(CAN.), £4.50 (U.K.) $5.50 (U.S.), $6.50 IN MUSIC NEWS 1B)GICCVR ******** 3 -DIGIT 908 iGEE4EM740M09907441 002 0662 000 BI MAR 2396 1 03 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE APT A LONG BEACH, CA 90807 -3402 George Strait Makes History With 'Strait Out Of The Box' SEE PAGE 15 NOVEMBER 18, 1995 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT ADVERTISEMENTS Alagna Slated For rlJ íRC DISC Cape Verde In World Beat Spotlight Sv,s -cns Tiny Nation Has Rich Musical Heritage Tenor Stardom BY PAUL VERNA been in the spotlight lately, thanks to ropean territories in the late '80s. BY HEIDI WALESON the international breakthrough of na- Now, with her self -titled Nonesuch Virtually unknown to all but the tive singer Cesaria Evora. Records release, the artist has expe- In a world ever -hungry for excit- most savvy world music aficionados, rienced similar success in the U.S. ing tenors, the reports that have EM I CLASSICS ALAGNA EVORA TULIPA NEGRA been coming out of England for the the Cape Verde Islands are a bub- The album has sold 20,000 units last year on Roberto Magna have bling well of musical activity, ready to By far the biggest musical star in through SoundScan -reporting outlets (Continued on page 22) burst onto the global market with a Cape Verde, the 54- year -old Evora alone; these are only a portion of the music as rich as their Afro- European broke through in France, the Nether- sales base of world music albums. heritage. lands, Portugal, Italy, and other Eu- (Continued on page 123) Situated off the western coast of Soprano Caballé WORLD C - AS S MASTERING Africa, some 400 miles from Senegal, HOLLYWOOD the former Portuguese colony has 7 Pop 2 13 / 8 7 6. 8 3 3 Blurs Opera, PEPPERING THE GLOBE BY HOWELL LLEWELLYN Retail Chain Takes MADRID -In Spain, they want WITH CARNIVAL'S FIRE mother and daughter to be promoted On Record Clubs together and to stick to opera. In Ger- BY CHRIS MORRIS Making Plans For Grant's Ice Records equi/ LOS ANGELES -A Pasadena, Calif. - Carnival's Future Survives Strife based retail chain is taking a swat at Award record clubs by offering cash to its cus- BY ISAAC FERGUSSON BY ISAAC FERGUSSON -club winning tomers in return for sealed record product. NEW YORK -This year saw the Eddy Grant's Ice Records is mak- graphic BMG Music Service, which operates continued expansion of Caribbean - ing up for lost time with a slew of re- design the BMG Music Club, suggests that style Carnival leases due in 1996. The label's is FREE the offer is illegal and says it may seek celebrations around the world. release schedule CABALLE with every to block it in the courts. The clubs have long been a sore Yet as the events was delayed this cassette point with retailers, who have main- and the music be- year as its pub- many, they are not too bothered the daughter but go wild when and CD tained that clubs cannibalize their sales hind them be- lishing company, about Ice Music Ltd., mom sings the odd pop song. manufacturing and that their low- priced introductory come more popu- (Continued on page 119) lar, there are fought a hostile (Conti), lied on page 98) package from signs of growing takeover attempt Disc Makers. pains. BROOKS GRANT by Grant's former In Brooklyn, business manag- N.Y., the borough's annual West In- er, Michael Dolan. DISC MAKERS dian Day Parade on Sept. 4 was While Dolan's effort was thwarted Call today for your free 1996 catalog broadcast live for the first time on a by a court ruling, Grant may have an- 1- 800 -468 -9353 two special on Fox -TV. other battle ahead. 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A www.americanradiohistory.com ' TIE SIGN LE www.americanradiohistory.com following her five million-plus selling album yes i an' oaoa St er produced by hugh padgham and melissa etheridge management:wf leopold :o1995 island records, inc. a polygram company www.americanradiohistory.com No. I IN BILLBOARD "G: VOLUME 107 NO. 46 THE BILLBOARD 200 116 Annual Search For Peace On Earth * DOGG FOOD THA DOGG POUND DEATH ROW/ INTERSCOPE The holiday season, '90s style, has become that regular speed to a yeoman German farmer to a woman referred to as "the bump in our popular routine when we rear up and exercise im- queen of handsome girls" in an 1815 New York newspaper ac- CLASSICAL 56 * CHANT II BENEDICTINE MONKS ANGEL partial prejudice, applying political pressure to banish cultural count. Five years later, he was described as a kindly Jewish ped- influences that threaten our capacity for tolerance. dler. By 1827, as noted in Leigh Eric Schmidt's new book "Con- CLASSICAL CROSSOVER Of American Holidays" 56 It seems that no one in a free country should be able to pa- sumer Rites: The Buying And Selling * US AND THEM: SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD was being LONDON PHILHARMONIC ISCHOLESI POINT MUSIC rade a pagan rite like Halloween before unsympathetic fellow (Princeton University Press), Kris Kringle portrayed members of an open, inclusive nation. Thanksgiving is just as as "a little old negro, who descends the chimney at night and T COUNTRY 52 vexing; its visions of 17th -century race -mixing at frontier sup- distributes a variety of rewards with impartial justice." o * THE GREATEST HITS COLLECTION ALAN JACKSON ARISTA pers all but coerce an enlightened response from citizens, who Regardless of Father Christmas' race, creed, or mythic ori- deserve to be shielded from the banal details of democracy in gins, alternative rocker Juliana Hatfield recalls "leaving out P HEATSEEKERS him Eve," but admits that 28 action. milk and cookies for every Christmas * DEBORAH COX DEBORAH COX ARISTA Christmas, however, is the ultimate ordeal for all who endure as an adult she "no longer observes any Christmas rituals," find- A self-rule, since its onerous altruistic traditions appear to reach ing the holiday so "draining that I sometimes wish it didn't hap- L JAZZ 55 back to post -Constitutional antiquity. pen." * HERE'S TO THE LADIES TONY BENNETT COLUMBIA "Christmas isn't my favorite time of year, even though my It's exactly this emotional frostbite that makes Hatfield's parents were secular Jews who traded it for Hanukkah," says heartfelt hymn "Make It Home" on "You Sleigh Me!" so marvel- U JAZZ / CONTEMPORARY 55 singer Jill Sobule, who contributes a definitive ously warming. "I wrote the song in 1994 for the M * BREATHLESS KENNY G ARISTA rendition of Robert Earl Keen's withering Christmas episode of the `My So- Called Life' TV S KID AUDIO "Merry Christmas From The Family" to "You series," she says. "I was asked to play the part * CLASSIC DISNEY: VOLUME I - 60 YEARS OF MUSICAL MAGIC 86 Sleigh Me!," one of two anthologies of Christmas of this homeless girl -angel on the show, and the VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY songs (the other is "Winter, Fire & Snow ") just song is intended for Ricky, the gay character NEW AGE issued as a charitable gesture by Atlantic Rec- who gets kicked out of his house by his parents, 54 * CHRISTMAS IN THE AIRE ords. "Growing up, you could see that an occa- who can't deal with him, so he walks the streets MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE sion commemorating the birth of the son of God at Christmastime. with the melody of `Silent POP CATALOG couldn't compete too well with the miracle of "The song starts off 86 of `0 * MIRACLES: THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM KENNY G ARISTA some oil in ancient Israel burning for eight Night,' and the bridge has the melody straight days -I mean, big deal, you know? Come All Ye Faithful.' I was really moved by the it. I it's to 1168 "It's just that Christmas is such a family experience of writing guess trying 33 souls at * DOGG FOOD THA DOGG POUND DEATH ROW / NTERSCOPE thing, and since my parents got divorced 15 comfort Ricky and all the other lost years ago, and then my dad died eight years ago, Christmas." I've had a hard time keeping up. When I was re- As we struggle each year to wrest real mean- THEHOT100 114 * FANTASY MARIAH CAREY COLUMBIA cording my last album [her self -titled Atlantic ing from the inherited symbols of the past, it's debut], I wanted to finally be brave and do a important to understand how unending that Christmas carol.