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...arrangements are the work of four musicians recruited from groups like the Stan Kenton band and the Harmonicats. True virtuosos of the pop spectrum, the four compose jingles to suit every current radio-station format−top 40, soul, middle of the road, easy listening, country and western, and subtle variations in between. One of the composers is a master of the Moog Synthesizer and the sophisticated electronic effects that are increasingly in vogue...
Sonny is black. The kind of music he creates is a blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist...
Divorced. Stan Kenton, 58, pop bandleader; by Jo Ann Kenton, 39, his third wife; on grounds of "irreconcilable differences"; after three years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Those who didn't leave joined the WPA. We bought the repossessed lands from the bank." Near Kenton, Labrier bought up land at $15 an acre. He now owns 23,000 acres valued at $2,300,000 and has 400 cattle...
...father and stepmother on the city's Far North Side. Ron, 28, has had only one vacation in the past three years. Mostly the Hoppes stick close to their home and four children. They relax by listening to their record collection of 450 LPs (Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton), watching television on a set bought with quarters saved in a giant Seagram's bottle, or taking the family tor a weekend picnic on Cedar Lake...