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...long-haired coeds, strumming guitar and banjo, sang "I ain't gonna study war no more" as some 400 students lounged, chatted, laughed and played cards in the offices and corridors of the six-story University of Chicago administration building. Signs propped against the walls suggested the cause for which students had invaded the place: to try to keep draft boards from inducting boys on the basis of class rank. One sign said, DON'T USE MY GRADES TO MURDER STUDENTS-meaning that students who get high marks make their inferiors more vulnerable to conscription. The demonstrators came...
SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues...
HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero...
HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero...
Director Elliot Silverstein, freshly sprung from television, sows this wild-oater with all manner of trickery, and most of it works-from speeded-up chase sequences to an entr'acte by a pair of banjo-banging troubadours (Stubby Kaye and the late Nat King Cole) who stroll improbably from scene to scene, keeping the flimsy narrative intact with snatches of song. In a performance that nails down her reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow...