Word: combos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maker Meyer Davis-who wrote for the occasion a number that began "Dede loves to travel and dance all night . . ." Downstairs, under a sign reading DEDE'S PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, the belle of the ball and her peer group rattled the chandeliers keeping time to the Bo Diddley twist combo-and took their refreshments from a mobile hot-dog cart. Some Latino envoys-notably the uninvited-muttered sourly that the'affair was a "profanation" of the OAS building, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. dean of the capital's diplomatic corps, pronounced it "a perfectly beautiful party...
...Twist Her (Bill Black's Combo; Hi Records). One of the reigning twist bands demonstrates how it's done in a dozen numbers (Hucklebuck, Royal Twist, Twisteroo) that sound as different from one another as a buzz saw played at different speeds. But bestseller bound...
...billing goes to the 'Poon; Cerf, who wrote, sings, and provides piano accompaniment for most of the numbers; and "Gordie Main and the Main-iacs," a student rock 'a' roll combo...
Stereo does not mean dividing the orchestra, combo, or what-have-you into two groups and having one on either side of the room. Sound should come from each and every point between the speakers. Some records are made with exaggerated stereo, but if all yours sound as if there are "two windows to the orchestra instead of one", watch...
...half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting his name booed a modern combo off the stage, threw beer bottles and overturned TV cameras in a riot that approximated the American shambles at Newport. The Daily Telegraph calls Bilk ''almost a folk hero...