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...musician pal of Simon's passed him a bootleg cassette of instrumental music with that intriguing name, subtitled Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II. Simon played it all during the summer of 1984, hearing in its unsprung beat echoes of old rhythm and blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters...
...play life's tape again, there's no reason to think the winners wouldn't be different," Gould said...
...first year at Cheam, thedistinction became more obvious. One day in thesummer of 1958, Charles was gathered with a few ofhis friends to watch his mother's broadcast at theCommonwealth Games held in Cardiff, Wales. Becauseshe was ill, the Queen sent her husband tointroduce a tape recorded message. At theconclusion, Queen Elizabeth announced that she wascreating her nine-year-old son Charles, Prince ofWales. Charles recalled in later life that he was"acutely embarrassed when it was announced...
Though no firm figures are available, it is estimated that New Age music today accounts for up to 2% of record and tape sales. The percentage may seem small, but it compares favorably with that garnered by classical music. Windham Hill, the West Coast label that has become synonymous with the new style, last year grossed $25 million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must...
...recently as mid-July, a NASA spokesman had announced that examination of a tape recovered from the wreckage (and restored by IBM engineers after its long immersion in seawater) indicated that the crew members were "unaware of the events associated with the tragedy." But the agency admitted last week that a more detailed analysis had uncovered a voice recorded three seconds after Scobee's final words, just before all data were cut off. The voice was that of Pilot Michael Smith. His exclamation...