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Power to the Working Class is performed and produced by members of the Progressive Labor Party, including a group of welfare mothers from New York that handles most of the vocals. Half of the album is devoted to folk songs, half to rock. The PLP-LP concentrates on a broad evocation of working class solidarity, with only a little emphasis on the PLP itself, although many songs reflect PL's peculiarly arid brand of communism. And it is PL's position against drugs, often the focus of a facile dope smokers' criticism of PL, that provides the album with...
More formalized political language characterizes the other rewrites of hard rock songs on the PLP-LP. "High-Heel Sneakers" becomes "Get Out Your Red Flag Workers." "Governor Sargent's Racist Cutbacks Blues," sung to the tune of "Memphis," does feature some good lines...
...MORE serious political criticisms might he made of the PLP-LP. Those who wrote the songs say in the liner that they were attempting to create the beginnings of a "working class culture" which would embody socialist goals. But the same ideological certainty and simplicity which allowed PL to create this album undermines its broad cultural aims. In many of the songs, the lyrics present a simple world of workers fighting with a small, tightly allied group of..."bosses." The songs say that the bosses must be smashed, but one gets very little idea of what "smashing the bosses" actually...
...market has continued to prefer stereo disks to tape by sales ratios of more than 5 to 1. Mindful of that fact, Columbia last November came out with the first four-channel record, calling it SQ (for Stereo-Quadraphonic). The new SQs cost a dollar more than regular stereo LP records. SQ is also designed to be played on conventional stereo rigs, but when that is done, SQ shows a slight but perceptible loss in sharpness of sound. Columbia has not announced any plans to replace the company's regular stereo line with SQ. Even when heard under optimum...
...himself are best of all? Most men do just that: make them up and sing them to themselves. Not Bob Friedman of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Bob is passionate enough about his ditties to dream of taking over a commercial recording studio, bringing in top name musicians, and cutting an LP to give to 1,000 or so of his best friends and relatives. As the retired millionaire president of Ohio's National Machinery Co., he happens to be in a position to realize that dream-and to pick...