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...Bells on Christmas Day and Everyone's a Child at Christmas. His most enduring creation is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which after twelve seasons and a sale of close to 30 million copies is this year enshrined in no fewer than 25 new recordings by Paul Anka, Ella Fitzgerald, the Chipmunks, Crazy Otto, Guy Lombardo, et al. By Marks's own testimony, his recently released Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree figures to be another Rudolph. Why? Says Marks, who does both words and music: "The lyric is a masterpiece of writing...
...afford it ride sputtering convoys of motor scooters, complete with snug-sweatered girl friends perched behind. Besides the slashers and the holdup artists, there are the bobby-soxers and song faddists, who burst into Los Cerrillos airport last month to greet Canadian Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride, a character in far sharper threads who bills himself as Peter Rock...
Raven (NBC) stars Skip Homeier as something called Dan Raven, a sort of semiprivate eye who shares his billing with such guest performers as Singers Bobby Darin and Paul Anka while he works his beat on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Boyish-looking and hyper-hip, he is apparently convinced that murder can be fun. The show may have to go some to avoid the epitaph: "Quoth the ratings, nevermore...
Coke Time (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The hippest, hottest (not necessarily the pleasantest) young voices now coming out of echo chambers are collected by Host Pat Boone-Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon, Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes...
...stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went the beat. Of the top ten pop hits last week, only three were out-and-out rock 'n' roll. In Manhattan, Sam Goody's famed record shops reported a 40% drop in rock...