Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died three years to the day before Redding--did (though Cooke was coerced by the orientation of the company he recorded for). Redding was infinitely far from the frame of mind which characterizes the Motown corporation with its grossly defective cultural antennae. Motown will naively release its first album with a psychedelic cover five years from...
...listeners, and more are being converted all the time. In the past ten months, Aretha has reeled off a spectacular string of record hits: three singles (I Never Loved a Man, Respect, Baby, I Love You) that sold more than 1,000,000 copies apiece, an album that topped $1,000,000 in sales, and a new single release (Chain of Fools) that has sold more than 900,000 copies and is going at the rate of 75,000 a week...
...movies. Say, they thought, why not combine the two and make a sort of visionary flick for TV? Fab! Paul directed, Ringo mugged, John did imitations, George danced a bit and, when the show hit the BBC last week, the audience gagged. Titled Magical Mystery Tour after their latest album, the one-hour show was never magical but always mysterious. Try as they might, viewers were unable to divine just exactly what was going on. Chaos is perhaps the best description. To make the film, the Beatles loaded 39 friends and bit actors into a yellow bus and drove through...
...begins one of the most venture some of recent rock recordings, the Prunes' album-length performance of Mass in F Minor, a new Reprise re lease. Composed by Los Angeles Rec ord Producer David Axelrod, 34, the six-part Mass achieves a surprisingly successful blend of pounding rhythms, a "churchy" organ, raucous improvisations and echoes of medieval plainsong. For the text, Axelrod says he "took just the words I thought were relevant, like 'Lamb of God, grant us peace.' That's awfully hip for the times...
...Asso ciation have begun to perform their liturgical-cum-martial Requiem for the Masses-included in one of their LPs -as a musical playlet, much as The Doors act out the visionary lyrics of The End and The Unknown Soldier. Newcomer Van Dyke Parks has cast his first album in the intricately woven format of a song cycle...