CAN WE JUST STOP AND TALK

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                    [Title] => Play & sing the music of Jose Mari Chan
                    [Summary] => A song is not a song if it has ceased to be performed, is not heard anymore and is doomed to oblivion. I do understand a songwriter’s resistance to the use of his songs in some instances. He does not like the new arrangement or the way the artist will do it or he wants more by way of royalty payments. But there is really no reason to withhold the use of one’s works for a selfish reason like not wanting other artists to sing your song. An unheard song is a dead song.
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                    [Title] => New faces on the Pinoy rap scene
                    [Summary] => Thanks most probably to the huge success of Salbakuta’s S2PID Luv, interest in rap music is again at an all-time high. There is a continued flow of albums from established Pinoy rappers like Andrew E. (Porno Daw), comeback bids from other rap acts like BB Clan with Bonafide Bastards and new artists like L. Smith. They have surfaced to inject new blood into the genre and render it more viable for the local music industry. Here are some of the most interesting among the new releases.


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                    [Title] => The Eraserheads faces another future
                    [Summary] => Ely Buendia has left the Eraserheads. If you must know, he wrote most of the songs popularized by the most successful rock group of the previous decade. Such departures among members of music groups though, are considered inevitable so the fact that Buendia has indeed left to be on his own is really no big deal. Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls. Even the Jackson Five parted ways and they are not only friends. They are brothers!
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                    [Title] => The old and the new from Joe Mari
                    [Summary] => "The songs we sang had melody," says Jose Mari Chan in the lyrics of his composition A Day in the Life of a Song, one of the cuts in the album A Heart’s Journey. It is one of his new compositions but it is made up of the titles of 26 tunes popularized by the Beatles during the ’60s. Like many who grew up during that period, I believe his music career derives a lot of influence and inspiration from that Fabulous Four. To this day, no other group or solo act exemplifies the timeless quality of pop music better than the Beatles.


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                    [Title] => Gary V. and Kyla’s duet a hit
                    [Summary] => This bit of good news just proves that a beautiful song will always appeal to listeners no matter what the times and no matter how old a song is as long as it gets the right new treatment. Can We Just Stop and Talk a While is a hit again. The song composed and originally interpreted by Jose Mari Chan was a phenomenal seller way back during the mid-’70s.
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Play & sing the music of Jose Mari Chan

By Baby A. Gil | September 24, 2003 - 12:00am

A song is not a song if it has ceased to be performed, is not heard anymore and is doomed to oblivion. I do understand a songwriter’s resistance to the use of his songs in some instances. He does not like the...

Entertainment

New faces on the Pinoy rap scene

By Baby A. Gil | June 5, 2002 - 12:00am

Thanks most probably to the huge success of Salbakuta’s S2PID Luv, interest in rap music is again at an all-time high. There is a continued flow of albums from established Pinoy rappers like Andrew E. (Porno...

Entertainment

The Eraserheads faces another future

By Baby A. Gil | April 17, 2002 - 12:00am

Ely Buendia has left the Eraserheads. If you must know, he wrote most of the songs popularized by the most successful rock group of the previous decade. Such departures among members of music groups though, are considered...

Entertainment

The old and the new from Joe Mari

By Baby A. Gil | April 10, 2002 - 12:00am

"The songs we sang had melody," says Jose Mari Chan in the lyrics of his composition A Day in the Life of a Song, one of the cuts in the album A Heart’s Journey. It is one of his new compositions but...

Entertainment

Gary V. and Kyla’s duet a hit

By Baby A. Gil | April 3, 2002 - 12:00am

This bit of good news just proves that a beautiful song will always appeal to listeners no matter what the times and no matter how old a song is as long as it gets the right new treatment. Can We Just Stop and Talk...

Entertainment