Rebirth in America

The success of Hula Hoop and the movie company gave Alex ample funds. At the same time, it also took up a lot of his time, which affected the recording of the album.

In 1953, all the songs on the Carpenter Brothers' records were written by Richard. Alex is even on several records and doesn't appear at all. His behavior made Bart feel a little annoyed, and others thought that if this continued, the Carpenter brothers would eventually disband.

Alex specifically talked to Richard about this and found that Richard didn't care about this kind of thing at all. On the contrary, Richard felt more free because he was getting closer to writing the songs he wanted to sing and recording the songs he wanted to record.

But there will be some problems with this. Richard's song style is very different from before. Many old fans buy the records he sings but feel they don't like them very much and will lose them because of this. There are also many fans who come for Alex. They think that since Richard is the only one who sings songs, they should not use the Carpenter Brothers to confuse others.

People in the record company's marketing department suggested to them that they either separate the records or clearly indicate who sang the records so that fans can make their own choices when purchasing. However, generally speaking, the name printed on the album cover is too small, and you have to be very careful to distinguish it.

This problem was quickly solved by Alex, who designed a set of avatars composed of the two brothers' avatars. When both people appear in the song on the record, both avatars will have normal colors. When only Richard appears on the record, Alex's head is a black shadow, and vice versa.

Alex's solution solved the problem of fans choosing the wrong records to buy, and the dissatisfaction quickly dissipated. There are still many people who are interested in this method, and there are also bands that want to copy this method, but they are not as successful as the Carpenter Brothers.

After entering 1954, Alex was busy preparing for the filming of "The Sound of Music" and composing a large number of music for the film. At the same time, he is still busy planning various promotional methods for "Roman Holiday" to win the Academy Award. In order not to be distracted by other things, he left the hula hoop matter entirely to Sam to take care of. After all, he was on the right track at this time.

The only thing left was to write "Harry Potter", which took up a lot of his time. He basically wrote it in his free time. His novel was not copied from the original version, so he could only rely on the movie parts to complete it. In addition, he changed many settings and revised many plots. This version of "Harry Potter" has been changed beyond recognition by him.

At least Alex won't let Harry Potter become a person who deserves a beating. In later generations, the American discount e-book store (BookBub) selected 13 characters in literary works that "deserve beating", among which Harry Potter topped the list.

It can be seen that this character is so unpleasant in the hearts of readers. For Alex, this is something that can be changed. The reason Harry Potter was selected was because he repeatedly got into trouble every time he disobeyed advice, putting his friends and teachers around him in danger to rescue him.

Originally, the author was trying to create conflict and increase drama, but in the end, it made readers hate this character. This is indeed something Aunt Rowling never thought of.

In Alex's writing, Harry Potter's character has not become so "girly"! Maybe he was a little timid at first, but after experiencing various things, he became decisive and decisive. In the words of Internet literature, how can the protagonist be happy if he is not against the will of heaven!

All in all, this version of Harry Potter will definitely not be the same bird as the original. As for relationships, Alex asked Harry Potter to create a lot of ambiguity between Luna and Hermione, just like the one in "Orange Road", but it was not explained clearly and made people feel itchy to watch.

Alex was anxious to write this book to deal with Carl, which was originally intended to be published in 1954. He didn't want to be chased by the editor in charge when he went to Europe to shoot a movie.

Just as Alex was immersed in writing the manuscript, a phone call interrupted his thoughts.

"Hello? I'm Alex, who are you looking for?"

There was silence on the other side of the phone. After a while, Alex was about to hang up when he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"I'm Little Richard, are you okay?"

Since Little Richard's last rejection of Alex's solicitation, the two of them have only communicated by phone or letter. In the past year or so, Alex has been busy with various things. He has called Little Richard less frequently and has no time to write letters.

What Alex knew was that after Little Richard signed with RCA Records, he had been in love for several years and recorded many songs, but the results were not very good.

"Brother! I'm fine. How are you now?" Alex immediately asked enthusiastically.

Little Richard seemed to have made up his mind. He said: "I'm very bad. The contract with RCA Records has expired, and I plan to hang out with you."

After hearing this, Alex said in surprise: "Really? That's great. Uh, I mean, I'd be really happy if you were willing to come to Carpenter Records."

After hearing what Alex said, Little Richard felt much more relaxed. He smiled and said, "I see news about you everywhere. I also saw you on the cover of Time Magazine. You are really amazing." "

After the two opened up the topic, they began to talk about old times and what they had done after they broke up. From the conversation, we learned that Little Richard had not been doing very well in the past few years. His records could not be sold, and RCA Records had threatened to terminate his contract several times. In desperation, he thought of Alex, who had been hesitant after rejecting an offer once. Now I finally made up my mind to join Alex.

With Alex's introduction, Little Richard was easily signed to the Carpenter Agency, and the record company also signed a recording contract with him.

Of course, the contract Little Richard signed was different from the one signed by the Carpenter brothers. After all, the Carpenter record company belonged to the Carpenters, and Bart had no reason to exploit his son. The brothers signed the best contracts, and the royalties were set based on top singers.

As for the contracts signed by Little Richard, Chuck, and Elvis, the conditions are not so good. After all, the company also wants to make money, and singers are just money-making machines for the company. However, compared to other companies, Carpenter Records is pretty good, at least it does not discriminate against people of color.

Black people like Little Richard and Chuck, no matter how good they are at singing, can't get into a predominantly white record company. This era is still a period of very serious racial discrimination, and the apartheid policy at that time has not yet been abolished. Black singers can only enter record companies run by black people, and most of these companies are very oppressive.

The reason why Little Richard was willing to come to Carpenter Records was that the environment here was good and the contract conditions were relatively good. Not to mention that there was someone like Alex above him covering him. If it had been another person, he would have been here long before Alex recruited him. Only a proud person like Little Richard is unwilling. Now that the situation is forcing him, he can only let go of his arrogance.

After Little Richard entered the new company, he immediately recorded several works. He had been holding back his energy for a long time and had nothing to do. These songs were all rejected by RAC Records because they didn’t like songs of this style.

After Alex listened to the demos of these works, he asked in surprise: "You have such good works and you still don't show them. You should have released them earlier, so that you would have become famous."

Little Richard smiled helplessly and said: "It's not that I don't want to take it out, but those bastards don't like it. They said this kind of song is not what they want. Damn it!"

This is the difference between production by a large company and production by an independent label. For large companies, there is no room for too many personal characteristics. What they want is a product manufactured on an assembly line. At present, Carpenter Records is not considered a large company. UU Kanshu www.uukanｗｈnet If you want to develop in the future, you still have to move closer to that aspect.

This will inevitably lead to restrictions on the independence and personal characteristics of its artists. Some big-name singers may have their own independent labels, but newcomers will not be treated so well.

Before Little Richard's songs hit the market, no one knew what sales would be like. Even a song that Alex and the others think is good may not be popular with people. To the surprise of the marketing department, these songs immediately appeared on the Billboard charts as soon as they were released. People loved this music and they wanted to hear Little Richard.

"Congratulations! I knew you would succeed!" After Alex got the weekly list, he immediately informed Little Richard.

After hearing this, Little Richard almost burst into tears. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time. He proved his strength with his results, which is the joy of success.

After seeing this situation, Carpenter Records increased its support for him. This began the climax of Little Richard's career. A year or two later, his album "Tutti-Frutti" was released, which immediately hit No. 17 on the charts that week, with sales of 3 million copies.

Carpenter Records gave Little Richard his own label based on his performance. From then on, Little Richard could create whatever he liked.

Encouraged by the success, Little Richard struck while the iron was hot and launched "Long Tall Sally" in May, which reached No. 13 on the charts. Over the next few years, he toured extensively and caused a sensation wherever he went.