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...MITCHELL TRIO: TYPICAL AMERICAN BOYS (Mercury). They look typical enough-conventional haircuts, clean shirts-but when it comes to singing, Chad Mitchell and friends pride themselves on being latter-day Weavers, a combo with a conscience. They specialize in satirical numbers such as Which Hat Shall I Wear (a giddy social type talking to her Negro cleaning woman) and Yowzah ("Shonuf, Yassuh Boss!"), an acid comment on the Uncle Tom refrain. They have three of the smoothest voices in folkdom, and their racial protests, though skimpy in content, are strictly nonviolent...
...film plunges into a peep show of questionable authenticity, poking its lenses through garden walls and desert shrubbery, suggesting much, proving little. The most chillingly persuasive sequences show the whipping of African natives who are for sale to Arab herdsmen, a raid on a caravan smuggling enslaved children from Chad to Saudi Arabia. Later a trader inspects a naked native woman as if she were horseflesh, coolly examining her teeth...
Among conventional performers, Manhattan's Plaza 9 and the Chad Mitchell Trio have recorded an item called Barry's Boys...
...nations, including Dahomey's neighbor, Togo, where President Sylvanus Olympic was assassinated last January, and the former French Congo, whose President Fulbert Youlou was deposed in August (the ex-Belgian Congo also witnessed a near-coup three weeks ago). Plots have been uncovered in Senegal, Chad and the Ivory Coast...
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