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With the audience shouting its approval and clapping along, the buskers put on the biggest one-night pitch in their his tory. Partridge himself sang Rosie and his latest single, Breakfast on Pluto. As much of a hit was the grande dame of busking's elder set: a round, waddling littie woman of 54 known only as Meg, who sang Danny Boy in a round, waddling contralto. Said she: "I only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent...
...blue blouse and grey skirt and wearing a new, close-cropped hairdo, Folk Singer Joan Baez looked more like yesterday's gym teacher than today's pop protester. She was beginning to sound different, too, as she conducted a press conference prior to an L.A. one-night stand. On campus demonstrations: "Downright silly. You don't accomplish anything by breaking in and smoking the president's cigars." On the convention demonstrations in Chicago: "Really filthy." On politics: "It is patronizing for white liberals to swing along with the Black Panther Party...
...Time, 1953; place, apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, which Bubbles, now 24 and known as Beverly Sills, shares with her mother Shirley. Alone in the living room, Beverly sings the despairing recitative, Where Has It Got Me?, and tells how she performed 63 Micaelas in 63 one-night stands of Carmen, and 54 Violettas in 63 nights of La Traviata. A messenger enters, bearing an offer from the Frankfurt Opera to star in La Traviata, Faust and Carmen for $125 a week. Over whelmed, Beverly sings the beguiling aria, To Frankfurt Will I Wander...
Coke on Wax. By 1956, Jeffrey had created enough of a repertory to launch seven of his dancers on a tour of one-night stands in 23 Southern towns. They traveled like gypsies in a borrowed station wagon and a rented trailer crammed with hand-me-down costumes from Balanchine and discarded scenery from the Metropolitan Opera. They danced in movie theaters, veterans' halls and gymnasiums; music was provided by a borrowed tape recorder or one of the dancers who dashed to a piano between his numbers. To ensure their footing, they often had to sprinkle a tacky coating...
...ONE-NIGHT STANDS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). ABC News crews hopped on planes, buses and cars to record the stop-and-go lives of Bandleader Woody Herman, Singer Johnny Rivers and the Bartok-Hunt Circus...