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Hair Down. Burton's blithe eclecticism started when he began adapting violin and piano music to the vibes and marimba, which he had taken up at the age of six. At eleven, he organized his father, brother and sister into a band that performed around their home town of Princeton, Ind. Later he went on to absorb jazz in club dates at nearby Evansville, country music in recording sessions at Nashville, and classical composition at Boston's Berklee School of Music...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass surround themselves with musicians: the Baja Marimba Band, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Liza Minnelli, Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery and Songwriter Burt Bacharach...
Wednesday, October 18 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Host Lorne Greene gets assistance from the Baja Marimba Band, Jerry Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lou Rawls and Bobby Van to show "How the West Was Swung," a song-and-dance tale of the frontier and its rough-'n'-ready folk...
...Barry distinctive is his ability to project the mood of a film-"a certain smell that unifies," as he says-with offbeat instrumentation that titillates without distracting. Against a backdrop of gently swelling strings, he punctuates the action with a rippling organ (young love), a nervous twitter from a marimba (trouble in the streets), or perhaps the distant, breathy wailing of a girl's voice (ecstasy). One of his favorite instruments is the Hungarian cimbalom, which looks like the innards of a piano and sounds like an oversexed harpsichord. Rather than treat each scene with "big masses of symphonic...
...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75$ for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...