POP/ROCKSelena Tribute Album?: A charity tribute album...

POP/ROCK

Selena Tribute Album?: A charity tribute album honoring slain tejano singing star Selena is in the planning stages at EMI Records, where the singer recorded five albums for the label’s Latin division. The proposed album will include some of Selena’s unreleased material, including four songs she had recorded just prior to her death for her planned English-language debut. Few other details are set, however, and an EMI spokeswoman said further plans will most likely wait until the label finds the best charity tie-in “related to Selena’s vision of giving.” Sales of the singer’s Spanish-language albums have soared since she was fatally shot March 31, with four releases making the current Billboard chart, ranking 36th, 146th, 167th and 179th.

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Chart ‘King’: Speaking of the pop chart, the 11-month-old “Lion King” soundtrack has clawed its way back to No. 1 after selling about 133,000 copies last week. It unseated Tupac Shakur’s “Me Against the World,” which slipped to No. 5 after selling 113,000 units. The rest of the Top 5: the hip-hop soundtrack to L.A. rapper Ice Cube’s film “Friday” in second, with 126,000 copies sold, followed by Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Cracked Rear View” (117,000 copies) and Live’s “Throwing Copper” (114,000).

TV and RADIO

‘Good Day L.A.’ Changes: Veteran Los Angeles talk-show host Steve Edwards takes over Monday as the sole anchor of KTTV Channel 11’s weekday morning program, “Good Day L.A.” The show will also get a new set and format, featuring news updates from Tony McEwing, business and financial news from Diana Koricke, entertainment reports from Dorothy Lucey, weather forecasts from Mark Thompson and traffic updates by Suzanne Dunn. Edwards, a winner of seven Los Angeles Area Emmy awards, will continue to host his weeknight radio program, “Sportstalk 790,” which airs from 5-8 p.m. on KABC-AM (790).

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Limbaugh Targeted: The American Life League, a conservative anti-abortion group waging a boycott of Walt Disney Co. over the movie “Priest,” has turned its ire on a fellow conservative--talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who has declined to run the group’s ads. The group, contending that Limbaugh’s position was reached because his show airs here on Disney-owned KCAL Channel 9, took out a full-page ad in Wednesday’s USA Today depicting a wad of cash below the words, “Finally, something big enough to shut Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.” A spokesman for the “Rush Limbaugh” show declined to comment. The American Life League’s earlier ads, which denounce Disney’s ties to the movie that depicts two sexually active priests, have been running on religious networks and are the centerpiece of the group’s anti-”Priest” campaign.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Domingo to Take the Baton: Placido Domingo gets his first local podium assignment May 10 since being named in September as principal guest conductor with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Domingo will lead a Verdi program, to be sung by soprano Carol Vaness and baritone Vladimir Chernov, with the L.A. Opera Orchestra, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Domingo, who also holds the title of artistic adviser with the orchestra, is scheduled to sing the title role in Verdi’s “Otello,” in five performances, May 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18. Domingo’s conducting program came about when a planned recording project, featuring Domingo as a conductor and Chernov as soloist, fell through.

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Perfume a la Pavarotti: Super tenor Luciano Pavarotti on Wednesday launched his own line of men’s perfume at London’s upscale Harrods store. The tenorissimo autographed bottles and promised his “sexy” fragrance, which took a year to develop and blends ingredients including rum, tobacco, Madagascar cloves and lemons, “would go very well with romantic music.” Women will have to wait until next year, however, before Pavarotti joins the likes of Elizabeth Taylor in the female fragrance market, but he insisted Wednesday that women should try his men’s scent too. “If a woman puts it on, she can be more desirable to men,” said Pavarotti, his throat wrapped in a swirling scarf to protect his voice from the chill spring air. Harrods said Pavarotti’s perfume outsold a fragrance promoted at the store recently by supermodel Cindy Crawford.

QUICK TAKES

Rob Wasserman, a bassist who played with the Band at Woodstock ’94 in Saugerties, N.Y., has sued the concert’s promoters for $10 million, claiming irresponsibility on their part caused him to trip over a tent rope in the mud backstage and break an arm. He said the accident forced him to cancel a tour promoting his collaborative “Trios” album, which bombed in the stores last fall. . . . NBC has renewed its Los Angeles-based daytime talk show “Leeza” for the 1995-96 season. Because of the renewal, host Leeza Gibbons will step down from her other job, as weekend co-host of the syndicated “Entertainment Tonight.” She will be replaced by Julie Moran from ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.” Gibbons will remain a special contributor with “ET.” . . . The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Board of Trustees has named producer-director Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”) as its newest member. The group also reelected two former trustees, art collector Beatrice Gersh and attorney Gordon Hampton. . . . CBS’ daytime drama “As the World Turns” tapes its 10,000 episode today.