Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked which other groups he respected he said he respected everybody. "If I could I would have the radio on all day." He was bitter about gimmickry (the Jeff Beck Group's first album just out on Epic, is called 'Truth' because the Group feels that it is an honest album with no tricks.) He ridiculed the Beatles' experiments with sitar music "You know how long it takes to learn that instrument? 7 years. and there's the master who's 50 and still learning...
...parlor game, one thing is certain: the closer a Negro gets to a "white" sound nowadays, the less soulful he is considered to be, and the more he is regarded as having betrayed his heritage. Dionne Warwick singing Alfie? Impure! Diana Ross and the Supremes recording an album of Rodgers and Hart songs? Unacceptable! Yet many "deviations" may be solid professionalism, a matter of adapting to changing audiences. As Lou Rawls says, "Show business is so vast?why should I limit myself to any one aspect if I have the capabilities to do more...
...humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited to a zoo / Took place with neighbors' nieces?") are set to an oompah rhythm and sardonic melody. Though The Bear is no immortal work from the Olympian heights of human creativity, it is blessed with fine craftsmanship and expert musicianship. The album's cast and orchestra are excellent as well...
...latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price by cutting the score. Yet quality prevails. Everyone involved-from engineers to Conductor Silvio Varviso-has outdone himself...
...libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart, but a carefully selected cast helps to make the one-disk album worth at least one hearing by those interested in such esoterica...