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LAST TIME AROUND (Atco). The Buffalo Springfield have scored again on the last album before they split up. Their transition from folk through folk rock and now to country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs...
HORIZONTAL (ATCO). In the vast electronic underbrush in which many musicians operate today, along come the Bee Gees with their crystal-clear voices, sounding as if they were plucked right out of a church rock group. Three of their best numbers: Lemons Never Forget, in which the group displays some nice, tight vocal work; With the Sun in My Eyes, a gentle solo backed by organ; and the poignant Really and Sincerely, which starts with a lone French accordion...
Today, two LPs later (on the ATCO label) the Bee Gees' brand of straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...
DISRAELI GEARS (ATCO Records). This new music group, Cream, serves up a fancy dish of hard rock topped off with choice, albeit bittersweet, lyrics. Drums whip up a froth of steady background rhythms, while the guitars and vocals tread a steady path through the blues of commentary on the human condition...
...before." This approach usually creates pulsating waves of excitement in live performances, but it often also produces recordings that are too long for disk jockeys to sandwich between commercials. Consequently, Cream have so far been idols only of the hip insiders; their one U.S. album. Fresh Cream (on the Atco label), has been little played on radio and as a result has missed the mass market (sales: 100,000 copies). But now that this country has been Creamed, all that may be changed...