Word: lp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that happened because two British army regiments-the 3rd Carabiniers and The Royal Scots Greys-decided to merge early in 1971 and form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. To honor the new armored infantry regiment, now stationed in West Germany, RCA's European division released an LP by the guards' 48-member bagpipe band. A few months ago, a late-night disk jockey in London took a fancy to one of the tracks on the album, Amazing Grace, and began promoting it. As performed first by the soloist, Pipe Major Tony Crease, then by the full band...
...LP is the first to be recorded on the Met's stage since RCA threw up its hands at high labor costs in 1959, and as such it may he a harbinger. With Columbia, Angel and London curtailing their classical recording sessions in the U.S., DGG is moving into the vacuum with all the muscle its considerable financial resources will permit. Among the bonuses this may yield to the opera buff: DGG is said to be negotiating to record the Met's new Carmen next September, with Marilyn Home in the title role and Leonard Bernstein conducting...
Today they are. In the past few weeks, Roberta's Atlantic recording of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face has been the bestselling single in the country, and the album containing that song, First Take, has been the No. 1 LP. Roberta has also become a top concert attraction. Warbling her way thoughtfully through the soul classic Ain't No Mountain High Enough or Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman, her head thrown straight back or tilted lazily to one shoulder, she can be sedate enough to appear with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston...
Appropriately, the hit that started it all is not Roberta's latest recording. First Take, in fact, was just that: her first LP, cut three years ago. It came and went, as did two subsequent albums. Then last year Actor Clint Eastwood was looking for a signature song to use in his movie about a disk jockey, Play Misty for Me. He hit upon The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Eventually, many of the disk jockeys who had seen the movie began playing the record on their shows. Moral: even a low flame finally brings things...
...LP does not contain the best political music of the rock and roll era. Phil Ochs and John Lennon have both produced political material of more musical sophistication, if of less comprehensive vision, than anything on Power to the Working Class. But, along with the recent album of the New Haven Women's Liberation Band, the PLP-LP is perhaps the only explicitly political album of recent years. After a week of listening, its tunes wash around inside your head just like anything off the AM airwaves, and it is a relief to find yourself singing "Workers-Get Ready" instead...