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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa...
...president of Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits...
...rule and watched television on the Sabbath just to see them. 'They're a passing phase,' he said. 'All are symptoms of the uncertaintly of the times and the confusion about us.' "Oddly prophetic on Graham's part, for the rock and roll army was just about to be born, and the Beatles (touring phase) were to be the midwives. A generation of kids was about to be turned on to their own youth, their beauty and their energy. And they were going to notice the deadness around them and be truly and woefully confused...
Seeking Identity. But José is sorting the offers carefully. Although he is only 23, he has been a professional for six years, and some of the people who want him now were not there when he needed them. Born in Puerto Rico, the second of eight brothers, he was raised in a Manhattan slum after his father gave up farming to find a job in New York City. Jose learned to play the concertina at six and the guitar at nine. The advent of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s inspired him to try singing...
Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...