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...column in each issue of the weekly magazine Billboard lists in order the top 100 "singles" (45-rpm records), based on U.S. retail and jukebox sales and radio play. Last year 105 different singles were so hot that they broke into the top ten of the hot 100 for at least one week...
...BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY, Bette Midler. Song of the year. Peaked on the Billboard chart in July at number eight. Midler came into her own here after her offensive recording of a slow "Do You Want to Dance?" Dynamic, good-time sound; harmony by overdubbing her own voice. Joni Mitchell's current single, "Raised on Robbery," is in the same style...
...informal lecture-concerts, for which he gets from $6,000 to $8,000 per appearance. "This music is pure uninhibited rhythmic soaring," he tells his listeners. "If you get in the stream, you are off! Get ready!" Four of Fox's LPs taped at such performances have cracked Billboard's bestseller charts...
...Pogo, an inspired amalgam of bogs, hollow stumps, hog-jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland Owl, a bedraggled Perelmanesque pedant. Churchy LaFemme, a poetic turtle, reveled in alliterative aubades: "Whence that wince, my wench?" At Christmas time, Albert the cigar-smoking alligator...
...colleges that rely largely on student fees to meet their expenses, hard times are giving birth to the hard sell. Faced with a shrinking high-school population, some institutions have gone head-hunting with coast-to-coast billboard blitzes, offers of tuition discounts and mobile recruiting vans. Until alumni complaints forced it to stop, Eastern Oregon College even offered a bounty of $60 for new students from Oregon, and $100 for out-of-state catches...