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...suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...
...Court Justice Charles Whittaker, Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, Broadway Producer-Director Harold Clurman, Rule-of-Law Expert Arthur Larson. But the center of attention was a long-dead Kansas woman, Carry Nation. For the centennial observation, which will go on for six months, Composer Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), now a visiting professor at K.U., wrote an opera about that booze-hating feminist's tortured marriage and bar-smashing career. Now in rehearsal at the university's handsome new Murphy Hall for performing arts, the opera will have its première there...
...BALLAD OF DINGUS MAGEE by David Markson. 202 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
...luckiest one is U.S. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. At 25, he has come away from Viet Nam not only with his skin but with a clutch of ballads that have made him famous and rich. His recording of The Ballad of the Green Berets, only three months old, has sold more than 2,000,000 copies, and a subsequently released twelve-tune album has already leaped to the top of the bestselling LP lists. For this, Sergeant Sadler has earned $250,000 so far this year, and the demand for personal appearances is so great that the Army...
...cropped, ruggedest (Black Belt in judo), and most musically illiterate performer on the pop charts. But give him a subject and a guitar and he comes up with a song in ten minutes. RCA Victor arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings...