Word: folk-rock
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...still the Beatles on top, with their innumerable shaggy imitators from the Rolling Stones to Herman's Hermits to the Pharaohs. On the whole, the music was improved, the lyrics slightly more comprehensible. With Bob Dylan, rock also blossomed into a hybrid called folk-rock, but folk itself stayed with its perennial purist, Joan Baez (Farewell, Angelina) and the young American Indian Composer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who as a singer is a sort of Cree Callas, with more conviction than voice...
What are they buying? Cars, of course, and all the usual retail goods. But the U.S. consumer seems to keep finding new outlets for his buying urge: he has boosted the sales of electric guitars and banjos as part of the folk-rock trend, lifted the men's cosmetics industry to a $35 million business in recent years, is buying more jewelry than ever. He looks less at the price tag nowadays than at quality, fashion, style, color. The biggest new main-line item is the color-TV set. Stores are selling all they can get-and in some...
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...Either Peruvian Indians have the folk-rock singer look or Sonny and Cher have the Peruvian-Indian look-there is a strong resemblance in the pictures on pages...
...Rock 'n' roll fans in the Boston area won't be allowed to hear the folk-rock song "The Eve of Destruction" unless they choose their radio stations carefully. Two of Boston's three "top-forty" stations have decided that the song is too controversial for their listeners' ears, although one won't admit...