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Soup du Jour. Before Kinging himself, the kid from Brooklyn jumped from dropout to drummer to boxer to dancer. By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht. Notwithstanding the ethnic limitations of comic performance in the borscht belt, King kept plugging, waited to be discovered...
...songs are the show's weakest point. The orchestra is under-rehearsed and shoddy, and only Kaplan appears to have a voice. Deitch, in two songs, twisted through the jagged motions Mayer gave him, clearly listening to a different drummer. Mayer's conception is strong, his control is weak. Good Woman is a brilliant show that still needs rehearsal. Wait a week...
...roll singers, most of whom are positively ancient adolescents. As a result, the promoters are busy developing a new stable of pre-teen rockers. Recently, Smash Records signed a four-year contract with three Ohio brothers, the Hornets-Guitarists Greg Calvert, 12, and Gary, 11, and Drummer Steve, 6. Their first record release will be Patty Girl...
...College, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take a job as a clerk in a record shop. Soon he shelved the classics to form a jazz trio with a pair of high school chums-Bassist Eldee Young and Drummer Isaac ("Red") Holt. For the next ten years, the trio roamed the outskirts of success as virtuosos of the expectable in a trade that doted on the different...
...Savage Records could justify the title of its album. "Best" refers to Peter Best, the drummer who was indeed "of the Beatles" during the scruffy, scrambling days when John, George and Paul were plucking from pub to pub. Then just as the lightning (now estimated to be worth $10 million) began to strike, Best was bounced in favor of Ringo...