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Friday night offered a "Battle of Music" featuring a fiddle contest, blues cutting, ballad topping, and gospel battle. This gimmick consumed a great deal of musical time and allowed Dorothy Love and the Gospel Harmonettes and the Swan Silvertones, led by Claude Jetter's beautifully controlled falsetto, only two songs apiece. The Gospel Harmonettes sang again Sunday morning but the Swan Silvertones left immediately for a revival in Belglade, Florida...
...known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...
...topics, many of which, veiled in hip teen talk or garbled in the din of guitars, are being regularly aired over the radio. POP MUSIC'S 'MORAL CRISIS,' screamed the front-page headline in Variety recently; Dylan discipes countered by adopting a line from his new Ballad of a Thin Man as their nose-thumbing rallying cry: "Something is happening here, and you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" What is happening is that the folk-rock movement, heady with the success of its big-message-with-a-big-beat songs (TIME...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "Epilogue-A Ballad of Aging," an essay about old age, using still photos of elderly men and women, as well as their voices...
...love, modern-style. In France, there is a movement afoot to repeal a 1920 statute prohibiting contraceptives for women. While the law itself has never been much of an inhibiting factor in France, it does give Antoine and the kids something to protest about. He sings an anguished ballad about an impoverished young wife who winds up killing her nine children and herself. He makes the same point in a lighter strain in Antoine's Lucubrations, his hottest-selling record...