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...gods have filled the void left by the Harlows and Gables. Any number of the pop world's scores of superstars could serve to illustrate the process. Four who exemplify its various aspects as vividly as any are Balladeer Carole King, Hard-Rocker Ian Anderson, Pop-Jazz Songstress Roberta Flack and Fey Troubadour Harry Nilsson. Not exactly household names, they nevertheless enjoy more status with the young than a Newman or a Taylor. They are more lavishly remunerated than, say, Redford or Mac-Graw. Indeed, everything about the music industry of the '70s is reminiscent of Hollywood...
...blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style of Flack, 33, the earthy emotions of gospel (Told Jesus) mix with the more polished, sinuous phrasing of jazz (Tryin' Times...
FRIDAY: John Lennon and Yoko Ono The Lennons host Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na, and Roberta Flack in an all-star performance from Madison Square Garden. Ch. 5. 10 p.m. Color. 60 min. SATURDAY--Viva Maria Brigitte Bardot and Jeonne Moreau play Maria I and Marin II, two strip-tease dancers caught up in a Central American revolution in this 1965 Louis Malle directed French slapstick. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color. 2hrs .15min...
...rich, sucked it dry, threw it aside -and now, in a stroke of historical irony, seems to have given it one of its biggest revitalizations ever. For nine days, some 62 all-stars and more than 500 sidemen-from Duke Ellington to Charlie Byrd, from Dizzy Gillespie to Roberta Flack, from Eddie Condon to Sonny Rollins-wailed through 30 concerts in eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total of $500,000 to listen to a music that more than a foolish...
...white bass player, Roberta lives in a fashionable part of suburban Alexandria, Va., with her mother, a full-time maid, four dogs, seven cats, one piano and one swimming pool, and worries about keeping her music heavy and her figure light. She also runs the Washington-based Roberta Flack Enterprises, which includes a publishing linn, a talent agency and a production company...