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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts Ella Fitzgerald, Phil Harris and Alice Faye...
...performances. A boldly outspoken theorist, Pleasants goes so far as to say that this straitjacket is so confining that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers can in a month." The falsetto wailings of the Beach Boys and Beatle Paul McCartney all echo the early 19th century bel canto singers...
...being California-all talk. After his San Francisco oration, Brown and 8,000 of the faithful attended a show-biz spectacular featuring a galaxy of stars including Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Ella Fitzgerald and Trini Lopez. Frank Sinatra, who interrupted a movie he is making in London to put on the show, crooned a few ballads and, taking leave of the Governor backstage, flew off in the Sinatra Enterprises plane, leaving the Brown campaign kitty $225,000 fatter. Not to be outdone, Reagan, himself a late-show idol (among his credits, Brown likes to remind voters, is Bedtime for Bonzo...
...pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against the BBC, whose hoary morning Housewives' Choice...
...ques are close to Piccadilly; beside Dolly's and its rival The Scotch, Annabel's seems daintily restrained, but for that reason may be the most elegant of all; it has a series of wine-cellar rooms and a softly tuned stereo that alternates Sinatra and Ella with the native Animals and Stones. At these and dozens of other discothèques, beautiful gals with long blonde hair and slimly handsome men go gracefully through their explosive, hedonistic, totally individual dances, surrounded by mirrors so that they can see what a good time they're having...