Word: decca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ONLY PETER COOK . . . BUT ALSO DUDLEY MOORE (Decca). Two of the funny foursome of Beyond the Fringe make dialect ventures into such subjects as an order of leaping nuns and hanging The Laughing Cavalier in the "lav." They are every bit as beyond as ever...
...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
Size-Four Stompers. Motown Records is currently promoting a nine-year-old wailer named Little Lisa, who, they boast, "will become the next Shirley Temple." Decca Records has a prepubescent dreamboat named Keith Green, 12, who has been signed to a five-year contract. He has already written 50 rock-'n'-roll songs, which he croons in a voice trembling with conviction ("Youuu are the girlll/ I am the boyyy/ Yes, it seems we're in loove...
HAYDN: THE CREATION (2 LPs; Decca). One of the last great works of the skeptical 18th century was this triumphant affirmation of Haydn's faith. Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum...
...Decca). Len Barry is the new wavy-haired, high-tenor hitmaker from Philadelphia who specializes in puppy-love lieder. Falling in love, he explains, is as elementary as 1-2-3, or ABC. Another of his hits, Like a Baby, is about a youthful couple. "When you smile, you're so adorable, so infantile," he croons. Seems she smiles just like a baby, feels just like a baby in his arms, and makes him cry just like a baby...