Reborn in America

Chapter 41: Moving to New York

Alex approached Dr. Shockley and asked for some diodes. He plans to make a radio, a radio that does not use tubes. He is still using Shockley's doll, with skills copied from Shockley, it is very easy to transform a radio.

While Alex was busy, Bart suddenly called the family together and said that there was something to be announced.

"We are moving!" Bart said loudly to his family.

"Really? Where are we going to move?" Richard was the most excited. After experiencing the last accident, he didn't want to encounter mental illness breaking into his home.

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

new York! The image of this city in everyone's mind is different.

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

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

Today, the Carpenters family, although not rich or wealthy, can be regarded as breaking away from the ranks of the poor and entering the middle class in the United States.

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

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

The money made by the Carpenter brothers from recording records has always been under the supervision of their parents. Even if Alex does not know the specific data, he can roughly estimate that the current family cash should be about 1 million. During this period of time, money for records and books continued to be collected.

This $1 million was a huge sum of money in the United States in the 1950s!

With so much cash, the Carpenter family can live a carefree life in recent years. The copyright tax on records and novels this year is still being credited one after another. In the foreseeable future, as long as the Carpenters can sing, they will not have to worry about money.

A few days later, Bart and Angel took them to see their new address. It was an apartment located 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 Building, which has been built for many years, and it should have been built before the Great Depression. American skyscrapers are not like houses in some countries. They are built in units of a hundred years, while houses in some countries are in units of ten years.

Alex doesn't know much about housing prices in New York, nor does he know how much houses are worth in this era. But from Bart’s words, it was speculated that this house was also expensive, and because it was a one-time payment of the house, it was quickly taken down.

The people who live 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 have real estate in the suburbs of New York City, but they have to go back by train or car, so they buy a house here for convenience.

The new house is large enough for everyone to be assigned to a house, and one guest room is reserved.

Apart from recording records, Alex would take his family to take a walk in Central Park. The environment here is very good, every time after shopping, the mood will be much better.

Central Park is known as the "Back Garden" of New York. It is surrounded by 59th Street, 110th Street, 5th Road, and Central Park West Road. Central Park is literally located in the middle of Manhattan Island, New York.

This is not only a recreational 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, Fredericklawolmsted and Calbertvaux, built the park in 1856.

Central Park is located in the middle of Manhattan with skyscrapers. It covers 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 built entirely on the principles of landscape architecture.

It is a completely man-made natural landscape, with light green acres of grass, lush forests, courtyards, ice rinks, carousel, open-air theater, two small zoos, lakes, tennis courts, sports fields, and fine arts. Pavilion and so on.

Alex’s favorite place to go is the Besda Fountain in Central Park. It and the Fountain Square are located between the lake and the trees, and are the core of the Central Park.

The fountain was built in 1873 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the sea during the Civil War. The four statues surrounding the fountain represent "temperance", "purity", "health" and "peace." There are often swans in this pool, and there are also many tourists rowing in the lake.

In the later American drama "Gossip Girl", the heroine Blair Wodoff likes to wander around this fountain most. After seeing it at the time, Alex wanted to see this place in person, but he never had a chance. Unexpectedly, after he died, he was reborn in the United States, and then he had a chance to come here.

Perhaps because of the move, the recording of the record came to a halt. At this time they are recording their third record, the first two records are already on the market, sales are very good. The company's marketing department is very confident in the Carpenter Brothers' record sales, and they look forward to the completion of the third record as soon as possible.

After settling down, the record recording work resumed. This time they were fast and recorded perfectly. Soon, the Carpenter brothers' new record was released, and this was their third record.

Compared with their previous two records, this record has changed its style. The traces of rock music still exist, but their path is completely different from that of rock music of this era. They follow a tender and soft music route.

This time, Alex took out two "original" songs in one breath, both of which were the songs of Diklan Galbraith, a prodigy who can be called a singing wizard in later generations.

This guy is also a genius. He has shown his singing talent since he was 4 years old, and won 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 (EMI) signed with him for more than one million pounds for three years to obtain the right to release three records.

These two songs, "A Mother Says" and "An Angel", were both songs released by Declan when he was 9 years old. Richard and Alex each chose a song to sing. They have spent a lot of effort on these two songs and performed them perfectly. Although limited to the equipment conditions and the level of personnel at the time, they have achieved the best of the times.

"It's incredible! Alex, your two songs are really beautiful." When Mark heard Alex's new work, he was so excited that he could not control himself.

Not only Mark thinks so, but everyone else just listens to these two songs once, and they immediately like them and think they can be the main songs.

"Absolutely to be the top of last week's list!" After listening, they said one after another.

Whether it's in Richard's "A Mother Says" or in Alex's "An Angel", people can always feel the faint sadness in their hearts.

In all fairness, Richard’s voice is more suitable for this type of song. Alex is a bit worse without using "simulated memory". In addition, Alex is not as focused on singing as Richard, so there is no Play to the level it should be.

As soon as these two songs were released, their singles charts immediately climbed to No. 1 and No. 2 on the billboard this week. Especially Richard's "Mother Says" has been pressing against Alex's "An Angel". It was not until the third week that Alex won the first place, and was soon suppressed by other new songs.

The bulletin board is a weather vane of American popular music. At first, it was only a monthly magazine with only 8 pages. The content mainly focused on major events, carnivals, entertainment, and performances in Ohio.

In 1897, after being purchased by Donaldson, the monthly magazine was turned into a weekly magazine, and the magazine content pages were gradually entertained: news and advertisements in the recording industry, movie introductions, song reviews, special columns, etc. were added.

It wasn't until 1923 that "Billboard" appeared on its first list of "last week's top ten best-selling pop songs", becoming the first magazine to have a ranking.

In 1935, a new trick appeared, that is, the radio station arranged a broadcast program once a week. "Ten of the most popular songs every week" (hitparade). This is based on the number of songs with the highest sales volume every week announced by publishers and record companies, and the number of times each song played on an automatic gramophone (jukebox, a machine that sings when you throw a coin in). This show has continued for decades. Later, the TV station took over the show.

In the 1940s and 1950s, "Billboard" made adjustments and focused on launching charts such as the most frequently played songs of jukeboxes, the most frequently played songs of radio djs, the album sales charts, and the single sales charts. It is very similar to the current "Billboard" list format, and the magazine itself has become a professional pop music ranking magazine.

The sales volume of Carpenter Brothers' new records continued to increase, which made the company's people overjoyed. There are more and more staff in the company, and office conditions are getting better and better.

Rudy even felt that his original decision was extremely wise. He knew that if he hadn't had the Carpenter brothers, he would definitely carry a huge debt and never stand up. On the contrary, for Alex and the others, whether 90% of the shares of the "Teana" company will become a popular singer. The difference is just earning more and earning less.

Now that the company has the Carpenter brothers as a cash cow, sooner or later it will be able to develop into a large company. Now the company has earned money to pay off half of its debt. If a few more best-selling records are released, the company will soon be profitable, and the year-end dividend will be very substantial. As a 10% shareholder, he has already entered the ranks of the rich. Thinking of this, Rudy laughed in his dreams.

Rudy is happy to make a lot of money, but the Carpenters are worried about making a lot of money. After making so much money at once, the taxes to be paid are not small.