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The sounds, vaguely familiar, echo in the void: Patti Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create...
Yet the decade was never quite so drab or stagnant as its detractors would have it. In the grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your...
In the 1930s, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers made the singing cowboy a national hero. With the mobilization of the entire population in World War II, regional music styles began to meld. A languorous hybrid known as country-and-western was born, in which the still simple music of the...
CATCH MY SOUL introduces Othello to John the Baptist, and they do not get along. A muddle of Shakespeare and Scripture, the movie is frenziedly directed by Patrick McGoohan, and set to an overabundance of limpid rock music. Singer Richie Havens shows up as Othello, here portrayed as a back...
When a rock superstar turns up his nose at breast of pheasant or Maine lobster, Stewardesses Sandy Cronin and Candy Burton-wearing bodystockings -prepare his favorite dish. Bob Dylan gets his cherished vegetable casseroles, washed down by Chateau Mouton Rothschild '64. For Led Zeppelin, there is Thai food. Elvis...