Jackson Browne sues McCain, RNC over song in ad

LOS ANGELES - Jackson Browne doesn�t want John McCain running on anything fueled by his lyrics.

The singer-songwriter sued McCain and the Ohio and national Republican committees in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, accusive them of using his song "Running on Empty" without his permission.

The causa claims the song�s employment was an infringement of his right of first publication and volition lead the great unwashed to close he endorses McCain. The suit says Browne is a womb-to-tomb liberal world Health Organization is as well-known for his music as for being "an advocate for social and environmental justice."

The advertisement mocks Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama�s contention that if U.S. drivers got even tuneups and drove on properly high-sounding tires, they could pull through the same amount of oil that would be gained by offshore drilling. According to the suit, "Running on Empty" plays in the background of the ad criticizing the remarks.

Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio party, said the ad was pulled when Browne objected. He called the lawsuit a "big flutter about nothing."

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers disavowed the ad, saying it wasn�t a product of the Republican presidential candidate�s campaign.

Browne�s lawsuit contends the Ohio Republican party released the ad on behalf of McCain and the RNC. The RNC did not bring back a telephone call seeking comment.

The suit notes that other musicians, including ABBA and John Cougar Mellencamp, have asked McCain to stop victimisation their work.

Browne�s attorney, Lawrence Iser, called the ad�s use of the song dynasty "reprehensible."

The 59-year-old singer claims his reputation has already been damaged and is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.

Browne released "Running on Empty" � the song and an album by the same name � in 1977. According to the suit, the album has sold more than 7 meg copies.

Browne�s fiscal success has aided Democratic candidates over the eld. Campaign finance records show he contributed $2,ccc to Obama�s presidential hunting expedition last year and $2,000 to the Illinois senator�s campaign coffers in 2004.

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Fired Philadelphia newscaster sues former employer

PHILADELPHIA —

A fired Philadelphia newscaster sued her former employer Thursday, alleging that the television station maliciously damaged her reputation and contributed to a number of her embarrassing off-camera episodes.

Alycia Lane sued KYW-TV in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, alleging the station and its management deliberately got her personal life into the news in order to get free publicity. She is seeking unspecified damages.

A KWY spokeswoman told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the station has not seen the complaint and had no comment. A call by The Associated Press seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Lane was fired in January, a month after being arrested in New York City following a late-night scuffle with plainclothes police. In her lawsuit, she said she believed she was witnessing an assault on her boyfriend.

The lawsuit says the station told Lane to interview TV psychologist Phil McGraw in 2004 and suggested that she talk about some of her past relationships. She said she understood that inappropriate personal elements would be removed and was mortified when footage of her crying about her divorce was included. She said that she did not want to appear on McGraw's show a second time, but that the station ordered her to do so.

The suit says that because of those decisions, Lane "was branded in the press as someone who sought to make herself the news, rather than to merely report the news."

Lane was also previously the target of critical news coverage after it was reported she had e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to married NFL Network sports anchor Rich Eisen.

She said in the lawsuit that she sent the photo to Eisen because they were curious about whether someone else in the picture had met him.

Lane's suit also alleges that the station's management had a pattern of "deep-seated gender-discriminatory animus" toward female employees.

Lane's former co-anchor, Larry Mendte, isn't listed as a defendant. The FBI searched his home and removed a computer last month following allegations that someone might be reading Lane's e-mail messages.

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Mildred Bailey

   
Artist: Mildred Bailey

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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 Collection (Boogie Woogie)

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An early jazz vocaliser with a sweet representative that belied her fill out physique, Mildred Bailey balanced a good deal of popular success with a hot jazz-slanted calling that proverb her billed as Mrs. Swing (her married man, Red Norvo, was Mr. Swing). Born Mildred Rinker in Washington land in 1907, Bailey began performing at an early age, playing forte-piano and vocalizing in moving-picture show theaters during the early '20s. By 1925, she was the headlining move at a golf-club in Hollywood, doing a mixture of bulge out, early jazz tunes, and vaudeville standards. Influenced by Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Connie Boswell, she highly-developed a soft, swing delivery that pleased all kinds of nightspot audiences in the field. After sending a presentment disk in to Paul Whiteman in 1929, she gained a pip with one of the to the highest degree popular dance orchestras of the day.


The added exposure with Whiteman before long gave Bailey her possess receiving set plan. She had already debuted on a transcription day of the month with guitar player Eddie Lang in 1929, but in 1932 she gained celebrity by recording what became her signature song, "Rockin' Chair" -- written peculiarly for her by Hoagie Carmichael -- with a Whiteman little radical. Recording for Vocalion during the 1930s, Bailey often utilised her husband, xylophonist Red Norvo. She as well appeared on his recordings of the late '30s, and the arrangements of Eddie Sauter proven a unadulterated co-occurrence to her vocals.


Though she and Norvo later divorced, Bailey continued to execute and record during the 1940s. She appeared on Benny Goodman's Camel Caravan radio programme, and gained her possess series again during the mid-'40s. Hampered by health problems during the late '40s, she fagged time in the hospital hurt from diabetes and died of a heart approach in 1951.





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MANGoA

   
Artist: MANGoA

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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 Spritiual Travelling 4

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1

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Lollies

   
Artist: Lollies

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Lollywood

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16

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Pop ne'er dies, it simply finds diverse sport forms to mutate into. The Lollies embracing that special principle, tackling everything from fille group back talk to Britpop caustic remark and distilling it through wickedly funny lyrics and self-described "indie sugary" sound. Born and raised in London, the grouping came into being at the start of 1999 when two expatriates, Canadian bassist/singer Jane Mountain and American guitarist/singer Kate St. Claire, woke up with hangovers from a New Year's Eve party and a call scripted. Initial demo recordings for what the two initially mentation of as a everyday jest attracted interest from likewise minded label and band types, resulting in a total band card when some other expatriate, Canadian drummer Matthew Lazowski, stepped up in late summer 1999. Keyboardist Rachel Angel, the one English member of the grouping, joined with only when a week ahead the band's first real gig, having come to interview the band and then invited to hang around for good. The band made its first famed splashes in 2000 with a variety of gigs (including some dates in America and Canada) and a full debut EP, Bang! Bang! Bang! Lookout, Lookout, Lookout!

Madonna - Bust-up With Pharrell Made Madonna Cry

MADONNA wept with rage after an angry studio bust-up with producer PHARRELL WILLIAMS.

The pair clashed while collaborating on Madonna's new album Hard Candy - and the Material Girl was shocked Williams was brave enough to stand up to her.

She reveals, "Pharrell made me cry. You know when you get angry with someone and you're spitting snot.

"I was in a sensitive mood in the studio and I didn't understand the rhythm he wanted me to sing in, and he was giving me a hard time.

"I was taken back by how he was talking to me."

Rather than walk away, the pair decided to clear the air, and patch things up - and they are now firm friends.

She adds, "We went upstairs and I said, 'You can't talk to me like that,' and burst into tears. And he said, 'Oh my God, Madonna has a heart.'

"We had it out and now I love him and we make great music together."

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Simpson set to make country record

Jessica Simpson has moved to Nashville to begin work on her first country album.
Speaking to Billboard.com about her decision to record a country album, Simpson said: "I am a country girl. I grew up in Texas, and country music was what I listened to. I always wanted to make a country album, but I wanted to wait until the time was right."
Simpson said that some of her musical inspirations were Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire and Martina McBride.
"I think there is a strength in female country artists," she said.
When asked what had surprised her most since moving to Nashville to begin work on the album, Simpson said: "Nashville is a very warm city. The people are friendly and kind. There is a sense of community, which thrives on music. There is no animosity ... only respect for one another's talent."
The album is due out later this year on the Columbia Nashville label.