Rebirth in America

The place where the Carpenters live is a living complex. The house has a construction area of ​​240 square meters, not including the garage and back garden. The house has two floors in total, with the kitchen and living room on the first floor, the bedrooms on the second floor, and the attic above.

This house was bought after Richard was born. Most of the money Alex earned from performing, otherwise with Bart's salary to support a family of five, he would not be able to buy such a good house. Now Alex and Richard are practicing music and composing music in the attic.

There was a bed in the attic next to the window, and next to the bed was a small round table.

At this time, Alex was sitting on the bed, holding a guitar and singing softly. Richard leaned on the table and quickly wrote down the music Alex sang.

"Ding ding dong dong!" After finishing the last few notes, Alex stopped to take a breath.

"It's really wonderful!" Richard kept writing with the pen in his hand, praising: "Alex, this piece of music of yours is very nice! I really like it!"

Indeed, Alex has "composed" five or six future songs in the past few days. He considered that the two of them were too young, so the songs he came up with were more suitable for children to sing.

"Hey, Alex..." Richard suddenly took out a stack of music scores and handed them over, "Can you play and sing these?"

Alex took it over and took a look. It turned out that these were songs that Richard had written in his spare time these days. He was surprised and asked: "Are these newly written by you?"

"Yeah!" Richard nodded and said, "I was inspired by your songs a lot! In order not to forget them, I wrote them all down!"

"All of them?" Alex was really unbelievable!

"All of them!" Richard replied affirmatively, and then repeated: "All of them! Of course, there are still a lot of inspirations that have not been written down, but that is because there is not enough time."

Alex lowered his head and hummed to the music score.

These songs are clearly influenced by the songs Alex "wrote" and still retain a large part of the style of current songs. Surprisingly, these songs are pretty good with just a few tweaks.

Looking at such a powerful younger brother Richard, his heart was really filled with tens of thousands of elephants rushing past: "This is the real genius!"

The song they planned to dedicate to their mother has been perfected, and now they are waiting for news about Bart. There has been no news for several days since Bart went out, and I don't know how things are going.

Angel didn't care about Bart's affairs, and she didn't ask her sons about it. But Alex was a little worried, he was afraid that Bart wouldn't go well.

In Alex's eyes, his plan shouldn't be difficult. As long as you find a company that is willing to record private records, after recording the songs, you can get them to be played on the radio. If he were older, he felt that he could just do it himself and wouldn't waste much time.

Just as Alex was wondering what happened to Bart, Bart came back. He came back with good news.

"Pack your things, let's go to New York!" Bart said loudly to Alex and the others.

New York! This is the economic center of the United States! It is also the entertainment center of the United States. The major record companies of this era all have offices in New York. If you don't open a record company in New York, you will almost never be successful.

Alex has never been to New York. After his rebirth, he has been following Bart and has never traveled alone before. Not to mention Richard, whose impression of New York was only hearsay.

Richard suddenly jumped up in front of Bart and shouted happily: "We are going to New York! New York! New York!"

Bart put his index finger to his lips and made a silent gesture. Everyone knew what he meant, and he didn't want Angel to know the real purpose of their trip to New York.

They told Angel that Bart had been contacted by a nightclub and needed to go out and perform. The journey is quite far and may take several days. In this way, they quietly got into a broken car and drove to New York City.

Chicago is not very far from New York. If you take a plane, it takes about 2 hours. However, they took a car and it would take at least 4 or 5 hours.

Along the way, Alex quietly looked at the scenery outside the window. The people and buildings of this era gave him a strange feeling, as if he had walked into a distant scene, which was blurry at first and then became clearer and clearer. In the end, he slowly integrated into the picture.

In the 1950s, New York was already a super city in the world, with high-rise buildings and cars. It gives the impression that it is a very busy city, with everyone just walking and never pausing to look at the surrounding scenery.

The car stopped in front of an old yellow building, and Richard jumped out eagerly.

"Ahem! The air in New York is so bad!"

As soon as Richard's feet landed, he quickly covered his nose with his hands, and an unpleasant smell rushed straight into his nostrils. He couldn't help coughing and almost choked.

But Alex seemed to have returned to the big city where he lived in the past. The smell of car exhaust was always so unpleasant.

He patted Richard on the back and said comfortingly: "It won't be so uncomfortable when you get inside."

It was the studio site of a small record company and no one came out to greet them. Bart had no choice but to lead the Carpenter brothers, carry the instruments they brought, and go upstairs to find the relevant people.

Bart found this company through a friend's introduction. Originally, he could have gone to other places to record records. Those companies had a business of recording records for private individuals, but those recordings were very bad and only at amateur level. He didn't want to record such a record. If he wanted to record it, he would record it well and professionally.

His friend is the cashier of this company, and also does front desk and human resources work. She is a black girl.

Although this record company is small, it has quite complete recording equipment and the results are pretty good. The person recording them was a white man with messy hair named Rudy.

Rudy was very addicted to smoking. He always had a cigarette in his mouth and smoked one cigarette after another all the time. He nodded to Bart, indicating that he knew their purpose. However, he was quickly attracted by the age of the Carpenters. He had some doubts about the abilities of these two children.

"Hey, little brats! You guys want to record a record, right? Huh?" As Rudy spoke, the cigarette in his mouth shook up and down, scattering a lot of ash.

Alex frowned and said with great disgust: "Yes!"

Richard looked around and then exclaimed: "Where is the accompanist? Why is there no accompaniment?"

When recording in this era, single-track recording was still used, which was not as convenient as using computers for multi-track recording later. When recording a record, it needs to be recorded in one go. If it's a song with multiple instruments playing at the same time, the whole band has to go into the studio.

"Do you want an accompaniment?" Rudy originally thought that the two children were just having fun and did not need to be treated so professionally. Unexpectedly, he asked for an accompaniment as soon as they came up.

"Of course, if our songs lack accompaniment, that's absolutely impossible! Didn't you say there are professional accompaniment bands to choose from? Where are they!" Bart decisively asked Rudy to provide band accompaniment services.

Rudy scratched his messy hair, thought for a while and said, "Okay, but in this case, your fee will be more than 100 US dollars a day, it must be 200 US dollars."

The price of this recording is 10 times more expensive than amateur-level records outside! But Bart thinks it's money well spent.

When ordinary people go to that kind of recording studio to record a record, it may only cost $10. Most records in this era were sold for around $2, which meant that it would cost five times more to burn your own records in a recording studio. If you need an accompanying band, the price will double.

"So expensive...this..."

Alex, who was on the side, originally wanted to suppress the fee, but was interrupted before he could say anything.

"No problem!" Bart readily agreed to Rudy's price.

"As long as it succeeds this time, the money can be earned back at any time!" Bart thought to himself.

Two hundred dollars is not a small amount of money in this era. When Bart used to work at a car factory, he would have to work for two months to get that much money.

Fortunately, the "Carpenter Brothers" were very popular in the tavern. From the tips they often received when performing, and the money given by the tavern owner, they earned a lot of money.

"But if the level is not good enough, we have to replace him." Alex said immediately.

"It doesn't matter. I have several bands here to choose from. Why don't you listen to their samples first and then decide which band to accompany?" Rudy replied without any hesitation. How could the record company not have any resources? ?

They listened to several previous accompaniment records by several bands, discussed it a little, and finally decided to choose one of the bands to accompany them.

Rudy quickly called the band to come over. Unexpectedly, the band was all black.

There are four people in this black band, UU read www. uukanshu.net The leader was a black uncle in his fifties, two young people, and a child who looked to be only fifteen years old.

After seeing this combination, they wondered if Rudy had made a mistake. The band they chose for the record wasn't a weak band, at least it didn't look like it could be played by a bunch of people like this.

Before they even said the doubtful words in their hearts, Rudy noticed something unusual in their eyes.

"Gentlemen, let's listen to a piece first!" Rudy waved his hand and said to the black band.

Without saying a word, the leader, Uncle Hei, took out the instrument he was carrying. It was a saxophone. It looked quite old, but the sound it played was very rich.

Under the leadership of Uncle Hei, the other three people also showed their unique "weapons".

Of the two young men, one played an accordion and the other a cello. As for the fifteen-year-old child, he took out a harmonica.

As the saying goes, an expert will know if something is there as soon as he makes a move.

This seemingly ragtag black band actually cooperated very well, and more importantly, their accompaniment had a sense of unity.

"Very good, then come in!" Bart had to interrupt their perfect performance, because the rental time of the recording studio started after they came in. If you don't want to waste time and money, it is best to start recording right away.

Usually, it takes many times to record a record to achieve the best effect. Bart hopes that the recording can be successful as soon as possible. If it drags on any longer, he really has no patience.