Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the Big Beat is really back, or just filling in the decibels until the next musical mode comes along, many of the stars of 15 years ago are getting into the money again. A few of them...
...Everly Brothers, Don (32) and Phil (30), whose tight harmonies and sharp rhythms in big sellers such as Wake Up, Little Susie influenced the early Beatles, seemed to be washed up by 1960. Since January, though, their bookings have picked up handsomely. They have performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Fillmore West, and will tour Europe next month...
...later when, on a tour of England, the press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin-fully five months before divorcing his second wife. After that, and some other calamities, he plugged along until about a year and a half ago, when his records caught on big in the Country & Western field. At an appearance last spring at The Scene in Manhattan, where he received a standing ovation, tears were seen welling in his eyes. "I think it was sweat," says Jerry Lee. "But it was a great feeling. They really went wild. Maybe it was tears...
Died. Russ Morgan, 65, pop-music composer and big-band leader in the 1930s and '40s; of a stroke; in Las Vegas. The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan played trombone and piano to earn his ticket out of the pits, in 1935 formed his own orchestra featuring the wah-wah sound of muted trombones and such hits as So Tired, and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place...
...Since that time baseball has been my main interest," she says. When she was twelve she moved to Queens and later became a secretary. But she devoted long evening hours to teaching neighborhood kids the fundamentals of baseball and was soon putting on hitting exhibitions for charity with such big-league stars as Roger Maris and Sid Gordon...