Alex approached Dr. Shockley and asked for some diodes. He was going to make a radio, a radio that didn't use tubes. He still uses Shockley's puppet, and with skills copied from Shockley, it's easy to modify a radio.

While Alex was busy, Bart suddenly gathered the family together and said that there was something to announce.

"We're moving!" Bart said loudly to his family.

"Really? Where are we moving to? "The most excited thing is Richard, who doesn't want to have a psychotic break into his house since the last accident.

Bart looked at Angel and then said to the Carpenter brothers, "New York! We're moving to New York! “

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

In later generations, there was a Chinese TV series that had such a classic line: "If you love him, send him to New York, because it is heaven; If you hate him, send him to New York, because it's hell there. ”

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

Today, the Carpenter family, although they are not rich and rich, can be regarded as breaking away from the ranks of poor families and entering the class of middle-class families in the United States.

What brought about all these changes was Alex, a person who shouldn't have existed. According to the original trajectory, it was at least in the late 60s that Alex's sister Cullen grew up, and then formed a band with Richard, and finally changed the situation of the Carpenter family.

Now, under Alex's influence, the Carpenter family's financial situation has improved considerably.

The money earned by the Carpenter brothers from releasing records has always been under the supervision of their parents, and even if Alex does not know the specific data, he can roughly estimate that the current cash in the family should be nearly 1 million. During this time, money for records and books kept coming up.

This $1 million was a huge amount of money in the United States in the fifties of the twentieth century!

With so much cash, the Carpenter family was able to live a carefree life for several years. This year's royalties on records and novels are still coming in, and in the foreseeable future, as long as the Carpenter brothers can sing, they won't have to worry about money.

A few days later, Bart and Angel took them to 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 the apartment is located is called the Dakota Tower, which has been built for many years, presumably before the Great Depression. Skyscrapers in the United States are not like houses in some countries, where they are built in 100 years, while houses in some countries are built in 10 years.

Alex didn't know much about housing prices in New York, and he didn't know how much a house in this era was worth. However, it is speculated from Bart's words that this house also cost a lot, and because it was a one-time payment, it was quickly taken down.

The people who live in the same building are basically senior executives of large companies near the center of New York City, and they have to buy a house in New York City because of their work.

According to Alex's observations, some people still have properties on the outskirts of New York City, but they have to take the train or car back, so they buy a house here for convenience.

The new house is big enough that everyone will be allocated a room, and a room will be reserved.

When Alex is not recording, he also takes his family for a walk in Central Park. The environment here is very good, and every time I go shopping, I feel much better.

Known as the "back garden" of New York, Central Park is surrounded by 59th St., 110th St., 5th Ave., and Central Park West.

It is not only a leisure place for New Yorkers, but also a popular tourist destination for tourists from all over the world.

After the New York Post's campaign to build the park in 1850, the park was built in 1856 by two landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calbert Vaux.

Nestled in the middle of skyscrapers in Manhattan, Central Park is the largest urban park in New York and the first to be built entirely with landscape architecture in mind.

It is a completely man-made natural landscape, with light green meadows, lush forests, courtyards, skating rinks, carousels, amphitheaters, two small zoos, lakes where you can raft on the water, tennis courts, sports fields, art galleries and so on.

Alex's favorite visit is the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, which is the centerpiece of Central Park with Fountain Square between the lake and the trees.

The fountain was built in 1873 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the sea during the Civil War, and the four statues surrounding the fountain represent "temperance", "purity", "health" and "peace". Flocks of swans often swim in the pool, and many tourists paddle in the lake.

In the later American drama "Gossip Girl", the heroine Blair Wardoff likes to hang around this fountain the most. At that time, Alex looked at it and wanted to see this place in person, but he never had the chance. What I didn't expect was that I was reborn in the United States after death, so I had the opportunity to come here.

Perhaps because of the relocation of the place, the recording of the record came to a halt abruptly. At this time they were recording their third record, and the first two were already on the market and were selling very well. The company's marketing department is confident that the Carpenter brothers will sell their records, and they are looking forward to completing the third album as soon as possible.

Once settled, recording resumed. This time they were fast and recorded perfectly. Soon after, the Carpenter brothers' new record hit the market, their third record.

This record is a different style than their previous two records. The traces of rock 'n' roll are still there, but the path they took was completely different from that of the rock 'n' roll of this era, and they took the route of warm and soft music.

Alex came up with two "original" songs in one go, both of which were songs by the prodigy Diclan Galbraith, who would later be known as a singing prodigy.

This guy is also a genius, he has shown his talent for singing since he was 4 years old, and when he was 8 years old, he won various singing competitions. When he was 9 years old, several record companies vied to sign him, and in the end, EMI (EMI) signed him for three years for more than one million pounds, so as to obtain the rights to release three records.

The two songs, "MamaSaid" and "An Angel," were both released by Diclan when he was 9 years old. Richard and Alex each chose one to sing. They put a lot of effort into these two songs to bring them out perfectly. Although limited by the equipment conditions and personnel level at that time, they have achieved the extreme of the times.

"It's incredible! Alex, these two songs of yours are really beautiful. When Mark heard Alex's new work, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

Not only did Mark think so, but everyone else who listened to these two songs once immediately liked them and thought they could be used as title songs.

"Definitely at the top of last week's list!" When they heard this, they all said.

Whether it's Richard's "MamaSaid" or Alex's "AnAngel," 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 little worse without using "analog memory", and Alex is not as focused on singing as Richard, so he does not perform as well as he should.

As soon as the two songs came out, their singles charts immediately climbed to No. 1 and No. 2 on Billboard this week. Especially Richard's "Mom Says", which has been suppressing Alex's "An Angel". It wasn't until the third week later that Alex got the first place once, and was quickly suppressed by other new songs.

Billboard was a bellwether of American pop music, and at first it was a monthly magazine with only eight pages, mainly about major events, carnivals, entertainment, and performances in Ohio.

In 1897, when Donaldson bought the shares, the monthly magazine was transformed into a weekly magazine, and the magazine's content pages were gradually entertained: news and advertisements in the recording industry, film introductions, song reviews, columns, and so on.

It wasn't until 1923 that Billboard became the first magazine to have a chart, appearing on its first chart, "Last Week's Top 10 Best-Selling Pop Songs".

By 1935, a new trick had emerged, that is, the radio station arranged a weekly radio program. "Top 10 Most Popular Songs of the Week" (Hitparade). This is calculated by the number of songs with the highest sales per week published by publishers and record companies, and the number of times each song is played on an automatic gramophone (a machine that throws a coin in it and sings). This program has been going on for decades. Later, the television station took over the rate of this program.

In the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, Billboard made adjustments and focused on the most played songs on jukebox, radio DJs, albums, singles, and other charts, which were very similar to the current Billboard charts, and the magazine itself became a professional pop music chart magazine.

The Carpenter brothers' new record sales continued to increase, much to the delight of the company. The company has more and more personnel, and the office conditions are getting better and better.

Rudy felt that his original decision was extremely wise, and he knew that if he had not had the Carpenter brothers, he would definitely be saddled with a huge debt and never be able to turn over. On the contrary, for Alex, with or without 90% of the shares of the "Ethereal" company, they will become popular singers. The difference is just that you earn more and earn less.

Now, with the Carpenter brothers as a cash cow, the company will be able to develop into a large company sooner or later. Now the company can pay off half of its debts with the money it makes, and 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 had to laugh in his dreams.

Rudy is happy to make a lot of money, while the Carpenter family is troubled by making a lot of money. I made so much money all at once, and the taxes I had to pay were not small.