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Les Poppys Cheated by Universal

Les Poppys have been cheated by Universal - Entertainment - news

Les Poppys were not shortchanged by Universal

25/02/2010 11:14

Six former Poppys, these child singers trônèrent top of the charts in the early 1970s, were sentenced Wednesday setback in the legal battle they have waged a 13-year-cons Universal Music France, who they claimed more than one million.

For the Court of Appeal of Paris, which confirmed Wednesday trial of 2008, Universal has not committed a "breach its contractual obligations. "

In 1970, Bruno Polius-Victoire, Thierry and Philippe Sellier, Harry Trowbridge, Philip and Gabriel Képeklian, then members the Choir Boys' Choir of Asnieres, are chosen by Jean Lovers to add a new group promising destiny: the poppy, consisting of twenty children nine to 14 years.

For three years, Poppys sell over five million LPs and receive two gold records for their hit "No, no, nothing has changed. "

But in the late 1990s, claiming to have been harmed financially, they attack Universal justice. In criminal complaint for fraud and embezzlement concludes with a dismissal in 2001, confirmed in 2002. In civil cases, however, the case continues prosper. The lawyer for former poppy, Master Olivier Bahougne tries to recognize Universal "Should have ensured that children were minors when collect fees.

But in January 2008, the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris the rejects. Sentenced to pay a hefty fee Justice, two of them leave the party. The other six rely.

On Wednesday, the appellate court held that John Lovers, who died in September at age 84, had "Authority to sign contracts" between 1970 and 1976 by which he gave to Barclay, Universal became the rights records in return for compensation Financial.

But even more, according to Case, Jean Lovers then "acted in perfect agreement with the group members "and their parents. In The activity of the group was "devoid of any lucrative purpose "and parents opposed to any form of remuneration.

ut in January 2008, the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris rejects. Sentenced to pay large legal costs, two of them leave the party. The six others use.

On Wednesday, the appellate court found that John Lovers, died in September at age 84, had "authority to sign contracts" between 1970 and 1976, by which he ceded to Barclay, now Universal, rights records through financial compensation.

But even more, according to Case, Jean Lovers then "acted in perfect agreement with the group members" and their parents. Indeed, the activity of the group was "devoid of any profit oriented" and parents opposed to any form of compensation.

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XXX MP3 West Coast Rap Filth 1980 - WFMU Beware of the Blog

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May 07, 2007

West Coast Rap Filth, circa 1980

Who was responsible for the dirtiest, most foul-mouthed record of 1980? Arguably, King Monkey. Need proof?

MP3s (NSFW):
King Monkey "Badd Mann Dann Rapp"
King Monkey "King Monkey Rapp"

These two XXX-rated, smutty tunes may have comprised the Golden State's very first rap record. What a way to get in the game, West Coast! I've got no further info on the artist, so if you do, speak up in the comments section.

Big thanks to Adam of the brand new Atomicism blog for passing this along!

Posted by Liz Berg on May 07, 2007 at 07:00 AM in Liz B's Posts, MP3s, Music, Sex | Permalink

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Badd Mann Dann Rapp: The guy loses a bar at about 1:30 and doesn't catch up until 2:55. On King Monkey Rapp, he does it again almost immediately, so gives up, dropping the rhythmic style mid-take for a more 'spoken word' style. Ha Ha. No retakes for *this* freak.

Posted by: vmh | May 07, 2007 at 09:15 PM

"Badd Mann Dann Rapp"... mmmh, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Stagger Lee" (from the Murder Ballads album) anyone?

Posted by: The LemonPeople | May 08, 2007 at 09:43 AM

It's much older than that, and Nick Cave would confirm -- it's a version of the "Ball of the Freaks", which has been around since the beginning of the 20th Century.

Posted by: Goyim in the AM | May 08, 2007 at 10:12 AM

"King Monkey Rapp" is a version of the ancient oral-tradition rap "The Signifying Monkey." Rudy Ray Moore's kept it alive over the decades, and Schooly D did a version as "The Signifying Rapper" in the '80s.

Posted by: MrFab | May 15, 2007 at 05:51 PM

wow i remember this
but we were the first west coast rap lable on the west coast
for mor in fo google rappers rapp records.

Posted by: king mc | April 03, 2008 at 02:47 AM

on second thought you are right
they beat us by a year

Posted by: king mc | April 03, 2008 at 02:50 AM

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Speech Perception and Production Laboratory - X-Ray Database - Queen's University

The X-Ray Film Database is a collaborative project by Dr. Kevin Munhall of Queen's University and Drs. Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson and Yoh'ichi Tohkura of ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. It was conceived to preserve cineradiographic vocal tract footage, to make the images available to the speech research community, and to develop techniques for the automated digital processing of the images.

Forty years after they were first utilized in speech research, high speed x-ray films yield the best dynamic view of the entire vocal tract and provide important information about it's time-varying properties. In particular, they accurately depict the complex movements of the tongue.

Due to ethical concerns about the high radiation dosages necessary, x-ray imaging technology using normal subjects is no longer practiced and it has become imperative to preserve those films which were origially captured on the fragile medium of 35 mm film.

The Queen's University/ATR Labs X-Ray Film Database for Speech Research [1],[2] offers twenty-five high quality x-ray films, totalling 55 minutes of footage, compiled on CAV laserdisk. The films were contributed by C. Rochette (Université Laval), and K. Stevens and J. Perkell (M.I.T.). The subjects are 14 native speakers of Canadian English or French, reading phonetically contrastive sentences. The x-ray film database is available to researchers at no cost, with a limitation of one disk per institution. A DAT recording of the original audio tracks is also available. To cover the cost of materials and postage, there is a small fee for the DAT.

1. Munhall, K.G., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Tohkura, Y. (1994). Manual for the X-ray film database. ATR Technical Report, TR-H-116.
2. Munhall, K.G., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Tohkura, Y. (1995). X-ray Film database for speech research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 1222-1224.

About the x-ray film database:

The ATR technical report of the X-Ray Film Database can be downloaded. It includes information concerning: the production of films, the production of the videodisc, and potential applications of the videodisc. A complete transcription of films is also available.

To order the x-ray film videodisc or soundtrack, please follow this link and send e-mail to Dr. Kevin Munhall.

Many thanks to Mark for allowing our lab to use his sound and movie demonstrations of the database.

Cineradiography examples:

These sample movies were digitized from the Queen's University/ATR cineradiographic database. Copyright for the images remains with the original researchers and their institutions. Non-commercial use of the images for research purposes is unrestricted.

The movies are available in MPEG format, with accompanying AIFF audio file, or as a QuickTime movie, which includes sound. These have been subsampled and optimized to transfer quickly, at the expense of the original image quality. A full source video size (640x480) JPEG image is available for comparison purposes.

"It's ten below outside"

MPEG movie 81K
AIFF auido file 29K
JPEG image 31K
Quicktime movie 233K

This sample was taken from a movie recorded in 1974 at the Départment de Radiologie de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, Canada. Supervising the project was Dr. Claude Rochette. For information regarding the film recording technique used for this and other films, please see Rochette (1973) Les Groupes de Consonnes en Français, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec. The subject was a 26 year old male native speaker of Canadian English who attended primary school in British Columbia.

"Le boulanger but onze bières"

MPEG movie 105K
AIFF auido file 45K
JPEG image 32K
Quicktime movie 307K

This sample was taken from another Université Laval film recorded in 1974 by Dr. Rochette. The subject of this movie was a female native speaker of Canadian French.

"Why did Ken set the soggy net on top of his deck"

MPEG movie 195K
AIFF auido file 47K
JPEG image 34K
Quicktime movie 469K

This sample was taken from a movie recorded in 1962 at the cineradiographic facilty of the Wenner-Gren Research Laboratory at Nortull's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. The investigators were Drs. K. Stevens and S. Öhman. The film recording techniques are documented in detail and the film is analyzed in part in J.S. Perkell (1969) Physiology of Speech Production, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. The subject was a 38 year old male native speaker of Canadian English who attended primary school in Ontario.

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Vocoder

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Dr. Presson demonstrates this futuristic device from the '70s.

EDIT: a lot of people have written in asking what exactly my vocoder setup is. Well that's your classic Roland SVC-350, and I'm using a Kurzweil K2600 with the basic jar-of-wasps analog brass sound as the driver. The vocal mic has no pre-processing whatsoever, I just plugged it directly into the vocoder.
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