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"Surrender", a Cheap Trick cover, and the added acoustic tracks "October Morning Wind" and The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" proved the band's versatility. The new millennium dawned on Union's second studio CD, The Blue Room, produced by Bob Marlette. The CD spawned two singles, "Do Your Own Thing" and "Who Do You Think You Are".
On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians, at the instigation of union president James C. Petrillo, began a strike against the major American record companies because of disagreements over royalty payments. Beginning on midnight, July 31, 1942, no union musician could make commercial recordings for any commercial record company. [1]
Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared. [1] The concept is distinct from that of a traditional band in that musical collectives allow for flexibility in their rosters, and members are free to rotate in and out of the line-up.
The group had 3,000 members and Owen Miller became the first AFM president. In 1896, Miller said: "The only object of AFM is to bring order out of chaos and to harmonize and bring together all the professional musicians of the country into one progressive body." Union Local 274 historical marker, Philadelphia
Though, in his youth, Petrillo played the trumpet, he finally made a career out of organizing musicians into the union starting in 1919. [2] Petrillo became president of the Chicago Local 10 of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958. [3] Petrillo stepped down as president in ...
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Martinho da Vila, 86, is regarded as one of the main representatives of samba music and MPB (música popular brasileira, or Brazilian popular music), and is considered one of the top exponents of ...