1.   As a recording executive, publisher, composer and performer, he helped provide livelier fare for new and traditional audiences.

2.   As in any other business, the primary criterion is making money, both for the artists and for their panting legions of agents, recording executives and managers.

3.   At the announcement, Recording Academy President Michael Greene was present, second from left, along with a group of recording executives and artists.

4.   But instead, she and her lawyer, Donald Passman, have been holding discussions with recording executives and hope to sign a deal soon.

5.   By asking Congress to legislate promotional expenses for them, said another executive, it gets recording executives off the hook.

6.   By day, recording executives described a rudderless business.

7.   If recording executives have an image problem now, analysts and industry experts say they have only themselves to blame.

8.   Many performers, promoters and recording executives say they have personally observed that concerts become more multigenerational every year.

9.   One issue that has been a sticking point in the talks with Carey is how much say the label will have in molding her image, recording executives said.

10.   Recording executives seem to have few fans these days.