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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...
...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...
That probably is not the way the new RCA rock version of Handel's Messiah came into being-but one wonders. Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there...
...confusion, affecting conductor and orchestra alike, but it is the answer to necessity. Like almost every other orchestra in the nation, the Boston Symphony needs money and a new young audience. One way to win both is to hire a conductor who is an established name in the LP marketplace, and who is attractive, personable and young. He should also be musical. The closest thing possible, in other words, to a Leonard Bernstein. Right now that just happens to be Ozawa, a Bernstein protege whom Lenny first heard in 1960 and later hired as assistant conductor of the New York...