- and we went in and did [the album] for accounts, it in fact was, barring per- this point." patent -that can be . encoded in a dig- ical mass in the intellectual proper- Delmark, and they just used that haps Buddy sitting in with Junior's Marketing for "Last Time Around" ital file, i.e., song de) nos, MIDI files, ty community. name." band one night or vice versa." will be low -key. Tedesco says the software codes, stuc io mixes, Inter- "Firstuse.com provides the first The working relationship was for- "Last Time Around," culled by album is being serviced to triple -A, net sites, screenpla; is, illustrations, step in the documentation process for malized several years later, according Tedesco from the two nights of per- college, and blues radio. and legal document:,. the content creator or anyone who is to Guy: "In 1970 or late '69, [Wells] formances, is an informal yet soulful "It really, really has to be marketed Although a firstuse.com registra- in any kind of negotiation or has crit- had a band problem. We had the same ramble through the classic blues as an album, as a document-this was tion does not constit ute a copyright, ical records that they have to regis- manager, Dick Waterman, and I told repertoire. With the exception of Buddy and Junior, this was the last company president( JEO Marc Stein ter," says Honick. "We hope it will Dick, `Well, Junior always has a prob- Wells' "Hoodoo Man Blues" and an time they ever recorded," Tedesco argues that time -st: upping a digital become a tacit understanding within lem with the band; why don't you put apparently improvised number by says. "[For] anyone that wanted to file can provide protection for the the industry that if an idea has been him with me? This thing might Guy, "I've Been There," the set fea- know what that was like or anyone intellectual property in the event of a documented with firstuse.com, it has work.' " tures songs associated with Guy that knows what that was like and dispute over its autl.orship. that first layer of protection." Work it did: Wells and Guy went on favorites Jimmy Reed and Muddy wants to hear more, you've certainly "In a technology- driven age, a The cost of using the service to play countless shows together Waters, Wells' early mentor Junior got the document." combination of advanced software varies with the number of registra- (including an opening stint in 1970 on Parker and his harp contemporary The peripatetic Guy, who is man- and Internet techr ologies has be- tions a customer wishes to make.

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