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...KATE SMITH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM (RCA Victor). So well have Kate's last two albums done (How Great Thou Art is still on the Billboard charts after 22 weeks) that Victor has borrowed Peter Matz from Columbia to rearrange 24 of her biggest hits in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the day-May 1, 1931-when she started her first radio series. The result is nostalgic easy listening...
...Death of Truth." After another sermon in the harbor city of Gdansk, shouting students marched on the main railway station, tore down an antichurch billboard and used it as kindling for a bonfire. Angrily the government fired off a note to the cardinal, ordering him to tone down the millennium and reminding him that a replica of Czestochowa's renowned "Black Madonna" painting-centerpiece for most of the celebrations-could only be transported around Poland in "a closed car." The warning went unheeded. Last week a group of students in Lublin grabbed the portrait after a cathedral ceremony...
...American on wheels, the car bumper has now become a billboard. During election time, it advertises his political allegiance; during the offseason, as now, it is used for laughs-most of them so bad that bumper stickers may understandably raise the number of rear-end collisions before the summer...
Since 1959, Kirshner has published 500 songs, of which 400 have made the hit charts. Last week he had no fewer than 25 on the Billboard lists, including the No. 1 song (You're My) Soul and Inspiration. All told, Kirshner songs have sold 150 million recordings...
...example, he hired Toni Wine, who was then a 15-year-old sophomore at Juilliard. Toni proceeded to run her advances up to $20,000. Suddenly, this month, she has broken into the Billboard "Hot 100" with a likely winner, A Groovy Kind of Love. The lyrics, of course, were written by another Kirshner protégé, Schoolteacher Carol Bayer...