Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor). Even Old Pros Mary Martin and Robert Preston cannot keep this recording of the musical adaptation of The Fourposter from sounding like a commercial for twin beds ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (RCA Victor) his original-cast album of the 1966 Lincoln Center revival compares favorably with original version of 20 years ago (still available on Decca). Ethel Merman's voice may have lost a little of its spring, but it still isn't rusty, and the high-caliber orchestra of the Victor recording makes the Decca sound like a pop pistol...
...start in that direction, Powell announced that proceeds from a forthcoming book and a long-playing record album-both entitled Keep the Faith, Baby-would be used belatedly to pay off his longstanding $164,000 libel judgment against a Harlem widow. As far as his House colleagues are concerned, however, any attempt by Powell to cleanse his past may be offset by his verbiage on the recording. Assailing his congressional opponents as "Judases" and "hypocrites," Powell compares his fate to Caesar's, at one point cries: "Et tu, Brute?" Even for Manny Celler's committee, such histrionics...
...jazz, pop, gospel and even folk singer. Then, early last year, he decided to dish up some good old chitlin-style singing and sweet-talking. He invited a bunch of friends to the recording studio and recorded Lou Rawls LIVE! to their finger-popping, hand-clapping accompaniment. The album took off. In a few short months Rawls was commanding $5,000 for a one-night stand...
PROJECTIONS (Verve Folkways). This newly successful Manhattan quintet is known as the Blues Project. But they project more than the blues in their second album, veering toward jazz in Flute Thing, trying out Oriental effects in Steve's Song, and every so often forsaking music of any kind for a cacophony of electronic chortles, whinnies, plunks and sizzles...
...blues is the growing noise nowadays, challenging rock 'n' roll on the charts, and no group is truer blue or more insinuatingly rhythmic than the five Temptations. Eight of the dozen songs are by Bill "Smokey" Robinson, including those catchy classics from an earlier album, The Temptations Sing Smokey: The Way You Do the Things You Do and My Girl...