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...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...
...combo (Robert Cavicchio '66, R. Terry Ney '66, Clair Burrill '66, Frank Werner '66, and Dave Conners, a B.U. student) has also cut some records for Decca . . . . which wants the group to change its name for their record album...
SYLVIA MARLOWE: HARPSICHORD (Decca). The eminent harpsichordist looks to the future of her archaic instrument by commissioning new pieces by the dozen. Among them are chamber works by Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, both contrasting the tangy harpsichord with bland woodwinds. Rorem strings together short, romantic "songs without words," while Carter builds a severe, towering structure out of tiny musical blocks. Highlight of the recording is the plangent Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello by Manuel de Falla...
...KINGSTON TRIO (Decca). John Stewart is well settled into Dave Guard's old spot; the three sing new songs, and they are still easy on the ear. But the trio seems to have lost something that may be hard to retrieve: the bounce of youth...
They practice instead something called "head arranging," i.e., playing a song through a few times to get the "feel," then improvising and embellishing the rest of the way. Says Decca's Owen Bradley, the pioneer of C & W in Nashville: "Perfection is not necessarily what you're looking for. You just want to play free. There's a lot of highly organized faking...