Arti 's proceed to
be donated to UNCF
y
B YO NY - Prince and
tbe N.P.G. rtlea cd -M01Iey
DoII't Matter 2 Night, - the ne
ingle from multi-platinum
Dit"nolld alld Pearls d k,
Mueb3rd.
"Money" i the fifth Single
from the current album, and the
6rst to be rete since Prince
e tabUsbed a ric Billboard
record by charting a Top 10 bit
on the Hot 100 for ten consecu­
tive years.
All of the arti t' proceeds
from sales of the Ingle ill be
donated to the United Negro
College FUnd.
The ceo mpanyln music video for the trac w directed by
Spite Lee, and f�tru footage he hot in Cairo, Soweto and
Brooklyn of poor families' struggling through difficult economic
times.
Prince will not appear in the video, which is also expected to
include archival footage of the Oreat Depression. Lee and Prince
had been planning their collaboration on this project since lut
ummer.
PUBLIC'
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his time if he wasn't serious," J.R.
add . Job en ed their natural
talents needed professional
guidance, and put an offer on the
table. One week la�r he became
,their maDll&er .. � .. , ". .
: . S:#sSl�g P &ie:flce,l JpUne,
and hard work, �ob invested In the.
group. He purchased high-tech
equipment and put them in a loft in
Buffalo where they worked at writ­
ing songs, refining their skills
musicians, and learning the do's
and don'ts of the music bush.e .
The woods bedding proces lasted a
year and a half,
JOE PYBllC
The group's name, Jo Public,
evolved during this period. Dew
explains: "We were sitting in .R.'s
house and one of the guys s8id it
would be cool if we all were nari1ed
Joe and our last name was Public.
See, J.R. and Jake's actual nam
are Joe. I looked up the word
'public' in the dictionary and it said
'to serve the public.' We looked at
each other and s id 'Joe Public,'
yeah that's dope! And u's definite­
Jy different."
"Everyday we rehearsed for 8 to
12 hours, just shedding ourselves,"
says Jake. "It was rough," J.R. con­
tinues. "V!e were used to playing
gigs and Lionel said 'no, you guys
need to do your homework first.'
We realized that many of the songs
we had. written were garbage.
Lionel would always have us go
back and re-write them."
Job agrees the year and a half the
group spent in relative hibernation
was rough for both partie . "It was
a fight. I used all of my experiences
with them. They were young and
felt they were ready for the big
time. But they did take my advice. "
. "LIVE AND LEARNII
During the latter part of 1990
the group presented Job with "Live
and Learn." "They' had a lot of
songs," Job remembers.' "Once I
b� that tune, I knew they were
ready to come do n to my studio."
.As 1990 spilled into 1991, Joe
Public wa working even day a
week in Job's recording studio-iii
White Plains, New York, penning
a batch of new songs that are now
part of their debut album. The e
include." GOJIQ IJww." "1 Miss
You," -I tUce It, - anil 1Itis One's
For You." "My whole idea was to
bring them into the studio and give
them even more direction," says
Job.
In February, he took ihem to a
benefit show at the Bottom Une in
New York City. "Raw talent per-
. formed that night and it blew the
guys' minds. They toot everything
in and aid 'we want to be where
these people are' ," recalls Job.
Eager to hop the group's demo
to record labels, Job sent four or
five songs on a tape marked "this is
a live band" to Columbia Records,
who dispatched an A4R man to the .
studio to view the band up close; he
w "totally blown away by the
group," he later said.
Joe Public and Columbia
negotiated a deal by the end of
March. Although the contract was
agrecs.d upon and signed with rela­
tive ease, the group ha continued
working in Job's studio. "We never
let up," say Kev. "We're always
writing and practicing because we
want to stay on top of what's hap­
pening, and we want to be better
than what's out there now." J.R.
agrees: "We've produced so much
material that we didn't know what
to put on' the album. As a matter of
fact, we're ready to start work on
our second album."
JOE PUBLIC i music with a
live attitude. Refre hingly innova­
tive but also rooted in the tradition
of American popular music, the
group's sound is top 40 R&B with
a stree't appeal. Or as Jake RUts it,
smiling, "It's a hip-hop/new jack
tltang done in a different way. Our
music is something new going b ck
to the basics."
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Where You Coine From
Has A' Lot Th Do With
Where You're Going,
Chuck Morrison
Vice President, African·American and
Hispanic Consumer Marketing.
The Coca-Cola Company.
After graduating from college, Chuck Morrison
took his degree and "hit the ground running."
Thday, he looks back with pride on a career
that has taken him from the classrooms of
, '
Bishop College to th boardroom of Coca-Cola
USA.
Vice President, African-American and
Hispanic Marketing, Chuck supervises the
d elopment of adv rtising and strategi
planning for thes important markets. Under
his guidance, these segments hay
significantly increased their impact on Coca­
Cola profitability and growth. IndividuaJly, he
has b n hon red for his many civi
contributi ns.
But Morrison is qui k to point out, "With ut
a coli g education, I would n ver hay
njoyed as much good fortun . It just that
simple"
W've har d d ply in Chu k' "good (i rtune"
For that, Coca-Cola ay .. 0
Thank You,
Bishop College.