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...write the Book of Love? The Monotones first asked this penetrating question in 1958, and no one has yet come up with the answer. Today Sha Na Na is asking the very same question on its first album. Sha Na Na Is Here...
...charts at the end of 1969 with a tune about happiness. Rick Nelson grew his hair and made a hit out of "She Belongs to Me." and the Every Brothers started making it big on television shows. Dion reappeared, but he copped out and sang about issues. Now Sha Na Na. the care of the revival, has put out an album to further feed the flames of greasy hysteria...
...Na Na's ten musicians mostly students at Columbia, reject the new spirit of profit-making to which today's other rock groups have succumbed. For your basic album cost, you receive 14 tracks, a fold-out section of old newspaper articles on Alan Freed Spectaculars and rock 'n' roll riots, and pictures of the group in flashy gold suits, engineer boots, and tee shirts with the cigarettes rolled up in the sleeves. Everything is authentic, right down to the grease...
Brady, of course. never had the flair the dash that Curley had. but Curley never pulled off a one-shot deal of such magnitude as quite a few people feel that Brady might have. Even if one does not have a Curley-like charis?na the alleged the? of $800,000 can qualify one perhaps to sit on Curley's right hand in political heaven...
...Czech Composer Leoš Janáček in a 1924 review of the opera Jenufa. "Atrocious drama and wretched theater," complained a New York Times critic after a 1931 performance of From the House of the Dead. Through years of such disasters,Janáček (pronounced Ya-na-chek) remained a proud, angry man who longed desperately for recognition and stubbornly believed that his peculiar brand of musicmaking would be vindicated. Now, four decades after his death, the often maligned composer is winning the recognition and admiration denied him during his life...