Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortage of vinyl now beginning to hit the industry hard. Vinyl, known in the trade as PVC (polyvinyl chloride), is the chemical byproduct of crude oil from which records are made. As a result of oil shortages, Columbia has been forced to suspend its $1.98 Harmony pop label; it also trimmed its November output by postponing several releases until 1974. In general, the industry will probably have to opt for greater selectivity in its releases-or, as Lieberson puts it, "an end to buckshotting-throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks...
...authority of his own presence. "I don't doubt that there were times when record companies exploited artists," he says, "but it had come to the point where the artists were exploiting the record companies." The first to get the word was Bob Dylan. One of the label's superstars for more than a decade, Dylan came up for contract renewal last month and found that he could no longer write his own ticket. He has now signed with David Geffen of Elektra/Asylum...
...constant problem in extradition law," says Philip C. Jessup, a onetime member of the International Court of Justice and U.S. ambassador-at-large, "is whether the offense is a crime in both states. The exact label need not be the same, but it must be essentially the same offense. A Mohammedan country where you can have more than one wife would never extradite a man for bigamy...
...Italian Style, Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis (Angel; 2 LPs; $11.98). The Art of Igor Kipnis, Vol. 2 (Columbia; 3 LPs; $9.98). Having surrendered America's finest harpsichordist to Angel two years ago, Columbia continues to reissue the superlative albums he originally taped for the now defunct Epic classical label. Included here are choice anthologies of English, German and Austrian music (late 16th century to the 18th) for clavichord as well as harpsichord. Meanwhile, Kipnis, 43-year-old son of the great Russian basso Alexander, moves on. His Goldbergs boast boldly colored registrations, an entertaining songfulness, and a wondrous knack...
...young man he was a cio organizer among electrical workers; now he pumps gas at his brother-in-law's station under the Cross Bronx Expressway. And he paints-vast crowded canvases filled with 40-year-old billboards, saloons, cigar stores, subway entrances. It is easy to label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities as an artist are energy and a prodigal memory. One need not have known New York in the 1930s to feel nostalgia...