From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4866 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, August 30 2020 Volume 14 : Number 4866 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Do you really want to be using the same network as these criminals? ["Wif] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 07:45:29 -0400 From: "Wifi Pod" Subject: Do you really want to be using the same network as these criminals? Do you really want to be using the same network as these criminals? http://ketomale.guru/jIPQ9GoxyfYZoztav5okh_jfgTTndDnUJ9UqxB0o3zqOEwY6 http://ketomale.guru/B7D7BYt2QpXN-M0z2FLO6pOEVZtQiOW3Ez8YImLxyYd4LHkb arket oversaturated by "retro-soul groups". The album's cover and booklet photos were taken by photographer William Claxton, who captured Tony! Toni! TonC)! dressed in casual and formal, retro clothing. This departure from the more outrC) wardrobe of the band's past was interpreted by journalist Brandon Ousley as an effort to promote "the elegance of 1960s-era Black America and legendary soul acts to a modern generation". Marketing and sales House of Music was released on November 19, 1996, by Mercury Records. The label planned the release date to coincide with the peak holiday shopping period and ran ad campaigns scheduled for network cable, syndicated television shows, and radio stations. Tony! Toni! TonC)! inaugurated its release with a satellite press conference and in-store performance at a small retail outlet in the San Francisco Bay Area. They also embarked on a tour of historically black colleges and Black Independent Coalition record shops after "Let's Get Down" had been sent to R&B and crossover radio on October 28 as the album's lead single; its music video was released to outlets such as BET, The Box, and MTV. Tony! Toni! TonC)! performed the song on the sketch comedy show All That; on the music variety program Soul Train, they performed "Let's Get Down" and "Annie May". In its first eight weeks, House of Music sold 318,502 copies in the US. It peaked at number 32 on the Billboard 200 and spent 31 weeks on the chart. "Thinking of You" was released as the second single on March 11, 1997, by which time House of Music had sold 514,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On August 6, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). There should have been like four singles from that album. You'll have to call Mercury on that. It went platinum with no promotional tour. We did our job and they made their money. It's not like back in the day, when Jimi Hendrix would come out and people at the record label would say you got to meet this artist. It's almost like you're a computer chip. It's not like you're a person. b Raphael Saadiq (1997) During the album's marketing campaign, Tony! Toni! TonC)! experienced growing tensions stemming from creative differences, business-related problems, and Saadiq's interest in a solo career. "There's a quiet stress between us that no one really talks about", Saadiq told Vibe in February 1997. "And what's sad about the whole thing is the fact that our friendship is disintegrating. Who knows, House of Music could be the last Tony Toni TonC) album." According to Mercury vice president Marty Maidenberg, an international tour for the album had been planned by October 1996, with concert dates in Japan and the United Kingdom, but it never materialized. The band remained committed to promoting the record into 1997, including a February 28 taped performance at VH1's Hard Rock Live special. Later that year, Mercury released the group's greatest hits album Hits (1997), prompting Saadiq to explain in a November interview for the Philadelphia Daily News that Tony! Toni! TonC)! had experie ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4866 **********************************************