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...discount-record store, Munves approached Artur Rubinstein with the idea of a Rubinstein's greatest-hits LP. "You are a vampire," said the pianist, and refused. But Rubinstein did go along with a reassemblage of old items called The Chopin I Love. This month, Munves brought out eleven LPs in a new "Composers' Greatest Hits" series. One of the albums was devoted to Gustav Mahler, neatly capitalizing on the use of his music in Luchino Visconti's new film Death in Venice. Total sales so far: 100,000. In eight months, Munves has managed to boost...
Malone's do-it-yourself encounter kit, which has just been put on the market for $29.95, consists of three LPs, five lesson plans and two workbooks-one for the husband, the other for the wife, It also includes two "feeling self mosaics" -jigsawed figures of a man and a woman divided into pieces labeled "ashamed," "anxious," "joyous," or just plain "sexual...
Joplin's Pearl (Columbia) is not just her best LP, but in all probability the best ever recorded by a white female blues singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance...
...Lennon proves once again that artists like politicians, are best judged by their works, not by what they say in public An excellent byproduct of Lennon's recent wallow in self-pity is his latest record John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple), one of the most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge with the style and strength...
...blues, gospel, even country rock-a range of styles that Bacharach does not even try to match. Diamond's latest album, Tap Root Manuscript (Uni), was No. 16 on the Billboard charts last week-with more than $1,000,000 in sales. That gives him four top-selling LPs at once...