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...ballad was the work of KRLA's "staff poet-singer," Len Chandler, who regularly performs his own tendentious commentary to the most dramatic news of the hour. Chandler's verses are just one of the innovations by the staff of KRLA Station Manager John Barrett, 35, which have given an otherwise ordinary rock station a young audience of more than 1,500,000 and put it in the top three among the 61 stations jamming the metropolitan Los Angeles airwaves...
...daily composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...
...country corn, and he manages to harvest a goodly share of tear-jerking hits. His specialties are such songs as Honey, a pitiful plaint by a new widower whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...
...Michael Dunn (Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Ship of Fools), who missed the Baltimore meeting. He was in Europe making a movie...
Charles Portis, 34, is an Arkansas newspaperman who has fashioned a pop anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...