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...American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
Tanya Tucker, who is just 15, was anointed last month by her idol, Merle Haggard. Accompanied as always by her parents, brother and sister, she attended his Manhattan concert and went backstage first. It was the day before The Hag's birthday, so Tanya sang Happy Birthday into his ear. As a reward, Merle invited her onstage to sing her hit, Delta Dawn...
Right now Stevie has everything going for him. Sitting up there onstage, his head bobbing and weaving sightlessly as though trying to tune in on some private radar of the mind, he recalls no one so much as his old idol to whom he used to listen on Detroit's WCHB, the blind rhythm-and-blues great, Ray Charles...
...retired his voice from public performance in 1971, he said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation's singing idol." It was time to begin his comeback career. Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. Last week, after a standing ovation from an invited audience...
Bruck's Stone emerges a hero, but not the idol of any one party. Heroic for his honesty, independence, and moral strength, he is cheered by demonstrators, applauded at an academic convocation. The film seems to show that however people interpret Stone's political goals, he is finally respected universally for his drive and integrity. It is impossible to deny the justice of the portrait; Stone is a militantly honest...