Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty songs on the disc are about equally divided between the comic and the sentimental, with two tentative rock and roll numbers. The Dunces make swirling noises for the sentimental songs, and go bum-bum for the comic. Some of each group were written by Dunces, but this doesn't make much difference...
...Glee Club and Choral Society have just issued a 12-inch record of Sixteenth Century music, mostly Palestrina, with selections of Byrd, Lassus, and Amerio (Cambridge, CRS405). Some of this is a reissue of an earlier 10-inch disc. The major section, which is new, is Palestrina's Stabat Mater, sung with freshness and purity...
...undoubtedly lucrative attempts to be significant, humorous, or informative. One author describes a fictional seduction in the styles of J. D. Salinger and Sally Bingham, combined, and the results are highly predictable. There are three more or less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
...shall survive," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "We shall survive despite the Sunday morning rock 'n' rollers, the disc jockey post mortems, and the third rate flicks. Despite Lawrence Welk and Lester Lanin. Despite the amateur sociologists and their 'adolescent subcultures...
...other team in the league, but it lacks pitching, which is Milwaukee's strong point. Brooks Lawrence stands out as the bellwether of the staff, with Hersh Freeman in an ace role as fireman. The Redlegs will miss the hitting of Ted Kluzewski, sidelined with a slipped disc, but the addition of Don Hoak to such sluggers as Wally Post, Gus Bell, Frank Robinson, and Ed Bailey give Cincinnati an attack which goes a long way toward making up for its pitching deficiencies...