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...carry aloft or wrap yourself inside. A verdant anarchy of politics, sex, drugs and style carpeted the landscape. And each impulse was scored to the rollick of the new music: folk, rock, pop, R & B. The armies of the night marched to Washington, but they boogied to Liverpool and Motown...
Like their musical brethren, the Romances and the Cramps, the Fleshtones ransack almost everything in rock'n roll history from Little Richard and James Brown to Motown and "Nuggets" period psychedelic garage rock Vocalist Peter Zaremba--who on stage makes Mick Jagger look like Perry Como--yells his "yeah, yeah"s and "hey, hey"s with more gusto than anybody since the Kingsmen, and with just as much humor...
...BRINGING Diana Ross to Harvard last week, the Harvard Foundation tried to do something nice for students. Ross is a talented artist whose music spearheaded the crossing of racial barriers in the early 60's, contributing to the spirited Motown sound we all know and love She's a star and knows how to play the role to the hilt. She's glamour, she's glitz, she's a fun, funky, beautiful Black woman with an abundance of style. What more could the Foundation offer to get people to come out of the woodwork and take notice...
...they learned that the money was not there. Some groups, like the Crystals with He's a Rebel, would find their name on a song they had not recorded. Many would be shuffled or discarded when their producers found more malleable girls with the same sound. Even at Motown, where the bosses were black, a team of dream girls like the Supremes could be treated as if they were balky students at a finishing school. Few got rich; most soon returned to gray oblivion...
...addition to recreating Motown fervor. Dancin' in the Street! supplements it. Comments by the dancers like "I ain't goin' nowhere!" and "Oh my goodness. I can't stand it no more" verbalize the sentiments of all who have suppressed joyous emotions when hearing Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson grab for our hearts through...woofers and tweeters. The "My Guy/My Girl" duet performed by Edna Davis and Lewis Robinson similarly brings to fruition a fantasy: the blending of the two songs which epitomize utter faithfulness...