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...been the most innovative. The network was largely responsible for the flowering of mass-cast detective stories, freaky comedy characters, and programs tailored to appeal primarily to the under-30 set. This fall, ABC is introducing the idea of 45-minute shows aimed at the young. Based on Billboard magazine's hot-record charts, radio's Hit Parade will be turned into a new pop-music show, The Music Scene. Then, before viewers switch their dials, The New People will strand a planeload of youngsters on an abandoned Pacific island for another 45 minutes every week...
...company quickly put its considerable promotional weight behind 2525 and accomplished a feat that would have made even the Beatles jealous: last week, less than two months after its national release, the single had sold more than a million copies and had zoomed to first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. At the same time, RCA issued an LP combining 2525 with nine of Rick's other songs (no protest stuff, just reminiscences about love and other "Now subjects"). Everybody connected with the album was confident that it would do just as well as 2525. Especially Rick. "Nearly...
...Welsh-born Pop Singer Jones is the hottest entertainer in the U.S. Six of his nine LPs are on the Billboard chart, and the latest four have won gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...
...poet in reciting a pastoral love-in between a fair lad and a group of fair ladies (all of whom become pregnant). Even the title of the poem, Narcissus, Come Kiss Us! (And Love Us Beside), would assure a rock recording of the lyrics a top ten rating in Billboard...
...richness and ingenuity. In the first five decades of this century, U.S. art and entertainment either were censored or practiced self-censorship. Yet those were decades of titillating sexuality, heavily reinforced by advertising; technically the decencies were observed, but the atmosphere was charged with eroticism from every screen and billboard. It was those teasing decades that prepared the way for the erotic explosion. The current situation in the arts is at least more honest...