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...guitar, bass and drums, respectively, provide Hall with a solid foundation. They, too, on this album depart from the popsy material they usually play. Formerly the backup band for Elton John on Rock of the Westies, and for Kiki Dee, they now leave the world of teeny-bopper 45s and enter a realm of more creative and significant expression...
...serious about this thing. This is a contest, with entries and winners and prizes and all. If you still have all those real tough 45s you used to spin every afternoon after school, then you better go get 'em. This isn't Fonzie-Fifties stuff, but Solid Gold Sixties and very early Seventies vinyl; the notes that used to make you park your carcass in front of the idiot box when Shindig came...
...draft beer is only 25 cents a hit. Second, on weekends--even though the tap is shut off and bottled beer is pawned at 75 cents--there is live entertainment of several varieties. The scheduled entertainment is the music. A disc jockey pulls out the cases and cases of 45s he's collected from the fifties and early sixties and spins them on his record player, set up in one of the corner booths. Then, once the place starts rocking, the unscheduled but not unexpected entertainment begins...
Tanya's break came when Country Entrepreneur Billy Sherrill heard one of her "demo" 45s. Six weeks later she recorded Delta Dawn. Now when she walks along a Nashville street, cars slow down and people shout her name. She quit ninth grade a year ago with no regrets. Her future is country music. "We're here to stay," she says confidently...
...indistinguishable from each other. The standouts are "Shake Your Hips," a Slim Harpo tune that the Stones do in a version a little slower than, (but otherwise identical to) the original; and "Tumbling Dice," the single, which is nice enough but hardly up to the standard of most Stones 45s. Jagger's voice is mixed down so low on this whole side that the lyrics are completely unintelligible...