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SLUG: MUSIC NOTES FOR = THE WEEK OF=20 MAY 2-8, 2004

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DATE=3D4/30/2004

TYPE=3DMusic Programs Feature

NUMBER=3D7-401111

TITLE=3DMusic Notes For The Week Of May 2-8, 2004

BYLINE=3DMary Morningstar

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DATELINE=3DWashington

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POP NUMBER ONE HITS:

1964 Louis Armstrong "Hello, Dolly" (CDP-20454)

1974 Grand Funk "The Loco-Motion" (CDP-1767)

1984 Phil Collins "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me = Now)"=20 (CDP-18213)

1994 Ace Of Base "The Sign" (CDP-8615)

2004 Usher (feat. Ludacris & Lil Jon) "Yeah!" = (HD-548A/see=20 Music Library staff/audition lyrics)

MUSIC NEWS:

On May 5th, Willie Nelson will host his third = "Willie=20 Nelson & Friends" concert. The show will take place at the = Wiltern=20 Theater in Los Angeles. Cable television's USA Network will tape = the event=20 for a Memorial Day special broadcast on May 31st. Lucinda = Williams, the=20 Holmes Brothers and Toots & the Maytals' Toots Hibbert will = join=20 Willie at his May 5th "One More For The Road" concert. Nelson's = first=20 special, "Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars & Guitars," took = place in=20 Nashville in 2002. Last year, he celebrated his 70th birthday with = "Willie=20 Nelson & Friends: Live & Kickin'," which was held in New = York.=20 Both concerts were released on CD.

The first new album in four years by = rhythm-and-blues diva=20 Patti LaBelle will hit record stores on May 4th. The 13-track CD, = titled=20 "Timeless Journey," is her first release for Def Soul Classics. = She=20 previously recorded for MCA Records, which folded in 2003. Her = 2004=20 concert itinerary includes appearances at several major jazz = festivals in=20 the U.S. and abroad.

On May 2nd, the Front Porch Country Band will = arrive in=20 Beijing, China to begin a series of concerts. Jiali Zhu, = Supervisor of Art=20 and Culture Exchange Department of US-China Foundation (USCF), = which=20 invited the group, says, "Country music is a symbol of U.S. = culture. It's=20 very popular in China." The Front Porch Country Band will perform = songs=20 from their latest album "Somebody Tonight" and will preview = material from=20 its upcoming CD, due out later this year. The group also plans to = play a=20 tribute song from "American Standing Tall The American Trilogy," = which was=20 released one week after the September 11th terrorist attacks. In = addition=20 to its performance in Beijing, the band will visit Shanghai and = Ning Bo.=20 USCF may add other stops before the group ends its tour on May = 17th.

A former member of the Pointer Sisters was arrested = on=20 April 26th and charged with cocaine possession. Fifty-year-old = June=20 Pointer Whitmore has a history of substance abuse problems. A few = years=20 ago, her older sisters, Ruth and Anita, obtained a court order = barring=20 June from the group, and gained rights to the Pointer Sisters = name. Ruth's=20 daughter Issa took June's place in the trio.

On May 4th, Island Records will release Lionel = Richie's new=20 CD, "Just For You." The collection was recorded in London, Miami, = Los=20 Angeles and New York and is described as his "broadest-reaching = effort to=20 date." Lenny Kravitz appears on two of the tracks.

Image Entertainment will release the Jimi Hendrix = tribute=20 album "Power of Soul" on May 4th. The CD features tracks by Sting; = Santana; Earth, Wind & Fire; Chaka Khan with Kenny Olson; Eric = Clapton; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Prince; George Clinton and Bootsy = Collins;=20 and others. A portion of the proceeds will go to the United Negro = College=20 Fund.

NEW ALBUM RELEASES:

New albums scheduled for release on May 4th = include: "Love=20 Is Hell" by Ryan Adams on Lost Highway Records; "Horse of a = Different=20 Color" by Big & Rich on Warner Brothers Records; "Double = Glocks" by DJ=20 Whoo Kid on Capitol Records; "Dreamer" by Eliane Elias on Bluebird = Records; "Rewind" by Ricky Fante on Virgin Records; "Dress = Rehearsal" by=20 Carolyn Dawn Johnson on Arista Records; "Oyaya!" by Angelique = Kidjo on=20 Columbia Records; "One Love" by Kimberly Locke ("American Idol" = finalist)=20 on Curb Records; "The Ride" by Los Lobos on Mammoth Records; "I'm = All For=20 You: Ballad Songbook" by Joe Lovano on Blue Note Records; "Lone = Starry=20 Night" by John Arthur Martinez on Dualtone Records; "Ashes" by = Michael=20 McDermott on Pauper Sky Records; and "Greatest Hits" by Lee Ann = Womack on=20 MCA Nashville Records.

MUSICAL EVENTS/FESTIVALS/BENEFITS:

On May 6th, the Natural Resources Defense Council = (NRDC)=20 will hold a fundraiser in Brentwood, California. "Earth To L.A.! = The=20 Greatest Show on the Earth" will feature performances by Sheryl = Crow and=20 Willie Nelson. Motion picture star Tom Hanks will serve as the = evening's=20 Master of Ceremonies, and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Meg Ryan, = Diane=20 Keaton, Jack Black and Will Ferrell are also scheduled to appear. = The NRDC=20 works to safeguard the Earth's natural resources.

Jay-Z and his girlfriend Beyonc=E9 Knowles will = headline the=20 Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival. The two-day event takes place = in=20 London on May 8th and 9th. Alicia Keys is also on the bill. = Forty-thousand=20 music fans are expected to attend the festival and live radio = shows will=20 be broadcast from the event and backstage. Prince Charles has = invited=20 Beyonc=E9 and Jay-Z to a dinner at Buckingham Palace following = their=20 appearance. The Prince of Wales founded Prince's Trust in 1976. It = works=20 to provide training, mentoring and financial assistance to 14-30 = year-olds=20 who have struggled in school, are long-term unemployed or have = been in=20 trouble with the law. To date, the organization has helped nearly=20 500-thousand young people.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK AND SUGGESTED MUSIC:

On May 2nd, Lou Gramm, lead singer of the British = American=20 rock band Foreigner, will celebrate his 54th birthday. Foreigner's = 1977=20 self-titled debut album spawned three~chart hits and brought the = group=20 international stardom. In 1984, the group recorded its first and = only=20 Number One single, "I Want To Know What Love Is." In 1995, = Foreigner=20 recorded "Mr. Moonlight," the band's first studio album in eight = years. In=20 1998, Gramm was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Surgery to remove = most of=20 the tumor was successful, and he says he's learned to live with = the=20 lasting effects the disease has caused. In 1999, Gramm and his = wife=20 welcomed twins to their family, daughter Natalie and a son named = Joseph.=20 In 2002, Foreigner celebrated its 25th anniversary with a concert = tour and=20 new anthology, "Their Complete Greatest Hits." A DVD of the tour = was=20 released last year. ("I Want To Know What Love Is" CDP-6450)

"The Godfather of Soul" James Brown will turn 71 on = May=20 3rd. A pioneer of soul music, he~formed his first vocal group, The = Famous=20 Flames, in~1955. Ten years later, Brown recorded his first Top~10 = single,=20 "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag," which was followed by his biggest = hit, "I=20 Got You (I Feel Good)." In 1986, Brown was inducted into the Rock = and Roll=20 Hall of Fame. His fourth "Live At The Apollo" collection was = released in=20 1995. The following year, he was among the headliners at the = Summer=20 Olympic musical festivities in Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta = chapter of=20 the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science presented = Brown with=20 a 2003 Heroes Award. The honor is given to those who make creative = contributions to the community. Brown made news headlines this = past=20 January, when he was arrested and charged with domestic violence = after=20 allegedly shoving his wife, 33-year-old Tomi Rae Brown. He denied = the=20 charge and said, "I would never hurt my wife and beat up on her = like=20 that." Tomi has been quoted as saying she loves her husband and = wants to=20 put the matter behind them. ("I Got You (I Feel Good)" = CDP-4791)

On May 4th, 'N Sync member Lance Bass celebrates = his 25th=20 birthday. 'N Sync arrived on the pop music scene in 1998 with a=20 self-titled album that sold more than ten million copies and = produced four=20 Number One singles. The group's second release, "No Strings = Attached,"=20 sold more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and was followed by = 'N Sync's=20 third and latest album, "Celebrity," in 2001. During the past two = years,=20 the members have pursued various solo projects. Lance Bass trained = at the=20 Russian Space Agency Training Center hoping for a seat aboard the = Soyuz=20 spacecraft. It was scheduled to leave for the International Space = Station=20 in October of 2002. Bass was dropped from the program when he = couldn't=20 meet the 20-million-dollar payment deadline. Lance is currently = writing=20 songs for a new 'N Sync album and considering motion picture = roles. He's=20 also in negotiations for a FOX-TV music show. ("Celebrity" = CDP-23804)

Country singer Randy Travis will turn 45 on May = 4th. At age=20 10, the North Carolina native began singing with his brother's = band. Four=20 years later, Travis made his professional debut performing in = local clubs.=20 In 1978, he recorded his first records on an independent label, = and the=20 following year, appeared on the Country chart with "She's My = Woman." His=20 big break in music came in 1985, when Randy signed with Warner = Brothers=20 Records and recorded the album "Storms Of Life." Among his = numerous Number=20 One hits are "Diggin' Up Bones," "Forever And Ever, Amen," "Hard = Rock=20 Bottom Of Your Heart," and "Look Heart, No Hands." Randy's 1996 = album,=20 "Full Circle," produced the chart singles "Would~I," "Are We In = Trouble=20 Now," "Price To Pay" and his cover of Roger Miller's classic tune, = "King=20 Of The Road." In 1998, Randy signed with DreamWorks Records and = recorded=20 his first CD for the label, "You and You Alone." In August of that = year,=20 his former label, Warner~Brothers Records, issued the 10-song = anthology,=20 "Greatest #1 Hits." Randy released a bluegrass/gospel album called = "Inspirational Journey" in 2000. He won two Dove Awards for that = work. His=20 latest inspirational collection, "Rise and Shine," won a 2003 Dove = Award=20 for Best Country Album. It produced the Number One Country single, = "Three=20 Wooden Crosses." This year, Randy earned three Gospel Music = Association=20 Dove Award nominations. He won in the categories of Country Album = of the=20 Year for his latest collection "Worship & Faith" and Country = Recorded=20 Song of the Year for "Three Wooden Crosses." Travis is up for two = Academy=20 of Country Music Awards. They'll be presented on May 26th in Las = Vegas,=20 Nevada. ("Three Wooden Crosses" CDP-26310)

British singer-songwriter Craig David will = celebrate his=20 23rd birthday on May 5th. Craig made his American debut in 2001 = with the=20 album "Born To Do It." The set sold seven million copies worldwide = and=20 spent 60 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 chart. His 2002 = followup,=20 "Slicker Than Your Average," debuted on the same list at Number = 32, but=20 quickly fell off the chart. Its sales reached only = 500-hundred-thousand in=20 the U.S. ("Walking Away" CDP-23774)

May 5th marks the birth date of the late Country = singer=20 Tammy Wynette (born 1942). Known as the "First Lady of Country = Music," she=20 left her native Mississippi and moved to Nashville in 1966. = Wynette=20 recorded a string of Number One songs throughout the late 1960s = and 1970s,=20 including "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," "I Don't Wanna Play House" and "Stand = By Your=20 Man." In 1993, she teamed with Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn to = record the=20 album, "Honky Tonk Angels." Wynette's 1995 release "One," teamed = her with=20 ex-husband George Jones. The album also reunited the Country = legends for=20 their first concerts together in 17~years. In April of 1998, = Wynette died=20 unexpectedly of a blood clot in her lung. She was posthumously = inducted=20 into the Country Music Hall of Fame during that year's Country = Music=20 Association Awards. In 2002, her daughters agreed to an = out-of-court=20 settlement in their lawsuit against their late mother's physician, = Dr.=20 Wallis Marsh of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They accused Marsh of=20 contributing to Wynette's death by over-prescribing large = quantities of=20 painkillers. No details of the settlement were disclosed. ("Stand = By Your=20 Man" CDP-244)

Rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger will celebrate his = 59th=20 birthday on May 6th. Seger taught himself to play the guitar and = keyboards=20 during his high school years and later formed his first band, The=20 Decibels. In~1968, he assembled the Bob Seger System, = which~eventually=20 evolved into the Silver Bullet Band. Nine years later, the group = recorded=20 the million-selling double album, "Live Bullet." Since~then, each = of its=20 releases has been certified platinum, with sales exceeding one = million=20 copies. The~band's biggest hits include "Night Moves," "Still~The = Same"=20 and the Number One Adult Contemporary single, "Shame On The Moon." = Bob=20 Seger and The Silver Bullet Band's latest studio album, "It's A = Mystery,"=20 was~released in 1995. Three years later, Seger~recorded "Chances = Are," a=20 duet with Country~singer Martina McBride that appeared on the = motion=20 picture soundtrack to "Hope Floats." In March of this year, Seger = was=20 inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ("Night~Moves"=20 CDP-10339)

Latin pop star Enrique Iglesias turns 29 on May = 8th. The=20 son of singer Julio Iglesias, Enrique has sold more than 30 = million albums=20 since making his recording debut in 1996. His biggest hits include = "Bailamos," "Be With You" and "Hero." Enrique and his girlfriend,=20 professional tennis player, Anna Kournikova, are in South Africa = this=20 week. Iglesias performed in Durban on April 28th and in Sun City = on May=20 1st. He wraps up his three-city tour in Johannesburg on May 2nd. = The shows=20 are in support of his latest CD, "7." ("Addicted" CDP-28560)

May 8th marks the birth date of the late actor and = singer=20 Rick Nelson (born 1940). Before pursuing a successful singing = career, he=20 acted in his parents' popular television series, "Ozzie & = Harriet."=20 Nelson became a teen idol in the late 1950s after singing his Top = 5 single=20 "I'm Walking" on one of the episodes. Other major hits followed, = including=20 two Number One songs, "Poor Little Fool" and "Travelin' Man." On = December=20 31, 1985, Nelson was killed when his plane crashed while en route = to a New=20 Year's Eve performance near DeKalb, Texas. ("Poor Little Fool"=20 CDP-349)

AWARDS PRESENTATIONS/WINNERS:

"Word of God Speak" won the Song of the Year and=20 Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year honors at the 35th = Annual Dove=20 Awards, presented by the Gospel Music Association in Nashville on = April=20 28th. It also brought Mercy Me wins in the Group of the Year and = Artist of=20 the Year categories. The track appears on Mercy Me's album "Spoken = For."=20 Stacie Orrico [Or-REEK-oh] was named Female Vocalist of the Year = and also=20 won the Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year trophy for her = self-titled=20 collection and the Short Form Music Video of the Year award for = "(There's=20 Gotta Be) More To Life." Switchfoot also won in three categories. = Double=20 winners included Randy Travis, CeCe Winans, Third Day, Jeremy = Camp,=20 Michael Tait and the Crabb Family.

Buddy Guy was the big winner at the 2004 W.C. Handy = Blues=20 Awards. He received trophies for Contemporary Blues Male Artist of = the=20 Year, as well as Blues Album of the Year and Acoustic Blues Album = of the=20 Year for his collection, "Blues Singer." B.B. King took home the = night's=20 top honor, Entertainer of the Year. Other winners included Roomful = of=20 Blues, Solomon Burke, Etta James, Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins and = Koko=20 Taylor. The awards were presented on April 29th in Memphis, = Tennessee.=20 (Full list of winners at www.blues.org.)

Latin pop star Ricky Martin, the late "Queen of = Salsa"=20 Celia Cruz and Colombian singer Juanes [WAAH-nez] led the winners = at the=20 2004 Billboard Latin Music Awards on April 29th. Cruz was = named=20 Latin Album Artist of the Year and was honored for her collection = "Regalo=20 del Alma" in the Latin Greatest Hits Album and Tropical Album of = the Year=20 categories. Juanes and Martin also won three awards. Popular = newcomer=20 Thalia [Taah-LEE-yuh] went into the race with four nominations, = but was=20 shut out. Special honors were presented to Mexican group Banda El = Recodo,=20 which received Billboard's Hall of Fame Award and=20 Colombian-American singer-songwriter Soraya, who earned the Spirit = of Hope=20 Award for her humanitarian efforts in the Hispanic community. = (Full list=20 of winners at www.billboardevents.com.

TOUR DATES AND INFORMATION:

American roots music will be showcased on the Great = High=20 Mountain Tour, which begins on May 5th in Knoxville, Tennessee. = Headliners=20 include Alison Krauss & Union Station, Ralph Stanley, Norman = &=20 Nancy Blake, the Cox Family and the Whites. Twenty-four shows are=20 scheduled through June 14th.

Cher will begin a European concert tour on May 8th. = The=20 28-date outing starts off in Dublin, Ireland and wraps up on June = 30th in=20 Rotterdam, Netherlands. The singer's 2003 "Farewell Tour" was the = third=20 biggest ticket seller of the year. Last August, Warner Brothers = Records=20 released performances from the trek on "Live The Farewell Tour." = Cher's=20 latest studio album was 2002's "Living Proof."

On May 8th, Fleetwood Mac will kick off a North = American=20 tour in Madison, Wisconsin. It's the band's second swing through = the U.S.=20 and Canada in support of the CD, "Say You Will." The 36-city tour = is=20 currently scheduled to end on July 14th in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

FACTS FROM THE PAST AND SUGGESTED MUSIC:

5/2/57 - Elvis Presley recorded his ninth Number One = song,=20 "Jailhouse Rock." The song spent seven weeks at the top of the = charts and=20 was featured in the film of the same name. ("Jailhouse Rock" = CDP-26)

5/2/60 - Ben E. King left the Drifters to pursue a solo = career.=20 The following year, he recorded his most popular song, the Top 5 = hit,=20 "Stand By Me." ("Stand By Me" CDP-407)

5/4/59 - The 1st annual Grammy Awards took place in Los = Angeles,=20 California. Among the winners were Domenico Modugno's "Volare" for = Record=20 of the Year and Song of the Year; Henry Mancini's "The Music From=20 Peter~Gunn" for Album of the Year; Ella Fitzgerald, Best Vocal=20 Performance, Female; and Perry Como, Best~Vocal Performance, Male. = ("The=20 Music From Peter~Gunn" CDP-952)

5/4/68 - Buffalo Springfield disbanded following = a~performance=20 in Long Beach, California. Stephen~Stills and Neil Young later = teamed with=20 David~Crosby and Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & = Young. Jim=20 Messina and Richie Furay formed Poco. ("For What It's Worth (Stop, = Hey=20 What's That Sound)" CDP-996)

5/6/2002 Songwriter Otis Blackwell died of a heart = attack at age=20 70. Among Blackwell's numerous compositions were "Don't Be Cruel," = "All=20 Shook Up" and "Return To Sender," all hits for Elvis Presley. = ("Return To=20 Sender" CDP-904)

5/7/49 - Country legend Hank Williams scored his first = Number=20 One hit with "Lovesick Blues." ("Lovesick Blues" CDP-888)

5/7/78 - Singer Yvonne Elliman topped Billboard's = Hot 100=20 chart with "If I Can't Have You." The song was featured on the = soundtrack=20 to "Saturday Night Fever." ("If I Can't Have You" CDP-781)

5/8/76 - Country singer Reba McEntire made her chart = debut with=20 "I Don't Want To Be A One Night Stand." The song peaked at Number = 88, but=20 was followed in the 1980s and '90s by numerous major hits, = including=20 "Can't Even Get The Blues," "Whoever's In New England" and "Does = He Love=20 You." ("I Don't Want To Be A One Night Stand"=20 CDP-10255)