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...Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto in 1936) had cut a few sides for Atco, the Atlantic subsidiary, with little impact. Herb Abramson, head of Atco, wanted to drop him, but Ertegun overruled the decision. Ahmet and ace engineer Tom Dowd supervised the kid?s next session, using their new Ampex eight-track recording system; out of this came two 1958 hits, "Splish Splash" and "Queen of the Hop." The first song, which Darin had written in 12 minutes, begins with water-bubble sounds, cueing its novelty nature; but it had drive and its narrator?s tough-guy befuddlement at finding...
Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco). In which the generative force of the Who covers matters sacred and profane with roughshod lyricism...
Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco). A diary of open-throttle intensity with no idling speed. Townshend, taking his second solo shot without the Who, cuts loose with ten songs that are like rounds of some unarmed psychic combat. I Am an Animal is a saw-toothed bit of self-mockery and self-appraisal, Let My Love Open the Door and A Little Is Enough love songs with a spiritual finish and a nice carnal edge, Rough Boys a terrific street anthem, and the title cut an elaborate meditation on musical survivors and musical pretenders. "I've been there...
...undulating dancers. His gaudy, African-style headdresses are woven out of ostrich feathers, vines, ivy and snakeskins. Dr. John's music is a pulsating blend of African and Caribbean rhythms and dry-throated incantations. As it turns out, Dr. John comes from New Orleans, and his latest ATCO LP, Gumbo, is a personal nostalgia trip, a rollicking pastiche of voodoo, rumba, Dixieland and good old Mardi Gras stomp. If his high skill shows the inventive, assimilative style of a virtuoso studio musician, it is because Dr. John used to be just that under his real name, Mac Rebennack...
King Curtis perished at the peak of his career. He was the king of the rock and roll sax, his studio contributions stretching back to the Coasters' hit "Yakety Yak." His last album, Live at Fillmore West (Atco), was his best by far, despite the questionable inclusion of such songs as "Whole Lotta Love" and "Whiter Shade of Pale." With a phenomenal rhythm section driving him along, Curtis displays his prodigious control of the instrument in the essential Stax-Volt rhythm and blues vein...