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From Billboard... (More at SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMau.news.yahoo.com/041009/11/r54b.html, but this is all there is about Reege...)
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It was the '90s, which meant Kathie Lee Gifford was omnipresent: magazine covers, prime-time TV specials, album releases and, of course, her morning show, "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee."
She and co-host Regis Philbin did a musical review in Las SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM at the same time that the Video Software Dealers Assn. was meeting for its annual convention in that city.
I met Gifford at a party that was promoting an exercise video she was bringing to market and discovered two things about the woman, who was arguably America's sweetheart at that moment: She could be an utter and charming flirt, and she and her TV partner competed intensely with each other.
She leaned into my ear and asked me about a fitness video that Philbin had done. "Regis' video never charted, did it," she said, more as an observation than a question. Indeed, Philbin never did dent our Top Video Sales and Health & Fitness Video charts, but neither would Gifford.
She had more success as a recording artist, placing four albums on Top Heatseekers, including two No. 1s. Philbin teased her on-air when her 1993 album, "Sentimental," competed with White Zombie.
Still, for all her exposure, Gifford never reached the top half of the Billboard 200, even with her 2000 pop album "Heart of a Woman," a high priority for Universal Music Group chairman Doug Morris that she eagerly promoted.
But it looks like Philbin has the last laugh. Not only has his TV show thrived since America's new sweetheart, Kelly Ripa, replaced Gifford, but now the frequent "Late Show With David Letterman" guest has outsold his old partner at music stores, too.
His collection of standards, "When You're Smiling," enters at No. 54, beating by far Gifford's career peak of No. 108.
Philbin's album was launched with a direct-sales effort on TV, but those transactions account for only about 2,000 of the title's 20,500-unit opener.
Philbin's is one of several adult-leaning albums that enter the big chart. Aside from the aforementioned Queen Latifah, in which the rapper-turned-singer engages standards and pop songs, the mature brigade includes Barry Manilow (No. 47); Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. (No. 49); Phil Collins (No. 51); Chris Botti (No. 124); Sarah Brightman (No. 126); Yo-Yo Ma (No. 172); and the O'Jays (No. 193).
From Billboard... (More at SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMau.news.yahoo.com/041009/11/r54b.html, but this is all there is about Reege...)
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PK
REGIS SMILES
It was the '90s, which meant Kathie Lee Gifford was omnipresent: magazine covers, prime-time TV specials, album releases and, of course, her morning show, "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee."
She and co-host Regis Philbin did a musical review in Las SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM at the same time that the Video Software Dealers Assn. was meeting for its annual convention in that city.
I met Gifford at a party that was promoting an exercise video she was bringing to market and discovered two things about the woman, who was arguably America's sweetheart at that moment: She could be an utter and charming flirt, and she and her TV partner competed intensely with each other.
She leaned into my ear and asked me about a fitness video that Philbin had done. "Regis' video never charted, did it," she said, more as an observation than a question. Indeed, Philbin never did dent our Top Video Sales and Health & Fitness Video charts, but neither would Gifford.
She had more success as a recording artist, placing four albums on Top Heatseekers, including two No. 1s. Philbin teased her on-air when her 1993 album, "Sentimental," competed with White Zombie.
Still, for all her exposure, Gifford never reached the top half of the Billboard 200, even with her 2000 pop album "Heart of a Woman," a high priority for Universal Music Group chairman Doug Morris that she eagerly promoted.
But it looks like Philbin has the last laugh. Not only has his TV show thrived since America's new sweetheart, Kelly Ripa, replaced Gifford, but now the frequent "Late Show With David Letterman" guest has outsold his old partner at music stores, too.
His collection of standards, "When You're Smiling," enters at No. 54, beating by far Gifford's career peak of No. 108.
Philbin's album was launched with a direct-sales effort on TV, but those transactions account for only about 2,000 of the title's 20,500-unit opener.
Philbin's is one of several adult-leaning albums that enter the big chart. Aside from the aforementioned Queen Latifah, in which the rapper-turned-singer engages standards and pop songs, the mature brigade includes Barry Manilow (No. 47); Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. (No. 49); Phil Collins (No. 51); Chris Botti (No. 124); Sarah Brightman (No. 126); Yo-Yo Ma (No. 172); and the O'Jays (No. 193).