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...Ralph Lauren, life-style enhancement doesn't stop with aftershave or sheets. The designer has teamed with Sony to release a new concept in accessories: designer CDs. The Black Tie Collection, Songs Across America, the Classical Collection and Holiday are all compilations of tunes one might hear in a Ralph Lauren store, where the CDs will be sold at $15 a pop. Next year brings Polo Sport, an assortment of "sophisticated workout music." Alas, we're not joking...
...READ WITH INTEREST THE ARTICLE "Prime-Time Tunes" about CDs featuring sound tracks from TV programs [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 30]. The first TV sound-track album to attain gold status was produced under my auspices more than 25 years ago. It was the music from the afternoon series Dark Shadows. Unlike most of today's TV sound tracks, this album contained only Charles Grean's original music from the show and was devoid of appearances by major stars. We used the people in the series and cut it for under $10,000--cheap even in those times. Today the record...
...hipper, so has its songbook. Television is taking a cue from the movies, releasing sound tracks for hit shows as a way of cross-promoting both the show and the musicians whose work is featured on it. Typically, these CDs include a version or two of the show's theme song along with a selection of pop numbers heard at some point on the series. CDs for the hit Fox shows Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place feature such musicians as Vanessa Williams, Annie Lennox and the alternative-rock favorite Urge Overkill. A 1994 CD spun off from the sitcom...
...Melrose Place CD, despite the show's huge following. The Friends CD so far looks like one of the winners. The album debuted at No. 46 on the Billboard charts earlier this month, and in its first weeks, record stores were ordering new shipments faster than CDs from such hot acts as Green Day and Alanis Morrisette...
...This week the Berkeley, California-based punk trio Green Day, whose 1994 album, Dookie, sold 8 million copies, will release Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt, from the British group Skunk Anansie, are already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock...