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September 15, 2006

Charlie Chaplin, Master Composer!

Back in 1943, actor Charlie Chaplin, age 54, marries 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Chaplin had a habit of marrying younger women--his first three wives were also teenagers when he married them. The couple spent most of their marriage outside the United States after being denied re-entry to the United States by immigration officials in 1952. Chaplin, an English citizen, was suspected of communist ties. The couple did not return to the United States for 20 years. Instead, they settled in Switzerland, where they raised eight children.

One of Mr. Chaplin's most amazing gifts was the beautiful music he composed for his films. We tip our What's Out Next! hat to you Charlie. Sometimes to look at What's Out Next, you have to look at what came before. Every time I see Charlie Chaplin or hear his music, it simply makes me smile!

Posted by mitchsantell at 11:02 AM

September 05, 2006

Nik Venet and Bobby Darin!

Brian Wilson (left) and Nik Venet (center) at his 60th Birthday at Fairfax Market with over 200 people attending in December of 1996!

The late producer Nik Venet had an impressive list of clients he worked with in his career including the Beach Boys, Tommy Sands, Jim Croce, Lou Rawls,Linda Ronstadt, Glen Campbell, and The Letterman. He had produced over 300 albums in his legendary career which spanned four decades. When asked in a interview who his favorite person to work with was, Mr Venet responded "Bobby Darin".

Nik and Bobby became friends when they were both at the Brill building in New York, sharing cramped office space.They worked together at Capitol records in LA when Nik produced him, the first being the single "If A Man Answers." Venet also produced Bobby Albums "You're The Reason I'm Living" and "Golden Folk Hits".

In an interview with WBAI radio New York in 1995, Nik was quoted as saying that Bobby Darin was "an amazing human being...a man of great talents, many many talents." He also said of Darin: "one of his careers was more than any artist would want today...he had three, four careers going at the same time..he was adventurous...Darin did it when nobody else was doing it, he crossed borders." Speaking of their time working in the studio together he said, "Nothing ever went wrong in the studio,we could do a bad cut and have a great time, we would redo it and have a better time." Of Bobbys multifaceted career,Venet said that Darin "baffled everybody, he always came out on top...he would take failure and study it, found out what went wrong,redo it and turn in into a win..nothing was ever lost on Darin...everything he did he honestly believed in....he did it all and he did it from the heart."

Mr. Venet was often quoted as saying "I think about Bobby once a day every day."As a tribute to Darins legacy, Nik, along with Dodd Darin and Jeff Bleiel were instrumental in bringing the Rhino Bobby Darin Box set "As Long As I'm Singing" to life,and Venet was still actively producing with his own Evening Star Records company.

Mr. Venet died of complications of Burkitts syndrome on January 2, 1998,but had never stopped working up until his last hospital stay. He still maintained a close relationship with Dodd (who spoke at "A Celebration Of Nik Venets Life" a memorial service held at The National Academy of Recordings Arts and Sciences a couple of days after his death.)

At What’s Out Next we tip our hat off to both Nik and Bobby! I should know because prior to hosting What’s Out Next, I partnered with Nik Venet to launch his last label in 1996, Evening Star! All I can say is take a bath!

Posted by mitchsantell at 12:42 PM

September 01, 2006

BlogPulse Gets It Right!

BlogPulse is an amazing web site that opens up the world of Blogs to all of us. According to the Wikipedia entry for blog, "A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage."

What is BlogPulse? BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Intelliseek.

At What's Out Next here is what we discovered, ready? BlogPulse is a search engine for blogs, BlogPulse.com is a portal into the world of blogs. BlogPulse.com features the following: a Search Engine for blogs, a set of analysis tools that are applied to blog content daily, a fun look at real-world trends as reflected through blogs, and a showcase, which brings together some amazing tools! While we are always on the look out for the coolest music, technology and buzz, BlogPulse has some amazing tools that you will love. We do.

Now here are some numbers for you! In the past 24 hours BlogPulse identified 12,009,072 blogs. In the past 24 hours 50,060 new blogs were started and BlogPulse indexed over 359,622 posts in the past day.

All we can say is is their tools are a beautiful soul!

Posted by mitchsantell at 05:07 PM