#275 Jac Holzman of Elektra Records & Opinions on Adele and Lucinda Williams
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🗓️ 4 March 2011
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Jim and Greg talk about the birth of rock and roll and the modern label system with Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman. Later in the show, they review the hit new album by British singer Adele.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Throughout its long and story in history, Electra has been one of the most adventurous |
| 0:38.1 | and diverse record companies in the music industry. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Jim Diregadas from W. B. Z and Columbia College. |
| 0:44.3 | And I'm Greg Todd from the Chicago Tribune. |
| 0:46.5 | We're going to talk to Jack Holzman who founded this pioneering independent |
| 0:49.7 | record label and we're going to review the new hit album by British soul singer Adele. |
| 0:54.4 | That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. |
| 1:00.4 | From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions. |
| 1:05.0 | And now it's time for some music news. together. We belong together. Yes, we do. You do. You can be wrong together. Yes, we do. You can be my. Oh well. We belong together. |
| 1:31.1 | That's Randy Newman with the song We Belong Together, which just recently won an Academy Award for Best Song. |
| 1:37.0 | It was from the Toy Story 3 movie. |
| 1:40.0 | Newman has been nominated 20 times for an Oscar. |
| 1:42.0 | This is only the second time he's won. Newman has been nominated 20 times for an Oscar. This is only the second time he's won. |
| 1:43.7 | Newman has gotten a lot of money and a lot of credibility from the Hollywood |
| 1:48.7 | industry and it has enabled him to continue making these really obscure but really cool pop records for the last 40 years. |
| 1:57.0 | Now he hasn't sold a lot of those records, but he's written some incredible songs, |
| 2:01.0 | sail away, Baltimore, God Song, those kind of tunes couldn't have been |
| 2:07.0 | written probably if he hadn't been making this money from Hollywood. |
| 2:10.8 | He would not been able to sustain that solo career without the revenue from Hollywood. |
| 2:13.0 | Now we're seeing a kind of momentous a sea change in the way they are awarding soundtracks. This year Trent Reznor and his partner |
| 2:24.3 | Atticus Ross won for Best Movie Soundtrack for the social network they were up |
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