Word: bros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Streeters might have preferred Peter Solomon, a managing partner of New York's Lehman Bros., mainly because he was one of their own; Solomon was in the final running for the job. But in Williams, they find few faults. Says Donald Marron, president of Mitchell Hutchins and a longtime friend of Williams' who calls him Hal: "He is a broad-gauged person. That's good for the SEC." Donald Weeden, chairman of Weeden & Co., feels Carter made a good choice in picking someone from outside the securities field. "The job is to regulate," says Weeden...
Everybody loves a clown, particularly a princess. So Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco graced a three-ringside seat at the opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Manhattan last week. The official reason for her presence in New York was the christening of a new, 750-passenger luxury liner, the Cunard Princess. Grace, 47, hurled the traditional bottle of bubbly with impressive brio. "Wonderful arm," quipped New York...
...Sayer: Endless Flight (Warner Bros.). For years, Sayer's own sweet soaring tenor (reminiscent of Elton John's) was obscured as he comported himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making rock music of a high order. A gifted songwriter, he has come up with an album of infectious melodies in a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues vein. In addition to the breakaway single You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, he has a winner in the ballad When I Need...
George Benson: In Flight (Warner Bros.). One record can make a man rich for the rest of his life. Breezin', Benson's 1976 LP, turned the trick for the guitarist-singer. He took the premier spot on the jazz, rock, soul and easy-listening charts. His name began cropping up on network TV. George bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole...
...best thing to come out of the South since the Allman Bros...