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...Disco Ergo Sum" --Rene Discortes...
...musical. Grown up, their look is zoot-suit city: double-breasted and pin-stripe for the gents, shoulder pads and scarlet lipstick for the lady. The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act. The sound: musical gliss that ripples across five decades and combines Hollywood star dust and big-band elegance with Afro-Cuban cross rhythms...
Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...guitar town: Mr. Commercial, George Benson, is coming to Symphony Hall on Friday to play with his Tower of Power group. Don't forget Benson is the formerly right-on guitarist from Arista and CTI records who used to play heavy jazz. He is now in the more lucrative disco scene. I don't know, I used to like Benson, but he's beginning to sound like everyone else. Check him out yourself. The acoustics are better at Symphony than they are at the local clubs...
Mary Travers: Mary's quivering soprano should lend itself ideally to a disco version of "Puff the Disco Dragon." Symphony Hall, Sunday, October...