(This is thanks to Mr. Scorpion for his reward. I will add one chapter today! But I can't add another update next week. This book has finally entered the top ten of the new book list. I have to stay on it for a few days before talking about it!)

The victory of World War II brought great benefits to the United States and caused profound changes in the domestic economy and culture. Due to the great economic prosperity after the war, the literary and artistic undertakings have greatly developed, and the music industry has also entered a period of rapid development.

In the 1950s, more people listened to concerts than watched baseball games. In addition, the weekly music programs broadcast by radio stations surged, the record industry developed greatly, and the music audience surged, which required fresh music to attract the majority of music listeners.

In addition, due to the development of industry, a large number of rural residents have attracted to cities, especially poor whites and blacks in rural areas in the south. They have come to big cities to find jobs in order to seek a better life. These foreigners not only have the urban population increased sharply, but also brought the cultural and musical fun of foreign countries into big cities.

This reality had a profound impact on the mass music rate in cities. In fact, in the early 1950s, in addition to the traditional Dingbang Lane style songs and jazz music, novel country music, pure folk songs, and white songs with strong black singing styles have begun to be popular in society.

Alex's song "That's AllRight" appeared just right. There was no such thing as rock music at this time, but there were already people trying to create this, but none of them went as far as Alex.

Although Alex, who came from the 21st century, used the singing style of Elvis when he covered this song, he unknowingly used a more mature rock style and rhythm in many details, which made the song look more perfect.

The impact of Alex's version of "That's AllRight" was huge. Soon, other radio stations also got the record of the song and then aired it in prime time. A program even played seven times in a row!

Shortly after the broadcast, the front desk phone of the radio station started ringing. People were eager to find the person who sang this song and wanted to hear more of this type of song.

After playing "That’s AllRight", many radio stations will always play another song "Song Dedicated to Mom" ​​sang by the Carpenter brothers. Although this song also comes from later generations, it is country music itself. After being modified and adjusted by the Carpenter brothers, it further highlights its rural atmosphere.

Country music in this era is booming with many listeners. Most of these listeners are adults over the age of thirty, who especially like this song, but are not as crazy as young people, but they will definitely pay for this record.

Alex and Richard knew about these things, but one day they just arrived at the tavern for a performance, and were interrupted by Bart and Angel who rushed over.

"Alex! Richard!" Angel pulled the two brothers off the stage. Bart stood beside her with a smile on his face.

"What's wrong, mom?" Richard looked at Angel in confusion.

Bart quickly explained: "There were countless calls at home today, and a total of 47 people pointed out that they were looking for you!"

Richard looked at his father in surprise and said in disbelief: "Look for us?"

Alex, who was standing aside, thought to himself, and bit his lip gently, thinking, is it finally here?

"Yes, they want to interview you!" Angel said excitedly. She felt very accomplished now and wanted to shout to everyone: "This is my son, my son!"

Bart couldn't help but say: "A live interview over the phone, now, right now!"

Angel added: "He said he would call your sons over and start the interview now!"

"Wow!" Richard jumped happily!

Alex couldn't help but clench his fists: "It's successful! Finally it's successful!"

There are many radio stations that want to interview them, and they can only come one by one. Two brothers under ten years old, one record shocked the world! What a big news this is, all American journalists want to interview them!

The popularity of TV in this era is still relatively low, and it should have been after the late 1950s. One way for people to accept news is to read newspapers and the other is to go through radio stations.

The Carpenter brothers’ information quickly spread throughout the United States, and almost everyone who listened to the radio station knew about them. A pair of two brothers from a blue-collar family, Alex, is 8 years old and Richard, is 5 years old. However, he has more than a year of acting experience and can compose music and write songs by himself!

"Hi! This is WJZ New York Radio, I am Nighthawk! Who is there now?" A deep voice came from the phone. He is Jim, a famous host of New York Radio. Because he often hosts late-night programs, he is nicknamed "Nighthawk"!

"Hello, you! Mr. Nighthawk, I'm Richard!"

"Wow! Wow! Have you heard it? It turns out that it is Richard, the younger brother of the genius brothers! Where is your elder brother Alex? Is he by his side?"

Richard quickly handed the microphone to Alex! Bart and Angel had already turned on the radio beside him and were listening to the radio program.

"Hey! Hello Nighthawk!" Alex's performance became much more natural, and he had already prepared himself!

"These days, what surrounds everyone's ears are your singing "That's AllRight" and "Songs for Mom"! It is said that "Songs for Mom" ​​was written by you both themselves. Is this true?"

"Of course it's true!" Richard leaned his ear close to Alex's ear, and immediately replied loudly after hearing the Nighthawk's question.

"Yes, this song is specially written for our mother to give her birthday gifts," Alex said calmly.

"Oh my God! Listen to me, what a genius couple!" Nighthawk exclaimed again on the microphone. Without waiting for the Carpenter brothers to answer, he continued: "This reminds me of Mozart! You are all so smart and so genius!"

The program interview lasted for half an hour, and the interview was very successful! This phone interview was sent directly by radio broadcast, and thousands of people were waiting in front of the radio to listen to the program.

People learned from this that the Carpenter brothers started learning accordion at the age of three or four, followed by piano, guitar, violin, etc. Among their teachers are not only old musicians in the tavern, but also professors who are teaching music at the university.

They started performing on stage at the age of four, and until now. The two songs they have been burned were recorded within two days. As for the original songs, there are more than one song, and many songs have been written but have not been burned.

What a genius this is!

People were shocked by such evil geniuses, and there were more than one genius, or two! It was really amazing!

The most important thing is that the song "That's AllRight" was extremely nice, and people called the radio to inquire about buying the record. The feedback received was that the record had not been released yet.

The result was that the original "That's AllRight" record suddenly increased. As a result, after listening to the version performed by the Carpenter Brothers, they were extremely disappointed with the original songs, and they were even more excited to buy the Carpenter Brothers version.

Major record companies in the United States were moved and sent many managers and supervisors to Carpenter's house to inquire about the publishing of records and the conditions for signing contracts with the Carpenter brothers.

However, there are many radio stations who refuse to play their songs. Even if there are many listeners on demand, they do not want people to mistakenly think that their radio stations are playing black songs.

This is naked racial discrimination, but it was so reasonable at the time. Yes, blacks and whites are people from two worlds. Some journalists even doubted whether the Carpenter brothers were looking for blacks to sing, and they said: "How could whites sing such black-tongued songs? We didn't see their recordings with our own eyes. It must be the blacks singing. After recording, it was said that it was the Carpenter brothers' work."

Some newspapers also say that this is a black conspiracy, so everyone should be careful. They will never allow black songs to pollute the pure spirit of white people.

More people like the songs of the Carpenter brothers, especially the blacks, who were the music pioneers of this era and quickly drew nourishment from this song. Various jazz music were adapted into similar songs. For a time, many musicians' creative passion was released.

Compared to the Carpenters' family who were so happy that they almost flew up, some seemed to have fallen into the abyss.

"When will you answer me!" Rudy almost cried. He saw that he had a big gold mine in his hand, but he could not dig it. At the same time, the bank's debt period was approaching day by day. If he could not raise enough interest this month, he would go bankrupt.

"What's going on?" Angel asked in confusion when he saw this.

Bart then explained the matter in detail and emphasized the content of the huge debt. What he meant was that he didn't want to take over this hot potato.

After hearing this, Angel immediately asked, "What did Alex think?"

Everyone in the Carpenter family already understood that Alex was not only the eldest son, but also the lucky star of their family. The reason why their family could reach this level was because of Alex. If it weren't for Alex, Bart would have stayed in the factory to do hard work.

Alex touched his chin and said, "I think we can talk about it, but we will not talk about the signing of the contract or the company's ownership. We will only talk about the contract for this record. Let's make this record available first."

When Bart and the others heard it, hey! It was a little interesting. When he said this to Rudy, he was anxious.

There are several types of singer contracts, one is equivalent to a contract that sells the body, which is equivalent to a singer's property entirely belonging to the record company. Another is a singer's record contract, which is equivalent to a cooperative relationship between the singer and the company.

However, this is usually only the big-name singers will receive this kind of treatment. Mike Jackson once signed a record contract with Sony, and Sony paid a high price of $100 million to buy the sales rights of 10 Mike Jackson's records. This $100 million is not included in the copyright tax, it can be said that this is a sky-high contract.

Rudy understood what Alex did. He said quickly: "The record's master disk has been burned long ago. As long as you agree, you can suppress the record shipment immediately! But how much do you want in this share ratio? I suggest that it is 46% of the share, I will get 40% of the share, and how about you get 60% of the share?"

He was very anxious and was now in a hurry. If he didn't have enough money to pay the bank, he would have to sleep on the street next month.

Rudy said 60% means the total profit of a record distribution company. It should be about 30% converted into copyright tax. The so-called copyright tax refers to the rewards that singers receive after they release their records. It is not calculated based on profits, but based on the retail price of the record. Usually the copyright tax that singers can get is about 10%. For example, if the retail price of a record is 1 USD, then 10% is 0.1 USD. If 100,000 records are sold, you can get 10,000 USD.

This is pre-tax income, and the government needs to pay a certain amount of tax based on the singer's total income that year.

A 30% copyright tax is the value of a top singer. Few people can get such a high copyright tax.

Alex suddenly remembered a question: "There are two songs on this record, but we don't have the copyright to "That's AllRight."

Rudy smiled proudly: "I'm ready! After burning the record for you, I immediately found the owner of the song and I bought it for money."

When Bart heard this, he couldn't help but admire him: "You really dare to take risks! Is the copyright of this song expensive?"

"Hehe! Anyway, it's a dead end if you can't afford to pay back the money, and you won't be short of that little money." Rudy avoided Bart's question, and probably bought it without spending much of the copyright of this song.

The Carpenters discussed it carefully and felt that the conditions were already very generous and that Baili was not harmful. So they decided to ask Rudy to help them sell the record first to see how the sales were.
Chapter completed!