I didn't see these articles posted anywhere and since this is my favorite thread, I thougt I'd add to the news. This was taken from Sony/atv news bites:
New SAMP Worldwide Signing - Carlos Bertonatti
Jan 25, 2008
"Carlos Bertonatti grew up between his native Caracas, the ski slopes in Bariloche and his current home, Miami, FL. To indulge his passion for music, Carlos began playing guitar as a teenager, and slowly but surely has captured the hearts of many with his uniquely sexy voice and his captivating good looks. Carlos teamed up last year with miami based producer Chris Rodriguez, who has written and produced hits for artists such as Thalia, Paulina Rubio and Chayanne amongst others. They have been writing and creating an amazing album compiled of great catchy songs that mix eclectic instrumentation, Latin percussion, and Hip Hop. The album, which Bertonatti has titled "On a Shoetring...," has an extremely fresh and original sound that is symbolic of the passion and dedication that its creators have put into it"
-Rich Christina
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Sony/ATV’s “Musical Notes” #13 - Country Duets
Jan 23, 2008
Sony/ATV’s “Musical Notes” #13
A fortnightly newsletter highlighting some of the many classic songs in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog.
From Alan Warner, Creative Consultant
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“Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your Cold, Cold Heart?”
Tony Bennett was just 25 years old when his million-selling version of Hank Williams’ song of heartache
COLD COLD HEART reached #1 across the nation in the summer of 1951. *
Among the other Sony/ATV songs recorded by Tony over the years are these titles:
CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE (Cahn/Van Heusen)
CLOUDY MORNING (Fisher/McCarthy)
COME SATURDAY MORNING (Karlin/Previn)
DON’T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE (Ellington/Russell)
ELEANOR RIGBY (Lennon/McCartney)
GIRL TALK (Hefti/Troup)
I WISHED ON THE MOON (Parker/Salinger)
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC? (Rodgers/Hart)
IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (Burke/Van Heusen)
THE LADY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU (Loesser/Lane)
LAZY AFTERNOON (Latouche/Moross)
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD (Lennon/McCartney)
LOVER (Rodgers/Hart)
MOOD INDIGO (Ellington/Bigard/Mills)
PRELUDE TO A KISS (Ellington/Gordon/Mills)
SOLITUDE (Ellington/DeLange/Mills)
SOPHISTICATED LADY (Ellington/Parish/Mills)
STELLA BY STARLIGHT (Young/Washington)
THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC(Mercer/Arlen)
WHEN JOANNA LOVED ME (Wells/Segal)
*Read about the Tony Bennett/Tim McGraw duet version of
COLD, COLD HEART in “Musical Notes” #13 which is attached.
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UNFORGETTABLE COUNTRY DUETS
Country Music has always been very successful with duos -- either unique combinations of performers who were already established in their own right as solo artists such as Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn or Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson or on the other hand, singers who found fame solely as twosomes as with Brooks & Dunn.
Now the producers of
“American Idol” are teaming up with Country Music Television for find the next great country music duo. The first auditions took place in Nashville last Saturday so I thought it would be useful to look back at Sony/ATV’s rich country heritage and single out a group of outstanding songs which have been recorded by classic duos of the past and present…
AFTER THE FIRE IS GONE (White)
By Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn (Decca/Universal: 1971)
By Willie Nelson & Tracy Nelson (Atlantic/WMG: 1974)
AIN’T NOTHING ‘BOUT YOU (Rutherford/Shapiro)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 2001)
AS SOON AS I HANG UP THE PHONE (Twitty)
By Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty (MCA/Universal: 1974)
BEER FOR MY HORSES (Emerick/Keith)
By Toby Keith & Willie Nelson (DreamWorks/Universal: 2002)
BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE (Dunn)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG; 1993)
BRAND NEW MAN (Brooks/Cook/Dunn)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 1991)
CRYING (Orbison/Melson)
By Roy Orbison & k.d. lang (Virgin/EMI: 1987)
DID YOU EVER (Braddock)
By Charlie Louvin & Melba Montgomery (Capitol/EMI: 1971)
FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS (Bellamy)
By The Bellamy Brothers (Elektra/Curb: 1982)
GOLDEN RING (Van Hoy/Braddock)
By George Jones & Tammy Wynette (Epic/Sony BMG: 1976)
A GOOD YEAR FOR THE ROSES (Chesnut)
By George Jones & Alan Jackson (MCA/Universal: 1994)
HAPPY TRAILS (Evans)
By Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (RCA/Sony BMG: 1952)
HEARTBREAK HOTEL (Axton/Durden/Presley)
By Willie Nelson & Leon Russell (Columbia/Sony BMG: 1979)
HOW LONG GONE (Camp/Sherrill)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 1998)
I FALL TO PIECES (Cochran/Howard)
By Trisha Yearwood & Aaron Neville (MCA/Universal: 1994)
IF I SAID YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BODY WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME (Bellamy)
By The Bellamy Brothers (Warner/Curb: 1979)
JACKSON (Leiber/Wheeler)
By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash (Columbia/Sony BMG: 1967)
THE LETTER (Twitty/Haney)
By Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty (MCA/Universal: 1976)
LOUISIANA MAN (Kershaw)
By George Jones & Gene Pitney (Musicor/Global: 1965)
MAMMAS DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS (Bruce/Bruce)
By Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (RCA/Sony BMG: 1978)
MY ELUSIVE DREAMS (Putman/Sherrill)
By David Houston & Tammy Wynette (Epic/Sony BMG: 1967)
MY NEXT BROKEN HEART (Brooks/Cook/Dunn)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 1991)
NEON MOON (Dunn)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 1992)
NOBODY LOVES ME LIKE YOU DO (Dunne/Phillips)
By Anne Murray & Dave Loggins (Capito/EMI: 1984)
OLD FRIENDS (Miller)
By Willie Nelson & Roger Miller (Columbia/Sony BMG: 1982)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Bowling/Sherrill/Richey)
By George Jones & Tammy Wynette (Epic/Sony BMG: 1977)
SQUEEZE ME IN (Nicholson/McClinton)
By Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood (Capitol/Pear: 2001)
STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD (Joy)
By Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens (Reprise/WMG: 1988)
SWEET THANG (Stuckey)
By Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn (Decca/Universal: 1967)
THAT LOVIN’ YOU FEELIN’ AGAIN (Orbison/Price)
By Roy Orbison & Emmylou Harris (Virgin/EMI: 1987)
TWO STORY HOUSE (Tubb/Lindsey/Wynette)
By George Jones & Tammy Wynette (Epic/Sony BMG: 1980)
WE LOVE EACH OTHER (Killen)
By Louise Mandrell & R.C. Bannon (Epic/Sony BMG: 1979)
(WE’RE NOT) THE JET SET (Braddock)
By George Jones & Tammy Wynette (Epic/Sony BMG: 1974)
WHISKEY LULLABY (Anderson/Randall)
By Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss (Arista Nashville/Sony BMG: 2004)
YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE (Brooks/Cook/Dunn)
By Brooks & Dunn (Arista/Sony BMG: 1995)
YOURS LOVE (Howard)
By Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner (RCA/Sony BMG: 1969)
Plus...
Two duos which teamed country stars with non-country artists:
ACT NATURALLY (Morrison/Russell)
By Buck Owens & Ringo Starr (Capitol/EMI: 1989)
(ACT NATURALLY was originally a 1963 solo hit for Buck Owens; Ringo started performing it on Beatle tours and then sang it in their movie
“Help!” in ’65. In 1989, Ringo got to record the song with Buck Owens himself at an Abbey Road session.)
COLD, COLD HEART (Williams)
By Tony Bennett & Tim McGraw (RPM/Columbia/Sony BMG: 2006)
(COLD, COLD HEART was originally a 1951 country hit for its author, Hank Williams. Tony Bennett successfully covered it that year for the pop market and in 2006, he re-cut the song with Tim McGraw for his abum
“Duets: An American Classic”.)
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And, talking of crossovers…
Q: When is a classic country song not a country song?
A: When it’s reworked as a classic R&B song!
Here are 2 outstanding solo examples of Willie Nelson’s Sony/ATV composition
FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY superbly interpreted by fine R&B singers:
FUNNY (HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY)(Nelson)
By Joe Hinton (Back Beat/Universal: 1964) US #1 R&B
The late Joe Hinton sang gospel with The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet until he turned to secular songs, finally hitting paydirt with his powerful rendition of Willie Nelson’s ballad. His version still resonates to this day complete with its spine-chilling finale in which Joe climbs into a wondrous, high octave wail. It was used in 1996 on the soundtrack of the Geena Davis/Samuel L. Jackson thriller
“The Long Kiss Goodnight”.
FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY (Nelson)
By Dorothy Moore (Malaco: 1976) US #7 R&B
The memorable R&B songstress Dorothy Moore wisely chose to revive FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY as the follow-up to her 1976 million-seller
Misty Blue”. A graceful piano ushers in the track in which Dorothy delivers one of her captivating slow jam performances aided by a female backup chorus. With every line of the lyric, Dorothy makes the song her very own.
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MORE ACTION FROM THE LEIBER & STOLLER CATALOG:
Old Crow Medicine Show’s
“Big Iron World”: (their 2nd album on Nettwerk) climbed to the #1 slot on Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Album chart last week. The opening cut is the Jerry Leiber/Artie Butler song
DOWN HOME GIRL which was first recorded by R&B singer Alvin Robinson in 1964 on Red Bird Records, the label formed by Leiber & Stoller with George Goldner. Later that same year, The Rolling Stones covered the song and it was included on their album
“The Rolling Stones, Now!” on London in ’65.
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Please note that Sony/ATV’s control of the titles listed in this newsletter may vary by territory.
US chart positions courtesy of Joel Whitburn & Billboard Magazine.
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