From today's Nashville Tennessean:
Shakeup swallows Decca
By Jay Orr and Tom Roland / Tennessean Staff Writers
Decca Records closed shop, Mercury Records trimmed its artist roster, and
MCA Records fired staff yesterday as Nashville felt the impact of a
national corporate overhaul.
And so the shake out continues. Shame about Decca, the best of the
mainstream labels. Here's hoping Danni Leigh and Dolly both end up
somewhere they will be appreciated. Rhett, Shane and the rest of the roster
that got dropped won't be too missed by this old boy.
Just goes to show that the
And so the shake out continues. Shame about Decca, the best of the
mainstream labels.
Yup.
Here's hoping Danni Leigh and Dolly both end up somewhere they will be
appreciated.
Yup.
Rhett, Shane and the rest of the roster that got dropped won't be too
missed by this old boy.
Stockton has
Chris Orlet writes:
It gives us an advantage in terms of our margins," said a
source within the company.
Just makes me feel all warm/fuzzy inside to know they are looking out
for their margins. The artists, employees, screw em.
I liked this one (from the Universal press release):
That's *terrible* news. Decca was one of the few bright spots in modern
Nashville, with a strong commitment to quality, neo-trad country: Lee Ann
Womack, Gary Allan, Dolly, Chris Knight, Danni Leigh, Mark Chesnutt --
they had the best damn roster in that town.--don
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From today's Nashville Tennessean:
Shakeup swallows Decca
. As many as three-quarters of the
labels' acts may be purged, according to the current issue of Rolling
Stone.
I'm probably real stupid but just how does this "develop" artists? This
obviously hsa
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted:
Country hitmakers Mark Chesnutt, Lee Ann Womack and Gary Allan are all
being shifted from the Decca roster to MCA. The label's remaining artists
-- including Dolly Parton and Rhett Akins -- were let go. No artists
already signed to MCA were
Perhaps Chris Knight will latch onto a label and put out the record that
some had hoped he'd put out in the first place -- with his harder-edged
tunes. -- Terry Smith, from the new iMac at work, which has a bizarre
interface for terry's text-based e-mail account
No artists already signed to MCA were terminated.
and
No MCA artists were let go. The MCA roster includes George Strait, Vince
Gill, Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood. MCA let six employees go,
according to a source with close ties to the company.
Wasn't MCA's purge last summer? I
My best wishes go to all the employees and artists receiving pink slips
It's been a really bad week, bad month and bad last year or so for folks who
earn their living at a label. While not part of this shake-up I too was
pink slipped this weekg.
It is just unthinkable especially for those
In a message dated 1/22/99 10:41:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dropped Decca artists
Chris Knight
Dolly Parton
Danni Leigh
My faith is dwindling.
If Ms. Leigh or Ms. Parton need some consolation, "come to Slim".
Slim
What's happened to these people is happening at every sort of media company
you can name--and, of course, many, many firms of all stripes, with
employees of ten or twenty years...This also occurs in a month when Fortune
magazine, no less, has a cover story entitled "Finished at 40"--depicting
the
At 06:06 PM 1/22/99 EST, you wrote:
In a message dated 1/22/99 10:41:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dropped Decca artists
Chris Knight
Dolly Parton
Danni Leigh
My faith is dwindling.
Faith? You had some in the first place. This is going be a bloodbath for
In a thoughtful post, Barry ties the mergers and "downsizing" in with
layoffs that have effected a number of P2ers, etc:
A lot of us just don't keep having the chance to do what we love for a
living these days. It was always a kind of blessing to get do it it...and
a lot less good people are
Amen. Maybe some consciousness will be raised when Republicans start
talking about flat tax rates that would dramatically increase the wealth
of the richest 5% while doing diddly for most people (a la Reagan years)
and so forth.
My insider on the Hill (stepbrother in the house) says a
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