The success of the hula hoop and the film company gave Alex plenty of money. At the same time, it also took up a lot of his time, which affected the recording of the record.

In 1953, all the songs on the Carpenter brothers' albums were written by Richard. Alex doesn't even appear on several albums at all. This behavior annoyed Bart a little, and the others thought that if this continued, the Carpenter brothers would eventually disband.

Alex talked to Richard about this, and found that Richard didn't care about this kind of thing at all. On the contrary, Richard felt more free because he was about to write the songs he wanted to sing and record the songs he wanted to record.

But there are some problems with this, and Richard's style of singing is very different from what he used to be. Many old fans buy the records he sings, and they don't like it very much, and they will lose it because of it. There are also many fans who come for Alex, who think that since Richard is the only one in his songs, they shouldn't use the Carpenter brothers to confuse others.

Someone from the marketing department of the record company suggested to them that they should either separate it or clearly indicate who sang the record so that fans could choose it when they bought it. However, usually, the names printed on the album cover are too small and need to be very careful to distinguish them.

This problem was quickly solved by Alex, who designed a set of avatars made up of the two brothers' avatars. When both of them appear in the songs on the record, both avatars are normal colors. When only Richard appears on the record, Alex's avatar is a black shadow and vice versa.

Alex's solution solved the problem of fans choosing the wrong record to buy, and the dissatisfaction quickly dissipated. There are a lot of people who are interested in this approach, and there are bands who want to learn from it, but they are not as successful as the Carpenter brothers.

After entering 1954, Alex was busy preparing for the filming of "The Sound of Music", composing a large number of musical compositions for the film. At the same time, he is busy planning various publicity methods for "Roman Holiday" to win the Academy Award. In order not to be distracted by other things, he left the hula hoop matter to Sam completely, after all, he was already on the right track at this time.

One of the other things left is to write "Harry Potter", which takes up a lot of his time, and he basically writes in his free time. His novel was not plagiarized from the original, and he could only rely on the movie part to make it up, plus he changed a lot of settings and modified a lot of plots. This version of Harry Potter has been changed beyond recognition by him.

At the very least, Alex wouldn't let Harry Potter be a man who owes a beating. In later generations, BookBub selected 13 "underwhelming" characters in literary works, among which Harry Potter topped the list.

It can be seen that this character is so uncomfortable in the hearts of readers. For Alex, this is something that can change. The reason why Harry Potter was selected was because he repeatedly caused trouble every time he didn't listen to advice, and put his friends and teachers in danger to help him.

Originally, the author wanted to create conflict and increase the drama, but it turned out to make the reader hate the character because of it. This is indeed something that Aunt Rowling did not expect at all.

In Alex's pen, Harry Potter's character has not become so "motherly"! Maybe he was a little timid at first, but after going through various things, he became decisive. In the words of the online article, it is how the protagonist can be cool if he does not go against the sky!

All in all, this version of Harry Potter will definitely not be the bird-like of the original. In terms of feelings, Alex made Harry Potter have an ambiguous relationship between Luna and Hermione, just like the kind in "Orange Road", which just doesn't explain it thoroughly, which makes people itch to watch.

Alex was in a hurry to write the book in response to Carl, which was originally intended to be published in 1954. He didn't want to be chased by the editor in charge when he went to Europe to make a film.

Just as Alex was immersed in writing, a phone call interrupted his train of thought.

"Hello? I'm Alex, who are you looking for? ”

There was silence across the microphone, and after a while, Alex was about to hang up when he heard a familiar voice.

"I'm little Richard, are you okay?"

Since the last time Little Richard turned down Alex's solicitation, the two of them could only contact each other by phone or letter. In the past year or so, Alex has been busy with various things, and he has called little Richard less and has no time to write letters.

Alex knows that after Richard Jr. signed with RCA Records, the lovelorn Lee recorded a number of songs for a few years, but the results were not very good.

"Brother! I'm fine, how are you doing now? Alex immediately asked enthusiastically.

Little Richard seemed to have made up his mind, he said, "I'm not good, RCA Records' contract has expired, and I'm going to mess with you." ”

After hearing this, Alex said in surprise, "Really? It's just wonderful. Well, I mean, I'm glad you'd like to come to Carpenter Records. ”

After listening to Alex's words, little Richard relaxed a lot, and he smiled, "I've seen your news everywhere." I also saw you on the cover of Time Magazine, you are amazing. ”

After the two opened the topic, they began to reminisce and talk about what they did after they separated. From the conversation, it was learned that Richard Jr. has not been doing very well in recent years, and his records have not been able to sell, and RCA Records has threatened to terminate his contract several times. In desperation, he remembered Alex, who had been hesitating after refusing an offer once. Now I have finally made up my mind and defected to Alex.

With Alex's introduction, Richard Jr. was easily signed to Carpenter's agency, and the record company also signed him to record the contract.

Little Richard's contract is of course different from that signed by the Carpenter brothers, after all, Carpenter Records belongs to Carpenter's family, and Bart has no reason to exploit his son. Their brothers signed the best contracts, and the royalties were all based on top singers.

As for the contracts signed by Richard, Chuck, and Elvis, there are not such good conditions, after all, the company also wants to make money, and the singer is just a money-making machine for the company. However, Carpenter Records is not bad compared to other companies, at least it does not discriminate against people of color.

Black people like Richard Jr. and Chuck, even if they sing well, can't get into a predominantly white record company. This is a time of great racial discrimination, and apartheid has not yet been lifted. Black singers can only enter black record companies, and most of these companies are also very oppressive.

The reason why Richard Jr. is willing to come to Carpenter Records is that the environment here is good, and the contract conditions are relatively good. Not to mention that there is a person like Alex covering him, if it were another person, he would have been in a mess as early as when Alex recruited him. Only a proud person like Little Richard is unwilling, and now that the situation is forcing him, he can only let go of the arrogance in his heart.

After Richard Jr. entered the new company, he immediately recorded a few compositions, and he had been holding back his strength for a long time. These songs were all failed at RAC Records, and the other party didn't like this style of song.

After hearing the samples of these works, Alex asked in surprise, "You don't even have such good works." It should have been taken out earlier, so that you would have become famous long ago. ”

Little Richard smiled helplessly, and he said, "It's not that I don't want to take it out, it's that those bastards don't like it." They say this kind of song is not what they want. What a fucking fuck! ”

This is the difference between a large company production and a solo label production. For large companies, there is no room for too much personal characteristics in it, they want a product that is made from an assembly line. At present, Carpenter Records is not a big company, and if you want to develop in the future, you still have to move closer to that.

This will inevitably lead to restrictions on the independence and personal characteristics of its artists, and some big-name singers may be given their own independent labels, but it will not be so good for newcomers.

Before Little Richard's song came out, everyone didn't know what the sales of Ludao would be. Even Alex's songs that they think are good are likely to be unpopular. To the surprise of the marketing department, these songs immediately appeared on the Billboard charts as soon as they were released. People love this kind of tune, and they want to hear little Richard's work.

"Congratulations! I knew you were going to make it! After Alex got the weekly list, he immediately notified little Richard.

Little Richard almost burst into tears when he heard this, he had been waiting for this moment for a long time. He proved his quality with his results, which is the joy of success.

Seeing this, Carpenter Records stepped up their support for him. Richard Jr. thus began the climax of his career. A year or two later, his album "Tutti-Frutti" was released, which immediately hit No. 17 on the charts that week, selling 3 million copies.

Carpenter Records, based on his results, gave little Richard his own label. After that, little Richard was able to create whatever he wanted.

Buoyed by the success, Richard Jr. struck while the iron was hot and launched "LongTallSally" in May, which achieved a top 13th place in the rankings. Over the next few years, he toured everywhere he went, causing a sensation everywhere he went.