Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sugarleaf. Country Music Festival today and tomorrow in Kingfield, Maine, which is quite for north. Featuring Johnny Rodriguez (commercial junk), dick Cureless (the Dean of New England country music, specializing in trucking songs, with a voice so dead that it makes the back up voice in "Duke of Ear" sound like Tiny Tim). Waylon Janinge (the greatest of the Austin-based outlaw country singers), and Scruggs his own self. Tickets at Ticketron...
...much is happening on the Jazz circuit this week. Johnny Hartman, the Duke's vocalist, has a one-night stand at Sandy's Jazz Revival out in Beverly...
...biography consists of little more than a professor's résumé: son of a collector of customs; student at Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked...
...Duke Ellington Orchestra without the Duke? O.K. so you can't have everything. But Mercer Ellington, the Duke's son, is making a gallant attempt to recreate some of his father's stuff and from what I have heard, he is doing a good job of it. Check them out for $3 and $4 tonight at Sanders Theatre...
Michael Ricardo, who plays one of the Duke's two partners in crime and doubles as choreographer, gracefully sings and dances his way through some dazzling production numbers. Ricardo has an elastic body and a fertile choreographic imagination--he's even managed to design a dance for seven people linked together in handcuffs. Two of the best numbers in the show are the dance routines that Ricardo does with the Girls--they're and empty-headed trio that does nothing but run around and giggle and snuggle up to Jimmy, but they make a great chorus line...