Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1959, Kirshner has published 500 songs, of which 400 have made the hit charts. Last week he had no fewer than 25 on the Billboard lists, including the No. 1 song (You're My) Soul and Inspiration. All told, Kirshner songs have sold 150 million recordings...
...example, he hired Toni Wine, who was then a 15-year-old sophomore at Juilliard. Toni proceeded to run her advances up to $20,000. Suddenly, this month, she has broken into the Billboard "Hot 100" with a likely winner, A Groovy Kind of Love. The lyrics, of course, were written by another Kirshner protégé, Schoolteacher Carol Bayer...
Freed from the frenzied setting of his stage shows, Brown is heard to best advantage on records. His last two releases sold over 1,000,000 copies each, and on Billboard's campus popularity poll he ranks just behind Bob Dylan. His rise in the mass market gives a sign that "race music" is perhaps at last becoming interracial...
...checks every footlight mike to make sure it is cased in rubbe-otherwise, the mikes pick up the actor's footfalls. He prowls about the sets in narrow-eyed search of peeling paint. He even makes elaborate taxi tours of the entire New York area to inspect all the billboards he has paid for. Once he climbed to a high perch in Yankee Stadium to see if a panning TV camera could catch a certain outfield billboard; he concluded that the sign was out of range, so he didn't buy the space...
...CHRYSSA, 33, a Greek-born artist (she does not use her last name) discovered the new medium when she arrived in New York in 1954, and was stunned by that acropolis of billboard communication, Times Square. "It was a garden of light," she says. That, combined with her native love of calligraphy, led her to study sign lettering, and soon to neon itself. "Neon is made out of a clear, light material-like glass buildings. Transforming the cultural world into the world of the laboratory, it brings art nearer to science." For her just-opened show in Manhattan...