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...Charlie Chaplin studios in Hollywood, Willwerth found Lou Adler, whose Ode Records is one of the most successful small recording companies. Midway through the interview, Adler excused himself, then dashed downstairs to join a basketball game between two bands, Chicago v. Cheech and Chong. Traveling on to San Francisco, Willwerth talked to Rock Impresario Bill Graham about his difficulties in starting a new record company, then accompanied a local record promoter on a tour of Bay Area radio stations. In Nashville the following week, the correspondent sat in on a recording session by Folk Artist Eric Andersen...
...quite an ode to romanticism, Travels With My Aunt is more an elegy to its passing. The romantic Cukor has turned capricious skeptic, and sentiment becomes a gambol. The loops of his freewheeling narrative dip eagerly into the past and circle back a bit crestfallen. And in between, cherished romance turns sappy to the taste and drippy to the nth degree. Cukor has dished out sentiment in order to bid it fond farewell...
TOMMY; Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr and other rock stars; the London Symphony Orchestra (Ode, 2 LPs, $11.96). To record and package this LP extravaganza, Ode President Lou Adler spent more than $400,000, then quickly earned it all back in sales that last week zoomed past the $1,000,000 mark. Sad to say, symphonic treatment dulls the edges of Pete Townshend's now classic, some times pretentious "rock opera." Stick to the original version...
Someone should write an ode to Mary Tyler Moore, whose show seems to get better with every passing week. Now in its third year, the series has taken the brass of the usual situation comedy formula and transmuted it into something resembling gold...
...changing patterns like travelers meeting briefly at a crossroads. Another Inner City star is Michele Simmons, who brought a simple dignity to her Caribbean mujer eternal in McKayle's Songs of the Disinherited, then portrayed three faces of woman (sweetheart, wife, mother) in McKayle's mournful ode to the chain-gang life, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder. If McKayle's choreographic style shows a knack for quick, deft blending of styles (such as modern, jazz, calypso, ballet), that is largely because he has spent much of the past decade tailoring dances to the tight demands...