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Music stores see dream week with Boyle, Lambert (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. music retailers are realizing a dream week with Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream" ringing cash registers far beyond expectations and Adam Lambert's album stirring sales after his sexually charged TV performance.
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:17:02 GMT


Twenty-five recordings added to Grammy Hall of Fame (Reuters)

U.S. singer James Brown (L) performs in Zagreb November 5, 2006. REUTERS/Nikola SolicReuters - The Recording Academy on Tuesday added songs by James Brown, Bob Marley, the Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong and others to its Grammy Hall of Fame, bringing the total number of titles in the collection to 851.



Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:33:50 GMT


For tenor from Malta, a star-making role? (AP)

In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, tenor Joseph Calleja poses for a photograph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - There's something about the honeyed sweetness of Joseph Calleja's voice that seems to evoke memories of a golden age, as if this young tenor carried within his vocal cords a secret passed down from bygone generations.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:48 GMT


Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going (AP)

In this Oct. 11, 2009 photograph, Grammy winning blues pianist Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins motions a 'thumbs up' gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss., honoring him. Although he is 96 years old, Perkins, who formerly drove a tractor at the plantation in the 1940's, keeps an active performance schedule and takes time to record with a number of contemporary blues musicians, many several decades younger than himself. Proceeds of the festival are used to help fund programs of the Blues Foundation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:03:22 GMT


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