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...Columbia, RCA aimed for a compatible new disk that would be playable on existing stereo equipment without loss of fidelity. Last week RCA was busy spreading the word to the industry and press alike that it had perfected just such a disk. The company will begin issuing the new LPs in May, at the same price ($5.98) as stereo, and soon hopes to release all new records in the compatible four-channel format...
Handel will survive; so will Messiah. What Axelrod's work really brings to light is the fact that the sheep of the record industry are off and herding again. Not all of the new religious-rock LPs - the sons of Jesus Christ Superstar - are blatant ripoffs. Indeed, a few display genuine sincerity, even talent. But all of them, the best and the worst, demonstrate that Superstar Authors Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice do seem to have something of a monopoly on skill and taste in the field. Items...
Truth of Truths (Oak, $9.96; two LPs). Nothing less than both Testa ments, from the Creation and Fall to the Resurrection and Prophecies. A DeMille-like cast of composers, arrangers, soloists, orchestra, chorus and a bored Jim Backus ("Mr. Magoo") intoning into an echo chamber: "I am the living God." Ghastly...
...Survival of St. Joan (Par amount, $9.96; two LPs). The cast recording of a 1971 off -Broadway show based on the legend that Joan's life was spared by substituting another girl at the stake. Though hardly an orthodox look at Joan (among other things, she has a love affair with a farmer), Survival comes across well enough on disk, largely because the group Smokerise manages to operate within the rock mainstream (Beatles to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and still have something original...
...offered him his own show the next year, and he was off and away. When you're hot, you really are hot. His net income is well upward of $1,000,000 a year. This comes mainly from earnings from his show and royalties from his four comedy LPs (one of them a gold disk), which are put out by a company of which he is an owner. He no longer plays nightclubs...