Rebirth in America

Alex found Dr. Shockley and asked for some diodes. He was going to make a radio, one that didn't use tubes. He is still using Shockley's puppet and has the skills copied from Shockley. It is very easy to modify a radio.

While Alex was busy, Bart suddenly called the whole family together and said that he had something to announce.

"We're moving!" Bart said loudly to his family.

"Really? Where are we moving to?" The most excited person was Richard. After he experienced the last accident, he no longer wanted to encounter mental illness breaking into his home.

Bart looked at Angel and then said to the Carpenters, "New York! We're moving to New York!"

New York! This city has a different image in everyone's mind.

There is a classic line in a Chinese TV series in later generations: "If you love him, send him to New York, because that is heaven; if you hate him, send him to New York, because that is hell."

Indeed, New York is a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor.

Nowadays, although the Carpenter family is not very rich, they can be considered to have escaped from the ranks of poor families and entered the middle-class family class in the United States.

The person who brought about all these changes was Alex, a person who shouldn't exist. According to the original trajectory, at least it would have to wait until the late 1960s, when Alex's sister Karen grew up, and then formed a band with Richard, and finally changed the situation of the Carpenter family.

Now, under Alex's influence, the Carpenter family's financial situation has been greatly improved.

The money earned by the Carpenter brothers from recording albums has always been under the supervision of their parents. Even if Alex doesn't know the specific data, he can roughly estimate that the family currently has nearly 1 million in cash. During this time, money for records and books continued to come in.

This one million US dollars was already a huge sum of money in the United States in the 1950s!

With so much cash, the Carpenters have been able to live a carefree life for the past few years. This year's royalties from records and novels are still being paid in. In the foreseeable future, as long as the Carpenters can still sing, they don't have to worry about money.

A few days later, Bart and Angel took them to see the new address. It was an apartment not far from Central Park, with a total size of several hundred square meters.

The building where this apartment is located is called the Dakota Towers and has been built for many years, probably before the Great Depression. Skyscrapers in the United States are not like houses in some countries, which are built in units of hundreds of years, while houses in some countries are built in units of ten years.

Alex didn't know much about housing prices in New York, nor did he know how much a house in this era was worth. However, it is inferred from Bart's words that this house cost a lot, and since it was a one-time payment, it was bought quickly.

The people living in the same building are basically senior managers of large companies near the center of New York. They have to buy a house in New York City because of their work.

According to Alex's observation, some people still own real estate in the suburbs of New York City, but they have to take a train or bus back, so they buy a house here for convenience.

The new house is big enough that everyone can get a room, and a guest room is reserved.

When Alex is not recording records, he will take his family for a walk in Central Park. The environment here is very good, and I feel much better every time I go shopping.

Central Park is known as the "back garden" of New York. It is surrounded by 59th Street (59th St.), 110th Street (110th St.), 5th Road (5th Ave.), and Central Park West. Central Park is truly located in New York. The center of Manhattan Island.

This is not only a leisure place for New Yorkers, but also a popular tourist destination for tourists from all over the world.

After journalist William Bryant launched a park construction campaign in the New York Post in 1850, two landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calbert Vaux, built the park in 1856.

Central Park is located in the middle of Manhattan where skyscrapers stand, covering an area of ​​843 acres (about 5,000 acres). It is the largest urban park in New York and the first park in New York to be established entirely based on landscape design principles.

It is a completely artificial natural landscape with acres of light green grassland, a small forest with lush trees, a courtyard, an ice rink, a merry-go-round, an amphitheater, two small zoos, a lake for boating, tennis courts, sports fields, and art Pavilion and so on.

Alex's favorite place to go is the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. It and the Fountain Square are located between the lake and the tree-lined area, and are the core of Central Park.

The fountain was built in 1873 to commemorate the soldiers who died at sea during the Civil War. The four statues surrounding the fountain represent "temperance", "purity", "health" and "peace" respectively. Groups of swans often swim in this pool, and many tourists row boats in the lake.

In the later American TV series "Gossip Girl", the heroine Blair Waldorf liked to hang out around this fountain. After Alex saw it at that time, he really wanted to see this place in person, but he never had the chance. Unexpectedly, after death and rebirth in the United States, I had the opportunity to come here.

Perhaps because of the move, the recording work suddenly came to a halt. At this time, they were recording their third album. The first two albums were already on the market and were selling well. The company's marketing department was confident in the Carpenters' record sales, and they expected the third album to be completed as soon as possible.

After settling down, recording began again. This time they were fast and recorded perfectly. Soon, the Carpenter Brothers' new record was released, their third.

Compared with their previous two records, this album has another change in style. Traces of rock music still exist, but the path they took is completely different from the rock music of this era. They took a warm and gentle music route.

Alex came up with two "original" songs this time, both of which were songs by Declan Galbraith, a prodigy who would later be called a singing prodigy.

This guy is also a genius. He has shown his singing talent since he was 4 years old, and won the grand prize in various singing competitions when he was 8 years old. When he was 9 years old, several record companies were vying to sign with him. In the end, EMI signed a three-year contract with him for more than one million pounds, thereby gaining the right to release three records.

These two songs, namely "Mama Said" and "An Angel", were both songs released by Declan when he was 9 years old. Richard and Alex each chose one to sing. They put a lot of effort into these two songs and performed them perfectly. Although limited by the equipment conditions and personnel levels at the time, they had achieved the ultimate of the times.

"It's incredible! Alex, these two songs of yours are so beautiful." When Mark heard Alex's new song, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

Not only Mark thinks so, but other people immediately liked these two songs after listening to them once, and thought they could be used as the main song.

"It will definitely be at the top of last week's list!" they all said after hearing this.

Whether it is Richard's song "Mama Said" or Alex's song "An Angel", people can always feel the faint sadness in their hearts.

To be fair, Richard's voice is more suitable for this kind of song. Alex's voice is slightly worse without using "analog memory". In addition, Alex is not as focused on singing as Richard, so there is no Perform to the level you deserve.

As soon as these two songs were released, their singles chart immediately climbed to the first and second places on Billboard (Billboard) this week. In particular, Richard’s song “Mother Said” has been suppressed by Alex’s “An Angel”. It wasn't until the third week that Alex won the first place, but he was quickly suppressed by other new songs.

Billboard is a vane of American pop music. At first it was just a monthly magazine with only 8 pages. Its content mainly focused on major events, carnivals, entertainment, and performances in Ohio.

In 1897, after Donaldson purchased the shares, the monthly magazine was transformed into a weekly magazine, and the content pages of the magazine gradually became entertainment: adding news and advertisements from the recording industry, movie introductions, song reviews, column sections, etc.

It was not until 1923 that "Billboard" published its first list of "the top ten best-selling pop songs of the past week", becoming the first magazine to have a list.

By 1935, a new pattern appeared, that is, the radio station arranged a weekly broadcast program. "Ten Most Popular Songs of the Week" (Hitparade). UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.net This is based on the weekly sales figures of the highest-selling songs announced by publishing houses and record companies and the number of times each song is played on a Jukebox (a machine that puts a coin in and it starts singing). of. This program has been running for decades. Later, the TV station took over the program.

In the 1940s and 1950s, "Billboard" made adjustments and focused on launching lists such as the most played songs on jukeboxes, the most played songs by radio DJs, the album sales list, and the single sales list. These lists have been The list format is very similar to today's "Billboard", and the magazine itself has become a professional pop music ranking magazine.

Sales of the Carpenter Brothers' new records continued to increase, making people in the company overjoyed. The company has more and more employees and the office conditions are getting better and better.

Rudy felt that his original decision was extremely wise. He knew that if he did not have the Carpenter brothers, he would definitely be saddled with huge debts and never be able to recover. On the contrary, for Alex and others, they would become popular singers with or without 90% of the shares of "Teana" company. The only difference is that you earn more and earn less.

Now that the company has the Carpenter brothers as a cash cow, it will be able to develop into a big company sooner or later. The money earned by the company now can pay off half of the debt. If a few more best-selling records are released, the company will soon make a profit, and the year-end dividend will be very considerable. As an owner of 10% of the shares, he has already entered the ranks of the rich. Thinking of this, Rudy laughed in his dreams.

Rudy is happy about making a lot of money, but the Carpenters are worried about making a lot of money. After making so much money all at once, the taxes I have to pay are not small.