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...White & Blue. Gary's Democratic party boss, John Krupa, bases his opposition on a wild claim that Hatcher, a lawyer and the great-grandson of a Georgia slave, is linked to Communists and advocates of Black Power. "I'm not against Dick Hatcher because of his color, unless it's because he's Red," Krupa says. "I'd like to see a Democratic mayor, but he has to be a red, white and blue one." Krupa's real motives-aside from Hatcher's color-seem more basic. Not only has Hatcher pledged...
...Music Explosion" attempts to find a link between today's popular sounds and the music of the Louisiana bayou folk and the Negro spiritualists. Film units traveled from New York to New Orleans, Nashville and Detroit to tune in the Supremes, Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington. Repeat...
...Rich has always been ranked by musicians as a drummer's drummer. They marvel at the fact that he never practices, has none of the calluses and bumps on his hands that other drummers have. Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa ("Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest living natural jazz drummer," says the Boston Symphony's Howard Thompson...
ANATOMY OF POP: THE MUSIC EXPLOSION (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Duke Ellington, the Supremes, Richard Rodgers, Gene Krupa and Billy Taylor in a joint lecture on the Big Beat...
Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...